December 10, 2024 - 2:00pm
PinkNews, the LGBT news website which prides itself on being the best “queer” outlet in the world, is in trouble. Today, the BBC published an investigation into owner Benjamin Cohen and his husband Anthony James, focusing on allegations that the pair are guilty of multiple cases of sexual misconduct towards male staff members.
A culture of bullying and sexual harassment of current and former staff has been exposed following interviews with more than 30 individuals who worked at PinkNews between 2017 and 2024. This is backed up by official written complaints, private emails and WhatsApp messages, as well as doctors’ records referring to stress and mental health struggles that have been attributed to the work environment overseen by Cohen and James.
A group of anonymous whistleblowers have previously tweeted allegations about bullying and harassment at PinkNews. In September, however, it was reported that the account sharing the claims had disappeared, following Cohen’s threats to sue whoever was behind it.
Press Gazette interviewed 12 people who said that working at PinkNews had left them feeling “stressed, anxious and overworked”. One former employee said: “If I knew who [was behind the Twitter account] I would shake their hand,” because it had “given a lot of colleagues the courage to speak up”.
Perhaps Cohen was unwise to threaten legal action at this stage, when he could still have made reparations. But back in 2020, when I took libel action against both PinkNews and Cohen, I discovered that his arrogance — coupled with his absolute conviction that he was entitled to say and do as he wished — ended up costing him dearly. After 18 months of litigation, during which Cohen had many opportunities to apologise and settle, he ended up doing both — only after stacking up hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal bills. In addition to that cost, of course, he was left with a certain amount of egg on his face.
And so today’s revelations are grimly unsurprising: the outlet has reliably targeted any feminist who dares speak out publicly against the misogyny of trans activism, publishing a seemingly endless stream of baseless hit pieces about nasty, bigoted Terfs.
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Subscribe‘A culture of bullying and sexual harassment of current and former staff has been exposed following interviews with more than 30 individuals who worked at PinkNews between 2017 and 2024.’
I had to sit down in a quiet, dark room to recover from the surprise of hearing this.
I know, hearing this news has me literally shaking. Whoever would have thunk that a woke queer news site would be a toxic workplace filled with mean queens?
Pretty much the same as any workplace where men are in control.
Harrods anyone?
One wonders what you then did in that dark room.
Maybe everyone, gay, straight or otherwise, could just get back in the closet and go back to treating sex as a private matter between consenting adults? Or at least leave the kids out of it.
The whole thing is beyond tedious.
Hallelujah. The single most sensible thing written about sex since about 1967, Hugh. The endless incontinent public grandstanding from needy emotional exhibitionists about what they like to do with their d*cks and tw*ts for erotic kicks is not only interminably dull, it’s also gauche, narcissistic, self-important, infantile, attention-seeking, public time space and space wasting and a standing advertisement for a monumental absence of anything genuinely interesting to talk about or any talent whatsoever for doing so. ‘My d*ck, my d*ck, my d*ck, my d*ck…my tw*t, my tw*t, my tw*t, my tw*t…oooh look, everyone, I’m clever and interesting and edgy.’
Yawn.
But by far the worse collateral damage wreaked by this creepy fetish – those who can apparently only get off by talking in public about getting off – is on sex for everyone else. Each time some tight-strung curtain-twitcher with a 600 word Op Ed space to fill resorts to yet another sex riff – The Guardian especially is awash in Carry On clickbait dressed up as posh chin-stroking – I am filled with an irresistibly animalistic instinct to don several extra layers of clothing and do a cryptic crossword.
Please oh please mummy and daddy can you talk to us (and everyone else in the playground) about what you like to do in the bedroom again? Said no sexually satisfied and well-adjusted person who ever had parents, ever.
I guess Pink News should blush with shame. I haven’t seen a good gay oriented news magazine since Gay Sunshine in the seventies or Christopher St. The rest print predictable woke garbage.
Quelle surprise
It is not in the slightest bit surprising that so many of the Be Kind brigade turn out to unmitigated tossers.
One of the iron rules of life is that the more any movement or institution demands special status which exempts them from scrutiny, the more they are trying to hide.
The public persona is the least reliable guide to their real nature.
The author predictably tries to twist these issues together. But the real lesson here is that fringe organisations, and people with fringe sexual orientations, are just as capable of sexual harassment and bullying as anyone else. Perhaps even more so.
The truly shocking headline would be:
white, heterosexual men not necessarily bad people – survey finds.
Yuk!
A whole buncha reprehensible persons writing filth about each other. Who could have guessed?
In Roman and Greek times, the greatest insult that could be levied against another is that he allowed himself to be a bottom. Today, somehow, these people are elevated.
It’s not anyone in particular’s fault where the nerve endings in the human body are. Possibly a question for the gods?
The gods’ answer is unlikely to line up with one or another simplistic political dogma
How are the right on fallen, and the weapons of woke perished.
I know I am probably in a minority of one, but i still find expressions like “his husband” grating.
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‘His husband’ is of course one of the major reasons that we have ‘her p***s’. Never forget it.
How so? Please detail all the inexorable steps in between.
Well, the most obvious is that once the LGBT crowd got equal marriage there were no more battles to be fought so they invented one instead – equal rights for men to steal women’s rights. But there is also the point that equal marriage destroyed the definition of marriage which is between a man and a woman pretty much for the purposes of procreation which can only be achieved via a man and a woman – so, dependent on sex. Once you’ve insisted definitions can be changed and sex no longer matters why would you stop at sex itself? To the side there’s the fact feminists have fought for decades to declare there is no difference between men and women, they are equal in every way. If that were the case then what harm fluidity between the two in every way – why shouldn’t women be in ‘men’s spaces’ such as the military, police, fire service, all sectors (that should be) dependent on physical strength. So they are. And public safety is diminished as a result. But when men decided the fluidity flows both ways and they wanted in to women’s spaces feminists suddenly remembered we’re not physically equal at all. Still they want it all ways just as lesbians are horrified by surrogacy for gay men but very happy to use men’s sperm as a commodity and bring up kids without fathers.
Saved me a lot of words, Jo.
Added to that, the link between LGB and T goes all the way back to the Weimar Republic and the German gay sex researcher Magnus Hirschfeld. There’s always been a small minority of effeminate gay men with gender disphoria who ‘transed the gay away’ within the LGB community. This was largely ignored, but once fused with gender ideology, it opened the door to both heterosexual males with autogynephilia, and became a social contagion among teenage girls (many on the autism spectrum) – both of which made the ladies pay attention, as their spaces were invaded and young girls were mutilated.
Even though the LGB and T are in many ways at odds, they stood together while Stonewall (representing both) spread LGBT propaganda through the public institutions and private companies while the rest of society kept quiet due to fear of reprisals (‘bake the cake or else, bigot!’). Now they’re fighting because the Ts and the Qs have gone ‘too far’, and the normies have started to notice.
In short, there is no T without the LGB, no matter what they say.
Heterosexual men have been dressing themselves as women for sexual purposes long before the gay rights and feminist movements lifted their heads above to parapet.
Indeed. My point is that this phenomenon in the modern West did not start with those people. It’s only thanks to feminism and gay rights that we got here.
Feminists did not fight to “declare there is no difference between men and women”.
Feminists were well aware of the differences which is why they fought for such things as domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centres to to protect vulnerable women from predation.
They actually fought for women to be treated as equal human beings which is not the same thing as your claim.
A man cannot have a husband.
Julie Bindel is only on the side of the sane on this one issue because it has directly affected her negatively. I’m glad she has chosen to speak out and applaud her for her courage in being one of the first to do so when it was still a deeply unpopular position to hold. She remains however, a truly bitter misandrist who could hardly write an article about the weather without blaming men for the rain.