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[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The adoption of extremist(and oftentimes contradictory) ideologies is polluting her thinking processes and negatively affecting public discourse. In other words, I think she's a loon- a fanatic who wouldn't have been given the time of day during saner periods, but of course is the goto PR guru now..

Honestly, I think it might be the other way around-- she's been polluting public discourse with her thinking processes. It seems like she's been putting this type of content out into the world for many years now. But with no self-reflection whatsoever.

I'm still so confused about her actual sexuality and wondering if she even knows it herself.

Acknowledgment of one's biological reality requires acknowledging the basic facts of biological reality. And one of those basic facts is the distinction between bisexuality and monosexuality. Julie Bindel seems allergic to using accurate labels. All the descriptions of herself seem to indicate she's bisexual, yet she insists on calling herself lesbian. I've been doing some more thinking off and on since I made this post over a week ago (and unfortunately didn't have much time to respond to most people!), and I've become convinced that she's the prototypical example of what internalized biphobia looks like. It sucks because that harms us all. I believe we need to be able to call out people like her just as we need to be able to call out "ex-gay" people like Milo Yiannopoulos.

In other words, I think she's a loon- a fanatic who wouldn't have been given the time of day during saner periods, but of course is the goto PR guru now..

Yup.