Loyle Carner & JKR

[CarotidFartery]

Picked up a car of teens from Boardmasters last week and was really bothered to overhear some of their conversations.

Among the over stimulated wittering they were talking about how much they liked Loyle Carner and they loved it when he shouted that he hated Nigel Farage and the crowd roared, and then when he shouted about hating JKR and everyone whooped.

I was 🤨 and pointed out that rabble rousing and shouting about 'hating' specific people should generally be avoided. There were some mutterings about her deserving it and then the conversation moved on.

I chose my moment to broach the subject with the teen that belongs to me this week. They doubled down a bit and said, "but isnt she racist and homophobic and transphobic?" So we had a conversation about not forming our opinions from myth and rumour, and maybe pondering why a middle aged feminist was the priority for slagging off to a crowd of impressionable teens. Of all the people in all the world to raise a rabble against?!

I have googled and it seems this is an integral part of his act. There doesn't seem to be much commentary about it online though.

I'm very confused about why you think Imane Khelif is female. There is very clear evidence he failed two sex tests and he has refused to take another one to qualify for women's boxing. He is clearly male and only boxed at the Olympics because of their policy of accepting passport evidence of sex - which isn't evidence at all. The Olympic fiasco lead to them specifying that everyone taking part in the women's category now needs testing to rule out the y chromosome. Imane Khelif will not be participating in the 2028 Olympics because he is male. You know all this yet you continue to fight for him, even though a male punch is 162% greater than female punching power and by entering the ring with women he put them in grave physical danger. That is aside from taking Olympic medals from women. It's so clearly dangerous and unfair, yet still you continue.

Continuing to insist that Khelif is a ‘cis’ woman, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, strikes me as jumping the shark.

I think that some posters, when they talk about 'their child', may actually be talking about themselves when they were a child or perhaps retconning aspects of their childhood. I agree that they do not actually come across as parents themselves. There is certainly a terrible fury there, at someone or something.

I'm more worried about the horrific effects of online misogyny on women and girls. There is no such thing as trans kids, just vulnerable children brain washed into believing natural puberty is dangerous and the people trying to protect them from irreversible harm are thier enemies.

I post truths you don't want to hear, notably the horrific effect online transphobia's having on trans kids in schools.

Who is a 'trans kid'?
im what way are they identified as a discrete group?
What is transphobia?
What is different about online transphobia?

What are the harms occuring?
Do they impact 'trans kids' solely? Equally? Definitely?
What research has been done to find a causal link and rule out other variables such as pre existing mental ill health and ACEs?
Could the solution be as simple as reducing online exposure for vulnerable kids?
If it's only 'online transphobia' you feel is a risk then does that mean these kids dont experience any real life discrimination - isn't that protective?

Etc etc etc