Virtue SignalingHow the Guardian became the Pravda of the trans movement

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[–]JulienMayfair 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ironically, one of Butler's books is titled Bodies That Matter, which I still have on my bookshelf. I had to read all that crap in grad school 25 years ago.

Also, the interviewer, Jules Gleeson is a trans woman and somehow a Marxist, though I don't know quite how you square materialism with gender ideology. I'm sure there's a postmodern workaround that claims to make it all make sense.

[–]Dromedary 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Jules Gleeson is a blithering idiot. I've been reading plentily about this awful dumb interview and its sheer bad faith and dishonesty. The one part that really stands out is that Gleeson bragged that she offered to the Guardian that she would change the question as long as they kept Butler's long rambling answer that called gender critical people fascists. This is hideously unethical, it's not journalism, and I hope Jules Gleeson is never hired again to write for any reputable outlet. Gleeson has shown they are a fraud and a hack and an activist, not a journalist. Oh and Gleeson offered to do this "for free", which is a laugh. The Guardian is very fucking iffy on the trans issue. Some say that the UK (real) Guardian has gone all TERFy, but I really don't see that at all. Seems some think that because the US version of the G's staff is radically pro-TRA. Whatever. I'm a longtime reader of the Guardian that is really drifting away quickly from the paper, it's a lot mushy ID politics and braindead wokeness. I've always considered myself a liberal, but if this is what it means, I don't know anymore.

[–]JulienMayfair 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hope Jules Gleeson is never hired again to write for any reputable outlet.

Unfortunately, the Teflon Trans shield will probably protect him. They can essentially do no wrong these days.