Radio 1 DJ and noted jurist Greg James has given his verdict

As I said upthread, I really had a thing for Greg, but this week, seeing him on everything doing promotion, I've got the ick too. I'm really sad about this. So preachy and arrogant.

I've now got the ick.

This is me. I only know him from his Rewinder programme on Radio 4 but from here on in if he comes on the radio I'll think "oh, it's that posh bloke who attacks those who hold view he doesn't view as being correct".

National Treasure? I'd never heard of him before this thread.

I knew someone would post about this. I bought his book because I've really enjoyed listening to him on the radio. He comes across as a really down to earth, genuinely nice chap and engages really well with his listeners.

I've now got the ick. What a load of self important navel gazing waffle, with an additional dumping of patronising lecturing. I haven't even finished it yet, but I read the part about the SC judgment and rolled my eyes so hard they nearly fell out of my head. The next chapter mentions female wrestlers and the change in the way they compete in last few decades. The inability to join the dots is baffling.

He's referred to himself as a National Treasure about four times in what I've read so far. I can't work out if he's being serious. I don't know, maybe he should stick to what he's good at. The rambling nonsense which works on the radio just doesn't translate to the written word.

To be fair, I followed his wife on Instagram for a while and she expressed similar views. I expected better from him, but should have guessed 😢

I was reading a library book recently where it had a line primly acknowledging how their historical use of "LGBT" was "outdated" and of course they knew the right one was "LGBTQIA+"

I neatly crossed the nonsense parts out and returned the book without reading further.

Not to mention that (a) LGBT should just be LGB; plus (b) their self-congratulatory little comment is also outdated now as well, if they are going by the ever-changing alphabetti-spaghetti lingo. Bigots.

I think this person (love JKR) has asked herself some probing questions and the answer has been that she would rather speak the truth and stand up for vulnerable women, rather than seek the approval of half witted cowardly celebrities with zero talent or intelligence.

Don't you just love being lectured by a man who has nothing to lose? He will never lose a sporting title because someone with an unfair advantage cheats, he won't know the fear of having a man in a dress follow you into a changing room or the indignity of sharing a hospital ward or prison cell with a potentially violent or fetishist man. Men have not suffered the indignity of having their langauge cancelled, e.g the NHS erasing the word woman and referring to us as a set of gynaecological parts, people with a cervix, people who menstruate.

Or likely the Beeb screens for affable dumbos to carry out their bidding, and old Greg's DJ booth is suffering from a fair bit of echoing feedback.

Saves me buying her books then - thank you for the heads up.

Her dad used to be editor of the Guarniad. Hmm interesting…

Greg absolutely loves Gregggg Wallace.

I had to to stop following his wife on Instagram cos she was always wanging on the same. Her first book was a hard read but got through it. The second was even more boring and couldn't get past first few chapters. What's the deal with everyone thinking they need to write a book. Think you're a woman then you are a woman apparently. Think you're a writer then you are a writer apparently.

‘You’re whoever the hell you know yourself to be.’ Facile, vacuous sound bite. Stupid, thoughtless prick with no thought for women or women’s rights.

I think his opinion is probably written into BBC contracts.

From what I’ve learnt a fair few of the older DJs are sex realist

vernon

the Irish bloke with dark hair (interviewed Jo Phoenix, I think radio 5)

Bored of these men being paid to print or broadcast their opinions about this and whatever else.

I didn't know that either!

Well, as a woman, can I just take this opportunity to say how glad I am that a man has opined on the matter of feminism and that which pertains to women's rights. Thank goodness!

Anyone with a name like Greg should not be given a publishing deal

Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files today had a useful piece of advice that could have been written specifically for the terminally halfwitted Greg James:

“I am disturbed on a fundamental level by the self-serving, toddler politics of some of my counterparts - I do not believe that silence is violence, complicity, or a lack of courage, but rather that silence is often the preferred option when one does not know what they are talking about, or is doubtful, or conflicted - which, for me, is most of the time. I am mainly at ease with not knowing and find this a spiritually and creatively dynamic position. I believe that there are times when it is almost a sacred duty to shut the fuck up.”

I can’t stand him and his ilk of over-promoted Radio 1 bros, anyway…not at all surprised at his comments or that he knows nothing and cares not a jot about women’s rights.

He went to school with Monroe Bergdorf and they are friends so I assume that's where he gets his options from. His wife is similarly captured.

Always thought he was a posh blowhard.

'what the fuck does that even meeeeeeeean?'

🤣🤣🤣

What a dummy.

How to show you're as thick as mince in your very own words in your very own book. 😂