Shobna Gulati

When she's caught short in a public place the chances are she'll decide she's a woman after all.

I’m picturing the scene in dinner ladies where Anita tells Bren that shes non binary and Bren responds with ‘Let me know when you come to work as a bloke, I’ll put you on bin duty that day’.

I’d love to know what Victoria Wood would have made of all this nonsense. So much of her comedy was about women and women’s biology. I’d like to think she’d have taken the piss in her own unique style.

We just had a chat and she talked about my childhood (the 70's and 80's) when girls could ride skateboards and jump trees down the riverbank, and boys could bake cakes if they wanted to. And doesn't understand all this 'trans nonsense' because girls and boys can be anything they want- and parents letting their children cut their bits off is sick and they're the sick ones and should have their children taken off them. And David Tennant is sick.
So yeah, I think my mum is GC

It's Loose Persons

So I guess she can’t be a part of the Loose Women panel anymore?

I wonder if Victoria is reaching out from beyond the grave to have a laugh.

I miss Vic show would have made mincemeat of the gender stuff.

this is the equivalent of Aunty dancing at a wedding for her? Complete with a ‘jazzy’ jacket. I say this as a 56 year old.

The wokebros at Wikipedia have already updated Shobna's page with they/them throughout Shobna Gulati - Wikipedia

She's the one that was in dinnerpeople and Loose People, yea?

We're people first and foremost though, I agree with her on that

Brock Colyar on Pronouns, Identifying as Nonbinary

"These days, it feels as if an identity that, not long ago, felt unique to me in most rooms I entered has gone mass. Yes, part of what I’m personally upset about is the fact that this thing I loved isn’t so alt anymore. But more than that, it feels as if pronoun culture has contributed to nonbinary becoming just the third gender after male and female, more static and concrete than its original fluid intentions. The same nonbinary person who complained about nonbinary stereotypes lamented to me, “I don’t want to be a homogeneous normcore mashing of the two genders.” Ben hoped, “If man or woman can mean so many things, then so can nonbinary.” We all became nonbinary to escape gendered expectations, and now we’re stuck again. I can’t help but think that the walking-on-eggshells battle for pronouns is turning my gender into a human-resources-approved corporate product, more neutered than neutral, and, maybe above all else, profoundly unromantic. Next time, just call me by my name."

https://www.thecut.com/article/brock-colyar-pronouns-nonbinary-essay.html?

Brock Colyar on Pronouns, Identifying as Nonbinary

"These days, it feels as if an identity that, not long ago, felt unique to me in most rooms I entered has gone mass. Yes, part of what I’m personally upset about is the fact that this thing I loved isn’t so alt anymore. But more than that, it feels as if pronoun culture has contributed to nonbinary becoming just the third gender after male and female, more static and concrete than its original fluid intentions. The same nonbinary person who complained about nonbinary stereotypes lamented to me, “I don’t want to be a homogeneous normcore mashing of the two genders.” Ben hoped, “If man or woman can mean so many things, then so can nonbinary.” We all became nonbinary to escape gendered expectations, and now we’re stuck again. I can’t help but think that the walking-on-eggshells battle for pronouns is turning my gender into a human-resources-approved corporate product, more neutered than neutral, and, maybe above all else, profoundly unromantic. Next time, just call me by my name."

https://www.thecut.com/article/brock-colyar-pronouns-nonbinary-essay.html?

As an aside and not meaning to derail, Gillian Anderson, apparently confusing her real life with a part she has played, has released a book on "female" sexual fantasies called Want, a sort of modern follow on from Nancy Friday's books. I was curious so listened to the introduction where Gillian says she included submissions from men who say they are women. And then went on to note a new fast growing category: lactation-based fantasy. I could see the correlation, Gillian however did not. I didn't bother going any further.

The "look at me" enbies are so silly. The idea that everybody who doesn't declare this vainglorious identity is just a set of sex-based stereotypes is offensive bollocks and deeply regressive.