Mathew Iredale PhD

But it identifies as milk, bigots! What harm is it doing you? I bet you drink oat milk all the time and don’t even realise it. Don’t you know Oatly threw the first brick at Stonewall? continued page 94

@LilyLilyMaynard Brilliant!😆

Six years ago to the day, my toon for ⁦@thetimes⁩ …#Trump #Venezuela

Deserves a wide circulation.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Public officials will say they don’t know what a woman is because they’re not a scientist while simultaneously saying that men who claim to be women are women.

@bendormiki Fascinating research.

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points. I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days. Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them. However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created. When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said. The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness. Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison? I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges. The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest. Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

@FondOfBeetles Fixed it.

It is no small irony that trans activists evoke the caterpillar>butterfly metamorphosis to represent themselves while arguing that juvenile humans should have free access to drugs that prevent the transformation to healthy maturity.

Never forget: women can't know for sure they're women unless they've had their chromosomes checked, but if a man says he's a woman he's definitely a woman and it is highly offensive to mention his chromosomes, which are entirely irrelevant to whether or not a person is a woman.

“I like the way Reform combines nationalism and socialism” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

@SleepstoHRR I'm too old to understand that reference, but also too old to care.😁

There are 12 sleeps to Henley Royal Regatta 2025. #HRR25 Charles was as surprised as Felicity that he’d managed to find UK Drill on 78, as he blasted “Only If You Knew” by Headie One across the reach..

@LilyLilyMaynard "...and the sass." Ffs.🙄

You’re a bloke, mate, we don’t give a shit about your ‘gender’, trust us, we don’t want an explanation please spare us and go away

Boris Johnson was Prime Minister for 3 years. People in the UK are familiar with the concept of a driverless car. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I started manwhohasitall on Twitter 10 years ago today on 15th May 2015 with zero followers. Ten years, two books and nearly one million followers across Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads and Bluesky later. And still only one joke. Thanks for joining in. Taking down the patriarchy one post, one comment and one like at a time. Help me to keep the content coming by buying me a coffee! buymeacoffee.com/manwhohasitall

“Can I call you all cowards?”  From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Preventing women and girls from accessing their bathrooms will totally dispel the idea that your movement contains a lot of very angry, potentially unbalanced men who're currently displaying classic symptoms of narcissistic rage.

Janice isn't claiming to speak for all women, @PennyRed, but given that you aren't one ('the category of "woman" does not fully describe my lived experience') it's hard to see why you should be speaking for any women at all. Literally nobody thinks the Supreme Court ruling 'legislates trans people out of existence.' Trans people have exactly the same rights and protections they had before the ruling, and unless they've mass combusted while I wasn't paying attention, I'm fairly sure they continue to exist. If some trans-identified people in the UK are currently experiencing rage and disappointment because the Supreme Court clarified that they don't have rights they believed they had, the responsibility lies firmly with activist groups and sections of the media who've persistently argued, falsely, that gender transition turned a person into the opposite sex for all practical purposes in the eyes of the law. You can personally take some responsibility for that state of affairs, of course, because you've spent the last few years enthusiastically championing the removal of single-sex spaces for women and girls. Indeed, you went so far as to tell the mother of a fifteen-year-old who asked how her daughter was supposed to feel on discovering a penised stranger in the girls' changing rooms, 'I'd tell her it's rude to stare at other people's genitals.' That anti-woman, anti-safeguarding quip puts you right up there with every male creep who's spent recent years insisting women and girls have no right to privacy, dignity or safety. You'll undoubtedly continue to offer your contributions to the debate, but don't be too surprised if a lot of old-school women (the boring kind who've been deprived of the fascinating experiences that make you non-binary and genderqueer) find it supremely easy to disregard anything you've got to say on the subject.