Observer editorial

[irresistibleoverwhelm]

After the woeful nonsense the Guardian has been putting out recently, it was so absolutely refreshing to see this statement in an Observer editorial:

Women across the world continue to be oppressed on the basis of their reproductive biology: the patriarchal forces that seek to control women and their bodies are embedded everywhere.

How this can have become a fucking controversial statement these days is absolutely mindmelting. We need to bring real feminism back by asserting this everywhere we can!

Guardian: take note and get on it, you could still redeem yourself by chucking out all the idiot bro-wokesters and standing up for truth and reality. (They won’t though…)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/05/observer-view-on-texas-abortion-ban?CMP=fb_cif&fbclid=IwAR2xlaqWC9ookbEwfP-BBAyPf-BAMCQy29PP0p0UbxtXnbZdSIZUUXCbUNk

Great article.

Too little too late

That's good good to see. I don't hold The Observer responsible for the Guardian losing its collective mind - they have a different editor and I think they've always been more sensible about sex and gender.

That's Sonia Sodha. She's magnificent.

I have so much respect for the women of the Observer and Guardian who have continued to stand up for women’s rights despite strong internal opposition.

Not a surprise. I think the Editor, Paul Webster, wants to see clear blue water between The Observer and The Guardian. I suspect many readers/subscribers of The Guardian Monday-Saturday, switch to The Observer just for Sundays.

Which means if the readership of The Guardian suddenly plummets (say because its target market doesn't fancy being associated with a newspaper which deprives the voice of Black women whilst trying to cover-up for a white middle-aged nonce) it will have a knock-on impact at The Observer.

It would certainly make sense for The Observer to put some distance away from The Guardian.

I've just written to both Katherine Viner and Paul Webster cancelling my subscription and praising the Observer but explaining how dreadful the Guardian's coverage of the trans issue has been. Sam Levin and LOJ are the last straw. I cannot fund this

@persister

That's Sonia Sodha. She's magnificent.

She is.