Blue Ridge Style & Beyond
Andrea Williams comments on how the Church of England’s Diocese of Derby added to the harm caused to Rev. Dr Bernard Randall under the guise of safeguarding.
After putting the Rev through a “safeguarding process” to ensure that he was not in fact a risk to children the Diocese of Derby issued a report that cited “the Church itself as a risk factor and, for firmly holding to the Church’s view, Dr Randall is treated as a reputational risk.
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Who Are The Extremists?
Excellent article in The Spectator – Australia about the lack of vision at one of the finest Western Universities, Cambridge. What was once a bastion of feminist activism. Is no longer. Why the feminist falling out?
Because Gender Critical Feminists believe that sex is real and binary. And some Cambridge faculty and students regard those out-dated ideas as beyond the pale for civilized discourse.
At one of this country’s most prestigious universities, women who hold perfectly reasonable views are terrorised into silence. Gender-critical students and academics are ostracised. A university that prides itself on academic rigour is letting down its students. Dozens of blue and gold banners now hang from the ceiling of Newnham’s dining hall, commissioned by the college in celebration of its 150th year. In richly-embroidered slogans they exhort the importance of ‘privileging queerness’, ‘experimenting with gender’ and ‘trans liberation’; they reassure students we can ‘be who we say we are’. Among these, one sobering message stands out: ‘Appreciate reality.’ I had lunch at the college recently with a fellow PhD student whose research also relates to gender, when my opinion became clear. She paused, looking bemused, and asked: ‘So, you think there are only two sexes?’.
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Maya Forstater, a gender critical feminist, recently won a long battle against her employer for unjust dismissal.
Last week, Twitter suspended her account because she had some unflattering things to write and show about Mermaids, a trans-activist organization in the U.K.
Here is her story about the incident. And sadly, in the Western world, our story too. (read it and weep)
This is not a culture war. It is a war on safeguarding. (click for story)
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What Are We Doing To Our Children?