#Jordan Gray

[coochiequeens]

A trans comedian is receiving praise from mainstream media, but backlash from women, after a musical performance on UK comedy show Friday Night Live. 

During the live program, trans-identified male comedian Jordan Gray ripped off his clothing to expose his entire naked body, and began to play his keyboard with his penis. This was during Gray’s rendition of his song “Better Than You,” which featured misogynistic lyrics intended to mock females.

“I’m a perfect woman, my tits will never shrink. I’m guaranteed to squirt, and I do anal by default … I am the lizard king, and I can do anything that any other woman can’t … I used to be a man, now I’m better than you,” Gray sang to an audience of delighted onlookers.

The explicit performance took place during a specialFriday Night Live revival event marking Channel 4’s 40th anniversary. The revival featured former Friday Night Live cast members Ben Elton, Enfield, Brand and Julian Clary as well as a number of new comedians, including Gray.

Mainstream media coverage of Gray’s performance has been overwhelmingly positive. PinkNews, a UK-based outlet, referred to Gray’s song as “rousing” and called the performance “iconic,” and characterized any opposition to the performer’s exposure of his genitals on television as “anti-trans.” The sentiment was shared by some LGBT activists on Twitter.

Irish Mirror chose to emphasize glowing comments which praised Gray as “amazing” and stated that “seeing a trans woman get naked on TV is exactly what we needed.”

Reporting on Gray’s exhibitionist stunt, The Daily Mail in particular prompted criticism for the use of the term “her penis” to refer to the incident.

Even some beloved British figures took to social media to heap praise upon Gray. Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs complimented Gray’s “magnificent boobs and equally magnificent member” and called for Gray to run for Prime Minister.

But while no mainstream British outlet has called into question any safeguarding concerns related to the program, many on social media have stated their shock and outrage at what they consider to be indecent exposure, a sexual offense, being normalized, celebrated, and highly publicized. 

Speaking with Reduxx, UK-based journalist and women’s rights campaigner Jo Bartosch criticized the media outlets who chose to reference Gray’s genitals using feminine pronouns, and highlighted the significance of factually-based language. “Whether it’s calling a man ‘Miss’ or using the oxymoronic phrase ‘her penis,’ these linguistic capitulations to men’s paraphilias are dangerous. It is a public sign of the power men like Gray enjoy. And it is terrifying, yet darkly comic, that respected journalists and broadcasters will now lie in this way, because to do otherwise is to risk breaching media guidelines which have been informed by trans lobby groups,” Bartosch said. 

“The phrase ‘her penis’ is an insult to the profession, to audiences and to the truth,” she added.

Bartosch explained that she views pornography as an influential force in the concept of a “female penis,” noting that while it may seem bizarre to “the uninitiated,” there exists within the “male domain of pornography a logic to the idea of a ‘female penis.'” 

She then cited as examples genres such as forced feminization, and sissification, which portray men as being transformed into women through processes that involve makeup, lingerie, sexual submissiveness, and humiliation.

“Whether it’s the rebranding of sexual entertainment as ‘children’s education’ or the use of language to reflect men’s fantasies; aggressively male behaviour which festers in online pornography has seeped over into the real world,” Bartosch stated.

“The excitement men feel is because they know that the social bounds that keep their base impulses in check are straining and being broken, and that it is happening in plain sight. Pornographic values have become so mainstream when men brazenly flash their fetishes they are celebrated for their bravery. One wonders which taboos will be the next to be broken?”

In the days following Channel 4’s broadcast, internet sleuths have brought to light how Gray boasted about being a representative for a charity that promotes gender identity ideology in schools. The charity, Educate and Celebrate, describes its 

programs as offering “the knowledge, skills and confidence to embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation into the fabric of your organization”. 

Since news of his involvement with the charity has been spread on social media, Educate and Celebrate quietly pulled a page from their site that listed Gray as a patron. “I go into schools to talk about gender as part of a campaign called Educate and Celebrate,” Gray told GuysLikeU. 

“Toddlers kind of get it straightaway. I went into one school recently where there was a 7 year-old transgender girl. And her four year-old classmate, who was a boy, said: ‘Jessie’s a girl and she wants to be a girl. And I am a boy who wants to be a boy.'” “Young minds are very accepting,” Gray added. “It’s teenagers who are harder to get through to. It’s good to educate these kids when they are young.”

A patron of Educate and Celebrate listed alongside Gray, Peter Tatchell, has previously made statements in support of pedophilia and questioning age of consent laws. Tatchell, a former leader of the Gay Liberation Front, authored an obituary in The Independent for Ian Dunn, founder of the former pedophile activist organization the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE).

Tatchell also published an essay in an anthology released by former vice-chairman of PIE, Warren Middleton, wherein he argued that argued that “children have sexual desires at an early age” and should be “educated” so that they can decide when they want to have sex.

“While it may be impossible to condone pedophilia, it is time society acknowledged the truth that not all sex involving children is unwanted, abusive, and harmful,” Tatchell wrote in a letter to The Guardian in 1997.

The revelation that Jordan Gray worked alongside Peter Tatchell for a charity promoting the notion of a gender identity to young children mirrors a recent, widely-publicized scandal involving a pro-pedophilia campaigner’s ties to a children’s charity that promotes the medical “transition” of minors.

Earlier this month, Jacob Breslow, an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, stepped down from his position as a trustee for UK-based trans activist organization Mermaids following revelations that he had ties to pro-pedophilia lobbyists.

Breslow had, on several occasions, made statements and published academic work that favorably portrayed pedophilia, and had once authored a blog that linked directly to child sexual abuse materials.

ByYuliah Amla

A man thinking he’s better than women and then thinking people want to see his penis

[happilyhadesbound]

Jordan Gray was glorious on Late Night Lycett

[yourdailyqueer]

Jordan Gray

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: 11 January 1989  

Ethnicity: White - English

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, comedian, musician, screenwriter, actress

Note 1: First transgender person to headline the London Palladium

Note 2: As a teenager, she suffered from Persisting Perception Disorder. She is completely blind in her left eye.

[slimylayne]

Literally spit out my tea when Ben said “now that’s what I call a nob gag”

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

I watched Friday Night Live. Ben Elton was a great host - obviously - but Jordan Gray absolutely stole the show! Live TV, people!

[thejohnfleming]

The making of The Comedians’ Choice Awards at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe

The making of The Comedians’ Choice Awards at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe

I have mentioned the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards in the last couple of blogs. The actual trophies were designed and made by mad inventor John Ward who is particularly keen (via an email this morning) that I mention he lives in or near Moulton-Seas-End in Lincolnshire. If you go to Wikipedia, you will find there is an article on Moulton-Seas-End currently illustrated with  a sole…

[coochiequeens]

A children’s “charity” lied about having a guy who exposed himself on live TV speak at schools. I hope they get their charity status revoked.

A children’s charity which partnered with a controversial transgender comedian appears to have lied about his past involvement with children. Trans-identified male comedian Jordan Gray was recently removed from his role with Educate & Celebrate after fully exposing his penis on live television.

Educate & Celebrate is a UK children’s charity which purports to “embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation into the fabric of your School or Organisation.” The charity had previously partnered with Gray, as evidenced by a publicly-listed “patrons” page which was pulled from their site following recent controversy.

Gray sparked backlash last week after a highly controversial television performance in which he stripped completely naked and played the piano with his penis. Gray had performed a rendition of his song “Better Than You,” in which he boasted of being superior to biological women. 

Educate & Celebrate has since issued a statement announcing Gray’s removal from his role, but claimed that Gray had “never gone into schools” and had limited interaction with children throughout his tenure. 

In the statement, which was released on October 26, Educate & Celebrate claimed: “As far as the charity are aware, Jordan Gray has never gone into schools and the charity have never requested Jordan carry out work for or on behalf of Educate & Celebrate, either in a voluntary or paid capacity. Trustees of Educate & Celebrate had no knowledge of Jordan Gray appearing on Channel 4’s Friday Night Live until it was brought to our attention via social media.”

The statement had been issued just five days after Gray’s Channel 4 appearance, which subsequently received a mix of praise and harsh criticism. Among critical responses, concerned citizens were sharing the comedian’s connection to the children’s charity. 

Despite the charity’s claim that “Jordan Gray has never gone into schools,” a 2016 interview with Gray for GuysLikeU was uncovered by internet sleuths. During the interview, Gray stated “I go into schools to talk about gender” as part of his work with Educate & Celebrate.

“Young minds are very accepting,” Gray said to GuysLikeU. “It’s teenagers who are harder to get through to. It’s good to educate these kids when they are young.”

In addition to the interview, a video from two years ago of Gray speaking at Passmores Academy in Essex County, England has started to circulate on social media. The video is raising questions about Educate & Celebrate’s credibility. 

In the video, Gray speaks to a room of young students for International Women’s Day. Gray’s attempt to deliver career advice appears to fall flat on the youth, who listen unresponsively.

“Stories are so valuable, we crave them so much. All we want is narrative, and it’s thousands of years old. I’m not a historian… [but] the Greeks and the Romans, all those old people, they all had stories,” Gray said to the class. 

In the interview with GuysLikeU, Gray also said that he was part of a scheme introducing “inspirational women” to youngsters.

“I’m here today as part of a scheme I understand to be called ‘Inspirational Women’s Day,’ where a number of women are brought in [to classrooms] from various fields. We speak to every age group about how they can pursue a career in that field,” Gray said.

Gray also stated that when talking to the younger students, “I’ve opened the floor up to speak about career and transgenderism, and it tends to lean to the latter, which is great, that’s my bread and butter, I understand that phenomenon … They’ve been great, I wish I had the bravery to do this more often.”

Reduxx previously reported that Peter Tatchell was listed alongside Gray as a patron of the children’s charity. Tatchell has previously made statements in support of pedophilia and questioning age of consent laws. Tatchell, a former leader of the Gay Liberation Front, authored an obituary in The Independent for Ian Dunn, founder of the former pedophile activist organization the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE).

Tatchell also published an essay in an anthology released by former vice-chairman of PIE, Warren Middleton, wherein he argued that argued that “children have sexual desires at an early age” and should be “educated” so that they can decide when they want to have sex. 

In recent months, criticism of children’s charities promoting “gender identity” to youth has escalated in response to what critics denounce as the sexualization of children. At the beginning of October, a trustee for children’s charity Mermaids resigned after it was revealed that he had advocated favorably for pedophilia and praised a creator of child sexual abuse materials.

The Charity Commission of England and Wales had launched a regulatory compliance probe into Mermaids only a week prior. The charitable organization authority said the investigation was in response to complaints it received about Mermaids. One of the incidents reported was from a mother whose 14-year-old son was being encouraged to send sexualized photos of himself to strangers he encountered through the Mermaids website.

Last week, The Telegraph published the findings of leaked “gender diversity” training documents provided to NHS medical staff. Doctors were warned about “TERFs” and were instructed on “kinks,” and BDSM was mentioned as a community closely tied to transgenderism.

By Yuliah Alma Yuliah is a junior researcher and journalist at Reduxx. She is a passionate advocate for women's rights and child safeguarding. Yuliah lives on the American east coast, and is an avid reader and book collector.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 230

He's been given many names over the eternities.

Kronos. Time. Ouroboros. The World Serpent. It comes with being an Ancient. With being one of the oldest primordial being of them all. Only his own parent, Infinity itself was older.

He was an unstoppable force, no matter what the Observants wished to think, their chains akin to mosquito bites- if that- as they shattered.

Clockwork is his favorite name he decided long ago, when he'd first seen the possibilities of the world his so-called employers complained he had obsessed over.

Yet how could he not? This world had given him children after all. Ghostlings all his own, human and not, mortal and more. Invisible to his machinations and strumming of the strings of Fate.

And here he lay, curled in a bed he had no need for but had meticulously crafted for the Cores he held against himself so lovingly. His own little bit of Space, a smaller Moon and Sun, joined by Life and Storm and Sea and Ore. Newborn Ancients in their own right, Cores unstable and cracked from the actions of mortals who did not understand, who could not.

Perhaps, he pondered, it was best.

They might be Ancients under their own rights, but they were still young. Too young, their very essence risking collapsing under their own power unless he did something.

Clockwork crooned a lullaby in the words of Reality, running a finger across one of the cracks before picking the core up. And swallowing it.

One by one until they were safe. Protected. Able to use his own energy to stabilize their own instinctively. He hummed a song he knew by heart, by Core, and let the clocks tick on. He had much work to be done.

His ghostlings only deserved the best after all.

[romantichopelessly]

Maggie Stiefvater has said that she originally planned for The Raven Cycle universe to be expansive and ongoing with multiple series.

[avianii]

Don't work with your parents- they have blackmail material in their wallets

this but with Top Gun (1986)

[redhoodie1723]

its been a hot minute but we're back babeyy

part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7

[fawnsite]

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Nothing to see here, just four clearly prepubescent beautiful blond boys...

[youbutstupid]

Ages of the Criminal Minds cast because PSA: life doesn’t stop at 40

Mandy Patinkin, 71. Thomas Gibson, 61

Lola Glaudini, 52. A.J. Cook, 45

Matthew Gray Gubler, 44. Kirsten Vangsness, 51

Shemar Moore, 54. Paget Brewster, 55

Joe Mantegna, 76. Meta Golding, 52

Rachel Nichols, 44. Jeanne Tripplehorn, 60

Jennifer Love Hewitt, 45. Aisha Tyler, 53

Adam Rodriguez, 49. Daniel Henney, 44

[coochiequeens]

On Broadcast long list of TV Moments of the Year awards                                                a Sky News reporter being shot at while doing frontline reporting in Ukraine,       and BBC‘s Huw Edwards announcing the death of Queen Elizabeth II,                      and a dude who claims to be a woman exposing his penis.

A transgender “comedian” has reportedly been shortlisted for a television award after stripping naked on live television and playing the piano with his penis.

On October 21, trans-identified male comedian Jordan Gray was featured on the Friday Night Live revival event marking Channel 4’s 40th anniversary. During the performance, Gray ripped off his clothing to expose his entire naked body, and attempted to play his keyboard with his penis. This was during Gray’s rendition of his song “Better Than You,” which featured lyrics intended to mock females.

“I’m a perfect woman, my tits will never shrink. I’m guaranteed to squirt, and I do anal by default … I am the lizard king, and I can do anything that any other woman can’t … I used to be a man, now I’m better than you,” Gray sang to an audience of delighted onlookers who cheered as he then tore off his clothes and exposed his naked body.

Mainstream media coverage of Gray’s performance has been overwhelmingly positive. PinkNews, a UK-based outlet, referred to Gray’s song as “rousing” and called the performance “iconic,” and characterized any opposition to the performer’s exposure of his genitals on television as “anti-trans.” The sentiment was shared by some LGBT activists on Twitter. The Daily Mail referred to Gray’s penis using feminine pronouns, sparking widespread mockery of the outlet.

On December 8, Broadcast published a longlist for the TV Moment of the Year awards, inviting members of the public to vote on their top three favorite moments to make it to the shortlist. 

While the vote still appears to be active and Broadcasthas stated that nominations will not be publicly displayed until the new year, Gray announced on his Twitter that he had already been “shortlisted” for the award. It is unclear whether this is a confusion on Gray’s part or he was informed in advance.

Other moments nominated alongside Gray’s on the longlist included a Sky News reporter being shot at while doing frontline reporting in Ukraine, and BBC‘s Huw Edwards announcing the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Following his nudist performance on Channel 4, Gray was removed from a children’s charity where he had been a patron.

On October 26, just days after his appearance, Educate & Celebrate issued a statement announcing Gray’s removal from his role, but claimed that Gray had “never gone into schools” and had limited interaction with children throughout his tenure. That was quickly discovered to be misleading, with internet sleuths unearthing a 2016 interview with Gray for GuysLikeU in which he directly claimed to do just that. 

“Young minds are very accepting,” Gray said to GuysLikeU. “It’s teenagers who are harder to get through to. It’s good to educate these kids when they are young.”

In addition to the interview, a video from two years ago of Gray speaking at Passmores Academy in Essex County, England began to circulate on social media. The discoveries raised questions about Educate & Celebrate’s credibility, as their statement appeared to directly contradict fact.

On Twitter, some users expressed upset at Gray’s announcement, noting that he his performance had been greatly offensive to women.

“Why? Lots of men hate women, have a small willie and know how to take their clothes off,” user Marilyn Irishtweeted in response to Gray’s announcement. 

“Peaking Moment of the Year. People who saw this could see the woman-hating misogyny if they hadn’t before,” Louise Ashworth added.

Many women pointed out that even aside from Gray’s public nudity, the lyrics to the song he sang at Channel 4‘s event had deeply offensive lyrics in which Gray painted himself as “better” than women due to certain aspects of his sexual reciprocity. 

“So it’s ok for the TV moment of the year to be the most sexist and hold a load of complaints too? Most sexist TV moment of the year,” user Raging Suffragette wrote.

Following Gray’s Friday Night Live performance, over 1,600 people submitted complaints to the independent regulation body responsible for broadcasting in the United Kingdom, with many expressing concern over being unwittingly subjected to nudity without warning. 

A further 172 complaints were made regarding Gray’s performance one week after the episode aired.

By Jennifer Seiland Jennifer is a founding member of the Reduxx team, writing with a focus on crimes against women and sex-based rights advocacy. She is located in the American south where she is a passionate animal welfare advocate and avid coffee drinker.

[blakeprentiss]

FAVORITE CRIMINAL MINDS EPISODES 2/?: 4x13 - BLOODLINE