Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Unflip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Feminism: chat

Unflip

1 2 3

Original poster

What’s the deal with Dr Christian?

62 replies

CircleSquareCircleSquare · 16/04/2018 16:55

This tweet
“Some really vile views being spouted on twitter tonight. Such a shame. ‘When she was good she was very good indeed, but when she was bad she was horrid.’”
Seems to be about women discussing their issues with trans/self ID/free speech debate. Women know your place, and it certainly isn’t anywhere you can be heard!

mobile.twitter.com/DoctorChristian/status/984569562715836418

And also here and all over his timeline.
mobile.twitter.com/leekartspace/status/984426339364155396

OP posts:

LangCleg · 16/04/2018 22:12

Gosh, what a charmer this one is.

Original poster

CircleSquareCircleSquare · 16/04/2018 21:34

Can't we just give trans a rest ? boooring now

I have an issue with him basically telling women they must play nice because they are women. It could be about any subject.

OP posts:

SpringNowPlease2018 · 16/04/2018 21:32

@CapnHaddock " Their sympathy lies entirely with TIMs because they can't imagine anything more distressing than actually wanting to be a woman"

I'm confused, wouldn't that make them anti TIM?

OlennasWimple · 16/04/2018 21:25

His comments on medical transition vs support of children look OK though?

FlaviaAlbia · 16/04/2018 21:11

Just saw that Meg, wow...

chicklingpixies · 16/04/2018 21:10

I was once in a taxi queue with the kiddles (+a fresh baby in a sling) and we were pretty tired after a long train journey and he barged in and hailed the cab and we had to wait for another one.

megletthesecond · 16/04/2018 21:07

He's a nasty piece of work. He was bloody awful to a woman last week when she said how hard parenting was.

lynmilne65 · 16/04/2018 21:05

Can't we just give trans a rest ? boooring now

ChattyLion · 16/04/2018 20:50

Hes been saying judgemental sexist stuff for years, very disappointing given the whole apparently open minded ‘Embarrassing Illnesses’ shtick.

FlaviaAlbia · 16/04/2018 20:09

Good grief. That's a lot of issues.

I didn't realise he was gay, I wonder how he would react if he was told he should sleep with a trans man?

PeterManYum · 16/04/2018 20:05

I had no idea he was such an arsehole!

RedToothBrush · 16/04/2018 19:55

Yes it was Josie Cunningham

His other controversial moments include:

elegantgatheringofwhitesnows.com/?p=194
Blog about the time he got upset about false rape claims

closeronline.co.uk/real-life/opinion/dr-christian-causes-twitter-controversy-paedophilia-isn-t-choice/
The time he said paedophilia isn't a choice.

m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/20/dr-christian-jessen-drugs-grindr-gay-app-channel-4-embarrassing-bodies_n_7830864.html
The time he got caught on grindr boasting about drug use and then said it was what you did to pull as a gay man

www.laleche.org.uk/dr-christian-jessens-controversial-breastfeeding-remarks/
What he's said about breastfeeding in the past (first half of this is fine. Its the 2014 comments further down in the article which are controversial).

He has body dysmorphia (which is why he has so many muscles) which might also explain his position on this subject.

stitchglitched · 16/04/2018 19:46

I can remember him tweeting about a woman in the public eye who either had or was considering an abortion (Josie Cunningham?) and being shocked at how nasty and judgemental he was for a supposed doctor.

diddlemethis · 16/04/2018 19:43

I do wonder what's going on in his head.

Does he not realise that other people can read his writing? Or is he so confident in his opinion, that he can't imagine other folk might disagree with him? That his foolish, bigoted nonsense will be documented forever?

WhereYouLeftIt · 16/04/2018 19:40

Found this on a quick Google search

twitter.com/doctorchristian/status/712996773417975809

Any lawyers explain why age of consent is 16 (implied that too immature to consent if younger) but age of criminal responsibility is 10?!

1:37 pm - 24 Mar 2016

FlaviaAlbia · 16/04/2018 19:26

I've only seen him on panel shows but he doesn't come across as well as I suspect he thinks he does on them. I wouldn't fancy having him as a Dr, overall a bit creepy...

TerfsUp · 16/04/2018 19:24

Yep. Misogynist to the core.

FencingFightingTorture35 · 16/04/2018 19:23

I wish I could remember the precise tweet but he got a lot of flak a while ago because he said so,ething along the lines of the age of consent being constructed and how other societies were comfortable with younger teens having sex (because some societies have child marriage I think)

If anyone knows what I'm alluding to, I'd be grateful for you hunting it down. It w awful, whatever it was he said. The man is a professional troll

RedToothBrush · 16/04/2018 19:04

He has a long history of hating women.

miri1985 · 16/04/2018 18:27

Men have nothing to lose and get a gold star from others when they say things like this.

Just like OJ he wants to be on the "right side of history" (which I don't think has ever included sterlising children) and knows even if he isn't he won't have to deal with the fall out.

Misogyny is acceptable again and even celebrated as long as you frame it this way

Waddlelikeapenguin · 16/04/2018 18:23

Yeah I remember the BF comment
Flora & capnH have it