India Knight

[FreeSquirrels]

He was pro unisex loos. Women tend to prefer single sex loos - you can leave the door slightly open if you have a pushchair that doesn’t fit in the cubicle, you might have blood on your hands etc. Obviously some women are not bothered by unisex loos but the majority seem to prefer single sex.

There have been a few instances where male councilors have been pro unisex loos and then been caught with photos of child sexual exploitation or abusing children, hence the concern.

 

[Eurgh]

To be fair, Marina Hyde is sharp as a tack.

Completely agree. I love Marina Hyde. But it’s sad that there are many other sharp and clever women who will never get a chance to achieve what she has because of lack of contacts, inroads into elite education, the right circles etc.

 

[Raker]

I’m still utterly shocked by the whole thing, the offences, the mitigation of drinking and relationship, the sentencing, the absolute lack of appropriate press coverage, and the continued access on one hand to a column that never mentions the situation and on the other to the fact that, I’m repeating my own words, a convicted paedophile sex offender is still PUBLICLY using social media. God knows what’s going on in private use.

When you think of the absolute witch hunts there have been of people in this country over less, it’s just absolutely nauseating. I am so cross.

 

[depository]

I think Burchill's piece summed India's character up well: "For those of you who have not had the pleasure, Knight is very much of the ‘Lady Muck’ school of female columnists. The Cambridge Dictionary defines the type as ‘A woman who thinks she is very important and should be treated better than everyone else’."

 

[rosemarina]

TELL ME she didn’t take her filthy, disgusting hair to Hershesons and make a poor, underpaid junior wash it for her?

 

[Yel]

And she’s known about it for at least two years.

And she was calling us names and threatening to send him round our house. She's as ghastly as most of us thought

 

[NOID-phal]

Her articles are always so smug, around a vanishingly small set of subjects. Next week, what lipstick to wear while your partner searches for child rape films. Don't move to the country unless you can afford enough room for your fiance to have a room with a lock on the door for when he's drinking and wanking to babies being abused, you'll need good WiFi.
Fuck. Off.

 

[SqualorVictoria]

I think that was a brilliant piece from JB

To those who say she didn't focus enough on EJ and his crime, I think she did. Her last sentence sums it up:

"It is a national disgrace that men such as Joyce, who drive the market for the rape of infants, are spared jail by the courts of this country. But it is a national scandal that our newspapers – usually so keen to police the morals of our public figures – close ranks to protect one of their own. What a shameful episode in the history of British journalism – the silence of the hacks, shielding the evils which take place behind the Wokescreen"

 

[Mustard]

Seems like she's still with him, or had told his brief to say she is.

Theyy have been together for ten years so it’s not a new relationship. That means he was searching for child porn while they were living together.

 

[Jade Mitzi]

only nepotism is getting her through this. Let’s be honest, it certainly isn’t talent.

 

[Wobblehead]

Imagine having the brassneck to publish a piece about your successful relocation/ life, just weeks after your partner pleaded guilty to making a category A child sex abuse image? And tried to excuse his behaviour by saying he drank too much.

Literally this. It absolutely beggars belief and do you know the worse thing is that none of the other blue tickers are saying ffff all about it. They would be foaming at the mouth if this was someone outside of the luvvie circle:

 

[Tesla's Ghost]

barely anyone mentioned it on social media

This is what boggles my mind, too. Someone posts a recipe with a carrot instead of a turnip, all hell breaks loose. There's more outrage when a fast food chain stops selling a particular burger.
I'm waiting for supportive tweets India will get, sending you hugs and kisses, we missed you on Twitter, thank God you're back etc. Great, would you let her and Eric babysit your kid? I wouldn't leave that one sock that's without its pair in their home.

 

[Giselle65]

No, but here it is:

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The fawning reaction to it was sickening.

'I just felt ashamed, but then really – why should I?" Er because you are living with a vile sex offender which puts a big old fat question mark over your judgment – and whether or not you should be offering up your opinions on anything in a newspaper column.

Just found this thread. Do we know if India is definitely still living with him? If so, that's unconscionable.

Judging by the tone of her twitter feed she could give zero fucks about those poor, poor sexually abused children. Instead it's all horses! Harry Potter! Hershesons! Disgusting.

The Sunday Times and Penguin, her publisher, shoudl both drop her. Who is going to want to read her rancid opinions now that we know her judgment is so warped?

 

[Tesla's Ghost]

When your partner defends you like this...

This was in regards to calling a cop “f****** fat and black”. There are all sorts of things the matter with Eric, but he's not a racist. Was it a particular brand of alcohol that said that, and his body served as a vessel like Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist?

I don’t think she should lose her job. This is not her crime

Agree, it's not her crime. She should have lost her job ages ago, she got it because of nepotism and her writing is more like a journal titled "Projecting Insecurities" you'd be embarrassed to show even to your therapist.

 

[sineadf]

And they have been together for ten years so it’s not a new relationship.

Exactly, and during that time he's notched up some of his convictions for drunken violence and getting off on child rape. It's a depressing trope that all a man needs is the "love of a good woman" to sort out his problems but even that doesn't hold up very well in this instance.

 

[Skiddidlydaddle]

Because of the staggering number of hate crimes committed against transgender women by cisgender men...

Right, of course they also need protection. But, not at the expense of female only spaces.

 

[Hepatica]

India Knight's daughter is no longer living with her. She is with her father in London.

 

[SqualorVictoria]

"The guy he went to see was,
according to Eric, extraordinarily unhelpful.

“He lost his rag but I think it’s a humanly understandable thing, in the
circumstances, when you’re faced by some airport jobsworth.”

said India in that Sun link. Eh no, I've been faced with all sorts of jobsworths and had all sorts of stressful situations but I've never punched anyone or hurled racist abuse at them!

"Some airport jobsworth" WTF! Openly and brazenly looking down on people. Sorry, not all of us have managed to secure cushy positions from being well connected. Some people do actually have to do an honest days work for an honest days pay

 

[FunkyMonkey]

Imagine if this was a working class person. Imagine if it was a POC. Imagine if it was a woman. I am horrified. I realise this isn’t India’s crime but how can she stand by him.

 

[Disillusioned]

I actually agree with this! I shouldn’t have used transphobic to differentiate between groups of people in this instance but I think it’s off to say there’s any correlation with being a paedophile and also being in favour of same sex loos.

But there is a correlation in Eric Joyce’s case. And it matters because it’s not some random two issues, but a criminal paedophile calling for easier access to women and children in a space where they are particularly vulnerable. And there have been other cases recently. To point this out is not to say that all or even many paedophiles are also campaigning against single sex toilets. It is simply pointing out where this is the case.