Who says Britain no longer produces quality telly? Mr S this weekend thoroughly enjoyed the sight of Nish Kumar – a man who identifies as a comedian – being put firmly in his place by TV presenter Lowri Turner on women’s rights. Invited on to Jeremy Vine’s Channel 5 show, Kumar waxed lyrical on the subject, declaring that:
I believe that the transgender community deserves our love and support. But there is a bizarre fixation with it in the British press. I don’t know what’s going on. It feels like everyone in the British media has like caught some sort of brainwaves about the subject. It is a community that people have a pathological obsession with. I just think: live and let live.
To which Turner responded by saying that:
Speaking as a woman obviously, when I see some of my rights under threat, I haven’t got a “brainworm,” I’m not “pathological,” I’m simply defending my rights.
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