Woke watch

[arsene york-hunt]

"There is a very good section on GB news where the ludicrous idiocies of Wokeness are looked at I thought we would should have one for WHO. I'll start with Baptiste on BBC: In Hungary,an ambassador's family are kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and carry out atrocities. At the end of the last episode Baptiste finds out that it is a false flag operation and conveniently, the real culprits are white supremacists who want to stop all immigration. Coronation Street ITV a gay black footballer is stopped by the police, because he is driving an expensive car. He is pushed to the ground during an altercation, and damages his leg threatening his career. Could have been written by Dawn Butler or a BLM activist."

[Mike Oxsaw]

Is dropping an egg-powered SBD at school assembly regarded as woke or expanding the boundaries of learning? Asking for a (farty) friend.

[Moncurs Putting Iron]

twoleftfeet 10:33 Sun Jan 2 Because it's shit?

[Lee Trundle]

"""Jewish actress Maureen Lipman says Dame Helen Mirren should NOT have been cast as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in 'Jewface' row"" JEWFACE"

[twoleftfeet]

"I watched Carry on Camping yesterday, surprised they still show it üòÅ"

[Nagel]

"Jane Eyre was also the basis for the film I Walked With A Zombie, which was one of the first ever woke movies (as in woke from the dead)."

[Tomshardware]

Suzanna Hamilton has an impressive muff in the film 1984.

[Nurse Ratched]

Definitely recommend it. Jane Eyre is indeed very fine.

[Darby_]

"Ah, fair enough, although I think my title is better. I'll give it a try if you recommend it. Jane Eyre is a frighteningly good book."

[Nurse Ratched]

It's 'Wide Sargasso Sea'. Jean Rhys. Bloody good book.

[Nurse Ratched]

It's 'Wide Sargasso Sea'. Jean Rhys. Bloody good book.

[Darby_]

"I'd imagine the feminist version will be read by about 100 people, all of them already feminists, so I'm not sure what the fuss is about. It might be interesting, but probably won't be. Classics are often reinterpreted or inspire spinoffs. Shakespeare has been reinterpreted in a million different ways. Jane Eyre inspired ""Wild Saragossa Sea"" which is the same set of events from a different character's perspective. It's really a tribute to the original author that someone else goes to the trouble to explore it from a different perspective."

[solidbond]

Les mateaux : He's just taking the piss out the right wing snowflakes on this thread.

[Sydney_Iron]

"Capitol Man 2:48 Sun Jan 2 I think on the whole its just people taking the piss out of all this wokery and gender nonsense etc rather than having a whine about hurt feelings LOL Maybe take your own advise and grab those tampons? I would find it equally absurd if some bloke decided to a version of The Female Eunuch from “a male perspective” Although granted the author, Germaine Greer seems to have gone from the Godmother of feminism to being despised by them as some kind of traitor, along with JK Rowling just about sums up modern absurdity."

[les marteaux]

"Capitol Man 2:48 Sun Jan 2 Do you not find a sad ageing man posting repeatedly on a football website disgustingly sexist references to menstruation, and comparing those with whom he disagrees with as women, because they have different views, a little embarrassing then"

[Capitol Man]

"White Pony 1:11 Sun Jan 2 Re: Woke watch You don’t find a bunch of sad, middle-aged men getting together for a bit of a whine to express their hurt feelings that they are not the only center of the universe a little bit embarrassing them?"

[Sydney_Iron]

"Well if they want to make a woke, feminist version of 1984 it’s really up to them, personally cant see the point but if they think there is a willing audience then go ahead. But would lay very short odds that had it been the other way around, and had 1984 been deemed a feminist classic, re done from the male perspective they would be more than a few on social media and at varies institutions calling for it to be boycotted if they couldn’t get it banned. A few classics have already been binned by some institutions and schools, to kill a Mocking bird for example, as its racist!!! Still can’t get my head around that one? Huckleberry Finn, slavery links and even though it’s been re written without use of the “N” word, still not good enough and inappropriate for the kiddies. 1984 may have been fiction but it is eery how some of it is coming to pass…….."

[White Pony]

"Nothing of value to add aside from glib snides. Just a bit telling, isn’t it. Not too much of a thinker, which is a shame. Those who deal in black and white thinking permeate both sides of every debate. And isn’t it true that it’s those who parade themselves as the great free-thinkers, that are often the most constrained by their own self-imposed boundaries. What a joke."

[Fo the Communist]

"*re-imagining rather that re-writing, I should say."

[Fo the Communist]

"Sydney_Iron 12:59 Sun Jan 2 I can see there is a certain irony but the fact is we are not talking about a re-writing of a novel, nor even abridging or sanitising of the original. We are talking about a retelling, crucially approved by Orwell's estate, from the perspective of another central character. I suspect Orwell might well have had more of a problem with the (non) story being spun by the serial fact-benders at Infowars as much as the rewrite itself."

[Capitol Man]

The knicker-wetting support group continues into 2022. Free tampons for all of you.

[Sydney_Iron]

"Fo the Communist 12:43 Sun Jan 2 Thats true Fo, but do we really need a woke femanist version? Had it originally been written in that way, would in this day an age a version with a white bloke called Winston Smith as the main character been made? Then the irony in the original it warns of the dangers of revising history and rewriting books? Yet here we are in the 2020,s tearing down statues, banning books and old TV programs, being ashamed of our past, even calling for comedians to be cancelled...."

[Fo the Communist]

"riosleftsock 1:56 Sat Jan 1 Wouldn't it be a dystopian world if those in charge of Orwell's estate were not allowed to give, via their own freewill, permission for a retelling of the story?"

[les marteaux]

"I saw the firework display, which was followed by some bloke singing crap and dressed as a woman. He was an ugly fucker with a pudding basin haircut. I thought that if this is the sort of cսnt who is valued in society, I have probably been alive too long."

[Mad Dog]

I saw that. How the fuck do you make a fireworks display woke

[GreenStreetPlayer]

The lead up to Big Ben and what followed leaves us in no doubt it’s an all out assault by the BBC against the majority view in this country.