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Owen Jones has relentlessly persecuted women online, including his own colleagues. An external investigator brought in by The Guardian has found him guilty of bullying a female columnist.

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ChristinaXYZ · 13/04/2022 10:30

"Owen Jones has relentlessly persecuted women online, including his own colleagues. An external investigator brought in by The Guardian has found him guilty of bullying a female columnist."

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MangyInseam · 13/04/2022 13:21

@TerraNovaTwo

Not only is OJ a misogynist, I believe him to be a covert narc. His gaslighting techniques are most ingenious.
He reminds me a lot of an individual I know who I also believe to be a narcissist. Very self-righteous and I think genuinely incapable of seeing other people's perspectives or challenging his own thinking. Lost his job due to bullying, interestingly.

But I think it's good that The Guardian is taking action on this formally, even if they were forced by circumstances to do so. It might not make OJ take stock but it will be more difficult for him to claim he is being treated inappropriately.

The question then will be why did it take management so long to act?

Peaness · 13/04/2022 13:11

Funnily enough this came upon my twitter right under LOJ.
Susie Dent
@susie_dent
Word of the day is 'maw-worm' (19th century): one who insists that they have done nothing wrong, despite evidence to the contrary.

AutumnSquill · 13/04/2022 13:09

Private Eye is now top of UK trends on twitter, and is shown as trending with #OwenJonesIsAMisogynist, so it hasn't gone away.

PronounssheRa · 13/04/2022 13:04

Jones incited a pile on of butterworth a while ago

BingBangB0ng · 13/04/2022 13:02

Looks like people who dislike each other being reciprocally unpleasant to me.

NotBadConsidering · 13/04/2022 12:50

That tweet by Butterworth has made me gasp!

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 13/04/2022 12:50

Private Eye also has this cartoon in new issue.

Owen Jones has relentlessly persecuted women online, including his own colleagues. An external investigator brought in by The Guardian has found him guilty of bullying a female columnist.
ResisterRex · 13/04/2022 12:50

@BreadInCaptivity

Strange, #OwenJonesIsAMisogynist was no. 1 trending in the UK a couple of minutes ago and now I can't see it listed at all

Looks like Twitter have removed the # from their trending algorithm.....

Must be a simple admin oversight
hamstersarse · 13/04/2022 12:47

It very much sounds like women should just be quiet about these things and let the men sort it out in their own good time. Like that ever achieved anything

That's not what I think. He should be held responsible and appropriate consequences doled out.

It's the certain glee (is it bullying too?) that doesn't help the cause, which I presume is to show his arguments to be utter tosh and harmful to women?

Bullying is a notorious slippy concept, and by calling him All the Names (Twitter is bad right now on this), it is harder to defend a position. That's all. It gives him an easy way in which to play the victim

TerraNovaTwo · 13/04/2022 12:44

Not only is OJ a misogynist, I believe him to be a covert narc. His gaslighting techniques are most ingenious.

Pluvia · 13/04/2022 12:42

Who on earth would have predicted that Little Owen Jones would turn out to be a man who loved bullying women? Hmm

BacklashBacklash · 13/04/2022 12:41

Benjamin Butterworth dislikes him too?? I'd have thought they'd get on well.

Owen Jones has relentlessly persecuted women online, including his own colleagues. An external investigator brought in by The Guardian has found him guilty of bullying a female columnist.
potniatheron · 13/04/2022 12:39

How delicious. I've been wondering for years how long OJ was going to be allowed to get away with it. Perhaps we are finally witnessing the beginning of the end.
I admire women like Suzanna Moore who ahve stood up publicly about their epxeriences of him.
He is one of those people so drunk on their own righteousness that they think it excuses the most horrible behaviour.

BreadInCaptivity · 13/04/2022 12:37

Strange, #OwenJonesIsAMisogynist was no. 1 trending in the UK a couple of minutes ago and now I can't see it listed at all

Looks like Twitter have removed the # from their trending algorithm.....

AlisonDonut · 13/04/2022 12:32

I am just uncomfortable with a mob mentality which is happy to discard due process because it makes 'us' as bad as him.

There was a due process, an external report that the 'news'paper has yet to act on. How long are people supposed to keep quiet when his employers take no action?

It very much sounds like women should just be quiet about these things and let the men sort it out in their own good time. Like that ever achieved anything.

hamstersarse · 13/04/2022 12:29

How many women is he allowed to bully and harass before it breaks a specific rule of employment? I'd say '1', but you may differ on that.

Is it really 'cancel culture' to sack men who systematically abuse and bully women?

I do agree.

I am just uncomfortable with a mob mentality which is happy to discard due process because it makes 'us' as bad as him. Bringing down opponents shouldn't be gleeful imo, its uncooth Grin

Whatstheweatherlike · 13/04/2022 12:20

@GrouchyKiwi

"OwenJonesIsAMisogynist" is trending on Twitter. Bless him.
Strange, #OwenJonesIsAMisogynist was no. 1 trending in the UK a couple of minutes ago and now I can't see it listed at all Hmm
nevertrustaherdofcows · 13/04/2022 12:18

#madamgrycheer

everythingcrossed · 13/04/2022 12:18

Suzanne Moore has tweeted about it. Apparently OJ bullying her was not taken up by the Gdn because she was not staff Shock.

peonyred · 13/04/2022 12:04

@MrsOvertonsWindow

Day after day I'm reminded why it was such a positive act in cancelling my paid for Guardian subscription
me too - and I made sure I emailed them to tell them why.
ControversialOpening · 13/04/2022 12:01

Sarah Ditum was the woman described as 'an unpleasant weird person' by LOJ.
www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/08/the-self-defeating-rage-of-owen-jones/

eddiemairswife · 13/04/2022 12:00

He's like a Year6 show-off.

ilovebencooper · 13/04/2022 11:52

So glad this is out in the open. He bullies women and is a nasty misogynist.

Butfirstcoffees · 13/04/2022 11:51

If OJ believes TWAW he must also bully them too?

Or is just biological women he bullies?

Seems he does know there difference between the 2, if that's the case.

GrouchyKiwi · 13/04/2022 11:49

"OwenJonesIsAMisogynist" is trending on Twitter. Bless him.