The Family Sex Show - 'Cancel Culture' - in the Guardian

Talk about only telling half a story! So screwed. Stopped buying that paper entirely it’s ridiculous

She didn't really address any of the major issues people had with it! If it's not ok for a child to see a stranger in the nude on the street why does she think it's ok to see one on stage? I think it's sneaky too to say that this is about right wing extremists getting things cancelled - no, it's about people who are genuinely concerned for safeguarding reasons. I'm liberal, pro choice, anti racism, anti- homophobia etc, a feminist -not right wing in the least and I can see all sorts of issues with this show. I'm all for body positivity but there are better ways to teach children this then showing them naked strangers, FFS. It's not about cancel culture, it's about safeguarding and children not having to listen to songs about the clitoris or being asked to google wanking animals!
The show also didn't have to be cancelled, they could have just agreed that perhaps children of 5+ shouldn't watch it, and made it an adult only show instead. No one would have had an issue with it then. But then I guess they wouldn't have gotten so much publicity and media coverage so... 🤔

I have written my first Guardian letter.
The Family Sex Show is abhorrent.

They have a platform in the Guardian because the Guardian did an initial piece on this a few months ago. Obviously that piece didn’t mention the website with a glossary that lists pegging alongside playwright, or how it instructs children to Google “animals that masturbate”. So I imagine Josie Dale-Jones went back to the Guardian and said “YOU were okay with our play, will you let me write a defence of it against the big meanies who think we are wrong to show our naked bodies to children?”

At which point the Guardian could have gone one of three ways:

1. admit to themselves and everyone they got it wrong and refuse
2. admit to themselves only they got it wrong but be too cowardly to refuse and decide to plough on regardless so as not to lose face
3. not realise at all that they got it wrong and happily support Dale-Jones in continuing the idea that adults naked in front of children and googling masturbating animals is a good idea.

I suspect it was option 3. Because the Guardian never admits it’s wrong. Like when they published Jamie Shupe, America’s first legal “non-binary” person, I don’t remember the Guardian’s follow up article on Shupe admitting he has AGP. Or the lies about Wi Spa.

"We must disrupt the culture in which children and young people are taught shame and fear, in which sexual violence is normalised."

Wait, what does this mean? I do teach my children to fear people who encourage them to Google masturbating animals, to be honest. I don't take kindly to someone who wants to disrupt my teaching of that.

Who among us was encouraging sexual violence, and how exactly did this 'theatre production' plan to address that? I am very confused.

Didn’t the bbc news website have to publish a clarification that the theatre company had lied about involving child safeguarding experts in the production from the outset / at all? Albeit in teeny tiny letters at the end of their too sympathetic wah wah suck up piece on it…

sorry too tired to try to find the reference but think there is a thread on here.

got much too cross about this earlier and angry tweeted at them to be ignored of course. By all means publish the cry baby I’ve been cancelled by the big meanies, but for god sake, do the accompanying journalism and look at whether they are justified or whacking great perverts asking kids to Google animal masturbation and singing arias about how no one can find the fucking clitoris.

I am almost more irked by that than the wanking animals to be honest - for god’s sake, little girls usually can find their clits. Not trying to be crude or play their disgusting fucking game but honestly, for fucks sake, who wrote that bit - it certainly cannot have been anyone other than an adult human male?

Absolutely swimming in queer theory and porn culture. At what point did we get to, 'Yes, it IS, that's why we must expose this to children '? It's bizarre, This is Egg are the extremists.

It just worries me, this theatre group has been given a certain amount of power: funding & support, a voice in the press, venue bookings.

Why do we now have this platforming from The Guardian and the BBC? I feel we haven't seen the end of this and it will find a way to rear it's ugly head.

Of there*

Is she still coming back for more. thisbwas so so wrong on all of the levels.

Am I right in thinking they have taken the google animals wanking and draw a picture part they website down now. God I hope so very much

Ah right, it's a 'bad stuff can happenanyway, so just let it happen to your kids, and help us do it'?

The Guardian is just a joke these days, isn't it? Don't they have any sense of shame or embarrassment at publishing this nonsense? They've descended into self-parody.

"In reality, the world – especially the digital world – we live in means that we don’t have control over what we or our children see" says 29 year old Josie, who I'm pretty sure has no kids. What a weird argument - they might see dodgy stuff online anyway so why not top it up with some on-stage weirdness too? Also I'm pretty sure I had control over what my kids saw when they were 5.

"The outcry on social media and the subsequent petition used words and ideologies that are rooted in queerphobia, racism, fatphobia, ableism, misogyny and transphobia."

Was the aim just to list lots of isms and phobias!

This reads very 'poor me all I want to do is talk about sex with children and it's JUST one nude scene'.

The 'right wing activists' in fact being social workers, educationalists, a lot of kids' mums - a hell of a lot of whom have the safeguarding training and knowledge of children and appropriacy that this person lacks.

No one is an expert on anything other than themselves.

I don't think she understands what the word expert means.