Grace Lavery on Woman’s Hour Today (7 April)

[CaveMum]

Why on earth I do not know, but the “delightful” Grace Lavery is on Woman’s Hour today.

This Grace Lavery

‘ Opening a book with your penis isn’t that impressive.
Now, opening a jar of pickles with your penis, that gets my respect.’

Passing the teapot with your penis would be an interesting variety act.

@UniversalAunt

‘ Opening a book with your penis isn’t that impressive. Now, opening a jar of pickles with your penis, that gets my respect.’

Passing the teapot with your penis would be an interesting variety act.

Passing a paper towel whilst giving compliments on shades of lipstick, ala talking Tommy Lee penis would be the pinnacle of impressive for me.

You can try opening a book with a penis but the pages get stuck together.

Finally had some time to sit down and listen to this.

My head hurts a bit from trying to follow their stream of consciousness and my eyes hurt a lot from rolling them.

As an aside, they don’t half sniff a lot during that interview.

I only listened to the two-minute clip from the Twitter thread linked but hell's teeth, too many words.

Perfect voice for radio, though

[quote UniversalAunt]@WarriorN TY for JulieB quote: ‘More peaks than a meringue…’

Fnar fnar 😆[/quote]
That whole thread of everyone joining in had me crying laughing!

twitter.com/bindelj/status/1512009453364813825?s=20&t=pptXH-LHUAc3bs26Z2Jx5Q

@Furries

Finally had some time to sit down and listen to this.

My head hurts a bit from trying to follow their stream of consciousness and my eyes hurt a lot from rolling them.

As an aside, they don’t half sniff a lot during that interview.

Brings to mind that Freud quote about how well his lecture had gone

twitter.com/moleatthedoor/status/1512415225768730624?s=20&t=tzZAyMw1s6GW6B49mJtWNw

Just came in to share that tweet and see @Awkwardy has beaten me to it!

was trying to imagine a casual radio listener switching through the channels in their car. If they had tuned in mid way through and heard that voice I'm sure they wouldn't think the voice was anything other than male.

I’m at a work CPD away days thing and someone remarked just that. My colleague had tuned in at the middle of the interview while driving here yesterday. My colleague remarked what a load of tosh was being spouted by an obviously privileged man.

Julie Bindel - thecritic.co.uk/a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-narcissism/

Sorry, those grins were for Mole's work that Awkwardy posted.

Julie does write amusingly:

One of the reasons I will not use female pronouns for Lavery is because of the sheer amount of willy in the book. As one feminist friend remarked when I was explaining the use of the term “her erect penis” in a liberal British newspaper when reporting on the trans-identified sex offender Karen White who had sexually assaulted female prisoners: “The only time the use of the phrase ‘her penis’ is acceptable is if a woman castrates her rapist and holds it up as a kind of trophy.”

I liked that part too @nauticant

I’m predicting the next book title will be a riff on Jonathan Franzen and it’ll be called The Erections.

Can anyone explain the 'staggering penis' thing to me, please? As a title it reads a bit like one of those 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' rounds where the contestants have to add "in my pants" to the end of popular film titles. Except those are usually funny. This just leaves me perplexed.

It’s a shit attempt at a riff on Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. (A good book).

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers

Well exactly.

It’s a really shit and frankly inexplicable pun on this;

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Heartbreaking_Work_of_Staggering_Genius

I think Grace is just so profoundly committed to womanhood Grace has to mention Grace’s penis at every opportunity. You know. Like is girls all do.

X post.

And Elvis Costello could do a song to go with it: Just watching the erections

DH is listening to our Grace on WH in the kitchen while he does the washing up. He keeps saying “oh for fuck’s sake” and paused to have a mini-rant after Grace’s outrageous claim about sex-based rights being harmful to women. DH is a keeper. Grace is an absolute muppet but a real asset to the GC cause. That interview will have woken a lot of the #bekind crew up.

@Sortilege

I think Grace is just so profoundly committed to womanhood Grace has to mention Grace’s penis at every opportunity. You know. Like is girls all do.

It does seem out of place doesn’t it!

And this is why I no longer read the guardian… equating violence with JKR wanting safe spaces for women!?

t.co/eswaVk6amQ

Such bullshit