Cancel the lesbians

Meanwhile today –

The MP in question is Zöe Franklin.

So, good policy – if you banish all the lesbians who raise the subject, no one will ever mention it or hear about it again.

Also, completely irrelevant but hilarious – she’s got the umlaut in the wrong place in her own name!! It’s supposed to be on the e, so that people know it rhymes with showy as opposed to show.

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7 responses to “Cancel the lesbians”

  1. Mostly Cloudy Avatar
    Mostly Cloudy

    I half expected the guy in the white shirt to shout the slogan from the old Harry Enfield sketch “WOMAN! Know your limits!”

  2. Mostly Cloudy Avatar
    Mostly Cloudy

    And from “The Times”, a related story:

    “Drag queen tells police a gender critic broke his rainbow umbrella”.

    The alleged incident took place after said drag queen, Tom Harlow attempted to disrupt a protest of GC activists by playing an “anti-TERF” song by well-known OnlyFans star Kate Nash.

    https://archive.ph/tuUfR

    Total clown show. More proof the UK police and security forces are doing the extremist Trans Activists’ bidding.

  3. Alan Peakall Avatar
    Alan Peakall

    The pedantry police are here to insist that it is a diaresis, not an umlaut. Then again, if you cannot even place it correctly, it’s just alphabet bling. I think some parents have even been known to threaten to revoke a daughter’s diaresis if she renders it as two little circles.

  4. Mostly Cloudy Avatar
    Mostly Cloudy

    Whoops. The umbrella story’s already been mentioned here:

    https://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2025/she-murdered-his-umbrella/

  5. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Alan, thanks – as in Brontë, I just learned. I had a feeling umlaut was wrong…

  6. Francis Boyle Avatar
    Francis Boyle

    Since it’s just there for decoration I think it can be justly classified as the umlaut.

  7. Papito Avatar

    Perhaps it’s meant to let us know it’s pronounced “Zer.”