Oxfam faces boycott calls over a Pride month cartoon which saw it accused of basing an anti-trans ‘villain’ on J.K. Rowling. The Mail has more.
The video, which was shared online with charity’s millions of supporters, featured three figures, two men and a woman, with evil-looking eyes.
But the woman appeared to look like the Harry Potter author.
Ms. Rowling is understood to have seen the cartoon and liked a tweet criticising the depiction of the cartoon character. She declined to comment when approached by MailOnline.
Oxfam insisted this afternoon it was not supposed to be based on anyone and said it would re-release a cut version of the cartoon. The version it later published had completely removed the scene.
The cartoon character in the original appeared to resemble Ms. Rowling’s usual haircut and style, as well as a green dress she has been pictured wearing. A memorial poppy she wore in the real image – taken at a 2018 film premiere – is replaced with a badge, bearing the word “Terf”. The acronym stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, a view the author has denied having.
It came on the same day the charity was accused of hounding out a volunteer for defending the writer. A former worker – calling herself Maria – said she was accused of transphobia before settling with the charity, which apologised for its handling of the process.
Philosopher Kathleen Stock criticised the advert on Twitter today, saying: “This has shocked me – a still from an Oxfam video, made in support of Pride month.”
Maya Forstater, a business studies and international development researcher, accused the charity of “demonising safeguarding, demonising older women, promoting double-mastectomies to children, bulk harassment of gender -critical staff”.
She said the video was “shocking” and was appalled that “no on in the chain of command” had “internally raised concerns” about the video.
Other Twitter users called for a boycott of Oxfam, alleging they would no longer be making donations to the establishment. Many also urged others to make formal complaints against the firm.
Today supporters of Ms. Rowling said she should consider legal action against the charity over the video.
An hour after being [contacted] by MailOnline about the similarities between the cartoon and the writer, Oxfam took the video down.
It then said: “Oxfam believes that all people should be able to make decisions which affect their lives, enjoy their rights and live a life free of discrimination and violence, including people from LGBTQIA+ communities.
“In efforts to make an important point about the real harm caused by transphobia, we made a mistake. We have therefore edited the video to remove the term TERF and we are sorry for the offence it caused. There was no intention by Oxfam or the film-makers for this slide to have portrayed any particular person or people.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Julie Bindel writes in the Mail that “Oxfam is a toxic charity that has shifted so far from its original aims as to be almost unrecognisable. Its new video is a vile, misogynistic attack against J.K. Rowling”.
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Thanks for that good news. And well done to Harley-Davidson for leading the pack! Just for fun, have a look at this:
Harley-Davidson bikers in pilgrimage to house where it all started | Daily Mail Online
One public comment:
“I’ve read a lot of Negative posts concerning Bikers ! Myself personally am Not a Biker. Have been around lots of Bikers since my Brothers were Bikers in their youth. Let me tell you this before you start Slating them, if you needed let’s say £25,000 for life saving surgery for a child, I know these Guys and Girls would go to the ends of the Earth to Raise every penny to Help anyone, they don’t ask for Medals or Publicity, they just like to help. I’ve witnessed many Charity Runs in my lifetime and I’m Proud of them, from all corners of the country.”
Remember the huge bikers convention that happened in South Dakota while many other states had a lot of “Covid restrictions” in place
Oh, I hadn’t heard about that— I’ll have to look it up. Well done to those bikers in South Dakota, for defying the Coronahoax restrictions.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally – Wikipedia
462,000 of them in 2020
Covidtards KNOW that this spread covid all over the USA, they can trace lots of cases directly from the rally.
Governor Kristi Noem:
“ “South Dakota’s cases remain low. If you’re worried about the virus, you’re free to get vaccinated, wear a mask, or stay at home. But we won’t be mandating anything.”
Off-T
https://order-order.com/2024/11/27/airport-operators-warn-reeves-budget-will-cancel-flight-routes/
This should kill the international holiday industry. Thousands more jobs will be lost these next twelve months.
As with everything else this is nothing to do with raising money and everything to do with restricting movement and destroying jobs.
While against net zero and the climate change hype, and although there is lots of oil about it is getting more difficult to extract, so think maybe it is too valuable as a chemical feedstock just to burn. Have thought for a long time there is something not quite right with an economic model which relies on flying masses of people over from China and India on holidays to Europe with masses from Europe going the other way. (Appreciate that maybe I have been fortunate enough to travel enough overseas to realise that nice as it is one can really enjoy staying put here)
You may have a point but if that’s the case sooner or later this will be reflected in the price of oil
I’ve traveled enough that the novelty wore off. Also the inside of one computer room is much the same as another the other side of the world. I agree that there will be better things to do with hydrocarbons than just burn them – but trying to replace them with EV batteries is nuts; the technology is nowhere near good enough yet. As for international flying as a commercial service: hydrocarbon is the only game in town.
What a lousy lack of attribution to the bloke who caused the change
https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1861183474667004141
Wow, what an achievement for that chap Robby Starbuck! Thanks for giving credit where it is due, and providing that link to his work, because many people like me had never heard of him before.
So 4 years of being ruled by the Blob and its demented puppet in the White House has opened the publics eyes. We can but hope for the same here but so much relies on Reform getting properly organised and a new leader in the next couple of years.
What “new leader” did you have in mind instead of Nigel Farage, who’s been fighting this fight for more than two decades?
I suppose you’re keen to have either the “Johnny-come-lately” Pakistani Muslim Millionaire Zia, or his enemy the “Sour-Grapes” Pakistani Jewish Millionaire Habib, instead of a Welshman, for example, or even a Northern Irish Protestant, or (heaven forbid!), an actual Englishman, like the five current Members of Parliament?
Or perhaps you would prefer a Nigerian woman birth tourist?
Or an Ethnic Oriental person from, say, China to represent British Patriots?
Or how about a Peruvian, just for variety’s sake, since the British Isles are just
“An Empty Space on the Map, to be filled in by people from anywhere”?
After a couple of years of disappointing council elections, byelections, Mr Farage will sidle off stateside.
Bon voyage.
“But is Trump really shifting the direction of the wind? Or was he blown into office once again by voters who had already made up their mind that DEI had gone too far?”
A bit from column A and a bit from column B