Caitlin Moran

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Thinking she ‘might’ be with us.

Check her reply to Dr Jess Taylor. Soz, not up to screenshooting at the mo).

Nah. She's a coward. I expect whatever she's said, she'll backtrack from.

Supporting radical feminists anyone?

Fantastic!

Surprising! I think Caitlin is probably GC but she’s also right-on and I think she’s struggled to reconcile those in past years.

I don't know she does just blither a lot of nonsense in order to pay the bills. Not that I blame her but some of the total rubbish she spouts is amazing. Therefore I am not sure that I would set much store by anything she might say.

I’m not out in the open. Why should Caitlin be? We’re all fecking terrified of the stasi. She has taken a huge step IMHO

She seems to have been pals with people like Janice Turner for a while. I think she probably just wants to keep out of it but certainly isn't up for pariah-ing the women who are gender critical. That seems cool to me. Even if she disagrees with their stance, she doesn't brand them transphobic bigots.

That's not really 'with us' as being gender critical though is it? Jameela Jamil also said she'd read Dr Taylor's book.

I think she is 100% GC but also 100% too scared to say so. Like a lot of people.

Like me. Like most of us.

Caitlin Moran, whose 2012 book How to Be a Woman has already become a central text of a certain strain of feminism (and who has been criticized herself for using the word "tranny"), says, "Someone saying to a transgender woman, 'You're not a proper woman because you weren't physically born a woman' is like someone saying to me that I'm not a proper woman because I've had an abortion

"As far as I'm concerned, everyone's welcome in the Lady Party," says Moran. "Pull up a chair."
www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/why-feminism-cant-afford-to-ignore-transgender-wo

Seems pretty clear

... of course people can always change their mind when presented with new evidence, and that link is from a few years ago.

That was 2012. Eight years on and we’re in a misogynist shit storm. Even the thinking libfems will be being peaked right now (the ones without the lobotomy scars that is)

She is probably reading this thread....I suppose everyone can change their mind but she has been pretty vocal in her support for transwomen being 'real' women......perhaps she has sensed a change in direction and is changing her tune accordingly . That is how it seems anyway.

Well, we can certainly hope!

Caitlin Moran is a thoughtful person. Everyone is welcome to change their minds. Her tentative steps into supporting a gender critical tweeter is brave. I have always admired her writing to the hilt...even when I have disagreed with some of the stuff she has said. I don’t need to agree with everyone I admire all of the time. It has never stopped me reading anything she puts on the page, because for the most part, she speaks to my soul. And when she says stuff I may not be into, I skip over it, because the good stuff she says is too good to ignore. I’m tired of cancel culture. Caitlin has done a small but significant thing tonight. I’m grabbing on.

I live in hope, although she blocked my GC account on Twitter.

She's friends with Hadley Freeman I think.

Hadley is a Pankhurst. She is the bravest of the brave

Oh I like Hadley Freeman.....into fashion but no airhead that's for sure...

I’ve been critical of CMs hypocritical stance on this issue on this board before - however champagne is on ice ready to open for CM if she supports JK...

HF - love her!

I’m not convinced, I think CM staying relatively quiet is more about remaining popular, she has teenage daughters so I imagine she’s rather constrained.

I always looked at how media blue ticks conversed with Deborah Orr as my weather vane, but now she’s gone it’s harder to tell.

No, she's desperately trying to appear younger and cooler than she is, so whatever her actual views she'll toe the woke line.

I assumed she wasn't.

I'm sure shes never got over the fact I refuse to have 'her' in the house. I am prepared to be proven wrong, then she will be my BFF but only if she stops gurning in every photo (you aren't a teenager any more).

Oh the ridiculous facepulling and the docs and shorts student style combo.....Yeh Caitlin grow up. I bet Hadley doesn't dress like that. ..

I was confused by the photo gurning until I watched her chatting with Sally Hughes and wondered if she did it to avoid being recognised in public. Her non-gurning face wasn’t commonly seen until recently.