In which we don’t see the difference between genders
Published at 3:18 pm on May 24th, 2007
Filed under: Political.
Yesterday’s Guardian featured a long piece, trailed on the front page, about transgender people, and how some people have, apparently, been pushed into having medical transition operations against their will. A bad, bad thing, of course—people should never be pushed or persuaded into any sort of serious medical treatment.
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Keyword noise: authoritarian feminism, authoritarianism, feminism, Jenny Bailey, Julie Bindel, Sheila Jeffreys, transphobia, LGBTphobia, transgender, trans.
In which real people, are, shock horror, not like fictional people
Published at 7:25 pm on June 12th, 2006
Filed under: Media Addict, Political.
Political campaigner Julie Bindel has been writing in The Guardian again, this time about changing lesbian stereotypes on the telly. Ostensibly her line is: lesbians on the telly now might be shown as happy, sex-loving people, but that’s still a stereotype. Her main concern, though, seems to be: there aren’t enough people like her, or her friends, on the screen:
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Keyword noise: activism, bias, designer lesbian, feminism, Finn Mackay, gay, homophobia, Julie Bindel, lesbian, stereotyping, television.
In which we talk about poverty, diet, and the deep-fried pizza
Published at 9:11 pm on April 11th, 2006
Filed under: Media Addict, Political.
I often don’t agree with the writing of Julie Bindel, the left-wing feminist who apparently believes that everyone should have full control over their own body, unless they were born male, or want to prostitute themselves. Today, though, I thought she was along the right lines when she wrote about diet and classism: it’s easy to criticise poor people for being unhealthy, when they don’t have the time or the money to eat well.*
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Keyword noise: classism, Clerk St, deep-fried Mars Bar, deep-fried pizza, diet, Edinburgh, feminism, food, Julie Bindel, Mars Bar, Pasquale's, pizza, poverty, Scotland, takeaway.