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Through the Looking Glass with Ipso
Of salami-slicing, solipsism, and the existence of cat girls
This is mostly about a complaint laid with IPSO by Trans Media Watch approx. a year back. Remember the strange case of the trans-adjacent cat girl?
The (il)logic of the response and the impossibility of their position much recalls the White Queen in Alice through the Looking glass, who urged Alice to widen the scope of her credulity, by believing impossible things.
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Now read on…
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I have always thought that Ipso, the name of the main UK press regulator, was some sort of nerdy joke. An erudite wet dream, invented by one of the public school nerds that slither around the upper echelons of UK media. Because ‘ipso,’ as Latin, would mean something like ‘by myself.’
Some might consider that an apt name for an organisation whose very founding represented a collective media V-sign to the Leveson Report and attempts to regulate the UK press. And, given the long line of eccentric decisions it has delivered down…
