The Labour Party Has a Woman Problem
Rosie Duffield has written an incredibly damning piece for UnHerd on Labour’s problem with women, particularly of the gender critical hue, following Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s unhinged rant in the House of Commons. Here’s an excerpt:
I was defending the need to protect vulnerable women in single-sex spaces, and had just criticised Scotland’s Gender Reform Bill, when Ben Bradshaw yelled his disapproval at me. Sitting nearby, Lloyd Russell-Moyle went puce — perhaps less surprising — and started to heckle every woman who spoke of their similar concerns. Later, when Miriam Cates, a Conservative MP and friend, spoke of her concerns around safeguarding, he accused her of being a bigot before crossing over to the Tory side of the Chamber to sit on the side benches, very close to her, staring as if to intimidate her.
“I recognise that I failed to control [my] passion,” was how he later ‘apologised’. In other words, he had done nothing wrong. It wasn’t his fault; it was ours for daring to disagree with him. “Look what you made me do,” as my ex-partner would say when I had caused him to explode — perhaps by doing or wearing something he didn’t entirely like or voicing an opinion he didn’t want to hear.
After Tuesday’s outburst, came the silence. Not from Russell-Moyle, but from Keir Starmer’s office. It’s a cycle I’ve come to know well. First, speak up in defence of women’s sex-based rights. And then, face the consequences. Alone.
Worth reading in full.
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Why doesn’t the speaker get a grip….?
The most hostile bowling appears to have been left arm round the wicket.
Reality check: Men or boys being murdered is usually only local new because it happens far too often to make a lot of fuss over it. It’s just men, after all, and there are surely more than enough of them. No support from here because Turns out my lies aren’t the only popular lies! is certainly too bad. If you chose to associate with the wrong people, don’t wonder if they end up also wronging you.
Russell-Moyle has form for this sort of behaviour, check him out. MP for a constituency in Brighton (where else). Rabidly left-wing Corbyn supporter. Oh, and admitted to the HoC he’s been HIV positive for a decade.
For a longer time the terms gender and sex were conflated as meaning much the same sort of thing. Then along came the ‘trans’ business but we failed to clarify our definitions, in my opinion the 2 words are actually very different with different meanings, my understanding is; Gender = your appearance, clothing , hair, behavioural attitudes, mannerisms etc. It is a matter of style and fashion, it is fickle and changeable but is hugely important in our society. Sex; relates to our biological status as mammals, the reproduction of the species depends on there being male and female and humans are born primed (with a few unfortunate abnormalities) to grow up to be one or the other, if you are male you can become a father, if you are female you can become a mother. You cannot swap between the two, it is a biological impossibility, you can be neutered, sterilised, castrated and become a eunuch but you can never change between male and female. We have deceived ourselves or been deliberately deceived if we think we can change sex. In mammals the biological differences between male and female are huge, sometimes this is obvious, such as the Antlers… Read more »
For a longer time the terms gender and sex were conflated as meaning much the same sort of thing.
For a long time, namely, until social scientists started studying a gender they had invented for this purpose, sex was a property of animals and gender one of nouns (although usually not in English), eg, German der Tisch (table) — male, das Mädchen (girl) — neutral und die Maschinenkanone (autocannon) — female. It’s important to cut this nonsense off at the root. Sex-specific stereotypes which may be common in certain societies at certain times are abstract ideas, not properties of real people. Jeanne d’Arc was female warrior and not a woman with a male gender.
There is no need for the term gender for people.
Sex and personality are sufficient to describe us.
I’m a big bloke. When I was 13 I chose to do cookery and kneedlework instead of metalwork and woodwork. An accurate description of me would have been “male who is good at cooking and crap at the other 3 options, likes to mock the system and isn’t remotely concerned about the views of others”. I persuaded my mate Paul to do the same. When he asked “Won’t we get called puffs?” I told him nobody would dare call me a puff and therefore couldn’t call him one. My prediction was correct.
Today they’d want to remove my cock and balls and get me to change my name to Martina.
So why does Rosie Duffield stay in her abusive relationship with the Labour Party?
Scared to leave ….. or not sufficiently bothered by it?
Russell-Moyle employs some equally charming staffers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBSEmv84c68