Another incredibly annoying Guardian article

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/10/trans-rights-feminist-letter-rebecca-solnit

Apologies if already posted here - couldn't see it.

Apologies also to anyone else as irked by it as me. I just want to hear some other people also express that it is like nails on a blackboard in its utter tone-deaf wrongness throughout.

@DocOfTheBay

I can’t find / see the comments. Do I have to subscribe?

I am really not willing to subscribe for drivel like this.

The actual article doesn’t allow comments, it’s comments on the Facebook post about it that people are seeing.

Holly Lawford-Smith uses begging the question properly, which simply enhances that letter's many positives. Excellent.

@FloralBunting

Holly Lawford-Smith uses begging the question properly, which simply enhances that letter's many positives. Excellent.

Oh, that's just wonderful.

Improper use of that term is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, though I realise many people now have only heard it used incorrectly. But it's such a useful idea.

Goosefoot, you and I do not see eye to eye on a number of things, but this we definitely share

Great response, thanks Dancelike. Bloody annoying article. Trendy Guardian journalists meets some perfectly lovely trans folk in a bar, therefore we don't need women's refuges. WTF?

She was hanging out with them in a bar where she was taken when very underage. Not even a hint of a suggestion from her that something was not right about them taking her to bars when she was 14 (even though they had no sexual interest in her).

She does not seem to have a grasp of child protection or even what it is to be a responsible adult around children.

@TBHno

That is one of the Guardian's worst articles on this subject, and that's really saying something.

I thought so as well - in fact I couldn't even read it through the rage. I texted a link to my dtr asking if her friends really actually really believed this shite.

Well that was a beautiful letter. I wish I had written it. I love an eloquent put down.