Chris

What’s especially interesting is that the ‘do you sympathise with trans feelings’ question is a fairly standard one from TV news interviewers ever since the SC judgment yet the journalists asking it somehow *still* don’t understand that they are asking women to take responsibility for the hurt feelings of men who are screeching with rage because they’ve finally been told ‘no’.

I’ve watched the mounting outrage from campaigners over this line of questioning on social media (Davies and Yamauchi among them), yet somehow Lowen was completely taken aback when they both refused to put up with any more of it on his show. His voice was quavering, as if it had never occurred to him that trying to centre men’s feelings might not go down well when asking two women’s rights campaigners about the fight for women’s rights.

It’s lazy journalism, and betrays the misogyny that underpins this entire men’s rights movement, as well as Lowen’s extreme lack of preparedness (he ought to have known what sort of response that question would get - they have made no secret of their feelings on it).