Jones labelled the article a “must read”, despite this borderline-parody article lacking any factual basis at all. With Jones retweeting it to his 1 million followers with his usual carefully nuanced proclamations about the “anti-trans cult”, which in turn received hundreds of likes and retweets.
Whilst these claims would be offensive in their own right, serious questions must be asked about how we collectively arrived at a position where a life-long campaigner against male violence towards women and girls can be accused of grooming and abusing vulnerable young women but more important still, how these vile accusations were believed.Ĭareer somehow-inadvertently-sees- his-followers-pile-on-women pundits such as Owen Jones were quick to pounce on the story and stick the proverbial boot in. Of course, whilst Bindel was not explicitly named, anybody with more than a passing familiarity with the so-called “trans debate” wouldn’t struggle to recognise this referred to her. The article itself was replete with utterly outlandish claims, including allegations that “lesbian journalists’ who were “household names’ were overseeing an “international network of powerful lesbians’ that had “groomed” many women, including Dyess. On Monday 25 October, Julie Bindel, a high-profile journalist, author and feminis t campaigner against male violence, and “news site” Pink News - publishers of Pulitzer-worthy articles such as “ Meet the kink enthusiasts locking up their penises for Locktober: “It’s not just a month without wanking’” - released a joint-statement confirming that both parties had settled Bindel’s defamation claim before proceedings reached trial.įor those who may be unaware, Bindel had initiated proceedings on the back of a bizarre article-cum-interview with Beau Dyess (formerly Amy Dyess), that was focused on exposing the “cult” of gender critical feminists.
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