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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

SNP responds to our concern about Dr Colin Morrison

31 replies

Rtm12bc · 18/04/2022 12:05

Can anyone more knowledgeable confirm if this is true or not? Or is the video distorting the truth? I can’t quite bring myself to believe this could be true: m.youtube.com/watch?v=kBQkHT5zpc8

OP posts:
FOJN · 18/04/2022 12:17

Is this the same Colin Morrison?

theses.gla.ac.uk/2910/1/2011morrisonedd.pdf

tabbycatstripy · 18/04/2022 12:20

Holy shit, that is appalling.

DomesticatedZombie · 18/04/2022 12:28

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/concerns-over-doctor-appointed-scottish-26439239

'Dr Morrison wrote: "In a world where we see children as vulnerable and in need of protection Jackson argues that sexuality is in itself viewed as a 'threat to their wellbeing”.

"Hawkes agrees, identifying that 'arguably, it is the attitudes to children and sexuality where tensions and anxieties, as well as the contradictions of modernist sexuality, are most evident”.

"She confirms that the 'construction of children as being both asexual and sexually corruptible, both innocent and dangerously impure' means that 'superficially the response to these doubts and fears was the separation of sexuality from childhood, accomplished through what Foucault has called the pedagogisation of children’s sex' and that finally 'the monitoring and controlling of the distressing presence of sexual nature was to be accomplished through the attentions of medical experts, and more indirectly through legal frameworks which distinguished children as a separate social category'.”

It was also pointed out that Dr Morrison wrote about his wish for schools to overrule the opinions of parents and religious views about sex education.

He said: "Practice in Scotland’s schools still appears to be traditional in approach, with worries about socially conservative views from parents or faith groups overtly influencing content rather than a clear commitment from school-based professionals to meeting obligations explicit in sexual rights or more broadly children’s human rights."'

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 18/04/2022 12:28

There's a live newspaper piece from March so I have to assume it's the same person.

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/concerns-over-doctor-appointed-scottish-26439239

DomesticatedZombie · 18/04/2022 12:35

His thesis is titled: 'From disability to capability: sex and relationship learning for children and young people with a learning disability'

Yes, that's a link to his thesis, FOJN.

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 18/04/2022 12:37

I'm fascinated by the irrelevance of women and women's groups opinions in some areas of policy but the essential nature of having a balance of "knowledge and experience" in this sensitive policy arena. Hmm

FOJN · 18/04/2022 12:45

No one quoting Foucault to support their argument should be allowed anywhere near sex ed for children.

It's never ending.

FOJN · 18/04/2022 12:48

If you read that thesis and still employed this man for the job then you have announced your agenda. I haven't read the whole thesis but have scrolled through it and almost every paragraph I randomly picked to read in full is problematic

tabbycatstripy · 18/04/2022 12:51

He clearly is advocating for children to have “sexual rights”. And the SNP (if this is all accurate) are fine with that. Fucking hell.

Crcohetmonster · 18/04/2022 12:56

Did he really quote Foucault? The same Foucault who advocated for the age of consent to be removed in France. I give him the sane respect I would have for anyone quoting Simone de Beuvoir or Judith Butler. That’s none

Pluvia · 18/04/2022 12:57

Are you a member of the Scottish Family Party, OP? Just wondering.

Do you know anything about the SFP — its background and values? I'm in Wales, so I'd never heard if it until I just googled.

Rhannion · 18/04/2022 13:07

What a bloody shower ! More 🚩 🚩 from the SNP/ Greens
We women in Scotland are fighting back hard

audweb · 18/04/2022 13:19

@Pluvia

Are you a member of the Scottish Family Party, OP? Just wondering.

Do you know anything about the SFP — its background and values? I'm in Wales, so I'd never heard if it until I just googled.

They are pretty awful. Don’t believe in abortion, only hetro two parent families (so not single parents or gay couples) repeal the smacking ban, and that’s not even touching on their proposal for a national certification on character qualities that would decide if people got state benefits. They also didn’t believe in an covid restrictions.

It’s really depressing they have any support at all.

FOJN · 18/04/2022 13:27

I didn't need Google to know the Scottish Family Party would be promoting the kind of socially conservative values I disagree with.

It would be wonderful if more socially liberal parties could stop behaving as if safeguarding is tool for oppressing paedophiles.

Until then we're stuck with incompatible allies.

Pluvia · 18/04/2022 14:11

I see the OP hasn't come back. And they appear to be a one-post poster.
I think there's a bad whiff here.

The Scottish Family Party website raised a number of red flags, so for the time being I'm not going to support anything they raise. If and when a feminist safeguarding expert reads that PhD and expresses concern, then I may question the appointment of Colin Morrison. Until then, I'd suggest we all walk around this with a peg on our noses.

tabbycatstripy · 18/04/2022 14:38

‘The Scottish Family Party website raised a number of red flags, so for the time being I'm not going to support anything they raise. If and when a feminist safeguarding expert reads that PhD and expresses concern, then I may question the appointment of Colin Morrison. Until then, I'd suggest we all walk around this with a peg on our noses.’

What? Put a peg on my nose and ignore paedophiles designing kids’ sex education?

No.

I don’t have to support him to understand that what he is saying is immediately concerning.

Isn’t that why we’re in this entire mess? People ignoring red flags because of who is waving them?

Lovelyricepudding · 18/04/2022 14:40

So suddenly we should ignore the appointment of someone who, based on his own PhD or other writings, seems to be pro-paedophilia to the body writing sex and relationship education in school - because we dislike the person who raised this?

WTF!

tabbycatstripy · 18/04/2022 14:40

(That doesn’t mean I’m confident this is accurate. But it is a serious allegation nevertheless.)

Lovelyricepudding · 18/04/2022 14:43

Pluvia

If Donald Trump pointed out a fatal flaw on a plane you were about to board, that once pointed out was clear for all to see, would you ignore him and get on the plane?

tabbycatstripy · 18/04/2022 14:57

You can find the thesis online. There’s a link in the Scottish Daily Express article.

tabbycatstripy · 18/04/2022 14:59

Think the point here is that the protection of children from premature exposure to sex is definitely part of a conservative agenda, but it should be part of every person’s agenda. To disregard concerns because the person communicating them is conservative is to muddle the issue.

I’ve read some of the thesis and the quotes are accurate.

TheMarzipanDildo · 18/04/2022 17:32

@Crcohetmonster

Did he really quote Foucault? The same Foucault who advocated for the age of consent to be removed in France. I give him the sane respect I would have for anyone quoting Simone de Beuvoir or Judith Butler. That’s none
What’s wrong with Simone de Beauvoir? I know she gets quoted out of context a lot by TRA types but I remember liking The Second Sex.

I have no problem quoting Foucault on certain subjects, but certainly not child safeguarding! Urgh

Crcohetmonster · 18/04/2022 17:38

She signed the letter by Foucault advocating for the abolition of the age of consent laws. So she is just as pro pedophile as he is.

TheMarzipanDildo · 18/04/2022 18:12

Wow I didn’t know that Crcohetmonster Shock

tabbycatstripy · 18/04/2022 18:21

Anyone can quote anyone. It depends what argument they use the quote to make. This guy is using Foucault to argue for more extensive ‘sex education’ for younger people, including (particularly) disabled people. He regards this as a ‘sexual right’. The language is in some respects ambiguous but I find the thesis as a whole very concerning.