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Damian Barr

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AbsintheFriends · 01/07/2020 17:39

I know there's loads going on at the moment, and Damian Barr is just one bearded misogynist in an increasingly dystopian world, but he's the one who kicked up a huge self-righteous fuss about Baroness Nicholson and got her ousted from her position at the Booker Prize on the grounds of homophobia and transphobia. Who would have imagined that such a zealous icon of ideological purity would turn out to have said things like this??

twitter.com/MLagouste/status/1278345389150662658

(Oh yes. Any one of the several million of us on FWR who has seen a bearded misogynist hiding behind a trans-rights banner...)

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SunsetBeetch · 01/07/2020 17:41
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Snorkers · 01/07/2020 17:43

The tweet is gone, how can you see old deleted tweets?

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SulisMinerva · 01/07/2020 17:45

I’m sure someone will have saved a screenshot somewhere. Not surprising that he turns out to be another righteous hypocrite.

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truthisarevolutionaryact · 01/07/2020 17:45

A misogynist who's a hypocrite. Is anyone surprised?

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Helmetbymidnight · 01/07/2020 17:46

can you be sure thats him?

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Kit19 · 01/07/2020 17:46

I bet his finger is on fire he’s deleting past tweets so fast

In all seriousness though, any GC woman being caught with tweets like that would be in a world of pain - doxxed, threatened, reported for hate speech

I bet damian isn’t though

I wonder what the difference is 🤔

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nauticant · 01/07/2020 17:47
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AbsintheFriends · 01/07/2020 17:48

Can you see the tweet in this link?

twitter.com/BobBibBab1/status/1278346065411014656/photo/1

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FancyPants20 · 01/07/2020 17:49

Wow, that's really pretty awful of him. Pillock.

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AbsintheFriends · 01/07/2020 17:53

The always excellent Ella Witchwood has a great thread on it here

twitter.com/EllaWitchwood/status/1278270801389764609

I bet his finger is on fire he’s deleting past tweets so fast

Oh yes. Alas, poor Damian, too late.

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Snorkers · 01/07/2020 17:54

What an awful person. I feel v v passionately about what women are having to ensure right now, but NEVER ever in a million years would I or anyone else I know say anything so disgusting and offensive. This is true hate speech. Laughing about Anyone trying to injure themselves is bad enough, but the use of language too.
This man is a hypocrite and a disgrace and completely without scruples.
He must lose his job over this.

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SunsetBeetch · 01/07/2020 18:04

Wow that one about the suicide attempt is truly disgusting. What sort of person would find that even 'darkly' amusing?

And what a hypocrite (which, as I intimated, is no surprise with men like this).

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VickyEadieofThigh · 01/07/2020 18:06

I know schadenfreude is not a good thing, but I'm schadenfreuding like mad here.

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SarahTancredi · 01/07/2020 18:09

Whid have thought anyone would use trans rights to just he a dick..

We did try to warn people that actually most these people actually dont give a shit about then , their rights or their safety

But I guess us women dont know anything do weHmm

What a disgusting thing to say wonder if that will cost him his job ....

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Helmetbymidnight · 01/07/2020 18:10

i hope lots of people here about this.

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RoyalCorgi · 01/07/2020 18:12

Just imagine if JK Rowling had written a tweet laughing at a trans person's failed attempt at suicide. Just imagine.

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PenguindreamsofDraco · 01/07/2020 18:13

@Kit19

I bet his finger is on fire he’s deleting past tweets so fast

In all seriousness though, any GC woman being caught with tweets like that would be in a world of pain - doxxed, threatened, reported for hate speech

I bet damian isn’t though

I wonder what the difference is 🤔

Ooh I know, Miss, I know
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teaandtoast123 · 01/07/2020 18:13

I bet this won't be reported in the Guardian!

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justanotherneighinparadise · 01/07/2020 18:14

😮

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TheMarzipanDildo · 01/07/2020 18:16

What an absolute bastard.

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SerenityNowwwww · 01/07/2020 18:19

Man he is deleting tweets like crazy.

Oh, if only there was some way or recording - or taking some sort of digital image - of the tweets... because once you delete something it’s gone for ever, right? 😉

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AbsintheFriends · 01/07/2020 18:20

I'm cooking dinner but keeping an eye on other twitter revelations. He really can't delete quick enough. There's just so much...

twitter.com/Bigoldsupermoon/status/1278377004115677191

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SunsetBeetch · 01/07/2020 18:22

I think this tweet is spot on:

'Looking at his timeline using this language about trans people, I’m beginning to see why so many gay men are rabid TRA. They know they treated trans people v poorly, using these terms & are desperate to engage in whataboutery blaming women for abuse they gave out themselves."

twitter.com/BobBibBab1/status/1278352424600842240?s=19

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SunsetBeetch · 01/07/2020 18:25

Oh and of course he's made loads of misogynistic comments too. Of course he has. I think he's finished. He has to be, after all he set the precedent with Baroness Nicholson.

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nauticant · 01/07/2020 18:26

Transphobic tweets presented in video format:

twitter.com/BobBibBab1/status/1278354188070793217

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