Feminist activist ‘caught out’ live on air

Sky News host Chris Kenny says prominent feminist activist Naomi Wolf if a ‘leftist hero caught out’ live on air.

[@wendytravis6427]

This is what happens when you research with an agenda in mind rather than genuine curiosity and truth seeking.

[@GenericWhiteBitch1980]

Word!

[@willdwyer6782]

The same holds true for religion. Honest research starts with no preconceptions whatsoever.

[@yamahantx7005]

This is why I don't talk to reporters. I did once as a child, and then when I saw the print it was obvious. She left her house not to write a story, but because she already wrote the story and needed some quotes. I was 10. It was at an airshow. If something as innocuous as an airshow can be perverted, anything can. The fact that she would misquote a child made me realize that most reporters have 0 integrity. Feminists are no different.

[@IvanIvanov-vy7pt]

@@yamahantx7005 They are worse, because of their feminist Agenda.

[@negativeindustrial]

cooper copper It’s a misconception that most conservatives deny climate change. I’m hoping it’s a misconception that most liberals are climate change alarmists. Edit: Nvm - I see the rest of your posts. You’re just trolling conservatives with viewpoints you think they will find objectionable. I have no time for your nonsense, but happy hunting. 😉

[@woodbinetitties]

Fair play to the radio interviewer doing his research. It's a breath of fresh air, compared to the lazy journalism we experience these days.

[@normanalvarez5751]

👍👍👍

[@fatarsemonkey]

Now it's the other way around, journalists talking bull shit on behalf of political swamp.

[@pizzaboy3946]

Pity they can't be as vigorous when they have guests who claim Islam is a religion of peace.

[@MiraSubieGirl]

He was probably sick of how America constantly bashes Britain historically. When Britain spent trillions in todays money to END SLAVERY WORLDWIDE. Actually militarised and policed the World to STOP this. Abe Lincoln freed them to gain support or he would lose the Civil War.... History is really interesting if you just take the time to go through and understand it properly.

[@dontgivamonkeyz]

@@MiraSubieGirl Spot on and only finished paying off the debt in 2015. At a time when no other country in the history of mankind even tried to abolish the international slave trade, yet Britain just gets the blame for it and most think Britain started it.

[@phil7421]

She took it very well with humility. It was actually refreshing to be a civil correction from both sides without yelling

[@difidon]

I wish every discourse would go down like this. I believe her reaction was genuine, and she made an honest mistake. What is happening across the political spectrum is that people keep propagating lies regardless of the evidence presented. I applaud her for taking it the way she did.

[@robertm3561]

Yeah, that was really what was so extraordinary here, not that she got corrected!

[@korycassel5197]

She held a Facebook group call doubling down and claiming the REAL records must have been doctored to erase the evil Bigoted English genocide against gay people right after this for her financial supporters. The Tom Silver in question was not in prison for being gay either, he had brutally sodomized a six year old boy he raped. She absolutely doubled down and did not admit fault at all and is blissfully lying with made up rhetorical arguments about how bigoted and awful Western civilization is to this day. She's a loon and not to be believed about anything.

[@chriscurtain1816]

The trouble is, he wasn't correcting something she had just said - he was correcting what she had written in her book. A book which had already been printed, published and sold to many readers. She was probably a little more gob-smacked than she let on.

[@listrahtes]

She still published a truly dishonest book and didnt change her conclusion to save face and well make money. She obviously only did research with an enormous bias. So in the end she is just annother dishonest propagandist.

[@buckyoung4578]

Trust me. She will find a new lie to propagate. The Left never gives an inch in their untruths. When caught, they just shift to another lie.

[@Utubegofukurself]

As an American i appreciate her having listened to his side and not just talking over him and calling him a racist homophobe.

[@johncuddy2669]

Spot on there 👍. So easy nowadays to use those words am afraid ..

[@ericdraven4445]

👍🏼 how the US has darkened since this aired. It’s a pity that other countries see us Americans as loud privileged cry babies who are threatened by the words “men” and “mom”

[@kalicom2937]

Agreed. Her reaction was really good in my opinion. An "oh crikey, I made a mistake there" moment.

[@kalicom2937]

@Rabble Trout Bit like almost every scientific or religious book ever published, then.

[@kalicom2937]

@Rabble Trout I am not arguing with you, I am pointing out facts. Virtually every scientific book ever written has subsequently been proved to be wrong, to a greater or lesser extent. The old copies were not removed from circulation. Same for the Bible....

[@PassengersMusic777]

Can you imagine writing a book, ‘researching’, getting it edited, published, and doing the media rounds to have your book dismantled in under a minute?

[@blakebarone1809]

Yes... I can at least try to imagine. It would be extraordinarily painful and embarrassing. People make mistakes, sometimes rather large ones, but the author did redirect or deflect. Now you might say that she was so badly caught with her pants down that concession was the only rational way to behave, but at least she did concede. My biggest problem with the left is that they forever define their ideological opposition by their worst moments and mistakes. Let us not do the same to her.

[@bilsid]

much better than writing youtube comments though

[@LizardoiL]

@@bilsid Who are you competing with?

[@HoodrichShinobi]

@@blakebarone1809 most of these feminists shouldn't be writing books. They have a hard enough time having rational conversation. They should be instead spending more time trying to make their husbands happy. It would make the world a better place if they did that.

[@kerosun4598]

It also speaks to the idea that whatever she presented in her book was WANTED to be believed so much and was accepted based on that want, that no one in the chain of custody between her writing and its publishing validated the information. They accepted it because of the confirmation bias behind it. It confirmed an existing bias, so the information was less scrutinized. Reminds me of that group of guys that submitted fake scientific studies that passed peer review in known and respected scientific journals, suspecting that it was easier to pass the process because of the conclusions the fake paper alluded to.

[@mpell66]

That's a really good example of being presented with new (and potentially extremely disruptive) information in a live public interview and processing it quickly and calmly with an open mind. I find that really impressive. I think it is really important to share examples like this and great to see it being done here on KZbin.

[@machtnichtsseimann]

If it was "new" since she did "research" for her book. The information was probably there before she set out to write her book, and if that is the case, then giving her credit for being open-minded is a side note. How about a severe criticism for not being "open-minded" to do the work needed to write her book on said topic? At first I was positively impressed with her response, but now I'm skeptical it was genuine.

[@craigbanks9532]

Agreed@@machtnichtsseimann

[@Iz0pen]

There’s no AH Ha moment here. She clearly wants to represent the truth and immediately accepts correction almost thankfully. She’s quite good on a lot of subjects actually. It’s to bad legacy media companies don’t have one tenth of her honesty and integrity.

[@JDnFL]

@mememe Too bad more of the same people she represents don't have the same intellectual integrity as her.

[@korycassel5197]

She held a Facebook group call doubling down and claiming the REAL records must have been doctored to erase the evil Bigoted English genocide against gay people right after this for her financial supporters. The Tom Silver in question was not in prison for being gay either, he had brutally sodomized a six year old boy he raped. She absolutely doubled down and did not admit fault at all and is blissfully lying with made up rhetorical arguments about how bigoted and awful Western civilization is to this day. She's a loon and not to be believed about anything.

[@nickslick75]

Not really, Einstein. She's just shocked and embarrassed.

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

She got caught and she knew it 😂

[@deborahgale]

Shame she cant research any better than a 5th grader though and gets to advise presidents as well

[@johngy6296]

Simple, just move her book to the fiction category, where most feminist books should be.

[@dab9122]

most? Don't you mean ALL? 👌👈

[@soulspeaker1979]

Better yet use them as door stoppers or as fuel for all-fuels heaters. Perhaps turn them in to confetti so to bring joy in the world

[@offgridjohn871]

👍😂

[@donnar5349]

Send them to Venezuela, they’re out of toilet paper so the books will be of some use🤣

[@soulspeaker1979]

@@donnar5349 well to be fair the books are already full of shit so how would that work?

[@hgone7221]

I’m surprised she didn’t call him out for mansplaining.

[@garycoulier]

I had a feminist say that is what I was doing once when talking to someone else and went on a short rant about how sexist I was for explaining something to a woman (who asked me to explain something to her by they way). I told the lady (the feminist) I was sorry and to make up for it, she could follow me out the door when I left and I would not hold the door open for her, in fact I would slam it in her face it that would help her feel more equal to me, her obvious superior since I was a man. To this day, I am convinced the lady I was talking to (not the feminist) peed herself from laughing so hard after I said that.

[@jb-yi4di]

Should have told her she was "womnagging"

[@dailydoser1309]

I was waiting for that🙄

[@childinchrist7335]

@@garycoulier lol

[@mrcaji4401]

It would seem womansplaining has been round since rational man first understood that female, irrational verbose narcissism does not invite correction, deviation, or mitigation.

[@hughm1383]

Fair enough for her to think "Death recorded" means that the prisoner died. The Old Bailey should have been less ambiguous in recording such details.

[@reddiver7293]

"That's really an important thing to investigate." Brilliant. And should be done before you print things in a book!

[@deborahgale]

IKR That phrase just killed me...and she had the book there which had a glossary in it...i seriously hurt from laughing so much.

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

I'll give her credit for not continuing to dig herself deeper into the hole she created. A rare trait these days.

[@bigislander72]

Yes. She didn't sound defensive and seemed quite open to the possibility that she might have been mistaken.

[@jewellerylove]

I thought the same

[@macman975]

What was her other option ffs?!.

[@gamerjay6624]

She could have done a trumpian sidestep and screamed fake!!!!!!!

[@tomgorden9918]

@@macman975 Could have taken the political approach and tell the man he’s wrong and homophobic. Hat off to her for listening at least

[@MidlifeCredo]

“Well…that’s a really important thing…to investigate…” perhaps BEFORE writing the book?

[@awomanofacertainage1993]

any editors?

[@tafadzwachivige3427]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@FirebrandVOCALS]

Exactly

[@garycoulier]

Problem is, it's basically impossible to write a book supporting modern leftist ideals if they bother with facts.

[@MidlifeCredo]

garycoulier truth.

[@deucedecker4903]

The fact that an activist published such poorly researched material on such an incredibly consequential topic shows that they don't care about truth as long as it serves their purpose.

[@amberspaulding]

The unusual part is how she accepted it on the spot. It must have astounded her-- she's been writing serious non-fiction books for decades without this problem, as far as I know. If you think the topic is incredibly consequential, aren't you relieved she didn't muddy the waters further? If you do think so, aren't you glad she's brought the subject to the fore-- even if she has made this mistake?

[@xminusone1]

@@amberspauldingShe's intelligent enough to understand that will she had done that, that would be worse. It would have proven that she's not there to info but to pushes some narrative. Just like in justice, you have the choice to be silent then to prove yourself guilty. (English is not my language)

[@yourbiggestfan395]

I think she does care, but wasn't looking into things. You shouldn't assume that someone is doing something out of ill-intent. She was wrong. She accepted it, said sorry, and thanked the interviewer. That's a very important thing to do. The book itself may not be correct, but it was born from something this woman cared a lot about even if she wasn't smart when it comes to legal terminology. We live in a world already where everyone assumes the worst. I feel like you're adding to that unwittingly. Think better of people. I'm sorry if you are having a hard time.

[@bricaaron3978]

@@amberspaulding *"she's been writing serious non-fiction books for decades without this problem, as far as I know"* In that case, you have never studied so-called "feminism"**. The ideology of "Feminism" itself is fiction. And yes -- of course I can demonstrate how the fundamental precepts of "feminism" are flat-out illegimate. The question is whether or not you are interested in seeking truth. ** "Feminism" is actually _anti-feminism._

[@bricaaron3978]

@@yourbiggestfan395 *"I think she does care"* It's impossible to be a "feminist" and also care about truth. The two are diametrically opposed. The entirety of "feminism" is based upon false assumptions and outright lies. If you wish, you can offer any point of "feminist" doctrine, and I will explain why it is illegitimate.

[@anononetwofour7794]

"Well, that's a really important thing to investigate." So you didn't investigate before making a FALSE claim?

[@user-dn5ud1cr3b]

Which of the two genders is she?

[@mrstacyj9496]

“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” ― Mark Twain

[@brianhard1841]

Is there a vaccine that counters Foxitis? This KZbin channel is just another Fox in disguise.

[@ghostdance56]

@@brianhard1841 - Fox nor Sky news wrote this silly error-laden book son, try to stay focused. Sound more like you're seeking a vaccine to prevent truth from entering your brain.

[@richardwicks4190]

@@brianhard1841 She _was_ incorrect. Although I agree with Wolfe on many things, I think she's actually quite honest, and she's just made a fundamental error in her research, and honestly, I don't blame her for this particular error. She, in fact, admitted her error and moved on. That's exceedingly rare today among supposed "intellectuals". Laurie Penny would never admit error, which is why she's so worthless to pay any attention to. Most Western "journalists" are the same.

[@itisjustacomment]

@@richardwicks4190 an error she based a large argument on. She didn't recall the said book or tell others of her failure. The book was sold as fact and many believe it as so. She just " moved on" by not doing anything about it .

[@beatricealbert2957]

@Richard Wicks @ghostdancer What if , Mr Brian Hard has a point Ms.Wolf may not have sounded politically correct because her book was based on her life experience with having to deal with sex , politics and censorship where her voice was unheard. The question is, Is Sky picking sides with any political organizations within the main stream media/journalism domain ? How is Sky helping public/society by arguing on a book cherry picking Ms. Wolf's and the error's from book when there is so much social problems that need to be addressed ? In my observation Sky has shut down comment section in few politically sensitive telecast preventing public from sharing opinion, learning and exchanging the other side of the story which apparently happens to be the TRUTH.

[@Ojthemighty]

She wrote a whole book on it, and its all a bunch of crap oh how embarrassing

[@michaelwoodall9022]

"That's important to investigate." Shouldn't she have ALREADY done it?!

[@MrTodd2000]

and she doesn't say anything about the how women are treated to Afghanistan

[@violentshemp7776]

because "the enemy of my enemy, is my friend. right up until they chop off my head"

[@MrTodd2000]

@@violentshemp7776 true Brother Shemp !

[@smirkingdevil]

The voice in the back of my head tells me this was not her first big mistake.

[@leximusmaximus4593]

That black cocktail dress she has hidden in her wardrobe was another.

[@omalone1169]

@@leximusmaximus4593 she also featured in Ears Wide Shut

[@revacohen]

It wasn't. Several years ago she made the claim that 150,000 women in America die of anorexia nervosa. It turned out the actual death toll was a very modest 100. She likes to make women seem like bigger victims than we really are.

[@pawefromep8740]

@steve hazard You know that big toothy smile that Pilosi, Omar and AOC make when ever they interview on the Media, That's also when you know leftist's are lying, it's just condescending and Insulting. Its leftist why of saying shut up you bunch of Idiot's we are smarter, we know better, now listen to us and shut-up.

[@kdaylight8304]

8,776,5#

[@count7340]

When you're so far left, everything is on the right.

[@mfp4136]

Colin Terry - when you so far left your head has actually disappeared up your own arse.

[@l.ronhubbard5445]

Been saying this! They have drifted so far left that everything appears to be far right to them. A far left acquaintance recently told me that the voting populace has drifted too far to the right. Not only are these people delusional, they could also use a lesson on relativity

[@DavidSmith-op8ix]

Correct.

[@count7340]

@@mfp4136 *when you're

[@mfp4136]

Colin Terry - really??? If you’re writing something of substance, but this is KZbin and I was making a flippant comment to a flippant comment.

[@cherylwilliams4793]

Anyone can make a mistake. It's refreshing to see someone who's open to correction and learning. You can trust someone like that.

[@spaceprepper3657]

NO MISTAKE. All for the love of money😢 evil is as evil does.

[@bagpussisevil2877]

She wrote a book. That’s not a mistake, it’s negligent.

[@pieterwilke6633]

Sorry..it is not a "mistake". It is a blatant lie, slandering a society😮😮

[@hughm1383]

@@bagpussisevil2877 it wasn't her mistake; the court made a mistake by writing "death recorded" when there was no death.

[@fredericnoyes607]

She became much less trustworthy after this incident.

[@cooky4176]

She took that like a boss to be fair

[@awakenlilrabbit]

Did he just Mansplain !!!! Triggered . Hate crime

[@thewomble1509]

Yeah, good for him!!!!

[@sincerely-b]

😂😂😂

[@brianbell504]

You forgot... RACIST!!!!

[@mbm8404]

It’s now illegal in the UK to correct a feminist.

[@Gamingclutch1993]

You forgot to yell RAPE !!!!!

[@ultimecia102]

Her response was really honest. She must have felt embarrassed but she wasn't defensive or rude about it at all.

[@followthewhiterabbit1089]

She was just lost for words, all her work and research...All of it useless, the whole book just got dumped to the floor, and is complete useless... and a dude ruined her whole work in a few mins..

[@yammoyammamoto8323]

@@followthewhiterabbit1089 No wonder women don't like to be mansplained about facts and reality. :D

[@kylehahn4410]

Yeah, tbh the term "death recorded" is definitely prone to misunderstandings in that context, so I understand where she was coming from. It doesn't really say anything about her or her values, more so just... y'know, negligence in research on numerous fronts from herself to her editor to her publisher. At least she didn't try to deny it or anything, was just kind of a "oh, I see where I fucked up" moment.

[@np1139]

I give it to her though

[@mrrhombus716]

@@kylehahn4410 if you're going to misunderstand something so badly better not to write a book about it.

[@jaelge]

DEATH RECORDED: In nineteenth-century British law many crimes were punishable by death, but from 1823, the term "death recorded" was used in cases where the judge wished to record a sentence of death - as legally required - while at the same time indicating his intention to pardon the convict or commute the sentence.

[@lolhamhams]

this is how people need to act. i have so much respect for that person for taking the L with grace and professionalism.

[@TF80s]

Straight after he read out the definition of "death recorded" she asked him what death recorded meant...that says it all really.

[@stuartd9741]

She asked him what he meant death recorded meant. As in his opinion? Interpretation ? Genuine mistake or deliberate by the author?

[@DragonAurora]

@@stuartd9741 Why ask someone's opinion on something when he just read you the *fact* regarding such?

[@Greyfoxdbz18]

@@DragonAurora She was obviously stalling for time. This guy just undermined her entire "research" in a single term. The adrenaline spike was probably huge. This is a career ending screw-up. Imagine all the feminist intellectuals quoting that book when none of the deaths even happened. embarrassing

[@billsimms2511]

Yeah she’s not exactly a competent researcher if she didn’t know what that term meant 😂😂😂

[@pir8prod]

She based an entire book on a premise that should have been debunked with 2 minutes of Google research.

[@jotunheim5302]

Almost like she used the current political climate for her own financial gain.

[@craigs71]

@Heywood Jablowme Not really, more like typical man hating feminist.

[@harambae117]

She's gonna get called "incredibly brave" for owning up to her actions and people are gonna forget why her book was written in the first place and buy it anyways

[@harambae117]

@@tropicalheat1000 Yea, cunts didn't change too much, they just found a cucked population and are too stupid to notice that it'll hurt them in the long run

[@griz063]

Harsh, but standard. Most Feminist constructs (the Patriarchy, the gender wage-gap, the pink tax, the glass ceiling, the rape culture) are specious constructs at best. This has backfired in the worst possible way on women in general, feeding the myth that women are far too emotionally unstable to do reliable research, produce/interpret data, author reliable books, serve in leadership positions.

[@paulholmes2750]

She is now an activist regarding vaccine’s and his a regular guest on Steve Bannon’s WarRoom! I thought see speaks a lot of sense !

[@delawareteacher1182]

Great video, great research, congratulations on being a perfect gentleman and stopping her misunderstanding.

[@bigboy9693]

She does not have an argument.Just more BS involving her feelings.

[@grayshus6706]

She makes no mention of her feelings at all. She accepts the correction in a calm and mature way.

[@bigboy9693]

@@grayshus6706 She wrote the book using her feelings without researching what actually happened as she thought she was on a winner, the person who interviewed her found the information easily, so she did not research what she wrote about but relied only on her feelings.

[@mattthecat03]

@@bigboy9693 thanks for explaining to gray here-most enjoyable,lol

[@Krust29]

A.k.a. leftists.

[@Dleefrlula]

She says “that’s a really important thing to investigate”.....she should have investigated before she published her book!

[@simplythebest286]

hahahahahaha exactly !!!!

[@omalone1169]

@@simplythebest286 Patrice O Neil would have slaughtered here

[@isimelilatabua4199]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Da-Butchar]

No before she wrote it

[@insertnamehere5146]

could not agree more. The question is would you still buy this book now if you had previously decided to?

[@collinreesejones5525]

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS! Calling out a lying skank is always enjoyed by many!!

[@senthilmn1938]

I like her as she didn't say any excuse and accepted the mistake as a true professional. Hats of to her work

[@deborahgale]

a professional would not have made that mistake, nor many novice researchers, The interviewer didn't.

[@BuiltToRace_com]

She found an outcome to match her narrative

[@AndrewFishman]

@@smoothoperator501 Except, the example used was a child who was jailed for buggery. how is that exposing light sentences for pedos?

[@AndrewFishman]

​@@smoothoperator501 No one said anything at all about BURGLARY, but BUGGERY, the dictionary definition for which is SODOMY, the dictionary definition of which is ANAL SEX. Mistakes happen. Could you please give a reference for the charge that Thomas Silver was convicted. i am searching but find little to no refrenrce to this. I meant that Thomas at 14 was still a child. I will admit I was unaware he had assaulted a 6 year old, and can still find no evidence of this. If you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

[@smoothoperator501]

Andrew Fishman You can find the longer version of the interview. In it they mention he was arrested for sodomising a child. I agree he too is a child but back then at 14 one was viewed as young man not a child. You've heard stories how they would work as young as 11 and by 14 some were already on ships far from home. Not all of course but child labour was a normal thing and not exploitation as we view it now. He was treated like adult but did get a lighter sentence based on age

[@AndrewFishman]

@@smoothoperator501 Thank you. i will try and find the long version as you suggest. Indeed, people were marrying at 12-15 back then, so he was considered a young man.

[@slomo1716]

She FABRICATED AN OUTCOME TO MATCH HER BS LIBERAL FEMINIST NARRATIVE.

[@dan74275]

She failed at twisting history. She's a bad feminist.

[@DanielBMS]

Is that like a personal attack or something?

[@richmendelson8194]

@@DanielBMS Thank you vEEEEEEEH ree much

[@PeteJab]

The Computer Business You’re tearing me apart, Lisa.

[@DavidReynolds-kr6yh]

The Computer Business , they’re all bad.

[@IamHeathertheGreat]

I’ve yet debate one without them crying or stomping off. All they do is lecture and vilify men. I sleep SOUNDLY every night next to an ALPHA MALE. Get bent lady. Stop assuming all women are post modern feminist whackdoodles. Oh. And get a high hard one while your at it. This might relieve a bit so you can do actual research before you write a book.

[@Frank75288]

" What a mistake-a to make-a " *Cpt Alberto Bertorelli*

[@chazw3x]

"Death recorded" is something I learned about from watching British mysteries on TV, other than the year that it began. That, I did have to do some research but it took me all of 2 minutes while I was watching an episode of Death in Paradise or something. Beginning in 1823, the term "death recorded" was used when a judge wanted to issue a death sentence as legally required but his intention was to pardon or commute the sentence. If I was an activist or I was compiling some sort of research, I would have been intrigued by the term "death recorded" and the number of times that it's being used. That would have been cause for research on its own.

[@roberttbrockway]

It shows how shoddy Wolf's research was that a journo prepping for an interview could find the flaw in her thesis.

[@SimonASNG]

The intern who actually did all the work is totally going to get fired!

[@newrockerofficial294]

@@SimonASNG no they're not, this is exactly what they want. The books will be printed and the truth goes astray.

[@masterpiecetools131]

@Anna admirer Forever They are lay people. She isn't a historian, she has a respectable Doctorate of Philosophy in English literature from Oxford, and her thesis was basically this book.

[@haliaeetus8221]

The left strategy has always been in the doctrine of Culture of Critique (culture of attacking): Act as if knowledgeable and make poorly founded assertions, and most of all criticize anything that is in line with nature. If you get caught, deflect, forget (others, especially lefties will) and move on to the next assertion/attack. Just bombard and bombard because people don't investigate or even care. What "sounds good" and becomes popular is the only thing that matters.

[@tomgreene2282]

@Anna admirer Forever Many are a bit limited ....the liberal education!

[@Spect3r.]

This is what happens when first you reach conclusions and then start looking for evidence to support it.

[@ohlord3650]

This line is brilliant and applies to every single aspect of leftist ideology.

[@GinoNL]

Top-down barely every good

[@philipbrit13]

Same M O with unfounded charges against conservatives. Lie about the crime then make up crap to support it It’s the severity of the crime that demands it should be investigated. When is Willie Clampet or some other lefty - then the tack is - Er there is no evidence to support the charge - nothing to see here - let’s move on Then they found the blue dress with the “Harry Monk” on it

[@randyuhls4608]

That is what leftest do, just look at CNN from 2016 to 2018...and really beyond.

[@Walklikelions]

liberals work ass backwards. Russia collusion.

[@mjdedge3440]

Any idiot can write a book. I should know. I'm one of them. Although, to be fair...mine is a joke book. Which I suspect is now what hers is now LOL

[@jonnyb6700]

Amazed that she was actually interested in the information contradicting the entire premise of her book. Rare quality for any human being, let alone a feminist.

[@dr.corneliusq.cadbury6984]

“I think it’s quite a big problem with your argument” Ha understatement

[@JckSwan]

Kudos to the BBC guy for having a the balls to correct her. Given the current climate of appeasing these lunatics, I'd just assume he'd either not check at all or conceal the truth even if he did.

[@donnar5349]

Well considering the BBC are massive perpetrators of BS & propaganda, colour me flabbergasted.

[@phyjcb]

It shows that the BBC is really reporting the news, while Sky News only reports what suits its political views, and probably did not even know what 'death reported' meant any more than that feminist.

[@phyjcb]

@jason lewis Come on. The only "news" that Sky News is good at is presenting dowsers from Sweden as a climate scientists. And when it comes to real fraud, they have to rely on BBC.

[@phyjcb]

@jason lewis I know, the BBC is a socialist-communist-marxist-feminist-liberal conspiracy. That's also what Ben Shapiro believed when he went to his interview, and that's why he ended up making a fool of himself. He should really thank you all for the very reliable information you provided him.

[@CharlesJScherer]

Aside from the interview, imagine being a feminist and an advisor to Bill Clinton.

[@MrHollyoake]

She must live up to her name Wolf [prey on the vulnerable]

[@corin164]

So much for doing proper research, before making "definitive" conclusions. Are we sure she is not also a journalist for The Guardian?

[@Nicolas-zb9uw]

Actualy , she is top adviser for BBC !!

[@corin164]

@@Nicolas-zb9uw - The figures!

[@fkerpants]

@Ru22eLL Are you fking kidding me? This book was part of her dissertation?

[@jodyday2072]

It’s the “guilty before proven innocent” mantra the left has been using. It must be this way before it can “fit their narrative”.

[@fenderjazz6213]

@Craven MooreheadSeems quite appropriate Craven...seeing how PHD stands for " piled high and deep "..

[@musashidanmcgrath]

'Ah, this is something that needs investigating....' AFTER she's written an entire book on the subject. Pure, unadulterated feminazism at its finest.

[@zgobermn6895]

Makes u wonder what kind of 'research' they do prior to publishing the book!

[@DudeRevolution]

she wrote a chapter on it, not a book.

[@Ye_Olde_Duke_of_Edinburgh]

If that chapter had such shoddy research then it raises questions about the rest of the book.

[@DudeRevolution]

@@Ye_Olde_Duke_of_Edinburgh Name me the philosopher/professor/thesis author that wrote the perfect book on a developing subject? It's not a bible or a law she's writing, it's essentially a thesis that's open to criticism. As far as I can tell she takes it with an open mind.

[@Tezwah]

@@DudeRevolution to be fair though It does show an incredible oversight and lack of competent research. It's also probably worth noting she doesn't have much option but to take it in good grace, she is factually wrong and there is no argument against it, she has no other choice but to accept it.

[@tomcranks]

A civil discourse without heated rhetoric is refreshing.

[@macharper8214]

So basically, her book was a bunch of junk because she misunderstood what she was "researching." She is a joke.

[@Tony-1971]

Must have really stung that it was a man who pointed out her ignorance.

[@blujay2084]

Yep, she's probably not a big "mansplaining" fan.

[@KS-bo7rm]

An actual scene from the series on Showtime....... Shameless. The character ( a womens study profesor) was called out about wrong facts in front of an auditorium of her colleagues.. Obviously I see now that this was the incident that was portrayed. Great show.

[@caroldaniels5505]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I would have paid to she her face 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m not a fan of feminist crap, they don’t represent me.,In this ermmmm mans world 🤔 I’ve always been able to hold my own. Majority of men I’ve found to be polite. As the saying goes a prick is a prick whatever gender or colour. It’s served me well !!!

[@pawefromep8740]

The best part of Election Night 2016 was when Hillary Clinton had to send out a Man, John Podesta to tell all her crying supporters to go home, and Trump winning over Clinton was good also )

[@joshisikhagmail]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA Great comment. Thanks for the laugh hahahaa

[@dharmapunk777]

This was far from brutal. This was the most polite conversation I've heard in eons.

[@joelwillems4081]

Except for him telling her that the entire premise of her book is based upon her misunderstanding the proper historical terms and context. It was pretty brutal to hear, "your whole excuse of a book is a fanciful tale that you imagined and then fought against."

[@David-gu8hv]

Thank you...

[@dharmapunk777]

@@joelwillems4081 She was obviously not phased by it though. If it was her life's work and she was crushed by the news maybe. But the point is that journalists need to calm down with all this hyperbolic language and clickbait. It's like people saying something like a sandwich was "awesome". Was it though? Were you awestruck? Was this interview in any way actually brutal? No, it fucking wasn't.

[@IvanOoze1990]

@@dharmapunk777 You must have never had a good sandwich before.

[@GobiLux]

Oh no, that was brutal! As far as I can tell, he showed her that the whole premise of her book has been a false interpretation of what happened in those court cases. Meaning her whole book is worth nothing. (Unless you don't care about reality and only about a certain ideology, of course)

[@johnnynbk]

Never assume, check your own facts.

[@leejohnstone894]

Death recorded is a very strange way of describing someone who has been pardoned

[@glenemma1]

When the facts were pointed out she said,'' well, that is something we need to research''. Yes, indeed. Why didn't she research it before putting it in a book?

[@corin164]

What do you mean, "we"? I thought she wrote the book or did she just allow her name to be on the cover? In any event it appears that the interviewer has actually done the research.

[@glenemma1]

@@corin164 Yes, the interviewer has done the research. She hasn't , yet wrote a book based on a false premise.

[@Agent-vj3ns]

She still got a million dollars and tens of thousands of women believed it full stop, now teaching their children the _awfulness_ of men

[@jz2981]

They will reap what they sew! I hope they enjoy the fruits of their labours, living out their lives in loneliness, surrounded by cats.

[@thought-provokingvideos5464]

of STRAIGHT men, CONSERVATIVE men, and women.

[@ugocarlos6995]

Briliant way of advertising her books. While listening to this, her books and face are blasted on screen. AMAZING

[@sand331]

There's more to this story. A second version of the book was published. However, Wolf still kept in the story of Thomas Silver as a victim, even if he wasn't executed. In fact 14-year-old Thomas Silver was charged with sexual assault of a six-year-old, and should not be considered a victim. He served two-and-a-half years in prison.

[@philosopherartist2095]

Her: "well that's a really important thing to research..." ... yeah, like, maybe BEFORE YOU WROTE THE DAMN BOOK YA THINK!

[@1533ramsay]

You would think!🤔 OMG, the book needs to be burned...

[@philosopherartist2095]

@Dan Freimark I'll give you that one haha

[@Sassyglbeauty]

philosopher artist well, I have to admit, I would think “death recorded” would indicate an actual death had taken place. What an odd description for a legal term that doesn’t mean death. Lol. U know?

[@griz063]

Wolf basically concedes that she either didn't do the proper research before spinning out a book, or did and the proper research and concealed it. This greatly sabotages women in general and as a broad group no matter which way the dominoes fall. She was either too blinded by emotional ideology to do the proper research, or too blinded by emotional ideology to report on it properly. This is how one ingenuous player operating more on feelings than facts, who fancies themselves some sort of "thought-leader", can set back 3.85 billion women.

[@alanaadams7440]

Lol

[@Mynamesalexa]

Being a leftist means never having to say you're sorry.

[@twinjetal4968]

@Michael Parissi Except this time?

[@nhillopy4493]

Sorry is the hardest word to say for lefties

[@nhillopy4493]

Hahaha, lol. Liar liar pants on feminist

[@jheelan4432]

How is that uniquely a left thing, aren't people on the right always saying that you shouldn't apologize for "offense" caused? Obviously we're generalising here

[@Mynamesalexa]

@@jheelan4432 Because the left is consistently on the wrong side of history and see no need to apologize. Illhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, AOC, Maxine Waters et al.. These are bad people writing bad laws that never have an adverse effect on them personally.

[@Imperialofficer07]

I mean that’s a rarity….for someone to act civil when proven wrong about something….usually people just scream at each….one point back to my faith in humanity

[@laddie-1479]

What bloody choice did she have!

[@Imperialofficer07]

@@laddie-1479 She could have went the route most do and yell how she’s a victim…..

[@laddie-1479]

I’m very sorry but I have no sympathy in someone going to print with claims that are wrong, the false claims were not exactly in good spirit, they met an agenda and she wants to make money. I really don’t see how she can take credit for not disputing the claims that were proven to be wrong, maybe I’m just not forgiving enough but when people are in the position to influence I prefer the claims they make to be true

[@Imperialofficer07]

@@laddie-1479 Yes, while I agree fact checking is great.....and important.....the thing is I found it more interesting that in this day and age.....someone is actually listening and understands when they got it wrong....and is willing to go back on said statements.....it's a good thing to keep an open mind.....

[@laddie-1479]

She wanted to publish a book, she had a moral obligation to get things right and ought to have carried out all due diligence. I agree with your sentiments, I just don’t agree she should be given credit, it would be entirely different if she herself discovered the error and set about putting the record straight….or do we think she may have just stayed quiet, we’ll never know as it was left to someone else to think that doesn’t sound right, I’m going to do some hard work and look into this. We could go round in circles, no one can take away the credit you want to give her.

[@peterwilliams1119]

She is about as credible as a gender pay gap... Absolutely humiliating.

[@Tom-uv7ry]

Message

[@peterwilliams1119]

@littlesmew I don't do Battle of the Wits with an unarmed man. Go back into your little hole and revise your Primary School English comprehension.

[@peterwilliams1119]

@littlesmew no I just despair that there are people on this earth as stupid as you. A snowflake is a young left winger. I am old and conservative. You couldn't be more wrong. And you don't understand what virtue signalling is either.

[@dartanion0075]

@littlesmew you are the snowflake you piss ant.

[@epicmage82]

@littlesmew Lol. If that is the best you can di it might be time to actually learn something, not just regurgitate what has been shoved down your throat all your life.

[@zerg9523]

She got nailed, and not in the way she needed.

[@andrewreeves1250]

Zerg hhahahahha

[@earthwormsim8068]

At least she took the correction honourably. Accepted that she was wrong

[@matrixmirage2148]

Pfft. If I saw her coming on the sidewalk, I'd turn around and run

[@meadster308]

No glowing smile after that nailing, eh, Naomi.

[@frankgiuliano380]

Just write a left wing book and liberals will read it, and say its true, never questioning another liberal. all bull.. Lets go Brandon.

[@scatton61]

An American not understanding UK law .... Imagine my shock

[@qazyman]

Liberal Narrative = Everyone but me is wrong.

[@chesterlestrange7725]

Average human narrative lol

[@LadyBeritanavatarius]

But that seems to be the position of the Right in regards to Liberals.... can't people keep things in perspective? It's not this side right other side wrong for everything all the time... both sides act like it is, like they are golden and the other side evil.... such absolutes are dangerous.

[@burytheberry4102]

@Trent Michael "avatar"

[@CaptZdq1]

That's no a liberal narrative, it's a leftist narrative.

[@CaptZdq1]

@@LadyBeritanavatarius''the position of the right in regards to liberals...'' many rightists r liberals themselves n many leftists r illiberal.

[@herbertbrown119]

So now the book will be reissued with a new title”NEVERMIND”

[@RichardAStonemasonNOTfreemason]

i'm wondering if the cost of her old 'Book of Misinformation' is refundable.

[@eagledetection4451]

Or "Well, See... What Had Happened .."

[@SW-fn7cl]

😂

[@herbertbrown119]

This book was a great mistake foe many wolf but her body of work does not indicate she’s a flaming feminist. Check out “ The end of America”

[@herbertbrown119]

Damn spell check not “ foe many” “ for ms.

[@TheOmegaRiddler]

I can respect the fact that she was willing to listen, learn and make an effort to make sure the facts are correct in her book

[@POPPYTHERED]

She’s just being educated 👏🏻

[@BudSchnelker]

This is outright mansplaining! She should write her next book about the guy who used facts against her.

[@Heavywall70]

I’ll take “Ridiculous accusations” for $1000 Mr. Trebek Mansplaining. Buzz! What is required to correct “Womanterpretation”? Correct!

[@patriciawalters6778]

Soooooo, stating a fact to someone who is factually mistaken is sexist, right? But only if the mistaken person is female and the correct person is male. If it's two males or two females it's ok then? Oh, good! Then its not a double standard at all!

[@BudSchnelker]

Congratulations, you're now eligible for a Ph.D. in Women's Studies!

[@patriciawalters6778]

@@BudSchnelker oh, good! Cuz that was my thesis! 😂

[@ShepardOfficial]

Y'all it was a joke. They were being sarcastic you dolts

[@pauljackson2409]

In the 1990 book which started her 'career' 'The Beauty Myth', Wolf claimed that 150,000 women per year died of anorexia in the US. The actual number is more like 500. So here we are almost 30 years later and she's as sloppy, deceitful and unprofessional as ever. It seems to me that she is more concerned about pushing her ideological narrative than getting her facts right.

[@brians1902]

At least she accepts the new information.

[@MrTL3wis]

That has got to be the nicest, most devastating interview of all times.

[@SolidSativa1]

How about doing the research before you write the book ?

[@gappuma7883]

SolidSativa you think she got the brains for that?

[@thefirststrike]

Yeah there's a thought huh?

[@YouTubecanfuckagoat]

SolidSativa That would require honesty, integrity & an interest in the truth. These are not terms that seem familiar to the author. She seems unaware of any need for a shred of journalistic integrity or a code of ethics.

[@randomuser6306]

Conservatives believe what they see, leftists see what they believe.

[@Visual_Writer]

If she would do that she would stop being a feminist.

[@bravepart]

Gives definition of Death Recorded* "Yeah but what do you think it means?" "I've literally just finished reading you the definition" A former advisor to a USA President. Classy.

[@vkirisome4701]

Yon Sire Liege 😂😂😂and you wonder why America has a dodo of a President

[@semyaza555]

LMFAO. I thought I was the only one who caught that.

[@skrillaforilla9665]

@@vkirisome4701 .You're showing your ignorance! She was an advisor to DEMOCRATS. . MORON

[@vkirisome4701]

Skrilla Forilla don’t get your nickers in a twist all the same

[@vkirisome4701]

glyn hodges As a matter of fact I love Clinton BUT the dodo was not smart enough to cover his tracks “ I did not have sexual relations with that woman”😂😂

[@MrVorpalsword]

I think she took the correction very well indeed.

[@MrG9002]

Have to give her a reasonable amount of credit for taking it in and giving it some thought

[@xpusostomos]

I'd rather trust a Muslim rooftop LGBT meet up group than a feminist.

[@averagebodybuilder]

I would trust neither.

[@thatguy5837]

Oh shit lmfao

[@rich-f-in-tx6388]

😂

[@dbay9408]

Damn 😂😂

[@moenlighted7681]

There is no alphabet muslim

[@kroon275]

That literally has to be the most satisfying example of mansplaining since some bitter feminist invented the word 😂

[@manuelgchapajr2000]

Now that you can’t use gender language what now replaces MANSPLAINING?

[@micfail2]

@@manuelgchapajr2000 lol great point

[@gillianorley]

Manuel G Chapa Jr Transplaining?

[@davidkane1658]

Lolol....Brilliant

[@noeloteyza3259]

Heywood Jablowme hey, lets not generalize pls im not a feminist who needs mansplaining! Thanks

[@aivarasz]

Even if some of those executions were not carried out, how does it mitigate the fact that people had been ( and still are in many places) persecuted, sentenced, terrorized and threatened with death for just being themselves? The argument is not diminished at all.

[@jonwarren8757]

What a great conversation between the two. One suggesting that the other may have got it wrong and the other receiving the information openly without defensiveness. Excellent work by both of them. It was much less gotcha than instructive.

[@jonwarren8757]

So “death recorded” in court records actually meant “death didn’t take place”

[@danharmon8763]

Two things. 1. I think she knew the facts all along. Which would explain her calm reaction and 2. She had no idea that someone else what ever take the time to research it and then throw it in her face like that. Good stuff all the way around!

[@mulberryman1305]

yup, she was offended that he actually did research before the interview (you can tell by the subtle shift in her tone) she was probably expecting to just come on promote the book, plug her feminist agenda, and leave

[@GinoNL]

Nah. If she knew about the false statements then she would’ve preparer a better excuse. She also sounds quite bamboozled, not expecting this.

[@richardbuttrose5268]

You're absolutely correct; she was so calm she just had to know the truth.

[@232nightowl]

But the biggest question is did she pull the publication of her book

[@danharmon8763]

@@232nightowl If it was Published by a professional Publication company then the answer is, no she didn't, because at this point it wouldn't be her call. Especially if she had to give back all of her salary to stop any further release of the book.

[@thatswhatshesaid.literally737]

😂 *That's what happens when one only reads up to the sentence that supports their own viewpoint and stops there.*

[@brodiekeown4494]

why stop there? a true leftist will simply make up their own supporting evidence when reason and facts fail to provide.

[@brodiekeown4494]

@Jonah Mann yeah...no evidence....none at all...... behavioralscientist.org/what-the-origins-of-the-1-in-5-statistic-teaches-us-about-sexual-assault-policy/ www.realsexism.com/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jussie_Smollett_alleged_assault www.fakehatecrimes.org/ editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/too-little-too-late-washington-post-admits-it-screwed-up-big-in-the-covington-catholic-story you want more?.....there is a lot....

[@matte6352]

Brodie Keown HAHAHAHA. Think dude needs some Aloe.

[@jaywarrenclark6263]

She Who Knows All: Well I’ve no argument with you here. People do not know themselves. Well, they never heard the words “self knowledge” in school so there is a kind of weak defense of their ignorance. And yet .....Jesus, when I was 12, and 16, and 22, I knew I was definitely a goofball. So just where does all of their stupid self confidence come from, eh? And then they add a vulgar name-calling to that! Goodness!

[@dowskivisionmagicaloracle8593]

While her research is of typical feminist quality, or lacking thereof, seeing her handle it like a grown up suggests she'll be doing better from now on.

[@Mr.Rogers143]

I must say, I was pleasantly surprised to hear Ms. Wolf seemingly admit her misunderstanding of the data. Good on her! That was so much refreshing to hear than the fairly common back-and-forth arguing while also belittling one another. I admittedly have been guilty in the past of wanting to see those who believe differently than I do on moral subjects humiliated. I guess because it comes from this mindset of treating others how I've been treated: "If they're going to be ugly to me, then I'm going to be ugly to them," and, "I've been hurt by others, so I want others to hurt." Of course, this mindset only makes things worse. It just pushes them further and further away.

[@trjb1767]

Good for her to be so cool about it

[@karenwalkeden6030]

Ha ha ha your whole book is fake news.

[@MrGetwellsoon]

Karen Walkeden, the book is based on feelings over facts. Leftist logic, feminism, and progressivism are diseases to society.

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

Facts r constantly hurting everyone's feewings, censor those pesky facts into oblivion.

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

She says that it was something to look into. Maybe it was something to look into BEFORE publishing the book. Now the book is trash.

[@kasperknutsen8283]

@@mortimerbrewster3671 it was from the first word written down

[@MatteoMazzullo]

😂😂

[@chucknorris3rdnut]

Man wish this would have been a video interview instead of a call. The "oh shit" face would have been priceless.

[@victoriapruitt1209]

The funniest (or scariest) part is that this same Leftist since 2019 has already been cancelled by the Left herself & she is now warning everyone about how Fascistic the "Woke" Left is. All that in less than 2 years, what a reversal.

[@adamh905]

I made a joke about the Feminist Society now they have my address fortunately none of them can read a map!

[@David-gu8hv]

honestly it sounded like she was ok realizing she may have been mistaken and was immediately ready to concede if she determined that she was wrong, very admirable! You seem like you love to see your "enemy" in discomfort... 🤔

[@David-gu8hv]

@@adamh905 Them? So I assume they are all the same? 😕

[@David-gu8hv]

When someone opens the door to reconciliation lets invite them in...

[@michellewilliams2268]

Give the money to the Human rights committee ,

[@miguelazo68]

This is why it is important to not lie, she acts surprised but I am petty sure she knew.

[@topsnek9384]

See what happens when youre reasonable about being proven wrong? even the people who don't agree with you will still respect you, character over position

[@SteTrax]

So who respects this person? You're making your own straw poll up here. NOBODY respects this person. If the myriad of comments on here don't tell you this - there's really no hope for you.

[@ghillepig2]

@@SteTrax you really don't get what he's saying, obv no one here really respects her because she made herself look stupid after not doing enough research, but he's saying she has a respectable trait which is being reasonable after she was wrong

[@channelfogg6629]

'See what happens when youre reasonable about being proven wrong?' - See what happens when you don't do your own research and hire someone to do it for you?

[@timmayers4965]

@@SteTrax I respect her and agree with the comment you responded to. There’s plenty of others. Not NOBODY as you suggest. You made your own straw poll and it was wrong

[@theexdemocrat5475]

@@timmayers4965 So you respect liars. That is all I need to know about your pathetic character.

[@gianca60]

"Aaahhh..." That's the sound you make when you realize your failure.

[@TWalsh2]

It's more likely the sound you make when you know you've been caught lying and try to claim plausible deniability.

[@aldofromsf]

It's the sound you make after dropping a big turd. That's what she did.

[@LindaKing-nq6ut]

Ridiculous..these protesters need to be stopped ..ordinary people shouldn’t have to put up with this nonsense

[@thevegandragon4676]

Yeah, and at least she acknowledged the explanation and didn't argue the point. She showed honour, honesty and grace.

[@ollvebranch]

I love the polite way the English guy delivered the coup de grâce..😁 Even Wolf was thanking him. That’s SO British! 🇬🇧

[@zeroceiling]

Jon Jones ….Wolf handled it about as well as anyone could. Even he said he had difficulties with the wording and was unsure how to gain the understanding of how to categorize it. Her mistake was understandable….as she did all the work…but simply made an error of classification of the events…based on old grammar.

[@oldskoolrools3087]

@@zeroceiling Her mistake was not understandable. The basis of her book was to highlight outrageous injustice...that never actually occurred. She wrote the book with an agenda in mind and whatever research she did ignored the truth, highlighted what she wanted to believe, and allowed her to make an utter fool of herself

[@Jarrow13]

@@zeroceiling I wouldn't call it "understandable" under these circumstances, especially when the whole premise of your book is based around that part. What would be understandable is, if this was just a discussion at the dining table or at the bar socially. But if you are going to publish an academic book based around that entire premise, you make sure that you know and understand the wording, terms and definitions. Never the less to say, that in her book she claimed John Spencer was charged and sentenced because he was gay, is also false, as John Spencer was sentenced due to his acts of pedophilia, so let's just assume that was also just an "understandable" mistake.

[@zeroceiling]

Oldskoolrools …you call it an agenda…and perhaps you are right. With that said, is not every researcher / scientist who formulates a hypothesis…working with an agenda to prove his / her position? With this in mind, I have to push back on you when you state that she “ignored the truth”…when there appeared to be no evident body of work done, that she made the choice to ignore. Look, her mistake was clearly crushing and will cost her. However, we correctly judge mistakes by omission…more critically than we do mistakes by miss-interpretation of data. In other words, had she not done any research in this area at all…she should be rightfully owning full weight of the criticism. Instead, she put the time in…did the work and came up with wrong conclusions due to the ambiguous system of death / execution recording in that time-period….to the extent that even the seasoned historian expressed the difficulties he had when trying to understand the methodology and context in that time period. Finally, if we crushed every researcher for misinterpreting data, we would have someone new to chew up every day. Look at it this way, had it not been for Wolf and her mistake, we would possibly never know the truth behind this historical period..as it was her hypothesis that prompted the necessary historical research to fact-check her…research that may have not ever been done otherwise.

[@zeroceiling]

J van Niekerk …there was no definition or even distinct penalties for paedophilia in the late 17th or even the 1800’s. In other words, the criminal code in 1835 did not contain within it, a distinction or even recognition for a sexual act with a child. Clearly it makes a difference to us today but not in England at the time. Therefore, if going by the code, homosexual sex was recognized by the criminal code but sex with a minor held no distinct penalty. So to this “technical” point you are making……there is absolutely not a chance that John Spenser was actually tried for paedophilia. “Categories of sexual deviation - or perversion - emerged with the development of psychiatry and sexology in the late nineteenth century, particularly from Krafft-Ebing’s exhaustive cataloguing of such behaviours in his Psychopathia Sexualis, first published in German in 1886.2 Krafft-Ebing did not, in his brief discussion of those who engaged in sexual activities with children, employ the term “paedophiles” to describe such individuals but rather referred to the “Violation of Individuals Under the Age of Fourteen”.3 The term “paedophilia”, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “sexual desire directed towards children”, appears to have first been used to categorise such sexual desire as an abnormality by Havelock Ellis in his Studies in the Psychology of Sex in 1906.” www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4375676/

[@ultimateempress1739]

Imagine the horror building in her stomach when she’s being told that. At least she didn’t panic and become aggressive and in denial.

[@below90hz]

_(TO BE CLEAR - as you read my comment I am not saying I agree with ANYTHING this lady believes, I am simply commenting on what I believe she is more likely to feel, based on her reaction.)_ As someone who responds the same way to a revelation of an error I made in my work - I don't think she feels as bad as you might imagine. If she's anything like me, she recognizes she's not perfect and so therefore might feel a little embarrassed, but is grateful for the correction in her understanding. She will learn from her mistake most likely, and still feel confident in her contributions. Again, this is my guess since I am very skilled and knowledgeable in my work, but not at all offended or defensive when someone points out a mistake I've made. I've found that immediately accepting the possibility of being wrong and looking into it, usually prevents a mistake - if it happened - from being blown out of proportion. Why? Because it helps my team focus on solutions, rather than waste time arguing about who's to blame.

[@SteTrax]

That doesn't matter. A drunk driver can behave one or two ways. Be passive and polite or be a pain in the ass. The intent is still the same!

[@ultimateempress1739]

@James Stewart You mean a crazy female activist.

[@korycassel5197]

She held a Facebook group call doubling down and claiming the REAL records must have been doctored to erase the evil Bigoted English genocide against gay people right after this for her financial supporters. The Tom Silver in question was not in prison for being gay either, he had brutally sodomized a six year old boy he raped. She absolutely doubled down and did not admit fault at all and is blissfully lying with made up rhetorical arguments about how bigoted and awful Western civilization is to this day. She's a loon and not to be believed about anything.

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

History is the constant interpreting and re-interpreting of historical facts. Sounds like she had a very complete and healthy understanding of the field of study - and its pitfalls. She immediately took to the new information being presented to her. As an historian myself, I can suggest that she very likely was feeling grateful, not horrified.

[@AngryGenXer]

“That’s an important thing to investigate”. You wrote a book on it.

[@kristyn4340]

For everyone commenting, "Oh she's taking it well, she's listening, etc" She doesn't care about the facts. She had a whole team helping her work, her book will still sell to thousands of people who'll believe it as fact. She's not gonna care about the real history here even being called out. She'll listen if she gets sued. She's still gonna get her Capitalist building money.

[@firekind1980]

She sounded like she was being educated. She didn't just throw a fit and say I'm right. Fair play to both.

[@dolmanf]

No, not fair play. She is so deluded and the fact the woke went ahead and published the book says it all really! He sounded like he didn't want to break the news to her! Fear of a backlash maybe. He should have tore strips off her. What an absolute mug.

[@cochranesimon]

True, but I suspect the realisation that she was talking about British history with a Brit probably dawned on her pretty quickly and doubt crept in shortly after.