Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey grapple with the idea that feminists, and specifically JKR, find the concept of gender identity sexist.

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https://x.com/JournalismSEEN/status/2057191752902070412

Not sure if I have the stomach to listen.

Might skim the transcript.

Can't believe that I used to think these men knew what they were talking about back in the days of Brexit threads.

Agreed. Just thought it was a good example of that point HJ made to Peter Boghossian about parent's who won't/can't ever go back on it.

I presume Dunt doesn't mention that he basically agreed with her before he had his hands tied by Dorian's family circumstances.

https://x.com/IanDunt/status/1270783847215628298?s=20

Dunt's obsession with the word c**t disbars any respect for him from me.
And Lynskey is absolutely one of Helen Joyce's described "in top deep to ever recover" clan.
And they think they're the ones to dissemble JKR as a radicalised voice of hate?
Ian "How To Be An Illiberal" Dunt indeed.

The Goons can be a lovely mental restorative when the world is being ridiculous. You can hear lots of Goon Show episodes at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/TheGoonShow1950to1960

As for Dunt and Lynskey, two more middle class male bores I have yet to experience - their self image is very much predicated on them being 'good guys' and therefore, because they're 'good guys' they believe that whatever they think is true is good. They can't cope with the idea that they still retain sexist attitudes towards women so they transmute those feelings about women into the idea that there are just some irredeemably nasty women who don't deserve the support of 'good guys' like them.

I enjoyed this review of the podcast by Euan mccolm on twitter:

I enjoy a good dollop of pathos as much as the next self-loathing prick but two middle-aged men making a podcast about what a wrong ‘un Jo Rowling is in 20-fucking-26 is too much, even for me. I could only cringe harder if they’d done the whole fucking thing as a rap.

And the irony is their anger with her belies the fact she's won the argument and is the classic liberal in the room versus two ultra illiberals who've so lost the argument they have to resort to backbiting.

Thanks ! Also the Goon Show : -

' How many sexes are there?'
'Two'
' It's not enough I say , go out and get some more!'

Spike was prescient ....

Yes I enjoyed that!

I've just started watching this and now realise I've completely mixed up Ian Dunt with someone else. I was thinking he was the older guy who beat somebody up with a flag on a seafront.

I have just found this Youtube video of the pair of them.

Ian Dunt has been complaining on Bluesky this morning about the EHRC guidance, demonstrating yet again his abysmal understanding of FWS.

Just reading him, and his supportive comments, including the mandatory anime beta men cosplaying as female loudmouths.
It's a literal fault line in liberal thought and politics.
A whole group who bang on about lack of evidence and wishful thinking on anything and everything...except trans ideology, a pursuit that has more wishful thinking and lack of evidence than the flat Earthers, Icke's lizards and Royals, astrology.

Just reading him, and his supportive comments, including the mandatory anime beta men cosplaying as female loudmouths.
It's a literal fault line in liberal thought and politics.
A whole group who bang on about lack of evidence and wishful thinking on anything and everything...except trans ideology, a pursuit that has more wishful thinking and lack of evidence than the flat Earthers, Icke's lizards and Royals, astrology.

Off topic, but I think it was more a case of they always knew the border would be in the Irish sea, with NI on the outside, but they couldn't actually say that out loud.

That’s Iain Dale, LBC presenter.

Of course - thank you.

You wouldn't know that the FWS ruling only affected GRCs and that for everyone else the law was made clear 4 years ago.

Whether or not any poster on this board would object, he could have spent the last 4 years campaigning for more unisex provision, but instead he seems to favour a Trumpian fantasy solution.

Sarah Ditum in Unherd...ouch!

https://archive.ph/gqB7P

https://unherd.com/2026/05/jk-rowling-mansplained/?edition=us

Enjoyed that. I'm going to read it again.

Thank you for posting. Worth reading just for this oof:

"certainly I wish she’d spent less time beefing with India Willoughby, if only because it seems beneath her dignity to pay attention to a voluntarily castrated ex-weatherman"

That was cathartic, thanks for sharing.

Well that was brilliant 😁😁

DL reminds me very much of Joanne Harris and the Fox Basher. Having a child who identified as trans has led them to take on the world and demand that it inverts itself to affirm their child in their delusion. They know deep down of course that that can't happen and they can't ever admit that to themselves so they turn their fury on everyone who does not go along with them. In the process they do terrible things and cause appalling damage. The last Japanese soldiers indeed

Brilliant article.

They really have committed to cluelessness.

I wonder if they have noticed that even the BMA has abandoned its criticisms of Cass?

I feel that now it’s become normal to say that Brexit has failed Remainiacs listeners like me should add the caveat that we acknowledge that were getting some of our information from a couple of prize plums and really they could have been saying anything.