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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Kirstie Allsop

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ItsCoolForCats · 21/01/2026 13:34

Has anyone seen Kirstie Allsopp scolding people on X for not being kind?

It all started because JKR posted about India Willoughby finally blocking her. According to KA, this makes JKR a vile bully.

Of course, KA has nothing to say about the years of abuse IW has directed at JKR. Such as that time last year when IW questioned JKR's version of events regarding her abusive first husband, because you know, there are two sides to every story, and JKR'S husband said he only slapped her that one time. And KA doesn't chastise people like India for this type of behaviour because they are part of the THE MOST MARGINALISED GROUP EVER (way more than women who have been abused by their partners). So it's absolutely fine for them to hurl misogynistic abuse on social media. Women must BE KIND, especially high profile women like JKR, and rise above this.

Kirstie's view is that if we could all be jolly well nice and polite to each other, the world would be a much better place and none of this would be an issue. And she is very proud that her views have not changed one inch over the last few years, despite all the evidence presented to her that unquestioningly going along with gender ideology causes harm to women. Because Kirstie is better than the rest of us and knows how to take the moral high ground.

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NutritiousSardines · 22/01/2026 13:35

DeanElderberry · 22/01/2026 12:32

She's made it clear for years that she dislikes books and distrusts people who promote literacy, that's why she went after Michael Rosen. I used to accept that was a response to her own experiences at a school that dealt badly with her dyslexia, but increasingly I think it's resentment that education enables the lower orders to get uppish.

My impression from some of her previous remarks on X is that she loathes the idea of the despised lower orders getting university education. A kind of ghastly female parody of a dim-witted eighteenth century squire, ranting red-faced over his post-prandial port about the evils of this new universal suffrage idea giving the peasants ideas above their station.

A true indictment of Britain that this person has become a vacuous ‘celebrity’.

Cordeliasdemonbabies · 22/01/2026 14:17

DrMickhead · 21/01/2026 15:30

I understand this is a derail from the actual thread but my MIL adores KA. Like, couldn’t love her more. She was a huge fan of all the cath kidston stuff in the 2000s and the KA style. If KA said it, MIL repeated it/bought it/did it.
Anyway she took the KA view of homework is pointless very much to heart and I was doing a project for school with my DC, MIL pipes up about how homework is pointless and even KA thinks so. I said was homework pointless to her and her family because they’re millionaires with access to unlimited resources and time to potter around enjoying their hobbies and not needing to work hard to get into uni and make a good living?

Anyway MIL was so offended I questioned KA’s opinion she didn’t talk to me for almost 4 years, blocked me on every single platform or device we spoke on and wrote a lengthy Facebook post about how she had to cut me off because me questioning a woman as intelligent and talented KA was so upsetting she couldn’t look at me the same way again and couldn’t understand why her son would let me say such things, knowing how much I would have hurt her feelings questioning KA. She called me a silly little girl (I was almost 30) and my favourite “jumped up little tart”* in this lengthy post.

So for that reason alone, for those almost 4 wonderful, peaceful, glorious years, I won’t have a fucking word said against Kirstie!

*We have suspected that this insult may have been used one of her soaps and she held onto it.

This is excellent. Thanks for the best post in this thread so far!

DrMickhead · 22/01/2026 14:27

Cordeliasdemonbabies · 22/01/2026 14:17

This is excellent. Thanks for the best post in this thread so far!

I know it’s “outing” but honestly I couldn’t keep that in when I saw Kirsties name 😂😂
MiL still loves her, she used to tape Kirstie’s craft shows which I did think was adorable.
Anyway, I learnt my lesson. We never ever speak ill of kirstie again. Or even gently critique.
I will add when MiL decided to talk to me again she didn’t skate over it, like you’d think someone who’d been completely unreasonable would. She just said, “I know it’s been a while, but you have to understand, you can’t just say things like that about someone like KA, anyway, let’s see the new baby!” 😂 We’ve been grand since!

LizzieSiddal · 22/01/2026 14:34

deadpan · 21/01/2026 15:41

I wonder if Kirstie was being kind when she smashed her children's iPads - if she had such an objection to their screen time couldn't she have wiped them and given them away.
Or when she flew first class and her kids flew pleb class.
She's a prime example of the Noel Kavanagh theory posted yesterday.

This! Smashing your child’s IPad, infront of them is a truly awful thing to do. Plus she then boasted about it on Twitter. I bet her kid will never forget seeing her do it and will always be in the back of their mind that their mother can be violent.

murasaki · 22/01/2026 14:41

DrMickhead · 22/01/2026 14:27

I know it’s “outing” but honestly I couldn’t keep that in when I saw Kirsties name 😂😂
MiL still loves her, she used to tape Kirstie’s craft shows which I did think was adorable.
Anyway, I learnt my lesson. We never ever speak ill of kirstie again. Or even gently critique.
I will add when MiL decided to talk to me again she didn’t skate over it, like you’d think someone who’d been completely unreasonable would. She just said, “I know it’s been a while, but you have to understand, you can’t just say things like that about someone like KA, anyway, let’s see the new baby!” 😂 We’ve been grand since!

At least you know how what weapon to use should you need some more peace at any time!

TheatreTheatre · 22/01/2026 14:52

TwelvePiecesOfFlair · 22/01/2026 11:52

I don’t particularly have an opinion on Kirsty Allsop, other than I like her on location location, but even if she said something a bit daft on Twitter it doesn’t warrant this sort of online Burn Book. I just hate this sort of thing. Even rich celebs are humans with actual feelings.

The posts on this thread are a response to her attacking people on Twi/X - not being a bit daft.

upstairsdownstairscardboardbox · 22/01/2026 15:05

She's thick as a brick and has luxury beliefs on account of being richer than Solomon.
She's also ignorant - accusing Iranian bots of transphobia when Iran is the MOST PRO-TRANS regime in the world!

DworkinWasRight · 22/01/2026 15:06

Willoughby is stupid and often deeply unpleasant and aggressive. JKR’s response to being blocked by him was clever and funny, but not nasty, I’ve found that some people are very uncomfortable with clever women making fun of men - I think they understand, at some level, that for a man, being mocked by a woman is the worst thing that can happen to him.

BundleBoogie · 22/01/2026 15:21

She is an unpleasant and quite arrogant woman. I watch the property programme and try and ignore her bits - she gets more patronising as time goes on.

Greyskybluesky · 22/01/2026 15:29

She is fawning to house hunters from London, the home counties and posh parts of Edinburgh and anyone with a £1 million+ budget.

She is patronising to anyone from northern England, people with a smaller budget and younger people.

murasaki · 22/01/2026 15:31

I always think she's someone who seems like they would have been written by Jane Austen, and not come out of it well.

SidewaysOtter · 22/01/2026 15:58

upstairsdownstairscardboardbox · 22/01/2026 15:05

She's thick as a brick and has luxury beliefs on account of being richer than Solomon.
She's also ignorant - accusing Iranian bots of transphobia when Iran is the MOST PRO-TRANS regime in the world!

Iran is only "pro-trans" in the sense that it gives gay people the choice: transition or death.

upstairsdownstairscardboardbox · 22/01/2026 16:48

@SidewaysOtter exactly - resulting in the highest rate of trans surgery of any nation. The surgeons are like weird celebrities, one even released a bizarre pop video. Why would an Iranian bot be sending anti-trans rhetoric when they use it as a method of conversion therapy?

SternJoyousBeev2 · 22/01/2026 16:50

DworkinWasRight · 22/01/2026 15:06

Willoughby is stupid and often deeply unpleasant and aggressive. JKR’s response to being blocked by him was clever and funny, but not nasty, I’ve found that some people are very uncomfortable with clever women making fun of men - I think they understand, at some level, that for a man, being mocked by a woman is the worst thing that can happen to him.

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Brefugee · 22/01/2026 16:52

ShowMeTheSea · 22/01/2026 13:15

People aren't threatening her with death in a fat fire. Or anything

Nobody said they were?! So because some psycho's said that before, anything else is fair game?!
Not sure what kind of logic that is.

i was responding to your post insinuating (incorrectly) that people are telling her to stop talking.

People are telling her to stop talking about stuff she knows nothing about and is wrong.

But if communication isn't your thing, no wonder you thought that.

RobinEllacotStrike · 22/01/2026 19:20

upstairsdownstairscardboardbox · 22/01/2026 15:05

She's thick as a brick and has luxury beliefs on account of being richer than Solomon.
She's also ignorant - accusing Iranian bots of transphobia when Iran is the MOST PRO-TRANS regime in the world!

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so desperately despicable.

Iranian regime isn’t pro trans - it’s viciously homophobic. Basically it’s transition or death for gay men.

not the fabulous win you think it is.

DeanElderberry · 22/01/2026 19:45

Viciously homophobic and pro trans are very often the same thing, as Iran demonstrates. The other element to pro trans is the misogyny, and Iran excels at that too.

Brefugee · 22/01/2026 21:43

i was surprised, and not a little disappointed to hear the chaps on The Rest Is History being (sounding like) impressed that Iran is so far ahead in MtF trans surgery.

I would have thought a couple of educated blokes would be able to work out why that is.

Heggettypeg · 23/01/2026 01:57

DeanElderberry · 22/01/2026 12:32

She's made it clear for years that she dislikes books and distrusts people who promote literacy, that's why she went after Michael Rosen. I used to accept that was a response to her own experiences at a school that dealt badly with her dyslexia, but increasingly I think it's resentment that education enables the lower orders to get uppish.

Has she ever met Malala Yousafzai, I wonder?

deadpan · 23/01/2026 07:16

Not being pushed around isn't being unkind. Maybe KA is jealous of JKR's ability to be extremely funny in the process. She doesn't seem the type to understand sarcasm either.

LlynTegid · 23/01/2026 07:19

Kirsty Allsopp and the programmes she is part of help increase property prices, be it buying or renting. So indirectly making it more difficult for anyone to live on one income, such as someone escaping a bad marriage or worse, most of those continuing to suffer being women.

deadpan · 23/01/2026 07:29

I know this is strictly about K Allsopp and JKRowling, but as it's all in relation to India Willoughby I thought you'd find Dame Katy Denise's recent post interesting....

Kirstie Allsop
Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 23/01/2026 07:50

I've enjoyed this thread.

SidewaysOtter · 23/01/2026 09:51

Brefugee · 22/01/2026 21:43

i was surprised, and not a little disappointed to hear the chaps on The Rest Is History being (sounding like) impressed that Iran is so far ahead in MtF trans surgery.

I would have thought a couple of educated blokes would be able to work out why that is.

I haven't listened to it yet but Iran is big on plastic surgery anyway, some of the world's best surgeons are there. It's a point of status to show off the visible signs of having had work done, people even leave their nose guards on longer than they need to in order to show off!

upstairsdownstairscardboardbox · 23/01/2026 11:45

RobinEllacotStrike · 22/01/2026 19:20

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so desperately despicable.

Iranian regime isn’t pro trans - it’s viciously homophobic. Basically it’s transition or death for gay men.

not the fabulous win you think it is.

WTF? Conversion therapy a fabulous win?
You haven't understood what I wrote at all 🙄