Daughter of the celebrated podcaster and lunatic

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April 23, 2026

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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8 responses to “Daughter of the celebrated podcaster and lunatic”

Athel Cornish-Bowden

Apr 23, 2026 1:26 PM

Maybe you have to be a woman to really get the intended sadism.

Not really. I’m not a woman, but I was utterly revolted by the “Ugly, ugly, ugly” chants.
Mostly Cloudy

Apr 23, 2026 3:50 PM

Does anyone here have any theory *why* women like Grace Campbell, Moira Donegan, Sophie Lewis, etc., don’t just support gender ideology, but support it to the point of launching extraordinarily aggressive attacks on the women who oppose gender ideology or even women who don’t comment on the gender ideology issue at all?

Is it fear?
Ophelia Benson

Apr 23, 2026 3:51 PM

I was making excuses for Murray. I withdraw the unfair allegation.
guest

Apr 23, 2026 10:39 PM

I speculate that there are two reasons. The first may or may not apply in this case – certainly older women who are fanatical TRAs typically have children that they’ve ‘transed’ themselves, or at least permitted the children to be irrevocably harmed; for younger women it might be close friends or romantic partners that they’re psychologically protecting. The second is well explained in Victoria Smith’s book Hags – these young women will do ANYTHING to make sure they have nothing in common with those ‘ugly’ middle aged women because they are terrified of becoming them (ie becoming their mothers).
Mostly Cloudy

Apr 24, 2026 6:26 AM

Thanks for that info, Guest: I’ll take a look at that Victoria Smith tome.

Re: “for younger women it might be close friends or romantic partners that they’re psychologically protecting.”

Has anyone here been following the controversy over the memoir of feminist Lindy West? In the memoir, she revealed that she is in an open marriage and that her husband, Aham, sleeps with other women, using political arguments (” monogamy was, at its root, a system of ownership” )

to justify this. West went along with this arrangement despite having misgivings about it. Many readers claimed Aham was using progressive jargon to manipulate West.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/opinion/feminism-polyamory-lindy-west.html

I wonder if a lot of the fanatical TRAs might be in manipulative relationships with TIMs, which the latter justify with pseudo-leftist jargon?
Ophelia Benson

Apr 24, 2026 6:31 AM

Why “tome”?
Mostly Cloudy

Apr 24, 2026 6:36 AM

‘Tis an old word that I picked up from the fantasy novels I read as a teenager. I like using the word “tome”.

No other reason.
Ophelia Benson

Apr 24, 2026 8:30 AM

It’s not just a quaint word for “book” though. It’s a little bit sarcastic or pejorative.