Owen cracks the case
Owen Jones is so important that even Oxfam explains itself to him.
“Senior management agreed that it would be unethical to sell the product, and it was therefore pulled.”
I’m not sure I believe the story, but even if it is true, why would it be “unethical” to sell (or give away) the product?
It wouldn’t. It’s only because there’s this exaggerated wild-eyed panic about the Specialness of being trans that lets people get away with that kind of absurdity. Page is a woman, who now “identifies as” a man, but the fact that Page now claims to be a man doesn’t mean everything relating to Page has to be brought up to date. Are they going to tweak Juno so that it’s about a trans guy who gets pregnant and decides not to get an abortion because the fetus has fingernails? No, and they’re not going to withdraw it from circulation, either, so why is it “unethical” to sell or donate a game that was accurate at the time it was created?
That’s not Owen’s point though, of course; Owen’s point is to remind us how much he hates feminist women who don’t do what he tells us.
If there was an iota of truth about the game being pulled solely because of Page, then the offer to alter that particular element would’ve been accepted.
Does anyone know if Page has been asked about all this? I’d be curious if being honored under a discarded name would somehow be seen as a slur, or simply an honor.
“Who controls the past,” runs the TRA cult slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’
Apologies to George Orwell
How did the then-Ellen Page even end up on a list of (presumably roughly) the top 48 women “who have made a mark on the world, from scientists and artists to writers, activists and beyond”?
And then Page switches sides and retroactively makes the bingo game super offensive? Such magic trans powers!
Ellen was never a woman. Elliot has always been a man. This game was a lie from the pits of Hell! All copies must be sought out and burned at 451 Fahrenheit. It makes people feel bad.