Jeremy Vine

I blame Jeremy.

🎵 Oh Jeremy Viiiiiiiii-ne🎵

Indeed! 😄

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Blimey, the language and terms needed for discussion on this board are becoming harder to understand every time I drop in!

This thread has brought me some much needed joy tonight, thanks @PurgatoryOfPotholes 🤖

Still funny.

Purgatory 's post: What happens when you ask a TRA to define 'woman'

Right.

People, if you have learned to compose half a post and then copy it (because you have been burned by MN timing out after you'd spent ages carefully formulating a post and now plan accordingly), and then to paste it back into the new message window and continue typing, in the event of an unstable webpage, hearken unto me.

If you do all that, THAT happens on the mobile site.

You seem to be channelling Stanley Unwin PurgatoryOfPotholes!

TestingAre you on drugs?Unfortunately not. I may have discovered a new bug with New and Improved Mumsnet, so I think I'd definitely like some medication to help me calm down right now.

Are you on drugs?

Unfortunately not. I may have discovered a new bug with New and Improved Mumsnet, so I think I'd definitely like some medication to help me calm down right now.

If I'm right, the next post after this will do it again.

Can't believe you'd post something so breath-takingly transphobic, PurgatoryOfPotholes

This is Jeremy, nearly a month ago, responding to the ongoing discussion around the theatre production The Family Sex Show. I do not believe his show acknowledged any of the replies from feminists and concerned parents that he received.

For screenreaders, this is a visual of a tweet from Jeremy Vine is which he is quote-tweeting a thread from This Egg with the line What's this all about?

It looks to me like Jeremy Vine asks to be spoonfed information on twitter, which he then ignores if politically inconvenient.

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Are you on drugs?

@PurgatoryOfPotholes I don't know why but I've found that incredibly funny.

Well that wasn't supposed to happen

This is Jeremy, nearly a month ago, responding to the ongoing discussion around the theatre production The Family Sex Show. I do not believe his show acknowledged any of the replies from feminists and concerned parents that he received.For screenreaders, this is a visual of a tweet from Jeremy Vine in which he is quote-tweeting a thread from This Egg with the line What's this all about?It looks to me like Jeremy Vine asks to be spoonfed information on twitter, which he then ignores if politically inconvenient.

Did Anne apologise??

I think it's harder to spin this to make the wimmin look bad. Mind you I'd have thought that about the WPUK meeting.

Yes Icake, I've been checking MEN site and seen nothing either. Which is odd, because the recent WPUK protest was fairly well covered with lots of photos of protesters.
Maybe Sunday's were the wrong sort of protesters.

Yes, here you are: Paris Lee and Anne Hegarty:

Paris asked her fellow guest: "So you don't think there's an old boys club at the top then?"

To which Anne replied: "No, no, not really. Well, you used to be a boy, you'd know that."

Which is pretty innocuous TBH. And that's all it took to end his career.

Don't forget Matthew Wright had to resign following one of his guests, wasn't that Chase women, making a rude remark to a TW, and failing to apologise for it. I am sure Jeremy Vine doesn't want to go the same way.....

I've noticed a definite change in his attitude over the last year or so. It wasn't so long ago (pre-pandemic) that he had a TW on talking about transitioning in their late 40s or something (impact on wife and children glossed over quickly, and the TW made out to be a victim in the ensuing fracturing of the family) and JV was doing his special soft voice, and actually said afterwards to the woman who comes in to read the traffic news 'wasn't that extraordinarily courageous?' To which the traffic woman (Bobby Pryor, iirc) said dryly, 'well, it was certainly extraordinary.'

I think he's much more aware of the whole picture now (he tweeted about listening to the Nolan podcast and said it was an incredible piece of journalism or similar) but he's far too invested in being Mr Popular Everyman to risk rocking the boat. He also has an incredibly cushy number there and a vast salary to consider - he wouldn't want R2 to decide he's a bit too old fashioned in his views and should be replaced by someone with a more 'progressive' outlook. He's got teenage daughters, so I guess he'll have some insight into the impact this is having in schools and on young women on social media etc. I think he's decided to adopt that disingenuous 'I'm just an ordinary bloke who doesn't claim to understand you ladies' Louis Theroux approach. He's one of those powerful men who could be genuinely useful in facilitating discussion, but he's chosen to just pretend ignorance, which I find pretty despicable.