Guardian feature - Wanda Sykes

[Littlesprouts]

Gobsmacked at the framing of this interview with Wanda Sykes. Of all the things to put in an intro it's a self-righteous swipe at supporters of single sex toilets - because public toilets are so grotty it doesn't really matter who's in them and to say otherwise is 'transphobic'.

It's not Sykes's material that's the issue here rather than the journo imposing their witless identity politics on the reader in the very first paragraph.

So neither the journalist or the person being interviewed are being transphobic? And that's a problem?

Their argument - women's toilets are horrible so it doesn't matter anyway who's in them - is absurd (obviously in Sykes's case it is comedy), and to frame anyone with concerns about a lack of single sex spaces as 'transphobic' is simply reductive.

Never mind to make such a virtue-signalling swipe the big hook of your piece when Wanda Sykes is far more interesting than that.

I don’t know either the journalist or the subject of the article but that is one obnoxious opening paragraph. I certainly don’t find the imaginary tampon swinging amusing or witty. And women’s toilets are generally absolutely fine.