I was on the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live programme the other week and met journalist and feminist crusader Julie Bindel. I debated her and Donal McIntyre on the need for tougher prison regimes. Anyway, I happened to tune in to BBC Woman’s Hour yesterday to hear Julie “debate” whether woman “own” the abortion issue. I thought she got a VERY sympathetic hearing which I am sure is nothing to do with her arch-feminism arch-lesbian values. Men haters DO seem to get a rather good hearing at the State Broadcaster for some reason….
OH JULIE..
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Apparently, the political left thinks that abortion is solely a decision to be made by the pregnant woman, and that the rights of the putative father, and of the unborn child, are non-existent.
I understand that Bindel is a friend of Dame Jenni Murray – another BBC investigative journalist who knew nothing about Savile – and I assume that was made clear throughout the soft interview.
Also if Bindel was claiming only women can talk about abortion I suppose she was strongly challenged about such logic. Along the lines that if only those with experience of something can talk about it then you would also exclude childless women from any debate about children. Like Gillard in Australia.
Or do you think the person doing the soft interview thought even thought I may/may not share the same views of Bindel no body wants to be sat on by Jenni Murray. Not only would it be the end of my career it could undoubtedly be the end of me.
A bit over exposed is big Julie. Always on the press previews etc. Gets away with lots of crap, people see she will go straight for the sexist card or homophobia one. She did make me laugh one time when she was deriding the working class for being obese, all 20 stone of her. As far as abortion is concerned she will have no problems whatsoever, I cannot see any poor sod inseminating her.
“The biters on the left are bitten”
By Melanie Phillips.
http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/10/the-biters-on-the-left-are-bitten.html
I recall watching you share the platform with Julie Bindel and thinking: how can one reason with these militant feminists? I suppose it’s the issue of minority views taking precedence over majority. Sometimes I think life would be so much easier if I were to convert to some exotic religion and become a transgender! Don’t worry folks… just an idea!
I’m so jealous of militant feminists. They are even more self-loathing that I am.
I don’t know why they even bother to have Julie Bindell on any show; she can just phone in her contribution: “I hate men, I hate men, I hate men….what was the question?”
You have my sympathy David. I was driving to a meeting yesterday and heard her on Woman’s Hour. I thought I’d been thrown back into the 80’s with all the claptrap she was coming out with. It was almost like the BBC had gone out to get the biggest cliche they could lay their hands on. Her “I am wumman and therefore I’m right on everything I pontificate on and how dare you question my superior viewpoint” was farcical and anger breeding at the same time.
Quite how she was permitted to repeatedly wander into the blanket viewpoint of men as abusers and rapists was way beyond me. There was no “some men” just like there was no acknowledgement of “some women”. It was men, full stop. Had she taken a look at last night’s 999 what’s your emergency she would have seen the fruits of her thinking laid bare.
Abortion is a complex argument and isn’t helped by sourcing someone whose entire frame of reference comes from the I hate men philosophy. You could hear her venom dripping when she touted her lesbian credentials and alluded to the idea that even that followed after having sex with a man once.
What was fascinating to hear was her female “opponent” point out that such deabte isn’t helped by kneejerk rhetoric. What was even funnier was to hear Bindel called out by her opponent. Bindell cited several reasons why men should not have a say which included the fact that they have no part in the process of taking a baby to term and having it. When it was politely suggested that her credentials and lack of intent (to have a baby) and experience put her in the very same boat, she refused to accept it applied to her and we jumped backed to the “Patriachy” of abusers and rapists.
Talk about stepping into a parallel universe.
I didn’t hear this one but I did catch Mehdi Hasan and Suzanne Moore debating abortion on the Today programme a few days ago. I say “debating” but it was nothing of the sort. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more objectionable and rude interviewee than Ms Moore. Constantly interrupting and being very aggressive that someone should dare take an opposing view to her own. She achieved what I would have thought was an impossible feat: she made me feel sorry for Mr Hasan.
They did play part of that “debate” in this segment. I’m no fan of Hassan but Moore was out of order. For these people it’s not a debate but some sort of effort to prevent anyone without the approved viewpoint from even opening their mouths. They look to poison the ground around the debate full in the knowledge of why they’re doing it.
Many years ago I did a radio interview with a regional BBC programme on the ethics of using an aborted fetus for medical research. My interviewer maintained that the fetus was a morally insignificant collection of cells and tissues – a familiar view. I responded by asking if their listeners would appreciate using this insignificant material for caviar. I was immediately cut off and they played some music by julio iglesias instead of the remaining interview.
Not sure I follow your drift. I am in favour of culling urban foxes but it doesn’t follow that I would want to eat one. Still, the choice of Iglesias does seem unduly harsh.
Have a listen to Dionne Warwick shoot down the Womans Hours Totems of Virtue in yesterdays car crash of an interview with an ignorant, foaming Jane Garvey.
Warwick sings so well due to her smoking, she had no racist crap or sexist belittling when she was young and starting out-she lives in Brazil because they fear God there….poor Jane was eviscerated, and the wimmin in charge of WH will surely have removed her cup cake afterwards.
Imagine-just a good voice and great songs, written by MEN(urgh!)…but Dionne thought it enough…oh dear…let`s hope that tomorrows victims on WH all have the correct narrative from now on!