BBC commissions new series based on Paris Lees autobiography - 'What it's like to be a girl'..

Screen shot of the start and end of the review.
I enjoyed reading it! (The review, not the book).

I like this review of the book….

https://the-lies-they-tell.org/2021/06/07/book-review-what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl-by-paris-lees/

I think this is going to bring rather more unhelpful sunlight

That wasn't the teaching mentor's own opinion, just their reading of the local mindset btw!

I did teaching practice in Hucknall in 1991 and what it felt like for a girl there was not being allowed to go into sixth form because there was no point girls getting educations apparently (the words of my teaching mentor). Never taught such a boy-heavy group in an arts & hums subject since.

I should imagine the ratings are going to be epically bad for this one.

I doubt the people from the North 'shuffling about like the living dead, going on about kitchens they're too skint to do up and marriages they're too scared to leave.' will be watching.

I imagine it will be presented in a highly sympathetic way to Paris.

It's fictionalised, so 'based on' a true story. I'm going to wager the unpleasant truths will be sanitised and/or skipped over.

Will Paris’s convictions be revealed in the show? They’ve been very careful to get them scrubbed from the internet.

Is he? I thought 'they' was non-binary

Are they frothing that one of the drag queens is played by a female actor? (I can't tell whether Sasha is meant to be a trans-identified man or a DQ, not that the difference between a TIM and a DQ is particularly clear, either.)

Likely to be very mixed opinions on what the benefits may be from the general public getting a wider insight into the criminal offenses and beliefs of this person and how this reflects on men with trans identities. Particularly at this time when there's an attempt to argue that it's a terrible thing to permit women to say no and have boundaries from them.

They were frothing on Reddit the other day as apparently the lead is played by a “cis man”, the horror!

It's airing soon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl

The blurb makes it sound toe-curlingly clichéd and already out of date. I will be interested to see how it lands with the target audience.

Joan Smith is good on this: unherd.com/thepost/paris-lees-doesnt-know-what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl/

It really is a shame. We need a reliable broadcaster, and just don't have it.

Groupthink is such a dangerous thing

The BBC is a public service broadcaster, not a commercial one, and it has duties of impartiality in relation to contentious issues. So I’m afraid I do think it’s inappropriate- especially at a time when it is refusing to fund things which are much more clearly within the public service remit, such as the BBC singers.

The BBC aren't responsible for the series title, which is the same as Paris Lees' autobiography. Paris Lees will be involved in the production and has presumably sanctioned the blurb, which is certainly not kind. I suspect it will be an expensive mistake but I don't feel outraged that some of the licence fee is going on a dramatisation of what was a fairly successful autobiography in commercial terms.

I won’t open this because I don’t want to be traumatised, but fgs bbc- WAKE UP!!!

Or this one about how much fun it is to be fucked by four men at once: www.vice.com/en/article/bn5vwq/being-a-slag-is-a-virtue-not-a-vice-paris-lees

this.

i used think the bbc were wonderful -now not so much.

Rewarding violence…

I don’t know about the history but if so then yes this is more apt

And takes the shine off

I suspect there's been some internet cleansing which makes the facts of the crime hard to find.

Here are some of Paris' own words about 'being a girl':

www.vice.com/en/article/vdqm89/everything-ive-learned-about-sex-paris-lees - this one tells us how hot it it to have sex when you're crying

Or this one which is about how all the women who object to prostitution are white? www.vice.com/en/article/nn97vk/ban-sex-work-fuck-off-white-feminism-paris-lees-807

This one about Fallon Fox{s right to nearly kill women: www.vice.com/en/article/3b7j3j/fallon-fox-is-a-woman-get-over-it-925

Or this one about how much fun it is to be fucked by four men at once: www.vice.com/en/article/bn5vwq/being-a-slag-is-a-virtue-not-a-vice-paris-lees

Or finally this one, which is all about being a boy: www.vice.com/en/article/wd4pjn/paris-lees-what-are-we-going-to-do-about-the-lost-boys-325

Lees entire back catalogue in Vice is dripping with hatred and disdain for women who care about other women's exploitation by men. And loads about how much fun it is to be objectified. So far, so predictable.

If you want to see who Lees really is, watch the Island reality show Lees lasted a couple of days before asking to go home, mainly crying and sulking and doing fuck all, pissing off everyone. Just another tedious self obsessed narc.

So a male former criminal and prostitute then? So glad I stopped paying licence fee some years ago, the BBC is beyond a joke.

And of course Monty Don on Friday evenings.

There’s also Canal Boat Diaries and Still Game though. I’m still clinging on via IPlayer! Not for much longer tho I suspect

Always a girl, don't forget. Trans kids know as young as two.

Younger than that. They know even before they're born. Remember this thread?
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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4652020-news-article-boston-childrens-hospital-claim-babies-know-they-are-trans-in-the-womb

For more "proof" that babies know they're trans before they can talk, google Diane Ehrensaft for a video of her talking about a baby boy unsnapping his onesie to send a "gender message" that he's a girl.