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The nerve of Jon Ronson

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RoyalCorgi · 07/11/2021 15:45

Jon Ronson has an interview in the Sunday Times (sorry, no share token) about why the culture wars will soon burn out:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jon-ronson-interview-the-culture-wars-will-burn-out-soon-8gsj9wrj0

This is a man who failed to stand up for women who were being bullied on social media and being banned from Twitter for standing up for women's rights. He fell out with Graham Linehan over Linehan's support for women's sex-based rights. Far from being a dispassionate observer of the culture wars, he has actively chosen a side - the wrong side.

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KimikosNightmare · 07/11/2021 17:22

I got bored halfway through.

Was there any point to the article other than (self) promoting Ronson as the sane, calm, cool voice of reason unlike , well, anyone else who isn't Ronson?

GrimDamnFanjo · 07/11/2021 17:18

Really disappointed in him. I've bought all his books. Not a fan anymore.

nauticant · 07/11/2021 17:16

Bah, I included an archive link forgetting they aren't allowed on MN. I must stop doing that.

The article on Ronson is an interview and on the website it's in the News section.

nauticant · 07/11/2021 17:13

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FindTheTruth · 07/11/2021 17:12

From Oct 2020 ....

"Jon Ronson a number of years ago when he criticised me for sharing a photograph of a hulking 53-year-old trans-identified man sharing a sports team with some college girls. Jon was more outraged by my sharing the photograph than he was concerned for the girls in it"

"He was still more concerned about the bloke on the basketball team than he was about any of the girls"

"a career built on one book in particular ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’, which makes his silence on the shaming of JK Rowling, myself and others, particularly craven."

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/so-what-if-youve-been-publically

NoThankYouSaurus · 07/11/2021 17:11

You should hear him whinge and moan in the first programme about his ID being stolen for a fake Twitter account. Yet the identity of womenkind being stolen? Nada. He's a prick.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 07/11/2021 17:03

Can anyone tell me which bit of the paper this is in? I have today’s Sunday Times but I can’t find it!

nauticant · 07/11/2021 16:28

I did roll my eyes at that article. But I will be listening the programme to come to an informed view:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011cpr/episodes/guide

I'll be surprised that when he moves onto the "culture war" of gender identity, he acknowledges that there is real substance to the objection to the dismantling of safeguarding and that it isn't, paraphrasing President Trump, simply a situation in which there are very bad people on both sides.

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RoyalCorgi · 07/11/2021 15:47

This is what glinner has written about his conversation with Ronson - which I suspect Ronson initiated hoping to leverage it for his new Radio 4 series mentioned in the above Sunday Times article:

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/so-what-if-youve-been-publically

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