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OK I've been keeping quiet since Suzanne Moore quit the guardian but I've seen a lot of people who seem decent support her. I've read a lot of things trying to understand every angle. What shocks me is the ease people accept framing a letter signed by colleagues as "bullying".
I've never particularly been a fan of Moore, but I appreciate many others are and have got a lot out of her feminist and political writing. I appreciate she has experienced workplace misogyny, as all women who work undoubtedly do.
What we've seen happen at the Guardian over the course of yeaaaars is a slip into giving more space for high profile gender critical feminists to speak on trans issues than trans writers. Staff at the guardian were rightfully concerned.
So after this had happened repeatedly with no improvement and the papers reputation externally was taking a hit, not forgetting it being an increasingly hostile place for trans staff, colleagues wrote a very mindful short letter to senior staff that named no names.
This is absolutely the most professional manner a workforce can handle a situation like this. I cant believe that Moore can write she was bullied out of her job by 338 of her co workers without knowing shes misrepresenting the situation.
I read all of Moore's Unherd piece, including where she asks "why can't young women be butch lesbians anymore?" as an example of the important women's issues she needs to defend from the trans movement. As a butch dyke, I dont care to here Moores bad take on this.
She also consistently misrepresents trans activism and contemporary feminism as being uninterested with issues related to pregnancy, gynaecology and medical issues more likely to effect people female assigned at birth.
So what was the alternative to Moores colleagues writing a letter? Them just shutting up while she writes her widely read columns? I'd really like to understand what people who defend her think the best course of action for staff to take was.
Anyway Moore will go on the traditional I've been silenced tour of all the major papers, get a photo of herself with tape on her mouth, continue to be a successful gender critical darling all across the press.
