Woke blokes

Janice Turner on the Clapham vigil:

Before the police began their idiocy, when the Clapham vigil was just hundreds of sad women standing quietly or laying flowers, there was the bongo man. Up on the bandstand he drummed on and on, like a migraine. Whenever a woman stood to speak, he’d bang along, interpreting her words through the medium of bongo.

It was maddening. Just for once, I thought, can’t men stand back and read the room. A woman is dead, other women feel her fate deep in their bones. They have come here in grief and solidarity. Let women set the tone.

But no, a moment later a man took to the stage to address the crowd, a posturing, preening anti-lockdown type. When women told him to shut up, that this wasn’t his place, he mocked their distress. Another guy displayed a Free Julian Assange poster. Yes, just the name to invoke at a rally like this.

Woke blokes, unable to resist a political land-grab, making everything about them. Since forever. Put down your bongos, dudes.

I'm surprised she doesn't mention Sisters Uncut, the group who, more than any other, hijacked the whole thing. They're very much part of the trans activist movement. Read about them at the Glinner Update.