BBC is cool with songs about slaughtering women
Well there’s a surprising lede:
BBC bosses have defended airing a song encouraging listeners to ‘kick’ women with gender-critical views.
I wonder if BBC bosses would defend airing a song encouraging listeners to kick trans women.
I don’t wonder much though: I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t.
Listeners complained after 6 Music played They/Them by Dream Nails, which includes the line ‘Kick terfs all day, don’t break a sweat’.
Oh, so it’s not just kick women, it’s kick women all day. I think that should be in the lede. Kicking someone all day=kicking someone to death.
It comes as 6 Music was accused of ‘blatantly’ refusing to play Roisin Murphy’s songs after the singer publicly criticised puberty blockers. The channel has played only a single track by the former Moloko frontwoman since she made the widely-criticised comments online.
Earlier this week 6 Music cancelled ten hours of shows celebrating Ms Murphy, with staff telling the Mail her comments were the reason behind her axing.
But singing about kicking women to death is just fine.
To be fair, it could be that they mean spending the day kicking multiple women, each one getting just one kick. Which is totally ok, right? It’s basically just punching fascists.
No Ophelia, ya got it wrong again. They’re not kicking women, they’re kicking Terfs. Terfs aren’t women. Women are kind and cuddly and supportive of trans people, trade unionists, and men in general. Terfs are all opinionated and full of facts, and prickly, and generally old (and so worthless and unfuckable apparently). It’s just a cruel joke that some Terfs look like women. Come to think of it, that might make Terfs a special class of trans-women as well?
Misogyny just seems as natural as the air they breathe. Just be kind though. They’re probably only joking. (Like that guy who went to jail for almost torturing somebody to death.)
But this is a pure expression of righteous so by definition must be accepted. Roisin Murphy was making an a argument which is pretty much the essence of bad faith.
If they banned this song, they would have to ban a gargantuan catalog of rock music, going back as far as “Under My Thumb.” If they held men to standards of behavior, as they do with women, the airwaves would be static and we wouldn’t have any Led Zeppelin on classic rock radio. We probably wouldn’t have classic rock radio at all.
(For many people this wouldn’t be a bad thing.)