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BBC presenter corrects pregnant people to pregnant women

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Theeyeballsinthesky · 22/06/2025 08:41

https://x.com/journalismseen/status/1936513585082970489?s=46

and with a splendid eye roll to boot 😁

https://x.com/journalismseen/status/1936513585082970489?s=46

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ItsCoolForCats · 22/06/2025 09:48

I hope she isn't sanctioned though.

ItsCoolForCats · 22/06/2025 09:47

I remember her from the Heather Herbert interview. That was glorious 🤣 He was expecting to get lots of sympathy and to be able to trot out his most marginalised people...Trump...blah blah blah...lines with no challenge and she was having none of it.

LlynTegid · 22/06/2025 09:45

Every correction such as this is good.

IllustratedDictionaryOfTheDoldrums · 22/06/2025 09:45

Oh that's wonderful. Good for her!

teawamutu · 22/06/2025 09:44

That eye roll was <chef's kiss>

outofdate · 22/06/2025 09:44

Love Martine!

HelenCurlyBrown · 22/06/2025 09:41

Martine is a star. I’ve long been an admirer of her.

catlovingdoctor · 22/06/2025 09:39

Good!!

SabrinaThwaite · 22/06/2025 09:38

Her X account is protected, so I guess there’s an on-going pile on.

Her interview with Herbert was a thing of beauty.

PachacutisBadAuntie · 22/06/2025 09:37

TeenagersAngst · 22/06/2025 09:09

Love the additional video of her a few posts down on that thread interviewing ‘Heather’

She was very good at highlighting the contradictory claims. 'It's an attack on trans people' but also 'won't make any difference'.

EdithStourton · 22/06/2025 09:35

Excellent.
Let's hope she's not dragged off for re-education.

Iamnotalemming · 22/06/2025 09:34

Hooray for Martine!

borntobequiet · 22/06/2025 09:24

DiamondThrone · 22/06/2025 09:14

Anyone got a link for that, pls?

Here you go

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Waitwhat23 · 22/06/2025 09:24

DiamondThrone · 22/06/2025 09:14

Anyone got a link for that, pls?

Aha! Found it

https://x.com/g_ymous/status/1936544074313630155

https://x.com/g_ymous/status/1936544074313630155

DrBlackbird · 22/06/2025 09:17

Theeyeballsinthesky · 22/06/2025 08:41

https://x.com/journalismseen/status/1936513585082970489?s=46

and with a splendid eye roll to boot 😁

Hopefully she doesn’t get into trouble!

IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 22/06/2025 09:16

I do like Martine Croxall. She doesn't have the same 'assimilated glazed-over automaton' look that some of the newsreaders have.

She seems to actually think about the sense of what she's saying, rather than just letting it go from her eyes to her mouth and completely bypassing her brain.

Not to derail, but we've recently been re-watching a brilliant comedy series centring around computers that was written by a certain Irish comedy genius.

Some of the actors from 'that' episode that has since been shadow-banned - the main protagonist in the scene especially - have distanced themselves from it and claimed that they had nothing to do with the script or any views held by the writer.

They merrily went ahead in reading and learning the script and then acting it for the camera... but they didn't realise what they were doing or condone it, of course...

DiamondThrone · 22/06/2025 09:14

Waitwhat23 · 22/06/2025 09:04

I believe that it is the same reporter who interviewed Heather Herbert (he of the polycule and toilet floor dilation) after the SC judgement and while he wanged on about Trump, she gave the facts of the judgement clearly and straightforwardly, ignoring his repeated attempts to say that someone 'could just announce that you're a man tomorrow and you wouldn't like it' (paraphrased).

Anyone got a link for that, pls?

DiamondThrone · 22/06/2025 09:13

Yes, she gave it the eyeroll it deserved. Good for her!

She'll probably be in trouble with the thought police in the BBC though 🙄

TeenagersAngst · 22/06/2025 09:09

PachacutisBadAuntie · 22/06/2025 08:53

That looked very deliberate. Nitter link for comments:
https://nitter.net/journalismseen/status/1936513585082970489?s=46

Love the additional video of her a few posts down on that thread interviewing ‘Heather’

NotBadConsidering · 22/06/2025 09:07

The way she stalls slightly beforehand suggests to me she could see it coming and didn’t want to read it. Definitely a correction with an eye roll. Good for her!

IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 22/06/2025 09:07

The quote was summarised slightly - as she said 'the aged' rather than 'people aged over 65'; but I agree that she very much did come across as deliberately correcting the silly phrasing.

I agree that (non-pregnant) women in general would seem a strange group to include in the at-risk groups; but the usual narrative assumption goes something like 'pregnant people - which includes transmen' and 'women - which includes transwomen', so I'm just always on my guard.

largeknitter · 22/06/2025 09:04

Haha - definitely a correction and an eye roll there. Good on her 👏🏻

Waitwhat23 · 22/06/2025 09:04

I believe that it is the same reporter who interviewed Heather Herbert (he of the polycule and toilet floor dilation) after the SC judgement and while he wanged on about Trump, she gave the facts of the judgement clearly and straightforwardly, ignoring his repeated attempts to say that someone 'could just announce that you're a man tomorrow and you wouldn't like it' (paraphrased).

ScribblingPixie · 22/06/2025 09:02

Not impressed by 'the aged' for people over 65 either. Whoever wrote that autocue script sounds like they're probably very young and irritating.

Andthatrightsoon · 22/06/2025 09:02

Never to be seen again on our screens ...