‘Transphobic’ Christmas card pulled from Sainsbury’s

For someone who identifies as a journalist, Mr Molly's proofreading is shocking.

Problematic.

Yawn.

Bloody hell! I agree with Molly on a couple of points. Never thought I'd type that.

"The biggest lesson I’ve learnt from all this is that sometimes I get it wrong. Yes, that’s right! I’m constantly learning and re-evaluated my stance on subjects. After all that’s what a person with an open mind should do. I overreacted."

"I have also learnt that words are powerful. Extremely powerful! Not for a second did I think it would blow up all over the internet and mainstream media like it did. Well, it just goes to show that words really matter. They can be weaponised to cause great harm and division.
I believe we should all be very careful about the lanquage we use. A seemingly innocent phrase can turn out to be deeply problematic, so it is always best to think it through before you hit that send button."

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opinion/the-trans-journalist-who-stole-christmas-or-did-she/

He wrote a little essay about his experiences whining about Christmas cards.

Well, they've proved they identify as grinches! Prats.

there is a picture circulating on X with Sparkles holding a framed copy of the offending card but i'm not sure it is real. So not reposting. But. Urgh.

i got a spiderman card for my DD once (she was over 18 but that's besides the point). It was one of the old school 70s spiderman illustrations.

Anyway, small shop, with a post office, and i had to post it to her. But they only had ones that said "happy birthday Son" so i used a sharpie to make Son into Daughter, wrote the card and posted it. The woman behind the counter saw me do all that and was a bit nonplussed. But a sale is a sale, right?

Perhaps we should all complain to Sainsbury's about having to have prosecco cards because no train cards say "mum"?

Will nobody think of the lovely green furries? 😱

That’s brilliant. I can’t believe with everything that’s going on in the world that this is getting any airtime.

The ridiculous Sophie Molly/Sparkles/who the fuck knows appears to be taking credit and the other members of his creepy polycule appear to have given him a framed copy of the offending card as a keepsake of his bravery.

Reading that back, it sounds made up but it's all true, I shit you not.

Mole at the Counter has done a wee edit to the card

I'm only sorry I didn't know. I don't usually bother with Christmas cards but there are a couple of people I know who would chuckle at this.
Real trans people have a sense of humour and crucially know they didn't actually change sex.

It's the ridiculously increasing number of deluded attention seekers who want the world turned upside-down to suit them. Many trans people take the piss out of them and can't stand their entitled attitude just like the majority of the population.
We have adults openly identifying as furry animals now. This card was barely satire.

Yes! Mumsnet actually accused me of "dog-whistling" in a very passive aggressive email. My 'crime' was being on the receiving end of racial abuse and wanting to talk about it! I was already upset and to have that thrown at me when I was feeling vulnerable was awful.

That phrase is literally just an excuse to shut people down when they want to discuss something you're not comfortable with. It's saying "I don't have anything real I can throw at you, so I'm going to imply that you're doing something terrible without the need of any real grounds. Now shush."

Very good! Though I suspect the colonisers might not have too much FOMO re stable cleaning etc

In fairness, the Magi did ask for directions, from Herod.

Well, as we all know, sadly, some of the folk attracted to this forum are driven by a FOMO. Whatever we have, they want it, and nothing - not even the Supreme Court - will stop them for they are driven by male entitlement a need to colonise. Colonise our threads, women's sport/toilets/changing rooms etc. I would hate for them to get in a stew with Waitrose or John Lewis, or Amazon come to that. As for the card itself, it is totally harmless and nothing to do with males. It simply states the truth: "Three Wise Women would have asked for directions, arrived on time, delivered the baby, cleaned the stable, made a casserole...and there would have been Peace on Earth".

The Grinch uses he / his pronouns, but who knows what that means these days.

Maybe Dr Seuss just assumed The Grinch was a grumpy old bloke?

😘

The phrase “identifying as” in this context has been described by trans campaigners as an anti-trans dog whistle for suggesting that a person can choose their gender to be anything

I thought that was exactly what trans campaigners thought people could do? How confusing

Oh do share. Why should they object - don’t some of them ‘identify as feminists’?

I'm thinking of doing this , identify as a 90 year old man, did you really do it and was there any push back?