Terf war embroils Guardian HQ | article from The Spectator

Absolutely disgraceful that the Guardian/Observer are going after their top female writers, particularly women of colour.

It really stinks. Why are they allowing white men to attack and try to silence women of colour with impunity?

Because they are institutionally racist?

I just clicked on a link to read the latest Hadley Freeman column and was told I've "read 50 articles in the last year. Congratulations on being one of our top readers globally". I used to buy the paper every day but haven't done for a long time now. It doesn't say much for them that reading one article a week makes you one of their top readers.

Good luck Sonia, and thank you.

Absolutely disgraceful that the Guardian/Observer are going after their top female writers, particularly women of colour.

It really stinks. Why are they allowing white men to attack and try to silence women of colour with impunity?

Forcing out Suzanne was bad enough. If they were to force out Sonia as well, that would be clearly waging war against women.

Shameful.

Greased piglet? 😁

One of us maybe?

I'll certainly be using it whenever appropriate.

Hadley Freeman tweeted this morning that she's taking a sabbatical from the Guardian. She also said a few months ago that she's writing another book so it's probably wise not to read too much into the timing of this but hey I'm going to anyway...
I'm certainly going to miss her and those fab interviews.

OJ the greased piglet. That is uncanny

Misogynistic champagne Socialist.

Lefty Gammon.

Such a shockingly, perfect fit.

Lefty gammon is a very accurate description!

Are they calling him a Lefty Gammon?!

Hilarious comment on the Spectator article.

They're desperate to keep hold of little Owen?

Well, he does resemble a greased piglet, so good luck to them.

Yes. Bit of both Curious.

The former will most likely have not met real life UK women, so will have psychic/mental trauma coming up against women who tell them

"womenwontwheest"

"Sit down son"

"Get tae fuck"

"Ye' what? Shut up"

"Oh, no. No, no"

They have a mis-guided view women. Let alone women living 3000-5000+ miles away.

But, again from their blather, it's hard to tell. I think it was Steph(something) that poster utterly incoherent sentences.

As a PP said, it's not that they disagree with my views, it's the fact that they are throwing good journalistic practices out of the window in service of an illogical and fundamentally dishonest ideology

Yes.

C109k paid circulation.

That's pretty dire, yes?

When I read the title I immediately assumed it was Hadley vs OJ. The fact that it's the middle of the road Sonia Sodha coming under fire should give both middle of the road staff and readers pause for thought.

Is it a time-zone thing?

Do they blather from across the water?

Or are they up late n drunk?

They probably expect all of us to have read all they have written across a number if threads as one coherent utterance that we have inwardly digested.

I think the Guardian is currently leading the Labour Party down the road to complete oblivion, which you'd hope might give them pause for thought, but apparently not. They're both coming across now like an SWP stand outside a tube station manned by a couple of shouty middle class students.

Cripes! We really.must learn when to stop. All that trying to maintain laws as they stand, to maintain safeguarding, the rights, dignity and safety if women and girls.

When will we stop demanding that men sort out their own issues and stop demanding women be their support humans?

Naughty wimmins!

The Guardian silences women’s voices.

This is a very powerful point.

It is not simply just a case of "trans" issues.

Nothing to base this in except a few comments in articles but, but, but, it appears a lot of the backlash is coming from admin and associated functions. Not just the Graun but other publishing organisations.

Someone up thread talked about decline in readership but the group is wholly owned by the Scott Trust Limited, which exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity. The Group's 2018 annual report (year ending 1 April 2018) indicated that the Scott Trust Endowment Fund was valued at £1.01 billion (2017: £1.03bn). Partners, a venture capital firm, increased its share to become the sole shareholder in the business.

So the Independence of the Graun is protected, but it isn't protected from political infiltration by woke, or could this be a challenge?

I've just gone ahead and cancelled my supporter status. The shock of losing my annual £49 will make them think hard.
There is a bit where you can state your reasons, so i summarised what I saw as instances of hostile and bad-faith treatment of gender critical views.

The sad thing is that I don't believe that I am losing much. If they can't report in good faith on this issue, or tolerate colleagues that have different views to their own, they aren't a team of journalists; they are a bunch of social media warriors too drunk on sanctimony to do their job.

We should be grateful to statsgeek for always bumping multiple FWR threads!

Has statsgeek replied to the wrong thread?