Surprisingly stupid

Nov 15th, 2023 | By Ophelia Benson
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

Kenny Farq is miffed that his staggeringly banal and clueless “let’s you compromise” column is attracting contempt and derision.

I'm astonished, I say astonished, to find that my call for compromise in the trans debate means I'm getting pelters from both sides. I mean, honestly, who could have predicted that?

— Kenny Farquharson (@KennyFarq) November 14, 2023

Who could have predicted that anyone would write such an absurdly clueless column for a serious newspaper?

“Women, accept men as women” isn’t a compromise. It’s literally what we’re fighting back against. pic.twitter.com/dep6cXEeSU

— Sall Grover (@salltweets) November 15, 2023

You are telling women to 'compromise' by unilaterally accepting the demands of men. Have you considered that since you are not the one paying this price, your call is worse than worthless?

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— latsot (@latsot) November 15, 2023

Isn’t it amazing, @KennyFarq, how you always demand women make compromises & never men? Why is it never fetishistic men that claim to require “validation” or “affirmation,” when they really mean sexual gratification from non-consenting victims, who are told they are extremists?

— Robbie Travers (@RobbieTravers) November 15, 2023

Because this isn’t possible to ‘compromise’. Either biology and women matter – or they don’t. I know it would be easier for a lot of you men if women would stop shrieking about this. But we won’t.

— Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) November 15, 2023

4 Responses to “Surprisingly stupid”

#1
Acolyte of Sagan
November 15, 2023 at 9:28 am

I’m astonished, I say astonished, to find that my call for compromise in the trans debate means I’m getting pelters from both sides. I mean, honestly, who could have predicted that?

Is that supposed to be sarcasm or wit, or is he genuinely so useless at his job that he forgot what he actually wrote in his ‘call for compromise’?

There is something about the trans issue that brings out the irrational, the visceral, the absolutist. […] We are close to a compromise on the trans issue that will satisfy neither side of a deep divide. In fact each will greet a deal with dismay. […]. I sometimes get the feeling diehards on each side of this argument would rather lose than compromise. Defeat would require no giving of ground.
#2
KBPlayer
November 15, 2023 at 10:01 am

This is supposed to be sarcasm and wit. He doesn’t take the subject seriously, nor is he abashed by criticism.
#3
Ophelia Benson
November 15, 2023 at 10:43 am

What is even the point of him? Who needs a columnist as stupid as that?
#4
Arcadia
November 15, 2023 at 10:52 pm

To his question, yes, I would rather lose than compromise. At least a loss of a basic concept like “women’s rights, words and spaces refers to the female sex and not males who demand it” is a basis to wake up the public and get normiie outrage deployed in the right direction. A “compromise” like he suggests requires mounting recorded losses, indeed actual deaths before it can be reversed.