Month: July 2021
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Does gender-identity = misogyny?
Criticisms of Helen Joyce’s book 1. Is it antisemitic? and 2. She didn’t say who dun it! Conspiracy hunters have had a bad attack of not seeing the wood for the trees. It’s like this… I was told in college that if you see an exam question that asks what caused something, it’s a trick […]
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Everything is fine, nothing to see here!
“Do what you can” “Choose your battles” I have heard that too much lately, and usually as advice to women to leave certain contentious issues alone. It’s not working. What it’s doing (oooh call Prevent!) is pushing large numbers of women to the margins of culture and society. No, I am not exaggerating. Imagine…. Anorexia […]
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Who or what is coming home?
If football ‘comes home’, I have a question or two. I think I have watched about two ‘proper’ football matches in my life. I really don’t do international level sport-as-a-spectator stuff. So I’m a bit worried about how you go about writing a blog about football. It’s like this – it’s clear ‘football’ has changed. […]