new ehrc appointee seems nice
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/22/new-equalities-commissioner-attacked-modern-feminism-and-metoo
In a talk in 2018, Butcher said: “Feminism, like other forms of identity politics, has become obsessed with female victimhood. Whereas it once used to be about the portrayal of women as mature, equal partners in society, it now seems more to be about girl power – and yet it disempowers, assumes that we’re weak and defenceless, like children.”
She added: “Working-class girls have been deprived of jobs that they love such as Page 3 girls and [Formula One] grid girls because other women disapprove of them. What happened to ‘my body, my choice’?”
She also criticised the MeToo movement: “Men have had their careers and reputations ruined overnight by MeToo – some possibly justly, but without any due process, no innocence until proven guilty.”
Butcher has also criticised a feminist “narrative of discrimination” for reducing women’s confidence in pursuing careers. She does not deny that gender discrimination exists, but in an interview last year, she suggested that women who think they have been discriminated against should find a way around it rather than complaining.
Aside from this stuff being utter bollocks, there comes a point with trolling where it's too obvious. We've talked before about the calculated weaponisation of antisemitism. I'd say, the government, the Establishment, even some in the Labour Party, are working hard to undermine all sense of reason, all trust in authority, all faith in society.
They've seen how easily people like Bannon, Trump and Farage have herded the reactionary right and they're busily creating a tranche of leftist votes to go with it. People behaving like Bakewell did on hignfy the other night, just making up something untrue and serving it up as some sort of justification for behaving without justice.
If you fill the church with hoors and the judiciary with thieves, who can the people trust? Something needs to be done soon about this government and about the general trajectory of humanity.
