lol:
Forstater said of the judgment: “It doesn’t mean the freedom to harass others. That was never what my case was about.
Later that month, in a long series of tweets, [Forstater] repeatedly misgendered Credit Suisse senior director Pips Bunce, who identifies as gender fluid, referring to her as "a man who likes to express himself part of the week by wearing a dress,” "a part-time cross dresser" and "a white man who likes to dress in women’s clothes.”
Forstater doesn't work with Bunce. She wasn't interacting with Bunce. She's never met Bunce. She was responding to a Financial Times article that listed Bunce among their "Top 100 Female Executives" in 2018.
Some of the tweets in question:
https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1044495561481703424https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1044839436054351872I've got a Q for my male twitter friends who have pledged not to appear on all male panels - if u were invited on a panel w Pip Bunce - one of FT's top 100 female champions of women in biz & another guy would u say yes or call the organisers & say sorry i don't do #manels?
Bunce does not 'masquerade as female' he is a man who likes to express himself part of the week by wearing a dress. I have no problem with men wearing dresses, but we don't need to confuse acting in a stereotypically feminine manner with being a woman!
https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/mistranslated-i-split-my-time-as-pippa-and-philip-20171002
If discussing this absurd situation amounts to harassing Bunce, then everybody on this message board is guilty of harassing somebody, and we should all just turn ourselves in to the thought police right now.
The situation is about as ridiculous as the "Top Movies Directed By Women" lists that always rank The Matrix highly even though the Wachowskis made The Matrix about 20 years before they "discovered they were women".
And yeah, if your gender identity changes with your mood, it's not a gender identity, it's just a mood. If being a woman for you means wearing a woman costume to work a couple of times a week, you're not a woman. Life as a woman, in any society at any time in history, is not something that you can choose as a part-time experience. I doubt that Pips has ever experienced what it's really like to actually be treated as a woman, I think he's probably only had the experience of being treated as a weirdo by subordinates who feel obligated to humor him.
Frankly Phillip/Pippa Bunce is nonsense that would be right at home in a Monty Python skit. It's at a point where reality is too ridiculous for Titania McGrath to parody; we've more or less reached Poe's Law saturation on gender identity nonsense. Pips Bunce is the Emperor's New Clothes story for our time, except that at the punchline of the story is that the little boy who told the truth gets marched in front of a Human Rights Tribunal.
-k