the Financial Times has fallen

[MaMaLa321]

A full page article in the FT this weekend 'The new Gender Wars' by Mark Gevisser. An uncritical acceptance and promotion of trans rights.
It's behind a paywall, so no point linking.
But I feel so sad. Another great institution has fallen.

Agree I wouldn't say this one article demonstrates the editorial opinion of the whole paper.
Another piece was on "which celeb would you add to your bubble" and suggested J K Rowling: "The Harry Potter author sits quietly on her laptop, leaving you to wonder which delightful novel she is composing. Then a Molotov cocktail flies in the window, and you realise that she has been on Twitter. You nonetheless decide her visit was worth it."
I definitely think there are some staff that support her

Also this one references JKR, title pretty self explanatory, link for other subscribers. The pandemic has killed nuance on social media - on.ft.com/37tPcT5

As I said the more mainstream this becomes hopefully the more papers like FT will sit up and yes follow the money as a lot of their investigative reporting does.

Was it the FT that said a man who wears dresses was the top woman in business last year?

Wears dresses three days a week I mean

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/gender-fluid-exec-named-on-list-of-top-100-women-in-business-a3942896.html

re Bunce www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3405274-Pips-Bunce-dropped-from-FT-list

mirandayardley.com/en/so-brave-so-stunning-pippa-bunce-the-transvestite-rebranded/

"So our dear friend Pippa Bunce is in the news again because he has, unbelievably not so unbelievably in this mixed-up, muddled-up shook-up world, managed again to penetrate the Top 100 Female Executives list in the 2018 FT HERoes Champions of Women in Business 2018. This is a great example of the stupidity that arises in our brave new world, where we are told equality is for everyone and we must all be inclusive: a cross-dressing beta male who emboldens, double-underlines and showers in magical unicorn glitter all the passive, sexually objectifying stereotypes that women have fought against for centuries, gets recognition as a woman in this most conservative, most closed to women yet financially lucrative sector of the economy. This is so over the top ludicrous, it should be satire. But it isn’t."
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Spoiler: they dropped him when he called women TERFs

They kept the other MTF people on their list though. I believe there was a total of 4 XY people on their list of 100 top businesswomen. Absolutely fucking shameful.

While the lighter side of this debate is often dressed up with rainbows and unicorns and covered in glitter I make a point of not forgetting the darker underbelly.

I'm not in the habit of wearing a tin hat, but there are wealthy individuals from organisations with power and influence who have sway with the FT.

Some of them must be panicking now that a few brave people are getting their voices heard. I don't imagine that article found its way into the paper by accident.

I'm a big fan of Robert Shrimsley in the FT but I've just noticed that last week he retweeted Peter Tatchell with a comment saying how much he admired him. Someone said - err, no, misogyny - but didn't provide any evidence.

I'm not on Twitter since I found myself on TERFblocker but if anyone is on there and has a spare five mins, it might be worth sharing with Robert that letter from Peter Tatchell about how very much children enjoy sex with adults...

I really am so fed up with how teflon this movement is. Promoting abuse in plain sight and yet being amplified by people with decent platforms and brains in their heads.