Baroness Nicholson strikes again

[Imnobody4]

Sainsburys yet again showing a total absence of judgement. They are rethinking.

Could you link to this, can't read

She's also collecting support from MPs for a debate on sex-based rights.

I'm hoping this doesn't mean she does believe the Tories are getting cold feet...

@teawamutu I don't think so. The Baroness knows that this is going to take a couple of years to undo a lot of the dilution of women's rights using gender instead of sex etc etc. I think she knows enough about the political system to get the best route through.

This is a much simpler way of getting the issue resolved or at least out for public discussion. Individually tackling companies and institutions is a really hard slog.

Thanks @highame - I'm just getting really antsy.

She is a marvel, isn't she? But how infuriating that she's still on her own doing this. With a few more allies in the right places and equipped with a backbone, this capture could never have gone so far.

twitter.com/Baroness_Nichol/status/1295788026040397831?s=19
Here's the link.

I think it took all of us by suprise. Lots of actions by stealth were happening before we suddenly woke (not as in wokeiness) up. Many on here though have been aware for years but their voices were not being heard. I have a feeling JKR put a spotlight on the whole mess.

I have days when I feel really low about this and then I get something positive and am ok for a while. I think we have to accept that it's a bit of a roller coaster and we will have the gitters until we get something really positive in Law

I agree about the mug but I suspect Ronald Dahl wrote it that way on purpose (as in she might have been physically hit by an idea in the form of a letter, book etc). It would have been better to chose another quote
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Ok, I have read the Twitter bit and I don't get it, mainly because I still can't read the small text I guess. It's a quote from Matilda, which seems entirely uncontroversial?

I have this mug. It's a nice cup, but they should have done the font a bit better i.e. it's one quote so don't make it look like two statements!

@BobbinThreadbare123

I have this mug. It's a nice cup, but they should have done the font a bit better i.e. it's one quote so don't make it look like two statements!

I thought that was pretty obvious - they are just emphasising the bit about the brilliant idea. It makes no sense grammatically otherwise.

@Goosefoot

Ok, I have read the Twitter bit and I don't get it, mainly because I still can't read the small text I guess. It's a quote from Matilda, which seems entirely uncontroversial?

The quote is "A brilliant idea hit her".

The font and layout on the mug reads as "A brilliant idea. Hit her."

The font and layout on the mug reads as "A brilliant idea. Hit her."

Other than the capitalisation and the punctuation, you mean?

The choice of typography means that message could be read as:

"A brilliant idea - hit her"

as opposed to (what I assume is the original quote):

"A brilliant idea hit her"

It is a bit clumsy, but personally this ranks pretty low on my list of things to be enraged about. And I am concerned that it could undermine the other very important issues that the Baroness is tackling in the eyes of people who like to cry "political correctness gone mad".

Not sure she made the right call on this one.

Other than the capitalisation and the punctuation, you mean?

IMO the font and layout are stronger than punctuation and capitalisation. Three fonts are used

A
brilliant idea
HIT HER

I agree, odd choice of quote, why pick that one?

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the quote itself, but the font makes it look like it’s saying something completely different.
I think it’s just an inadvertent mistake, and it’s correct that it’s pulled.
I don’t think it was malicious

I have only just seen this and I couldn't work out what it was meant to mean other than: A brilliant idea. Hit her.

I only realised it was meant to read as one sentence on reading this thread.

Clearly unfortunate rather than malicious but I honestly read it as it's a good idea to hit women and couldn't understand the purpose of such a mug.

@Mollscroll

I have only just seen this and I couldn't work out what it was meant to mean other than: A brilliant idea. Hit her.

I only realised it was meant to read as one sentence on reading this thread.

Clearly unfortunate rather than malicious but I honestly read it as it's a good idea to hit women and couldn't understand the purpose of such a mug.

Same here. And I think a lot of people who aren't familiar with Matilda would read it the same way.

@PumbaasCucumbas

I agree, odd choice of quote, why pick that one?

I expect someone thought BRILLIANT IDEA was a good set of words for an inspirational quote mug.

I also think it's a weird choice for someone to get their knickers in a twist about. My neighbour has a Covid sign in her window that is meant to say "We are all in this together" but actually appears to say, because of the window construction "We are all in this to get her." It's really not an anti-woman statement, and even if it can read like that I think cheeseismydownfall is correct, it tends to dilute more serious issues.

@Mollscroll

I have only just seen this and I couldn't work out what it was meant to mean other than: A brilliant idea. Hit her.

I only realised it was meant to read as one sentence on reading this thread.

Clearly unfortunate rather than malicious but I honestly read it as it's a good idea to hit women and couldn't understand the purpose of such a mug.

Me too.

Same here. And I think a lot of people who aren't familiar with Matilda would read it the same way.

And....?

What's the poor outcome of that? You read it wrong, and someone says, no, that's a quote from the beloved children's novel Matilda.

We complain about certain activists being over-sensitive and lacking resilience, but is this really different? We are grown ups, and it's an inspirational quote mug. It's not going to crate a rash of domestic violence incidents. Not many people will even read it.

Any one designing a mug, if they're competent or professional would not have used the fonts in this way. Fonts and layout are part of the meaning, just as punctuation is. This may be just a matter of poor proofreading but it needs changing.
You wouldn't put that statement (as it stands)on a T Shirt would you?

It's not as bad as this.

@Imnobody4

Any one designing a mug, if they're competent or professional would not have used the fonts in this way. Fonts and layout are part of the meaning, just as punctuation is. This may be just a matter of poor proofreading but it needs changing. You wouldn't put that statement (as it stands)on a T Shirt would you?

Fonts and layout aren't part of meaning in the way that the conventional punctuation is, no. The sentence is a grammatical whole, it starts with a capital letter and ends with a period.

You could certainly say that it was poor design, but the person who designed it probably read it grammatically as they already knew what it said - and while some here may have read it otherwise, plenty of people haven't. There are all kinds of inspirational quotes used on mugs, t-shirts, and other places, with similar fonts and layout. They just don't happen to be meaningful if you were to change the punctation around.

It's about the same level as someone who used a word not realising it had an alternate meaning that was quite different.

I have only just seen this and I couldn't work out what it was meant to mean other than: A brilliant idea. Hit her.

Same!