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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is ridiculous.

The Royal Academy clearly has no spine whatsoever and like so many other corporations they are thinking about their bottom line.

It would be one thing if they had stuck to their guns and doubled down on the narrative of transphobia, because then at least they would have stuck to a principle. But no, they bend the knee to one outrage mob and then bend the knee to the anti-outrage outrage mob.

In an interview de Wahls said she has been inundated with orders from elsewhere, clearly from supporters.

If I were here I'd tell them to stick their apology where the sun don't shine, and would encourage other artists to do the same.

[–]SuperGayIsOkay 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I wouldn't be so quick to burn bridges. It's possible there's multiple groups of people in charge of the decision making at the Royal Academy and there was an intervention by the higher ups about what their correct position was. The initial cries of transphobia may have come from someone with the Royal Academy who had access to their social media accounts, but less authority in terms of decision making.

They fucked up, and admitted they fucked up. This is progress as far as I'm concerned, we're headed in the right direction.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 5 insightful - 9 fun5 insightful - 8 fun6 insightful - 9 fun -  (1 child)

The internet is no place for such reasonable and considered comments!

[–]SuperGayIsOkay 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

More drama ensues. Their communication manager apparently put out a hastily deleted tweet signalling the apology is not sincere and essentially to cover their asses: https://twitter.com/LottieHistory/status/1407665112119451650

It's possible the communication manager is at odds with actual executives in charge of decision making at the Royal Academy and that's what caused this, or that the Royal Academy indeed doesn't give a fuck about de Wahls and is in legal damage control mode. Either way, this dude's an idiot and should never work as a comms manager for a company again, ever.