Who has most disappointed you?

[Calistano]

I'd say Russell T Davies when he had his drunken rant. I get his concern that lgbt is being fractured. But his absent concern for Women and their rights was palpable. I honestly thought he had more sense.

I was disappointed too. Imagine writing a whole book about women in the middle ages and then saying that you think men can be women. Nuts.

Interesting that Brian Cox is much less visible than he used to be. It may be that he's decided he's got enough money, but his wife was very vocally gc for a while.

Christine of Christine and the Queens [Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier - so many diacritics for one person!]

She was a very original and inventive performer and unconventional female songwriter. Her performance at Glastonbury 2019 was brilliant [as was Stormzy's that year, both fantastic when I saw them on TV, not live alas].

She was a different and fresh and original woman in music, and there aren't too many of them around.

Now he's a bloke.

Same…so disappointing. I tried to read her book on the saints and it just jarred too much.

The male sex and the women pandering.

For me, Matt Dillahunty, of The Atheist Experience.

His schtick regarding religion was always that i) extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, ii) you should care that the opinions you hold are true, and iii) your beliefs should be founded in evidence.

That he fell so deeply for the genderbollocks was so disappointing, he couldn't hold that nonsense to the same standard he held his religious beliefs.

These obvious logic fails are a feature, aren't they?

I wrote on this earlier but a recent event has changed mine remark about Margaret Atwood to someone else. My best friend. Her son believes he's a woman and my friend, who struggled with his mental illness for years has chosen now to support him fully in using women's changing rooms and restrooms. He's built like a sumo wrestler and she thinks any woman or girl who has a problem with him is a bigot. She used to be a feminist.

Another for Margaret Atwood, I loved her books for giving a voice to women. Ha!

Yes, it's so odd that so many so-called sceptics lapped up the new religion (cf Alice Roberts and Robin Ince).

I'm finding Naomi Klein disappointing ATM. I'm reading Doppelganger and she is writing lots of interesting points that make sense if applied to this issue, but she absolutely will not go there. And to say 'I don't understand that kind of feminism' when asked about it in the UK was pathetic tbh. Of course you could understand it, even if you disagree, or more likeky think it's a distraction from climate change which she thinks is more important (i think it's linked) you just refuse to.

The Potter crowd, Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman (who has turned out to be an arsehole in multiple ways), Ben Goldacre. Many of the others are people or institutions I had no liking for in the first place tbh.

I expect some of my lovely (teaching) colleagues would disappoint me, but it's not a conversation I'd be prepared to have at work unless I felt I had to, so I don't know.

Rather put her hands in a blender eh?
I hate exaggerations like this. I’m sure she wouldn’t so why say it?
Not big and not clever
Neither is the wearing of that t-shirt

And yet lesbian friends of mine who live down the road from him in Swansea still think he's wonderful, despite having seen that rant. I despair.

Exactly the same here!

I was disappointed by Christine too. And Kate Tempest. Cool lesbian musicians end up as self-conscious enbies/transmen.

And Chappell Roan - lesbian, and totally TWAW and a fan of drag.

That's depressing @MarieDeGournay
My DD is really into Chappell Roan.

Margaret Atwood and Philip Pullman, both have written books that suggest they really should get this and yet they behave otherwise.

Oh and Sandi Toksvig

Claudine.
You wouldn't know her, she's a friend.

Matthew Syed has finally made a stand. Took him bloody long enough. After all the heavy lifting has already been done.

If you think we’re past peak woke, we may not even be halfway up that hill

www.thetimes.com/article/6c40303d-4678-4c27-a9d5-3ee229523cb1?shareToken=08772d1a11c957841459c7766ee4d33e

Syed has written about this before - it's not the first time. But my feeling is that he's rarely as direct as he might be about the problems inherent in pretending men can be women.

Their next contract depends on it.

Roan recently said she wouldn't endorse a US presidential candidate. 'Asked about the change she wants to see in the US, she responded: “Trans rights. They cannot have cis people making decisions for trans people, period.”'