Douglas Murray at the Spectator:
People who do not follow the dementing debate about the meeting point of trans rights and women’s rights may not be aware of the name Grace Campbell. For anyone not in the know, she is the daughter of the celebrated podcaster and lunatic Alastair Campbell. Inevitably enough, she has a podcast of her own, a clip of which has resurfaced this week. It made some impact online thanks to a riff – alongside a male-to-female trans guest – in which Campbell ridiculed J.K. Rowling and other feminists. The two had a grand old time explaining that the women who disagree with them (many of whom happen to be older than them) are – on top of all their thought-crimes – also ugly.
Well it was more than that. Worse than that. They both gleefully shouted “ugly ugly ugly!!!” at each other, in a frenzy of malice and mistaken hilarity. It was a truly nauseating display. Maybe you have to be a woman to really get the intended sadism.
It is not possible to provide a transcript of the conversation because it would test my sanity to type it out. But the gist of it was that these women were not the sort of people younger, cooler women should aspire to be. The two agreed, among other things, that their feminist opponents had bad hair. Adding a nice dose of misogyny as well as ageism into the mix, Campbell’s trans guest chose to argue that if the hair on top of the women’s heads was dry and ugly, imagine what it was like ‘down there’.
Add that to “ugly ugly ugly!!!” and you’ve got yourself a picnic.
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