Tom Grennan sparks backlash over ‘creepy’ comments about Ellie Goulding’s breasts
Regardless of any feminist issues, the comment was simply in poor taste, intrusive.
It can however perhaps be understood in the light of the very high incidence of fake boobs among celebrity women. Half the time, the boobs don't even look natural. Hemispherical breats are not found in nature but the many women displaying them seem to be regarded as more attractive for having them.
Grennan was obviously aware of the ubiquity of fake breasts so it felt natural for him to mention them. And her outfit did invite comment
Tom Grennan has been criticised over an “awkward” and “inappropriate” interaction with Ellie Goulding at the Brits.
The 2023 Brit Awards, hosted by Mo Gilligan, took place on Saturday night (11 February) at London’s O2 Arena.
Goulding, 36, and Grennan, 27, presented the award for Best New Artist together.
Appearing on stage, Grennan asked: “Don’t I look good next to Ellie Goulding?” Gesturing to the singer’s outfit, he said: “I love what you’re doing. Are they your real boobs?” Goulding was wearing a black top that was designed to appear sculpted to her chest.
She quipped: “I wish. Mine are a lot further apart. Sadly.” Grennan then apologised. Grennan was criticised for his question by viewers on social media.
https://au.yahoo.com/news/tom-grennan-sparks-backlash-over-100844539.html
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A woman who removed her breasts at age 20 when she identified as transgender has shared her grief over not being able to breastfeed her baby.
Elizabeth - not her real name - underwent a chest masculinisation mastectomy (commonly known as top surgery) after being formally diagnosed with gender dysphoria as a teenager.
But four years after getting the controversial procedure done, Elizabeth decided to detransition before falling pregnant at 30.
'It was really hard knowing that he wanted to breastfeed, and I couldn’t give him that. And when they put him on my stomach, he crawled up. He was looking for my breasts and he couldn’t find them,' she said.
Elizabeth has shared her story with researchers from Western Sydney University in Frontiers in Global Women’s Health in what is believed to be the first case study of its kind.
Researcher Professor Karleen Gribble told Daily Mail Australia Elizabeth’s story 'may be the tip of the iceberg' and should serve as an early warning signal to others.
'It is a very serious business to remove the breast of young females and the ramifications for them down the track might be significant and if they do have babies, they are going to need support around that,' Professor Gribble said.
'There needs to be greater respect for breastfeeding and its significance for women and children.
'Once you have a mastectomy there is no such thing as a reversal. This is irreversible surgery it shouldn’t be undertaken lightly.'
Elizabeth claimed the surgeon never discussed breastfeeding with her before the surgery.
'I don’t think I would have been receptive. I would have felt insulted, and I would have said it’s triggering my gender dysphoria,' she said.
Elizabeth attributed her gender dysphoria to developing breasts at the age of 10, which led to her being sexually harassed by men.
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FBI Internal Memo Warns against ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology’
Probably a figment of some Leftist's imagination. Leftists see a lot of boogeymen around
The FBI’s Richmond field office released an internal memo last month warning against “radical traditionalist Catholic ideology,” and claiming it “almost certainly presents new mitigation opportunities,” according to a document shared by an FBI whistleblower on Wednesday.
Kyle Seraphin, who was a special agent at the bureau for six years before he was indefinitely suspended without pay in June 2022, published the document, “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities,” on UncoverDC.com.
“In making this assessment, FBI Richmond relied on the key assumption that [racially or ethnically motivated extremists] will continue to find [radical-traditionalist Catholic or RTC] ideology attractive and will continue to attempt to connect with RTC adherents, both virtually via social media and in-person at places of worship,” the document from January 23 states.
It adds that “RTCs are typically categorized by the rejection of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) as a valid church council; disdain for most of the popes elected since Vatican II, particularly Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II; and frequent adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology. Radical-traditionalist Catholics compose a small minority of overall Roman Catholic adherents and are separate and distinct from ‘traditionalist Catholics’ who prefer the Traditional Latin Mass and pre-Vatican II teachings and traditions, without the more extremist ideological beliefs and violent rhetoric.”
National Review has reached out to the FBI National Press Office and the FBI field office in Richmond for comment.
The report relied upon information from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal-advocacy organization that has come under fire for including conservative nonprofits like the Alliance Defending Freedom and the American College of Pediatricians on its list of “hate groups” alongside groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Nation of Islam.
The document notes the SPLC has identified nine “RTC hate groups” operating in the U.S. as of 2021.
“We got briefings that SPLC was not legitimate when I was at Quantico,” Seraphin told the Daily Signal.
Seraphin told the outlet a “a real intelligence product would quote [SPLC] and say, ‘unsubstantiated.’” He added that if a document were to cite Salon, as the leaked document does, it would need to cite a separate “source on the other side.”
George Hill, a former supervisory intelligence analyst for the bureau, told the Daily Signal the report is “poorly sourced from sources who use unsubstantiated data to draw their own conclusions and not in compliance with FBI publication guidelines.”
“They would have had to either change the guidelines since I left that you can now use the SPLC or the author and their supervisor who approved the final document knowingly violated the Directorate of Intelligence guidelines,” Hill added, explaining that the directorate previously excluded the SPLC from reports because “there was no analytical rigor or basis for the majority of their assertions that they would write about on their website.”
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Giorgia Meloni, the ‘Most Dangerous Woman in Europe,’ Confounds Her Critics
Giorgia Meloni has now governed as Italy’s prime minister for more than 100 days. She has proven wrong those who warned of Italy’s slide into fascism. Without much fanfare, too, she has taken to fashioning Italy as Europe’s gatekeeper amid what is becoming an intractable migrant crisis – one exacerbated by Russia’s growing influence in Africa.
“The most dangerous woman in Europe” is how in September one German magazine described Prime Minister Meloni. She is out to “transform Italy into an authoritarian state,” it asserted. Similar alarms were sounded by the New York Times, CNN, the BBC, the Economist, all warning that Mrs. Meloni and her party, Brothers of Italy, are authoritarians, nationalists, and, ergo, menaces to democracy.
Yet the pundits’ reality is not quite the reality. For there is little in Ms. Meloni’s agenda that would signal danger, unless, of course, the term is understood to mean a reassertion of traditional Italian identity, support for moderate conservative values, more police, less crime, lower taxes, control over illegal immigration, and the occasional tribute to Sir Roger Scruton.
There is also scant indication of the prime minister’s desire to oversee the European Union’s undoing – at least not yet. While herself a Euroskeptic who once called for Italy to leave the euro, and though beholden to the belief that the EU should do less, and do it better, Ms. Meloni is no arsonist.
Brussels has allotted the largest share of its Covid Recovery Fund – 200 billion euros in loans and grants – to Italy. The payments started to arrive in August and will continue until 2026. For a country whose economy has hardly grown in real terms since the introduction of the euro in 1999, with public debt 147 percent of its GDP, unemployment among the highest in Europe, and burdened by high inflation, the EU funds are nearly existential for Italy. So Ms. Meloni has chosen to tread lightly.
The prime minister has in recent weeks hosted a flurry of bilateral meetings with her European peers, including with Chancellor Scholz with whom she met on Friday for their first one-to-one meeting in Berlin. At the top of the agenda was the tide of illegal migration to the continent – a topic that also featured prominently in Ms. Meloni’s tête-à-tête with Prime Minister Kristersson of Sweden and President Novák of Hungary.
There were 330,000 illegal entries into the EU in 2022 – the highest number since 2016. Some 90 percent of entrants were men, a great many from Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. More than 100,000 arrived through Italy’s southern border having set sail off the coast of Libya.
Since Angela Merkel in 2015 opened wide Europe’s doors with her cry of “We can do this,” Italy has found itself on the front lines of these inflows. Now the situation has become worse. As Russia has become isolated from the West it has turned its attention to the African Sahel, where it is arming governments and shaping domestic politics.
Inflows of Russian mercenaries, weaponry, and propaganda into a region prone to upheaval could open another front against Europe. Ms. Meloni appears more aware of this than most. To curb illegal arrivals at Italy’s ports, her government has taken recent measures to complicate the work of charity ships that ferry migrants across the Mediterranean.
In January, Italy signed an $8 billion gas deal with Libya, the largest investment in Libya’s energy sector in two decades. The deal is intended to diversify Italy’s gas supplies away from Russia. It is also intended to boost the Libyan economy – a reflection of Ms. Meloni’s view of African development as a buffer against migration.
The prime minister will present her migration agenda at the EU summit being held in Brussels today and Friday. It is unlikely to be met with much enthusiasm – least of all with any action. Despite tacit agreement among EU leaders that the crisis must be managed, their humanitarian and woke proclivities have prevented them from taking up the task. So, it seems, much could be left to Ms. Meloni and her government. Rather than overseeing Europe’s demise, the Italian prime minister could yet emerge its greatest protector.
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Smithsonian Is About to Get a Brutal Lesson in Constitutional Rights
The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is about to get a lesson in constitutional rights, which could cost them. A mainstay of DC tourist season decided to kick some high school students out. No, they weren’t committing any acts of vandalism or other activities associated with hooliganism. It was an article of clothing that triggered the museum’s staff, reportedly eliciting mockery until they were finally asked to leave the premises. Staff claimed the location was a “neutral zone.” Their offense: they wore pro-life beanies inside the facility.
Museum staffers don’t have that right; there is no dress code. The Smithsonian is taxpayer-funded—and ejecting kids for wearing pro-life beanies is the definition of bush league. They at least admitted to screwing up, with the museum’s deputy communications director, Alison Wood, saying, “Asking visitors to remove hats and clothing is not in keeping with our policy or protocols. We provided immediate training to prevent a re-occurrence of this kind of incident, and have determined steps to ensure this does not happen again.”
That’s not good enough, as The American Center for Law and Justice announced they intend to sue the museum (via Fox News):
A prominent Christian legal organization has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the parents and Catholic school students who were kicked out of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for wearing pro-life hats last month.
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), announced the lawsuit ‘Kristi L. v. National Air & Space Museum’ late Tuesday, alleging that the Smithsonian "targeted, harassed" and "kicked out" a dozen Catholic high school students and their chaperones on Jan. 20 for wearing beanies inscribed with a pro-life message.
The group belonged to Our Lady of the Rosary School based out of Greenville, South Carolina, and had traveled to Washington, D.C., for the annual national March for Life. The students were all wearing matching blue beanies with the words "Rosary PRO-LIFE."
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The lawsuit details an encounter between the personnel and students, some of whom are minors. As they were making their way toward an exhibit, two employees allegedly said, "The f—king pro-life. What a bunch of s—t."
A Smithsonian security guard then approached the group, according to the lawsuit, insisting that they take their hats off or leave.
"One of the security guards approached them, gleefully rubbing his hands together, stating they had made his day," the ACLJ wrote in an online statement.
When the group asked why other visitors in the museum were able to wear their hats and pride masks without issue, they were told that their hats were "political statements," and that they were "not promoting equality," according to the suit.
Forget retraining; if this all is corroborated, every staffer who engaged in this nonsense should be fired at least. Who puts themselves in a position that could get them fired from being a staffer, security guards included, at the Smithsonian? All these people had to do was punch their tickets, ensure no one touched the exhibits or violated any basic safety standards, and keep their mouths shut. Instead, they decided to fight with Catholic high schoolers, who have jammed up their employer in a civil rights lawsuit.
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