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Biology (Bindel) vs Ideology (Webberley) on the Hodge-Cast

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GCinAcademia · 20/11/2025 18:03

Anyone else watching?

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Signalbox · 20/11/2025 20:58

I can't understand why any parent would allow their child anywhere near Webberley. She's so clearly insane.

Catiette · 20/11/2025 20:57

All hail Julie for taking this on. I'll try to listen another time when I'm feeling more patient.

Catiette · 20/11/2025 20:53

I'm trying, but a few minutes in, am already struggling with Webberley. This infuriating need always, always to reduce a clear, nuanced argument to reductive extremes, because the reductive extremes are all she can argue against, she can't win if she acknowledges the nuance. It's exhausting to listen to, as instead of finding you're listening to interesting ideas and reflecting on them, you screaming the basics again and again, like, "She didn't say that!" or, "Stop strawmanning and address the issue!" and, often, "You don't bloody say!!!" as she relies on a safe generalisation that sidesteps the issue entirely.

"It's not just women who are victims of rape."
"We need places people can go to feel safe."

And then there's the sheer lunacy of her implicit arguments - the implication that as many men as women are raped, and as many women rape as men?! I mean, what?!

The quality of the arguments (and this is so clearly reflected in the style and confidence of delivery - we're already into rhetorical repetition and avoidance by Webberley) is just stratospherically different.

ChamonixMountainBum · 20/11/2025 20:47

She should be in prison, absolute ghoul.

ProfessorOfAllTheThings · 20/11/2025 20:46

When you're reduced to arguing that actually there is no real reason to think women are the predominantly represented victims of rape....

Spiracles · 20/11/2025 20:39

GreenFriedTomato · 20/11/2025 20:25

It is. 9pm on Times Radio. It's a Webberley double bill tonight

She's all they've got, isn't she? I don't believe the trans "Do not engage with the hostile media!" bollocks. They just lose every time. So now all they have is Webberly.

ProfessorOfAllTheThings · 20/11/2025 20:37

This is just mad.

She is like a bot.

"I do believe in single sex spaces....transwomen are women....sonthey can be in single sex spaces with women....because they are women...."

Signalbox · 20/11/2025 20:37

Right at the beginning Webberley says that gender identity is "an identity" and then 39 minutes in she says that "transgender isn't an identity". She can't even keep track of her own ramblings.

MimiGC · 20/11/2025 20:26

Ddakji · 20/11/2025 20:23

I thought tonight was Helen J vs Webberley?

It is. At 9pm on Times Radio.

GreenFriedTomato · 20/11/2025 20:25

Ddakji · 20/11/2025 20:23

I thought tonight was Helen J vs Webberley?

It is. 9pm on Times Radio. It's a Webberley double bill tonight

Ddakji · 20/11/2025 20:23

I thought tonight was Helen J vs Webberley?

ProfessorOfAllTheThings · 20/11/2025 20:21

Bookmarking to watch when home!

KafkasScooter · 20/11/2025 19:17

Julie is amazing!

KafkasScooter · 20/11/2025 19:16

Yes, I'm watching. OMG Webberley is appalling.

GCinAcademia · 20/11/2025 18:08

Six minutes in and Webberley's already denying that women are an oppressed group 😭

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