Reading that a 16-year-old autistic girl had been dragged from her home by seven cops after reportedly saying a female officer looked like ‘a lesbian like nana’, I had to check that we weren’t back in the 1970s of my girlhood when ‘lezzer’ was the worst thing you could call a woman.
Once again we are faced with the proof that wokeness, far from being ‘kind’, is often just a shiny new way to bully people
Yet here are the coppers going all Life on Mars on some poor neuro-divergent kiddy – who also suffers from spinal disability scoliosis – in her Leeds home after (irony of ironies) she was driven home by police officers attending a gay pride celebration. So far, so woke – but things turned non-inclusive when the young person made an apparently harmless comparison to her grandmother. She was then removed by aforesaid seven West Yorkshire police officers in the early hours, having been arrested on suspicion of ‘homophobic public order offence’ – in her own home, in front of her own mother, who begged the police to leave her alone, pleading ‘you’re going to remove her for what? She said the word lesbian? Her nana is a lesbian, she’s married to a woman. She’s not homophobic.’
If something sums up the shockingly bad state of modern policing, it’s this bizarre incident. I don’t know if the PC in question is a lesbian or not, but why on earth would a modern police-person take offence at this, considering their passionate championing of homosexuality in recent years? Or was it window-dressing all along – and could it be that when not sucking up to transvestites, the police are just as bigoted as they ever were? What a multitude of sins cross-dressing can cover.
Is it that ‘lesbian’ is now a dirty word again, being one of those shrinking parts of life kept solely for women, while dirty great men trample over everything else that was ours, from toilets to trophies? It’s a sad fact that the word has been ditched by those with the most claim to it and who could be most inspired by its history – young lesbians who prefer to be acceptably ‘queer’. Last year the American pop star JoJo Siwa said in an interview with Yahoo: ‘I don’t like the word [lesbian] itself. It’s just, like, a lot. At the end of the day, that’s what I am… but it’s like the word moist. It’s just like… ugh!’
If the girl had said that the policewoman was ‘queer like nana’, would she still have been set upon by seven adults in uniform who are paid to protect the public rather than police their language? Surely the key word here is ‘nana’ – everyone loves their nana, so I’m sure it wasn’t a diss. If anything, the police should have celebrated the teenager’s inclusive love for her non-hetero nana. But we’ve long given up expecting woke plod to recognise simple human emotions, so schooled have they been in the ways of silly and sinister offence-taking. When the child is screaming and hitting herself and her mother repeats ‘she’s autistic’, the cross cop responds ‘I don’t care.’ Once again we are faced with the proof that wokeness, far from being ‘kind’, is often just a shiny new way to bully people, a toxic mixture of the old snobbishness and the new sensitivities.
At a time when a good proportion of the Lionesses have made us aware again of how glamorous and inspirational lesbians can be, I’m curious about the policewoman at the centre of this furore. If she is gay, did that mean she felt gay shame on Pride day? And if she isn’t, is she a homophobe? Either way, it’s not a good look for our thoroughly inclusive ‘filth’.
Never mind – I’m sure that none of us mind the police taking offence on our time while leaving crime to run riot. We’re used to it now. But I can’t help wishing they’d bring back Dixon of Dock Green. And in case any policewomen are reading, I said ‘Dock’, not ‘Dyke’ – and I wasn’t looking at you.
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