Two things have put my blood pressure up today:
- an article in the Sunday Times saying how academics at Hull University have issued a list of gender neutral terms (like workperson for workman) that their students must use in essays etc, or risk being marked down. List runs to two pages. I feel like getting up there, finding these crypto facist cretins and shaking them very hard by the shoulders whilst screaming 'what the **** are you on?' until they recant. Meanwhile Oxford University students are trying to ban Jenny Murray from Woman's Hour from talking there, because she said that while she supports transgender people (of course!) but has said they can't claim to be 'real' women because they haven't had the full experience of growing up as a woman. Ban Jenny Murray on taste grounds by all means, but seriously.
- a programme on Radio 4 now about conspiracy theorists in the US who are claiming that the Sandy Hook school massacre never took place and was a giant government plan. They are trolling the parents and relations of kids and teachers who were murdered, calling them liars and foreign spies (this started two days after the killings).These people, presumably ******ed, evil gun toting twats, I would simply have put out of their sad, twisted, misery. Using their own guns.