Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey grapple with the idea that feminists, and specifically JKR, find the concept of gender identity sexist.

Well that was brilliant 😁😁

DL reminds me very much of Joanne Harris and the Fox Basher. Having a child who identified as trans has led them to take on the world and demand that it inverts itself to affirm their child in their delusion. They know deep down of course that that can't happen and they can't ever admit that to themselves so they turn their fury on everyone who does not go along with them. In the process they do terrible things and cause appalling damage. The last Japanese soldiers indeed

That was cathartic, thanks for sharing.

Thank you for posting. Worth reading just for this oof:

"certainly I wish she’d spent less time beefing with India Willoughby, if only because it seems beneath her dignity to pay attention to a voluntarily castrated ex-weatherman"

Sarah Ditum in Unherd...ouch!

https://archive.ph/gqB7P

https://unherd.com/2026/05/jk-rowling-mansplained/?edition=us

Enjoyed that. I'm going to read it again.

Of course - thank you.

That’s Iain Dale, LBC presenter.

Off topic, but I think it was more a case of they always knew the border would be in the Irish sea, with NI on the outside, but they couldn't actually say that out loud.

Just reading him, and his supportive comments, including the mandatory anime beta men cosplaying as female loudmouths.
It's a literal fault line in liberal thought and politics.
A whole group who bang on about lack of evidence and wishful thinking on anything and everything...except trans ideology, a pursuit that has more wishful thinking and lack of evidence than the flat Earthers, Icke's lizards and Royals, astrology.

Just reading him, and his supportive comments, including the mandatory anime beta men cosplaying as female loudmouths.
It's a literal fault line in liberal thought and politics.
A whole group who bang on about lack of evidence and wishful thinking on anything and everything...except trans ideology, a pursuit that has more wishful thinking and lack of evidence than the flat Earthers, Icke's lizards and Royals, astrology.

Ian Dunt has been complaining on Bluesky this morning about the EHRC guidance, demonstrating yet again his abysmal understanding of FWS.

I have just found this Youtube video of the pair of them.

I've just started watching this and now realise I've completely mixed up Ian Dunt with someone else. I was thinking he was the older guy who beat somebody up with a flag on a seafront.

Yes I enjoyed that!

Thanks ! Also the Goon Show : -

' How many sexes are there?'
'Two'
' It's not enough I say , go out and get some more!'

Spike was prescient ....

And the irony is their anger with her belies the fact she's won the argument and is the classic liberal in the room versus two ultra illiberals who've so lost the argument they have to resort to backbiting.

I enjoyed this review of the podcast by Euan mccolm on twitter:

I enjoy a good dollop of pathos as much as the next self-loathing prick but two middle-aged men making a podcast about what a wrong ‘un Jo Rowling is in 20-fucking-26 is too much, even for me. I could only cringe harder if they’d done the whole fucking thing as a rap.

The Goons can be a lovely mental restorative when the world is being ridiculous. You can hear lots of Goon Show episodes at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/TheGoonShow1950to1960

As for Dunt and Lynskey, two more middle class male bores I have yet to experience - their self image is very much predicated on them being 'good guys' and therefore, because they're 'good guys' they believe that whatever they think is true is good. They can't cope with the idea that they still retain sexist attitudes towards women so they transmute those feelings about women into the idea that there are just some irredeemably nasty women who don't deserve the support of 'good guys' like them.

Dunt's obsession with the word c**t disbars any respect for him from me.
And Lynskey is absolutely one of Helen Joyce's described "in top deep to ever recover" clan.
And they think they're the ones to dissemble JKR as a radicalised voice of hate?
Ian "How To Be An Illiberal" Dunt indeed.

I presume Dunt doesn't mention that he basically agreed with her before he had his hands tied by Dorian's family circumstances.

https://x.com/IanDunt/status/1270783847215628298?s=20

Agreed. Just thought it was a good example of that point HJ made to Peter Boghossian about parent's who won't/can't ever go back on it.

Little to do with ID and DL or little to do with women?

Little to do with women.

Their attitude was very standard for male trans allies in that they didn't question trans ideology at all.

They stated that the British process for obtaining a GRC is one of the toughest in Europe, the EqA included PC of GR, mentioned sex and gender, and gender identity. But didn't delve into what exactly transgender is.

They acknowledged that conflict between inclusive and non inclusive feminism has existed for a long time, but didnt investigate why. They just quoted some academic feminist, and were dismissive of MN and twitter. Its as if they saw feminism as something to be written about as theory and not lived by every women.

Even when they touch upon referrals to children's gender clinics they didnt appreciate that mothers would thinking about safeguarding.

The Irish border analogy is an interesting one. Long after it became very clear the legal issue was a complicated one, people from the UK, including politicians and public servants were continuing a narrative of - 'the EU is on the other side of the Channel, we can manage our own ports' - ignoring the 310 mile stretch where you can stand with one foot in the UK and one in the EU.

Reality is irrelevant to them.

Lynskey definitely has a "trans" child. Do you remember when that clip was circulating in which Helen Joyce talked about how parents who had transed their children would be the very last people to see sense on this issue, because they would never be able to admit to themselves the harm they'd done? At the time that was doing the rounds, Lynskey tweeted it with a comment that Joyce was "wicked". In doing so, of course, he proved the exact point she was making.