Enjoy this comments column re Stephen Fry

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This Telegraph column by Michael Deacon is rather good on JKR's radicalisation. Enjoy!

But I wonder if she was brainwashed at an early age – by, say, an O-level biology teacher.

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He was one of those children but seems to be going down the tired old public school "it did not do me any harm" route.

Although as pederasty is a theme that recurs in his work, it certainly seems to have had lasting effect on him

It is disturbing - long term damage that he can't see beyond. I feel sorry for what he suffered, but there comes a stage when an adult has to consider the effects of their own words and actions, particularly as those effect the young and the poor. Clearly he never got there.

The school has definitely radicalized him into the cult of misogyny

Hmm. Malcom Clark - a gay man - has written a very disturbing piece about Fry repeatedly writing about adult sexual relationships with children:

https://x.com/TwisterFilm/status/1877507189994066145

How much are they paying you Sir Stephen?

@Absentmindedsmile thank you for the link. That has certainly opened my eyes.

Perhaps he doesn’t want to draw attention to it? He’s done a good job of flying under the dodgy bloke radar so far.. don’t they all 👀

Yes. People say there’s more too.

I wonder if he's friends with Germaine Greer?

@ButterflyHatched In the same way that he’s friends with JKR, perhaps..

DH Lawrence has much the same view of women as Stephen Fry
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/14/germaine-greer-d-h-lawrence?CMP=sharebtnurl

"Who radicalised her? Sir Stephen reckons it was “Terfs” (i.e., trans-exclusionary radical feminists). But I wonder if she was brainwashed at an early age – by, say, an O-level biology teacher. Or perhaps some appallingly irresponsible school librarian gave her access to a dictionary."

I just felt that I couldn't pass this thread without quoting this passage.

Both of these things happened to me at school too and I've rarely told anyone for fear of the stigma.

Glad that this sort of thing is finally being talked about more openly.

Thoughts and prayers 🙏

Butterfly was probably alluding to this book by Greer.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118104.The_Beautiful_Boy?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=BeZQxbRYQr&rank=10

A lot of people have willfully misunderstood Greer's book (to try to discredit her), but I will leave it for others to decide if they agree or not.