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Times Radio - Matt Chorley, India Knight on JK Rowling

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Sizzlysausage · 12/03/2024 08:29

Hi all, I was listening to this podcast the other day. Matt Chorley and India Knight were talking about JK Rowling, along with some bloke from The Times, specifically discussing her comment on India Willoughby cosplaying femininity. Anyone else listening? It was hilarious and infuriating and as always revealing. The gist of it was why was JK Rowling so mean, and why couldn't she just be nice and polite, because that would get her further. It was so .... awful and ignorant! And then India Knight made what she seemed to think was a killer point, that all woman are performing femininity when they apply make-up.. she seemed to have no awareness that that is the POINT. Isn't it? That femininity is always a performance - but that this is not what makes us female. Why are people so stupid about this?!?

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WinterTrees · 12/03/2024 08:56

Agree with pps.

India Knight's moral compass is defunct and her ability to identify abusive predatory behaviour seems to be inversely proportional to her capacity to minimise and dismiss it. Anyone who gives her a platform to air her opinion on this, or any other matter even distantly related to the safeguarding of women and girls, is either woefully ignorant or similarly dismissive of the importance of protecting females from abusive males.

nauticant · 12/03/2024 08:51

It's a mystery why India Knight would be opposed to someone actively engaged in campaigning for safeguarding.

SmugglersHaunt · 12/03/2024 08:46

I wouldn't listen to anything India Knight says. Anyone who can stay married to a convicted paedophile is a no-mark

nauticant · 12/03/2024 08:41

Is India Knight still shacked up with Eric Joyce, the ex-MP who was convicted for downloading child abuse images?

Helleofabore · 12/03/2024 08:35

Why are people so stupid about this?!?

Maybe because they haven’t thought beyond the superficial flippant answers? Maybe they don’t feel the need to because it doesn’t impact them directly and they don’t wish to move beyond what their influence groups think?