A little bit of reality

[Sadforthem23]

I saw this and couldn't find a thread already.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/tv-anchor-refuses-to-use-indian-origin-guest-s-non-binary-pronoun-saying-it-s-grammatically-incorrect-viral-exchange-101713193307495-amp.html

I think when discussing something as important as the Cass review it is unhelpful to unnecessary needle your guest before engaging with the subject.

Tedious.

Complying with this nonsense is how we got ourselves to the point of needing the Cass Report. By allowing queer activists literally to control speech, we made it impossible to speak up for children.

Well done JHB.

The article was biased, too.
How is repeating her demand that JHB use they/them pronouns bringing the talk back to the Cass Report?

Given that she was talking to her, why were the 3rd person pronouns even necessary?

The news report isn’t helped by referring to the “NB” 🙄interviewee by surname, which is ‘Dave’

When JHB introduced her, and for wrapping up the interview? But yeah, mostly performative.

I'm glad to see a representative of the other side being invited for interview, though.

https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1778026392216535130

This is a clip of the interview. The activist brings up their pronouns first. But as PP have said, why would you even need to in a conversation between two people?

Edited. Not awake yet! Got two people muddled up!

Fair enough, but as you say mostly performative. JHB's response is excellent in the face of "I'm a very special, non-binary, trans person".

I think Julia snatched defeat from the jaws of victory here.

The first few seconds were excellent.

I think it would have been more impactful if she'd done the pregnant pause, then said, "Yeah... Thank you for telling me your pronouns, Shivani. I'm Julia, I don't have any, er, special pronouns, and we're here to talk about the Cass Report."

Instead it turned into a weird passive aggressive "if we had willies we'd be waving them" contest.

Well done Julia. People who think mangling language makes them special and then expect other people to be complicit in the mangling need a reality check.

Delivered. ✅

I get the feeling that the discussion they’d had prior to broadcast spilled out when the guest ‘shared’ her pronouns - in such a way to deliberately antagonise JHB. The whole ‘special’ thing alluded to it. It’s quite satisfying to see JHB take it down and stick to her guns about why she won’t have that stuff on her show.

I think JHB knows exactly what she is doing. She isn't aiming for sweetly reasonable - that's not her schtick. She knows that controversy = clicks.