Mick Hartley

The Scarlet Blake affair rumbles on, as JK Rowling enters the fray – "I'm so sick of this shit. This is not a woman."

Lauren Smith at Spiked:

The gruesome case of Scarlet Blake really should have been the last straw. We have become all too numb to the way the police, the courts and the media have adopted the preferred pronouns of dangerous and predatory men. How male perverts, paedophiles and rapists are now routinely treated as women, based on their self-declared identities. You might have hoped that the sheer depravity of Blake’s crimes, and the depths of his mental delusions, would jolt our elites into sanity. But you’d be wrong. In the wall-to-wall coverage of Blake’s crimes, he is consistently referred to as a ‘woman’….

This week, Blake was sentenced to life in prison. Thankfully, he will be housed in a high-security men’s prison and not in a female estate, as so often happens with trans-identifying criminals.

But while the prison system is thankfully not treating Blake as a woman, the media have overwhelmingly bowed down to his delusions about his gender. Headlines from the Mirror, Sky News and the Independent all talked about the ‘“Cat killer” woman’. In some reports of Blake’s crimes, like ITV’s, you’ll have to get several paragraphs in before there is any mention that this ‘woman’ is trans. Most reports – including on BBC News – do not mention this at all. He is presented simply as a ‘woman’, without qualification.

Everyone seems to be in agreement that Blake is mentally disturbed and delusional. No one has felt compelled to describe him as a ‘cat’, despite the fact he sometimes identifies as one. No one has felt the need to acknowledge the other personas that he claims he shares his head with. And yet, almost the entire mainstream media have happily repeated his equally false claim that he is a woman and not a man.

Herein lies the madness of the trans ideology. It asks us to ignore biological reality. And instead, it expects us to pander to the fantasies of even the most dangerous and mentally unstable criminals. The grim case of the cat killer surely has to be the limit.

The Times report today – comments of course turned off:

The daughter of an Oxford fellow has been sentenced to life in prison for fulfilling a warped sexual fantasy by mutilating a cat and killing a stranger.

There's something particularly vile about this level of language abuse. Daughter?? 

Also in the Times today, Hugo Rifkind witters on about the danger of AI and deepfake, and how the media must be the answer:

Media, meanwhile, needs to be the antidote to fakery rather than its vector. I say this wincingly, as somebody who has occasionally been duped himself, but there really should be no greater shame for a journalist than spreading a fraud.

Yet the Times, and every other major news outlet, is happy to continue spreading the fraud that one of the most horrific recent cases of murder in the UK was committed by a woman.