Sabah Vines column today focussing on online porn and suggesting it as a likely root cause of misogyny is good.
She also includes this
“I love Carrie – in person she's nothing like the sexist stereotypes you're always reading – and it is typically generous of her to lend her considerable influence to an event in support of LGBT rights at Tory conference.
But I am a little apprehensive about her allying herself with an organisation like Stonewall (co-organisers of the event), which, while highly respected – and rightly so – over the years for its work on gay rights has, of late, betrayed some rather less than tolerant views when it comes to women's rights. Specifically, the organisation's chief executive, Nancy Kelley, has said that so-called gender critical beliefs – such as the notion that women have the right to single-sex spaces for their own protection, or that mothers should not have to style themselves as 'people who give birth' or 'chest-feeders' – are as bad as anti-Semitism.
That is a grotesque and unfair demonisation of a group of people – myself included – who are only trying to have an open and honest debate about these deeply complex issues in order to protect the hard-won rights of not just a handful of trans women – but all women.”
Who knows what will happen at the Tory conference, but this is a clear statement from a leading, and connected, columnist writing for Britain’s largest circulation newspaper. It would be lovely to see the same in the Guardian, but it won’t happen, so good to see it somewhere.