RÓISÍN MURPHY

I'm really at a loss here. Articles like the Torgraph one posted DO have effects, they contribute to the climate of hatred and violence just as Left themselves said here. But if that's not what's meant by effects that trans people need to protect themselves from, what is, within the context of a thread about a musician?

idk I'm not sure who's helped by hearing brendan o'neill say exactly what you expect him to say it's not even really about her is it it's like plug in the name here

post whatever you want though and if it upsets me I'll ignore it or take issue with it depending on my mood / your luck

there is a significant portion of the internet devoted to "look at this bigot being a bigot," it's one of the reasons i left twitter

even if it's in the spirit of ridicule, i was better off not knowing about it

I don't think anyone's helped by that either, aside perhaps from the positive feedback loop of telling each other that yes these people are scum and there's others who feel the same way about that. But as said before I am very sympathetic to not wanting to have to hear about that shit, and regularly avoid various threads about bigots for that reason.

I also take your point that you might need to hear about these people for reasons of personal safety, but if the Torygraph piece doesn't qualify as something that you need to know about by that rationale...I just don't know what Roisin Murphy-related activity would be. But whatever, not my place to do a taxonomy of that.

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What a cast iron wanker

https://x.com/petepaphides/status/1702746847645680127?s=46&t=bJOqpCuQneT7ju08y55VSA

Can BBC Verify or the @bbcpress verify or deny that singer Roisin Murphy has been cancelled by the BBC after criticising puberty blockers?
Five hours of Ms Murphy's songs, interviews and highlights of her concerts were put together for a programme called the 6 Music Artist…

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) September 13, 2023

https://i.ibb.co/ZGmSCQp/IMG-3815.jpg

Thought he'd be too busy defending Brand for this

That was from last week, so it was a day or two before the Brand story took off iirc

Long time fan of Roisin Murphy, of course.....

cool to see the guy who steered a national newspaper into printing a series of stories about how hiv didn't cause aids has learned absolutely fucking nothing about shutting up on matters best left to medical professionals

Equally cool to see the guy who paid a Holocaust denier six figures to translate Goebbels’ diaries weighing in, the schmuck.

https://i.ibb.co/hHmDXtN/Screenshot-2023-09-23-071625.png

probably not unusual for niche artists but the album debuted last week at #5 in the uk charts, this week it's dropped to #73

https://i.imgur.com/rsp1gmt.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/rsp1gmt.jpg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Case closed.