The post-cancellation of Julie Bindel. Not on my watch mate .... Suzanne Moore

[stumbledin]

If you put this in a film script about some Orwellian future you would go that's a bit far fetched.

But this is today's reality!

suzannemoore.substack.com/p/the-post-cancellation-of-julie-bindel

Ah, just mentioned this on the other thread! Absolutely unbelievable.

Great article!

(I see she seems to be writing for the Telegraph fairly regularly now - today's is "The only wrong way to be a woman these days is to stand up for women's rights" www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/wrong-way-woman-days-stand-womens-rights/. Great piece, apologies it's behind a pay-wall).

She writes for the Telegraph because only it and the Times regularly publish GC journalists.

Dont forget she was harrassed out of the Guardian.

Also worth remembering that most of these papers offer a limited number of free articles per month, so if every mumsnetter signed up we would be able to regularly get articles or at least archive them.

Warning: if you paste a whole article into a mumsnet thread it will be deleted.

Also publishes articles by Julie Bindel and Joan Smith semi-regularly.

However, do not under any account, ever look below the line. That is an insight into the minds of the worst of humanity I could live without...

The bookshop owners referred to in Suzanne's article are cowards - they are afraid that if they don't now denounce Julie Bindel for 'sins' of the past, they themselves will come under fire from TRAs. So they will throw her under the bus to save themselves.

Julie's written about it in The Spectator:

www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-are-trans-activists-and-a-bookstore-trying-to-cancel-me-

And it appears from Twitter a writer called Allison Evans is giving themselves the credit for demanding the bookstore apologise.

Readings stores tend to be in places which are also infested with the ultra-woke, student brigade. I suspect though, that the blue hair brigade buy fewer books than the well-heeled inhabitants of Carlton and St Kilda. I’m also guessing that Juno Dawson is not terribly well-known in Australia, while Julie Bindel has a stellar reputation in feminist circles. Women buy more books than men.

It used to be the blue rinse brigade and now its the blue haired brigade. They are both censorious so quite similar even if politically miles apart.

Also in the Times today:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ec448078-6c68-11eb-9ef0-206cb89ab544?shareToken=06ffbfd41f749e0be5de1a55335084a2

It used to be the blue rinse brigade and now its the blue haired brigade.

[quote Igneococcus]Also in the Times today:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ec448078-6c68-11eb-9ef0-206cb89ab544?shareToken=06ffbfd41f749e0be5de1a55335084a2[/quote]
Reading that Times article, it turns out the book shop owner, having said he regrets hosting Bindel, now says he regrets apologising...! He’s in quite the spin, isn’t he.

That’s where pandering will get you.

Time he channelled his inner Edith Piaf, methinks.

Always lots of concern for safety of transpeople (which is ok of course), but not much thought for the safety of women who get rape and death threats for speaking up for women's rights.

Yes. And the usual double standards abound. The book shop owner said this of Bindel:

Her views on transgender people are particularly controversial and have caused distress in that community.

But nothing about the fact that Dawson’s views on women are particularly controversial and have caused distress in our community.

Hm. I wonder why that could be.

Don't forget Dawson's attitude to homosexuality (Dawson's infamous article in the Independent arguing that gay men were acting out as a consolation prize for not being trans ).

Alison Evans, the blue-haired (of course) non-binary author who demanded an apology as a condition of her appearing, has published a book called Euphoria Kids - a YA fiction novel with multiple trans characters.

Name-changed for this but Jo March replied to me in the Times comments... Feminism level up!

Name-changed for this but Jo March replied to me in the Times comments... Feminism level up!

Janice Turner (or someone with the same name) once recommened one of my comments [preens]

Dawson is also in W Yorks? Didn't know that.

@Igneococcus

Name-changed for this but Jo March replied to me in the Times comments... Feminism level up!

Janice Turner (or someone with the same name) once recommened one of my comments [preens]

Oooooh, fancy pants!

[quote stumbledin]If you put this in a film script about some Orwellian future you would go that's a bit far fetched.

But this is today's reality!

suzannemoore.substack.com/p/the-post-cancellation-of-julie-bindel[/quote]

"She talks the talk and she walks the walk"

Too right. She's an icon.

Was the apology about the apology made on twitter or was it only available to people who have bought access to the UK Times...?

mobile.twitter.com/ReadingsBooks

I'm a bit confused.

They regret the apology, but haven't actually removed it from their twitter account?

????

How ridiculous and embarrassing of that author to demand an apology for a venue for simply hosting another author they didn’t agree with. Did this person also demand the bookshop get some sage and smudge the place too to get rid of any lurking anti-misogyny vibes?

Absolute cringeworthy eejits.

@ChattyLion

How ridiculous and embarrassing of that author to demand an apology for a venue for simply hosting another author they didn’t agree with. Did this person also demand the bookshop get some sage and smudge the place too to get rid of any lurking anti-misogyny vibes?

Absolute cringeworthy eejits.

Very entitled and weak. Looking the author up and not impressed by their catalogue.