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Hadley Freeman
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“Gender activism has become the permissible face of misogyny for a certain kind of allegedly progressive man. It gives them latitude to call women derogatory names and make spittle-flecked videos, insisting that anyone who has a problem with male-born people in women-only spaces is on the wrong side of history. The effect is men’s-rights activism, but the energy is very incel — shorthand for people who are "involuntarily celibate". Incels rage online about women who selfishly refuse to have sex with them; gender activists rage at women who won't just bloody well shut up about their concerns about safety and say what the men tell them to say.”
Hadley Freeman (born 1978) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What gives men the right to use gender activism as a cover for misogyny?" The Sunday Times (21 January 2023)
“Here's an alternative: maybe adults could be actual adults for a minute. Instead of teaching children non-existent safe ways to strangle themselves and others, they could teach them not to do it, just as we teach them not to play with matches. Despite being frequently mentioned alongside "light spanking" and similar, choking causes brain damage and kills. It’s not like pulling someone's hair; it's like playing Russian roulette. And, of course, it is overwhelmingly women who are being strangled: the same study that found 58 per cent of female students had been choked said only 26 per cent of male ones had.”
Hadley Freeman (born 1978) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A man choked me in bed, I assumed I was being murdered" The Sunday Timers (25 March 2023)
“I had a couple of reactions to hearing that my views about gender might be too controversial for Sting. The first was: "I reckon Sting, Mr Tantric Sex God himself, is pretty clear on what a woman is." The second was: "So Sting once played a concert for the daughter of the former Uzbek president Islam Karimov, who was accused of boiling his political opponents alive. But apparently he can't bear to be interviewed by me because of my 'controversial views'?" Incidentally, these controversial views are — and buckle up, folks, because they might shock you — that trans people deserve compassion as much as anyone else, and a man has a penis and a woman has a vagina. Sting, send me your mate's number because I deserve to be boiled alive!”
Hadley Freeman (born 1978) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Sting interview farce shows how entrenched trans ideology has become", The Sunday Times (6 August 2023).
“But it turns out many who march for a free Palestine believe, as Hamas believes, that Israel shouldn't exist at all. They see Israelis as "colonisers and settlers". But do you know why they had to settle there? Because they had nowhere to go after the Holocaust achieved what centuries of persecution had failed to do and wiped out most of Europe's Jews. Many, like my Polish family, couldn't go back to their home country because there were still — even after the fall of Nazism — Jew-hatred and pogroms there. So they went to Israel. This is the context: the Jews are there because they needed somewhere safe to live, and now their grandchildren are being killed for it.”
Hadley Freeman (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[[Donald Sutherland|[Donald] Sutherland]] was a real man. I don’t mean that in the salacious sense (well, not only in that way). I mean he was part of that great generation of 1970s actors that emerged when Hollywood studios finally realised women didn't only want to watch pretty boys like Robert Redford and Warren Beatty. Glorious joli laid — handsome ugly — actors became the defining look of that decade: Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Richard Pryor, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson. Men who were masculine, but not necessarily macho. ... (The fact that the rubric for what constitutes beauty for actresses was and remains far narrower than it is for actors is a subject for another day.) These men looked intelligent and they looked filthy, a previously untapped combination in American cinema.”
Hadley Freeman (born 1978) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Donald Sutherland’s macho twinkle was irresistible", The Sunday Times (June 23, 2024)
“I joined the JC a year and a half ago as a monthly columnist because I strongly want there to be a mainstream national Jewish newspaper in this country that represents the plurality of views of Jews in this country. Most British Jews believe in a Jewish home state, we believe in a two-state solution and we hope for peace in the Middle East. And what it felt like increasingly was the Jewish Chronicle was representing a more ideological rather than strictly journalistic point of view and was becoming far more right-wing and in-step with Netanyahu which I would think that most British Jews are not.”
Hadley Freeman (born 1978) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed on Today (BBC Radio 4) (16 September 2024), as cited in "Four columnists quit Jewish Chronicle over standards, secrecy and ‘bias’", Press Gazette (16 September 2024)