Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-listened-to-a-solid-week-of-womans-hour/ Other ...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-listened-to-a-solid-week-of-womans-hour/
Other than the pull quote:
From my twenties to my fifties I appeared on it several times; my last outing was in 2016, as – like most other institutions – it was captured by the trans cult, leading to the show’s best presenter, Jenni Murray, leaving in 2020. Since then, the programme might more accurately be named What Is A Woman’s Hour. As Mumsnet noted, around 43 trans activists have been invited on to the programme over the years, compared with just 13 from the gender-sceptical side.
After half a century of listening – in which my emotions have run the gamut from longing to contempt – I decided to listen to a solid week of it and give the show an MOT. […]
On Tuesday, we were asked what gendered words annoyed us. Mine would be ‘cervix-haver’, but of course we’re only allowed to get upset by the old, dying, sexist terms rather than the new, thriving, non-binary kind. Pointless mention of trans rights complicated a discussion about the wisdom of holding a women’s tennis championship in Saudi Arabia (which is full of men in dresses anyway), as did the attempt of a female contributor to align the USA with a land where women practically need a guardian’s permission to breathe.
Wednesday’s show aired as it was becoming obvious that the Blessed Kamala was heading for an early bath. There was a lot of predictable blather about Roe vs Wade but a resolute refusal to engage with the simple fact that Donald Trump had won the US election because he talks to ordinary people whereas Kamala Harris – like Hillary Clinton before her – talks at them. That the Democrats have facilitated male cheats in women’s sport and rapists in women’s prisons was completely ignored.
https://archive.ph/BbnKg
Other than the pull quote:
From my twenties to my fifties I appeared on it several times; my last outing was in 2016, as – like most other institutions – it was captured by the trans cult, leading to the show’s best presenter, Jenni Murray, leaving in 2020. Since then, the programme might more accurately be named What Is A Woman’s Hour. As Mumsnet noted, around 43 trans activists have been invited on to the programme over the years, compared with just 13 from the gender-sceptical side.
After half a century of listening – in which my emotions have run the gamut from longing to contempt – I decided to listen to a solid week of it and give the show an MOT. […]
On Tuesday, we were asked what gendered words annoyed us. Mine would be ‘cervix-haver’, but of course we’re only allowed to get upset by the old, dying, sexist terms rather than the new, thriving, non-binary kind. Pointless mention of trans rights complicated a discussion about the wisdom of holding a women’s tennis championship in Saudi Arabia (which is full of men in dresses anyway), as did the attempt of a female contributor to align the USA with a land where women practically need a guardian’s permission to breathe.
Wednesday’s show aired as it was becoming obvious that the Blessed Kamala was heading for an early bath. There was a lot of predictable blather about Roe vs Wade but a resolute refusal to engage with the simple fact that Donald Trump had won the US election because he talks to ordinary people whereas Kamala Harris – like Hillary Clinton before her – talks at them. That the Democrats have facilitated male cheats in women’s sport and rapists in women’s prisons was completely ignored.
https://archive.ph/BbnKg