Calls For The Sacking Of Richard Littlejohn.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/mar/22/richard-littlejohn-transgender

Regardless of what some may think of the Daily Mail or their columnist Richard Littlejohn, should he be forced to resign over this matter?

[LazyGun]

"Quite prepared to take a chance on that are you?" Quite prepared to take a chance on what? What harm exactly do you think might have befallen the children? Can you even articulate it?

Many here would advocate that we do not wrap children in cotton wool - "we did not do that in my day" goes the oft-repeated phrase. Let em play till dusk, let em go off cycling, all that jazz. Unyet now, these children are unable to cope?

[ummmm]

I think the kids would find it fascinating. I know it wouldn't have done my kids any harm.

[anotheoldgit]

237SJ

*** I think he should show more sensitivity in future but I`m not holding my breath ***

What such as these first words of his article?

/// Look, it can’t be much fun being a woman trapped in a man’s body. Believe me, ladies, there are times when it’s not exactly a bundle of laughs being a man trapped inside a man’s body. ///

/// So I have every sympathy for the 400 or so people a year who opt for ‘gender reassignment’ surgery to put themselves out of their misery. ///

/// I don’t even have any problem with sex-change operations being carried out on the NHS, provided it’s a genuine medical necessity and not a lifestyle choice. Transsexuals pay taxes, too. ///

[anotheoldgit]

Hitler was a past master at educating young children into the ways of his political leanings, why should our children be so 'brain washed' into this political correct way of thinking?

[237SJ]

Come off it AOG, anyone can see those paragraphs are his symathetic get-out clause before he goes in for the kill.

[jake-the-peg]

Anybody other than me here have any experience of what they are talking about at all?

It doesn't sound like it

I used to work reasonably closely with a man who left for a year or so and came back as a woman

A number of people seem to think that it would be obvious to all the kids as if he'd just gone home and put on a dress and come back with stubble and lipstick.

From my experience I think it's unlikely the kids would have noticed what had happened but someone in the staffroom sounds as if they've gone out to make some dirty money

[rockyracoon]

I think the kid's would be fine about it. My mum (who is 65 now) had an uncle who came to the house very frequently when she was a child, the last time she saw him she was sent to the bedroom with her sisters as he'd come dressed as a woman, grandad kicked him out of the house.

My mum and aunts were absolutely enthralled watching this poor woman walk away from their house knowing it was their uncle, and couldn't wait to see him as a lady again, they didn't realise that would be the last time they'd see him :(

[jackthehat]

I invoke 'Gowin's Law'.........from where do I claim my £5?

[LazyGun]

For petes sake, invoking Godwins law in a piece about the suicide of a transgender by bringing up the spectre of Hitler? How is that even relevant?

Trying to draw a parallel about a school of kids being exposed to a transgender as being somehow equivalent to political brainwashing is as ridiculous as claiming that a rainbow is gay because gay pride use a rainbow as their symbol...

[LazyGun]

@jth snap - except your response was more pithy :)

[Sqad]

Oh" Godwin's Law........................

[jackthehat]

......although you managed to spell it correctly.....:o/

LoL

[LazyGun]

Even Sqad thinks your post an example of Godwins Law AoG :)

[sp1814]

AOG

Hitler was a past master at educating young children into the ways of his political leanings, why should our children be so 'brain washed' into this political correct way of thinking?

Please describe exactly how the children are being brain washed?

Don't you think that they are being presented with facts, and that's it?

Or do you think that the children are being forced into thinking in a certain way?

If they are, can you explain why bringing up children to have respect for others, even if they are not 'the same' as them - is a bad thing?

[Answerprancer]

"Yes I know exactly what you mean Sqad, quite a past master at it myself, hook line and sinker springs to mind. :0)"

Take aim at foot, bang and ouch springs to mind :-)

[Sqad]

LazyGun....no you have it wrong............I was wondering what Gowin's Law was, as JTH is usually so .....how do I put it...........understandable.

[jake-the-peg]

So coming back to the subject

Anybody else here ever meet a transexual?

(And I don't mean spot a butch looking woman in the street)

[LazyGun]

yes Jake. What else would you like to know?

[anotheoldgit]

237SJ

/// Come off it AOG, anyone can see those paragraphs are his symathetic get-out clause before he goes in for the kill. ///

Damned if he does, damned if he don't, seems he can never win with some.

[237SJ]

Well if you can call working with someone "having experience" (I wouldn`t) then yes, jake-the-peg.