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Pretty much. Julie Bindel uses the Guardian as a place to expound and then to defend her transphobia, which uses a kind of idiot's Butler to claim that transgender people reinforce and reify gender roles, and that gender should be abolished. She extends to herself no such obligation, however, and despite claiming on occasion not to identify as a woman, happily draws very clear gender lines between women and men. She also identifies as a feminist, but I have no idea why, to be honest - I've never heard her apply the tools of feminism to any of her positions. I commented on one of her previous "look how mean people are to me" CiF articles here.
She came to notice as a researcher into domestic abuse and rape. I am not qualified to comment on her findings there.
She seems to owe her position at the Guardian to the need to replace Julie Burchill with an engine for cheap controversy, and probably charges less per article, being able to churn them out on rape, child abuse, public urination, transgender issues, Arsenal football club or this season's must-have look, the snug-tug scarf.
She is, essentially, a blogger, and not a very good one, elevated to higher attention by the patronage of the Guardian. None of which excuses the scumbags who post misogynist abuse in response to her articles. They are worthless, but they are exactly what one expects of unfiltered blog postings, and if Bindel is genuinely using them as a reason not to pay attention to any critical comments on her beliefs - well, it's not surprising, but it is disappointing. On a stylistic level, her affection for the three "v"s - vile, venom and vitriol - in describing dissenting views is leading to terrible repetition in these "poor me" pieces. |
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