Sky News Paper Review

[Sqad]

The two newspaper reviewers today SKY News were Jonny Gould and the other person....looked like a woman and sounded like a man.
I can't find a link..........but what was she/him?
Any thoughts?
Any links?

[donchano]

The person's name is Mika Minio-Paluello I believe.

[murraymints]

[Sqad]

Thanks donchano, very impressive.....BUT...is "it" a woman, man or any other of the many sexual aberrations that we have collected over the years?

[Sqad]

LOL...thanks murray.....but what gender is it?

[murraymints]

a Grayson Perry like cross dresser.. ??? or some person who considers themslves to be asexual ? looks and sounds like a man in a dress to me ! pictures of this person on internet looking both male and female...

[Sqad]

murray..LOL...LOL so we don't know.
That is the bottom line.

[Quoi]

I'm curious as well - I see boobs and a mans face - then I see how much it talks and for that reason Sqad - I'm out!

[Sqad]

Quoi....LOL.

[Peter Pedant]

What wrong with a woman looking like a man ?

Radclyffe Hall did it all her tife
Maggie Smith did in Murder on the Orient Express

Neither of them had a newspaper slot

[murraymints]

the ominpresent scarf suggests a man covering Adam's apple ?

[donchano]

I used the word "person" deliberately as I don't know if this person "identifies" as a man or woman. Didn't want to be lambasted by the thought police for getting it wrong. It's a flipping minefield these days!

[murraymints]

https://postimg.org/image/teimfptat/cc182f66/

this pic rather confirms my suspicians above

[Sqad]

PP
"What wrong with a woman looking like a man ? "

You have missed my point, I have never said that she looks like a man, i said that her voice is that of a male.

What is wrong with that? Nothing in the world that we live in today, but for sqad and perhaps others it reminds us of the lady with the beard in the 50's at circuses and hence not to be taken seriously..........if at all.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh come on Sqad
Your colleague Dr James Barry served in the army as a man - the only thing was - that he wasnt
1795 - 1865
and no one turned a hair in those days

and the Chevalier d'Eon was another
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_d%27%C3%89on

was another - 33 y in Russia as a woman and a few more in London as a man

[Peter Pedant]

Barr y is here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_(surgeon)

and THEY were taken seriously

d'Eon was a fencer so he was taken plenty seriously if he had an epee in his hand

[Quoi]

All manner of confusing postures and body language going on as well....

[Bazile]

Well sqad - my guess is that he/she started out with male genetalia
( is that spelt correctly ?)

[Peter Pedant]

and have you seen Vicky Price ?
she did time in the slammer for perjury
( about taking points for her husband whom she also ruined)
and she is now an Economics Gooroo - Eek !
and everyone takes HER seriously
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Pryce
Blimey

I always think it is a bit like listening to Ronnie Kray talking about baby sitting ....

[Peter Pedant]

Didnt Peres describe Golda Meir ( first and only woman PM of Israel ) as - "the only person wiv balls in the israeli cabinet" ?

[Sqad]

"I had been intimately acquainted with the doctor for good many years, both in London and the West Indies and I never had any suspicion that Dr Barry was a woman."

PP.I take you point and your examples, but the above was the comment of his friend and doctor who issued the death certificate and it wasn't suspected until after death , that he was a woman.
So, not obvious eh?