David Thompson: The Féile debacle shows Irish nationalism has a problem with letting women speak

Women Without Penises Not Welcome in the Irish LGBT Asylum

Although the annual St Patrick’s Day parade has long been the main staple of the Irish social calendar, it is quickly being supplanted by an endless litany of LGBT Pride parades, which feature obese women leading leather-clad men in dog masks along on leads and women carrying placards declaring that people of all genders need abortions. As a male, who cannot get pregnant, and therefore cannot ever need an abortion, I find all of that just as bew…

David Thompson: The Féile debacle shows Irish nationalism has a problem with letting women speak

It is becoming increasingly clear that Irish nationalism has a problem with letting women speak for themselves, set their own boundaries and say no to men – at least if those men say they are women.