"We all know what’s going to happen, it’s just a case of when And this is from the latest episode of Points of View, which praises another BBC programme, Springwatch, which, as discussed last week, has gone a bit trans activist lately. It’s another ‘woman’ randomly chosen by the BBC who happens to be a bloke.
It was, of course, yet another week of gender propaganda at the BBC. Zoe Watts is a cross-dressing man with a long history of extreme violence, particularly aimed at women who know that men are not women. The BBC called him a ‘woman’ in the headline about his latest trial. It later changed the headline, without stating that it had or why, but the article continues to refer to Zoe with female pronouns and at no point states that he’s not actually a woman.
This is ‘Zoe’ by the way. BBC News also interviewed cross-dressing judge Victoria McCloud, again, who demanded that women act as human shields for men like him.
What it Feels Like for a Flop The new BBC Three drama based on Paris Lees’ autobiography, What it Feels Like for a Girl, is one of the worst things that has ever been broadcast*. It seems to be sinking without trace in terms of ratings and viewer interest. Reviews in the media have been absurdly positive and it’ll undoubtedly get at least one BAFTA nomination, but no one outside of the captured television industry is paying much attention.
There is no merit in watching all six-plus hours of this series, believe me, but it is unintentionally honest about the antecedents of ‘gender transition’ in men. Perhaps this honesty is another reason even the ‘LGBTQIA+ community’ hasn’t quite received it as the ‘witty’, ‘joyful’ rite of passage story the BBC’s Media Pack tried to define it as. Rather, some troons have objected to the idea of a male actor (Ellis Howard, who does a very good job portraying a young gay man) playing the Paris Lees character, Byron.
For the most part, this unnecessarily long series based on Paris Lees’ autobiography, is simply a narcissistic fantasy. Why the BBC decided to dedicate so many hours of screen time to various scenes of transvestites dancing in clubs is difficult to understand. Perhaps it thought we needed to see more ‘trans joy’ on screen. It should be to the programme’s credit that there is no TikTok-style fast cutting between scenes, but the seemingly endless, repetitive scenes are an endurance test rather than a relief. This story simply didn’t need so much time to unfurl itself, and the production team at the BBC must have known this.
In short, the series is ostensibly about a gay boy, aged 15 to begin with, growing up in Nottinghamshire. His background is one of moderate neglect, although he doesn’t seem to go without material things. Byron is beaten up by other children for being gay and his father is disappointed he didn’t fight back.
After an incident where Byron agrees to be paid for a sex act on a much older man in a public toilet, he starts to make money from prostitution. This is presented as a positive experience for him, which allows him to break away from his home life and stop having to steal money for cigarettes. The programme’s approach to the exploitation and sexual abuse of Byron by adult men is tongue-in-cheek. There is even a surreal scene involving Byron in his school uniform dancing with his ‘clients’. It should be noted that Paris told a fawning Lorraine Kelly recently that his ‘primary objective’ when creating and co-writing this series was ‘entertainment.’
There is no moral core to this show, which is also lacking in Lees’ book. Byron doesn’t feel exploited by his pimp and lover, Max. He tells us he enjoys both the ‘work’ and the feelings of power and powerlessness it invokes. This is not a wholly uncommon response in victims such as Byron, but the fact that both Max and Byron are played by adults who are far older than the characters they are playing serves to normalise the relationship between them. Max is played by a man in his late 20s but is intended to be 19, and Byron is 15 but played by a 28–year-old. To complicate things further, the real ‘Max’ was 21 when he groomed and exploited a 13-year-old Lees, according to the book. The casting of similar-aged adult actors in the show has them looking like a legitimate couple and, perhaps deliberately, removes the shock the viewer might otherwise feel. Lees and the show runners obviously knew they could only be honest about the reality of Byron’s situation to a point."
@HebrideanHecate@KeepTakingTheSoma It's starting to look like it was all just a planned publicity stunt from the start. Greta doesn't give two shits about Palestinian women and girls trapped in Sharia law by Hamas.
@LaylaAlexandrovna I often wonder why no one ever asks what Palestinian women think. You hear Jewish women criticizing the state of Israel all the time, but you will never hear a Palestinian woman criticizing Hamas. No one seems to care about the women and girls of Gaza.
In February 2016 Hamas,which claims control of the Palestinian National Authority and rules Gaza, executed by firing squad Mahmoud Ishtiwi—one of the group's leading commanders—for homosexual activity. Hamas allegedly tortured and executed many of its members for engaging in homosexual activities.
Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe woman) Waabizheski Indoodem born on sovereign Indigenous land surrounded by what is now called the state of Michigan. Cultural and environmental activist, retired teacher, artist, trouble-maker. Loved by some, hated by a few, but rarely ignored