For the sake of communication, I'll make it quite clear that I do not agree that people should be attacked or hounded purely because you disagree. You were replying to me. I have not hounded or attacked Janice Turner. I'm not even on Twitter.
People's issue isn't just about pronoun use. Because other people use preferred pronouns. You've said yourself you've no idea why she did it.
We are talking about a 56-year-old man, teaching 11 to 18-year-olds, who, because of his porn habit, believes that the size of a girl's breasts indicates her popularity. He teaches science.
He implemented a policy where his pupils call him Miss and use she pronouns, because it's arousing. And he wears fake breasts in front of them.
He has gone completely public about this!!
None of this is about purity! Or rule breaking or zealotry, ffs.
This is about total bafflement as to why somebody like Janice Turner, who appeared to grasp the entire issue, doesn't get it. Because it wasn't the ipso guidelines, or anything like that. She said it was out of respect.
Although I'm perfectly willing to believe that she doesn't actually get it.
A lot of women really can't quite bring himself to accept that this might just all be about sex.
But in this case, Debbie Hayton himself has confirmed it.
So even if you think people are zealots, or there's a purity spiral, or there are exceptions, or a wide variety of reasons, even then, you still can't think of a reason why Janice Turner did it.
Because it's really fucking important why she did.
I want to know why clever, influential, brilliant writers like her think we need to respect men's public fetishes.