She has no real power, that’s the irony..
She has an illusion of power..

I would strongly recommend never reading anything that she writes and switching channel on the radio or television if she appears. Reacting to her is only giving her more power.

If one is to react, then complain to the editor of the publication she writes in or the station that lets her speak. The legal route may also be possible under equality law or incitement to hatred.

Wouldn’t Dermot Ahern be better dealing with this rather than blasphemy ? Of course, that might be too much of a constructive use of his very expensive time.

So what’s all the fuss about then?…

Well, the danger of hate speech disguised as journalistic opinion pieces is evident in the reaction of the gay community at large, yes we were offended, yes we are pissed off with Brenda Power, yes we think she is an idiot, because surely only an idiot could write such utter nonsense? hmmm.. maybe not

The point is, Brenda Power is far from an “idiot” , she is a very well educated and very well connected mouth piece who masquerades as an “idiot” because “idiots” can say what they like, “idiots” get away with more. Idiots can sow the seeds of hatred without being called on it, idiots are ultimately fools aren’t they?, they’re just silly aren’t they?…

Brenda Power is not an idiot, although that’s what she would like us to believe, her article was published because she intended to inflame, she intended to offend and she intended to hurt the entire LGBT community, she did so purposely, with thought out agenda and with premeditation , that’s the real danger here..

Don’t be fooled by her persona…

“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Interestingly, the work in Newcastle on the Man made Sperm from stem cells might just open up the possibility of female only reproduction. I’m sure Dermo is awake at nights at the mere thought of it.

Simon, given that Andrew Sullivan is a US based contributor to the News International stable, I’m not sure he and Brenda get the chance to catch up much over the coffee machine. And I’d surprised if Rupert the unBear is even aware of who Brenda Power is nor does he care. What he wants to know if does she shift copy? If Yes, then fair dinkum!

More generally, the cries of bigotry, hate speech and so on that have gone up across the net because someone, “with a column!” doesn’t necessary agree with other people’s view of what equality is or means strikes me as pure overreach and seems to me at least more like either mock outrage or the outrage of people with not much experience of being properly outraged. If this is the sort of thing you get outraged by, you should stay well away from the news sections of the daily papers.

Does Brenda really want to deny her gay Times colleagues the same access to marriage as herself? If so then not only is she an appalling journalist but also a really nasty colleague to have?

Does Rupert Murdoch know?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article2283227.ece

My concern is that bigotry like hers is not as uncommon as people think – it’s one of those wordless, unspoken, “understood” attitudes among a silent majority of Irish people who will turn out in droves to vote down any change to the constitution.

Having been in a non-conventional, heterosexual relationship I know how vicious my people can be. The New Irish is every bit as vicious as the Old Irish and now with the recession, the shiny cover is beginning to come off a bit. Along with the gloves.