BBC presenter corrects pregnant people to pregnant women

[Theeyeballsinthesky]

https://x.com/journalismseen/status/1936513585082970489?s=46

and with a splendid eye roll to boot 😁

One of life’s mysteries is whether or not this is a deliberate : thought out strategy. I’m not convinced it is.

One of my hypotheses is that this is a feature of their narcissism - so whatever GC’s experience as injustice, wins or predictions, they claim these as their own …….because they are the centre of the universe.

Go Maxine! She’s in possession of a fine eye roll.

There was a link on a thread some months (possibly longer) ago to a strategy document that was about adopting TERF language to use it against women. So if TERFs talked about gender ideology TRAs should start using the phrase GC ideology, if TERFs use biological woman then TIMs should describe themselves as biological women a la Dr Upton ,essentially linguistic DARVO

I can't remember who produced the document but it wasn't Denton

Katy Montgomerie refers to himself as a biological woman. That's their new angle.

Thanks Spanna. I missed that one. It sounds interesting!

Sorry, "biological female". They think that taking hormones changes them into women. (Or at least they say they do...)

https://bsky.app/profile/katymontgomerie.com

But if that's what they think, why do they also think that the mere act of saying "I'm a woman" makes a male a woman? TRAs don't say that people aren't really trans unless they've had all the surgery and take all the hormones. They believe in self-ID and "you are what you say you are".

(Not arguing with PPs BTW - just pondering the illogical nonsense.)

Go Martine!

Yes, I may have given them too much credit although the document Spannasaurus mentions sounds intriguing.

It does underline their utter lack of argument and the parasitic nature of the ideology.

She corrected 'people' to 'women' - good for her and also she made the point more understandable. 'Pregnant people' is obscure and opaque - many will not understand that it means them.

Thank you Martine for your act of courage.

Done! Thanks @genandtonic

I am going to fill in a bbc form to make a comment of congratulations
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comments

Yes, you're right. There is a combination of "But we are women", and therefore we are biological women", and "Hormones literally change our biology, therefore we are now biological women". I've seen both approaches/claims.

Nobody expects consistency from them 😆

@Brainworm
The main thing for me was that the WEC questioners were uninformed. Their attitude was hostile, their questions were just silly. MC was fairly neutral with HH (from memory) and not hostile - just not fawning. Her questions were informed and related to what HH had just said.

Going by my recollection here, obvs.

it was me who was having to not eat brie.

Now that would have been a deal-breaker for me.
Baby? Cheese?
I choose cheese. Every time.

Yes, you're right. The questions were essentially an invitation for her to admit her guilt.

I saw it live and thought 'mumsnet would love that' 😁

Thanks for the link, I've sent my compliments.

I expect the wet behind the ears bbc junior employees who have to process incoming comments are rolling their eyes right now at all the bigotry. But it's worth it to demonstrate how popular she is: hopefully the bbc won't put her on the naughty step again.

Herbert seems to be floundering in the interview. I think he had a script in his head but once he had other questions fired at him he just couldn't cope. Intelligent he isn't....

This has been picked up by various news outlets, including the DM. Comments are a treat!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14835961/JK-Rowling-hails-BBC-newsreader-Martine-Croxall-overrules-autocues-pregnant-people-line-say-women.html

Thanks to those who posted the Herbert interview, I missed that at the time. Go Maxine, what a star 🌟

Oh good! That doesn’t leave any wriggle room for politeness like TWAW does. They’ll be peaking people all over the biological place 🤣

No idea why. I just wondered if they had found/come up with some sort of statistic that gave them a more dramatic headline. Even the BBC can do clickbait sometimes.

Contrary to the common sense that Martine added, they could even have found a cod scientist who has 'proven' that TW are somehow more at risk than other men, ergo, because they assume that TWAW is a 'fact', that means that women may technically bear a tiny extra element of risk in their minds - but only the very special kind of 'woman'.

They always seem to find ways to portray themselves as vulnerable or victims, or just as so much more special than everybody else, so who knows what they might have come up with this time?

Love it!

I've watched this about 374 times today.