Sallybo
The Baroness raises some interesting questions.
Why drag queens? Is there any equivalent butch woman story hour? Prostitute story hour? Stripper story hour? Kink story hour?
We don’t view minstrel shows as entertainment any more, let alone as entertainment for children.
How is it that we can see at a glance how insulting and destructive that is, but are fine with men mocking women?
I love that she has written this; it’ll be much harder to ignore a letter from a baroness than a commoner, especially as she has made it public.
I love the way she has written this; the repetition, with additional horrors each time, is very powerful.
I love the fact that this inappropriate – no, grooming – behaviour is being resisted.
I hope it works.
I guess I am not liberal anymore. But the “anything goes” ideology prevalent now just rubs me the wrong way. I am less severe about pornography and sex work than some of you may be (not supporting it, but not sure about arresting what are often victims themselves). we are told we have to accept EVERYTHING. I’m sorry, I may be “kink shaming”, but I think a grown man crawling around on a leash oinking and throwing cash at his “mommy Mistress” is sad and creepy and not worthy of blithe acceptance. Violent kink is creepy as hell, sorry that makes me illiberal. Do I think it should be “illegal” and cracked down upon by the police? No. But the claim that it should be celebrated as part of “diversity: is pretty sickening to me. Not everything has to be public, has to be celebrated.
If I may be permitted to say it, Amen. Do humiliating things to yourself in private, but bringing them out in the open? No one needs to hear it. Details of other people’s sex lives are not something most of us want to hear, anyway.
As for wearing dresses in the office? I have no problem with that, as long as you don’t pretend it makes you a woman. I don’t wear dresses; I don’t require a dress to be a woman, because I just am.
Brian M, I don’t think that anyone I know is in favour of arresting prostituted women and girls, or men and boys; we want to lock up the traffickers, pimps, brothel owners and keepers, pornographers, and the ‘customers’ (nice name for rapists who don’t think that it’s rape if they hand over some money, or pay someone else to do the actual raping), and put a proper safety net in place for the victims, with housing, counselling, addiction support and the like.
Yes, that idea that we want to arrest women who are in prostitution is a talking point of the woke. It’s another way to make us look like awful “Karens” with no compassion, but has little to do with the actual position of most feminists.
It’s difficult, isn’t it? I have almost nothing in common with Emma and she unfollowed me for saying “fuck”. She voted against same-sex marriage and there is absolutely no doubt that we’d fight like cat and dog if we ever met.
But she’s kind of brilliant at writing letters.