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Butterfly - anyone watching

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:04

Opening sequence got pretty much all the stereotypes in...

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:07

So likes makeup and my little pony, and hates football....

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Melamin · 14/10/2018 21:07

Well done for taking one for the team Wink

Give us a commentary and it will save us the bother Grin

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NotTerfNorCis · 14/10/2018 21:08

Yep. He knows he's a lass because he likes sparkly things and hates football.

Here comes the metaphorical mermaid.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:08

At aquarium and sees mermaid (I may be misgendering the mermaid)

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ReggieKrayDoYouKnowMyName · 14/10/2018 21:09

Not watching but this it looks like cliche bingo from the trailer.

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MrsToddsShortcut · 14/10/2018 21:09

No stereotypes so far...

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thenightsky · 14/10/2018 21:09

Not watching as can't cope with Anna Friel looking all pious.

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Oldstyle · 14/10/2018 21:10

...and decides he wants to be a dolphin I assume?

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:10

Now the wee boy is making "bitchy" comments about dads GFs tanlines - obviously a girl thing

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IAmNotInvisible · 14/10/2018 21:11

Yep, all cliches so far. Should we move the discussion to telly addicts for a wider discussion?

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:11

Now we have the pink best, skirt and sparkly hair clip. Must be a girl ...

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Moanella · 14/10/2018 21:13

Twirling around the room in a miniskirt, pink top and a hairclip. Sinister music playing.... and cut to adverts.

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NotTerfNorCis · 14/10/2018 21:14

Are we meant to think that pink clothes and pretty hair grips are innately female or that he's drawn to these things because he identifies as female? The message is that pink + sparkles = girl.

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ToeToToe · 14/10/2018 21:16

I'm watching. So far all glittery pink and cute curly lettering, as expected.

WTF was that mermaid about??

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Melamin · 14/10/2018 21:16

Should we move the discussion to telly addicts for a wider discussion

Well it is telly Smile

It would be interesting what people think. We all know what it is before it started.

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ToeToToe · 14/10/2018 21:16

(i mean, apart from the obvious).

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LizzieSiddal · 14/10/2018 21:17

“Girls things” Angry

It’s 2018 ffs.

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MrsToddsShortcut · 14/10/2018 21:17

Only girls wear earrings.

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Melamin · 14/10/2018 21:17

No Mermans then Grin

(How I miss that! Will they have a Helga Iceberg, I wonder Hmm and Dr Wobbly)

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NotTerfNorCis · 14/10/2018 21:19

He won't go to the boys' toilets?? He'd rather wet himself? I don't buy it.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:19

Aaaand..... toilets

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:21

WTF - the school practically has unisex toilets!

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MrsToddsShortcut · 14/10/2018 21:21

Okay. Horrid trendy school toilets.

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IAmNotInvisible · 14/10/2018 21:21

Why doesn't his mum just suggest he use a cubicle or do boys loos not have them?

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MrsToddsShortcut · 14/10/2018 21:22

In that I hate schools having those mixed toilets.

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