Women are telling BBT loudly and clearly why his product isn't selling and he's sticking his fingers in his ears and going 'la la la'. His complete tone-deafness is staggering.
It's the arrogance and condescension that stand out for me.
His complete but unashamed ignorance. In the tweet you quote in your OP, MarieIVanArkleStinks, he claims he wants to fight misogyny, sexism etc.
But if it isn't misogyny to follow this with tweet after tweet about the issues of males, I don't know what is.
It isn't enough to namedrop misogyny and sexism. That means nothing.
To write in his sixth tweet
Men threaten women in so many ways.
And follow this with
Trans women (often non-white trans women) experience the blunt, murderous end of that threat all too often.
Centres men claiming womanhood in a tweet that he seems to believe shows his sympathy for women.
And that's regardless of the fact that men claiming womanhood in the UK have in the last decade been far more likely to have murdered than been murdered.
He brushes the hundreds of women murdered in the UK every single year under the carpet. Because his fellow men remain more important to him. Even if they claim womanhood.
The pretense fails completely with the final sentence of that tweet:
Again, these women need compassion.
He hasn't expressed any compassion with female victims of male violence up to this point (he doesn't later either), but he urges the many of us who belong to that group to show compassion to males. Because they need it.
That we might need compassion too does not register. Because you cannot show us that compassion for having experienced male violence while simultaneously denying us what we need to recover from male violence.
Tweet seven:
There needs to be debate on how to ensure safety and agency of all women; of methods and timings of transitioning, which will vary for each person. But any debate needs to come from a place of compassion where the fact of trans women's existence and womanhood is honoured. (7/10)
More of the same. No thought given to our needs, to honouring our existence and womanhood. To ensure our safety and agency.
Tweet eight is just sad. I feel embarrassed for him. He signed a letter demanding to silence a female colleague by denying her a voice in his paper and justifies it thus:
I signed the letter in the wake of Suzanne Moore's column because I thought she mis-characterised the fight for trans rights as denying women's rights. I respect debate and part of that is calling out something I don't agree with. She isn't silenced, nor would I want that. (8/10)
Suzanne Moore did no such thing of course. She explained carefully why a proposed law reform conferring a privilege to people who identify as trans (that no other group in the UK has) will negatively impact on the existing rights of women.
She did not claim the fight for trans rights denies women's rights.
She isn't silenced. No. But that's because she's refusing to be, not because you haven't tried.
Once again oblivious to the reality of women's lives, he ploughs ahead:
This debate should continue until everyone feels safe. People often approach it in bad faith. I encourage people to think openly. Talk to trans people and understand the reality of their identities; their difficulties and joys. (9/10)
Talk to us. Understand us. This isn't about feeling safe but being safe.
Many hundreds tried to explain after his first thread. To no avail. He urges compassion from us but shows none. And is too blind to see it.