Miriam Margolyes being a massive transphobe

[mintkoala]

She's criticising JKR - calling her conservative. Then she says, 'If you seriously want to be a woman you should be allowed to'. I think she imagines she can decide who 'seriously' wants to be a woman, rather than having to accept anyone who wants to identify.

To be fair Miriam Margoyles has academic credentials

I realised that when I later read right to the end of the article. Whoops, but she was a bit of an arse in the interview and it annoys me saying that about a woman

@zanahoria

She has a history of saying things for effect, like her comments about wanting Boris Johnson to die of Covid, now she thinks JK is a fascist. She makes out she is a rebel but just saying things that are extremely orthodox among luvvies and for an old woman, she is extremely childish.

This exactly sums MM up. I have always considered her a complete arse.

God she's so fucking dull.

She spouts all sorts of bullshit for attention.

Best treated as such. She's a vapid, rent a quote celeb, which people fall for every . single . fucking . time.

So miriam margoyles, who had the privilege of attending an all all-female college (Newnham college, Cambridge) now doesn't think other women should be afforded that privilege? Nice!

There is a type of woman who likes to pull the ladder up behind her. I met a few working in the City.

Just seen another interview with her, re her upcoming new show (what a surprise!). I'll quote:

"On the coast near Darwin she meets a group of indigenous transgender people from the nearby Tiwi islands, and asks them some very intimate questions. "I am on the fringes, I suppose, of being rather too direct in some quarters. I always thought that somebody who wanted to become a woman would have chopped their dick off."

The islanders are not offended and take her to a drag show at a nightclub that evening. "I didn't want to offend people. That's the crucial thing, isn't it, about transgender?

I know I'm a lesbian and I know I'm a woman , so I've sorted it out. But if you are on the way between one sex and another, how do you decide when you've arrived? It's hugely complicated. Look at poor JK Rowling She's dived into the pool and got very wet."
Unlike other Harry Potter actors, Margolyes, who played Professor Sprout, hasn't criticised Rowling's views on transgender issues. "I was asked to make a public statement and I didn't want to. I just thought I've made enough public statements."

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How telling, that someone who prides themselves on being direct - "too direct" - and is a female who presumably is same-sex attracted, felt this issue just happened to be the point in her life at which she'd stop making statements.

It's so transparent.

Ha and then at the end they refer to MM as 'an indomitable, questioning presence, wherever she might turn up. "I'm just me", Margolyes says. "And the surroundings have to cope with that".'

I would have expected better from her to be honest. She doesn't usually tolerate nonsense no! She's full of stuff and nonsense.

She'd back trans people to be who they want to be a forcefully as she'd lead the action against any transgressor.

She is full of cognitive dissonance, always has been. Her left and right hands lead totally separate lives!

I thought the initial quote in the OP is very much TWAW and this one is heavily indicating "I don't want to talk about what I really think because it doesn't affect me and I don't want to 'get wet'". So yeah, cognitive dissonance.