Tag: Cancel Culture

Oct 2021. Transphobia

A pedestrian crossing at New Cross Hospital has undergone a colourful transformation to celebrate diversity and show support for Pride Month at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. Rainbow colours have been added to the crossing to show the Trust’s commitment to LGBT+ staff and patients. The crossing — near to the entrance to the emergency department… Continue reading Oct 2021. Transphobia

Sep 2021. Gender Identity

Gender identity is the personal sense of one’s own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person’s assigned sex at birth or can differ from it. Gender expression typically reflects a person’s gender identity, but this is not always the case. If this isn’t a piece of something, I do not know. I read and… Continue reading Sep 2021. Gender Identity

Sep 2021. The Day the Comedy Died

The comedian Billy Crystal was mercilessly lambasted for saying “comedy is a minefield”. In the context of promoting his new movie, Crystal gave an interview in the New York Post in which he bemoaned how rampant “wokeness” and “cancel culture” have rendered virtually every joke fraught with peril. It is not hard to find something… Continue reading Sep 2021. The Day the Comedy Died

Sep 2021. Cancel Culture and a Catholic Priest

Cancel culture – which sees individuals and brands spurned due to comments, actions or stances that some perceive to be wrong – is nothing new. Fundamentally, cancel culture is about shame. Shame emerges in response to the feeling that we have transgressed against some agreed social rule and lost status within the group. Evolutionary psychologists… Continue reading Sep 2021. Cancel Culture and a Catholic Priest

Sep 2021. Comedian Cancelled

Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown has been backed by more than 28,000 protesters after Sheffield City Hall cancelled his show because it doesn’t “reflect our values”. The 76-year-old Yorkshire comedian – famed for his offensive style of comedy – was due to perform at the venue in January next year. Brown – real name Royston Vasey – said… Continue reading Sep 2021. Comedian Cancelled

Aug 2021. If you don’t Like it don’t Read it

Charles Gaspirino in the New York Post writes, “Hysteria, groupthink and a fair amount of hypocrisy are the key ingredients in a ruinous cocktail that has managed to intoxicate some formerly profit-focused boardrooms.” JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon observed that the overt wokeism of his peers he is seeing similar signs of groupthink… Continue reading Aug 2021. If you don’t Like it don’t Read it

The UK Gendeless Passport

Nepalese transgender and the first recipient of a Nepalese transgender passport, Monica Shahi from Kailali district displays her new passport with "O" for other in the document's gender section, in Kathmandu on August 10, 2015. Nepal handed over its first transgender passport on August 10, no longer restricting the country's third gender population to describe themselves as male or female in their travel documents. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)

The UK Supreme Court this week heard that people should be able to declare their gender as ‘X’ on their UK passports and that current practice in the UK, whereby individuals can only declare as male or female, is discriminatory and should be changed by the Home Office. The case was brought by Christie Elan-Cane,… Continue reading The UK Gendeless Passport