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I love Robert Webb a little bit more

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Miketv · 19/09/2018 20:00

This thread

twitter.com/arobertwebb/status/1042402937023221761

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Ereshkigal · 21/09/2018 15:28

Check this petulant response!

twitter.com/tetrarchangel/status/1043136648123441152?s=20

DukeOfSussex · 21/09/2018 15:19

He's at it again.

SecondRow · 21/09/2018 10:05

Love him. Have to say I laughed at this response:
twitter.com/thewaether/status/1042820030881325059

You wrote a book about how to not be a boy. And you don't have to be one. Just bear that in mind

It's ok, Robert! Instead of spending probably a few years of your life sensitively interrogating male socialization and standing up for women, you too could be brave and stunning and on the right side of history. We're here for you Flowers

Theinconstantgardener · 21/09/2018 09:55
I love him too and David Michell. This is one of my fav sketches.
Shampooeeee · 21/09/2018 05:22

Well done Robert, welcome to the team.

GulagMilkMonitor · 20/09/2018 23:48

He is a star.
Hysterically funny, intelligent and it would seem, someone who can construct a well put together argument.

I like to think DM, VCM etc. are in agreement too.
Giles Coran showed GC leanings only last week.

FloralBunting · 20/09/2018 23:39

One of his tweets on that thread has aaaall the bobbleheads frothing. I shouldn't imagine it's going to keep him up at night.

blinkowl · 20/09/2018 13:31

This is my favourite response to that thread;

'Man defending women, knowing that current trans activism does not represent most v decent trans people, and not standing for disingenuous fuckwittery' is my favourite ever character of yours. Thank you

TheGoddessFrigg · 20/09/2018 13:16

What I have against Robert Webb- his book made me cry twice on the bus. And I NEVER cry...

JellySlice · 19/09/2018 22:28

not standing for disingenuous fuckwittery

Oh yes Grin

GreenGloves · 19/09/2018 22:25

Grin love that silent!

silentcrow · 19/09/2018 22:03

If I remember rightly he commented some time ago to Glinner or possibly Johnny Best that he was (and I'm paraphrasing wildly) plucking up the courage to come out of the GC closet. So I've been hoping for this for a while, and he's not the only one.

I'm entirely delighted by this tweet and gif in reply to him: mobile.twitter.com/BustedWench/status/1042429688411574273

Handsoffmyrights · 19/09/2018 21:34

Alina tried a couple of times to get the trolls to pile on.

I like Robert's line about trans: "They are normal farty humans like you & me. TRA ideology however..."

FloralBunting · 19/09/2018 21:32

A thing of joy, quite frankly.

Butterymuffin · 19/09/2018 21:29

And it gets to the point brilliantly to say he has no problem with trans people, it's TRA ideology that's the problem. Hear hear.

Butterymuffin · 19/09/2018 21:25

He is very good at standing up for women. I really like what he does on Twitter. Please keep going if you see this RW!

Bowlofbabelfish · 19/09/2018 21:23

Extremists are always so humourless. Never so much as a chuckle is there?

CircumzenithalArc · 19/09/2018 21:10

♡♡

DixieFlatline · 19/09/2018 21:06

I too saw this about half an hour ago. Hard to knock his approach really. Gets attacked, tells it like it is. Isn't volunteering himself as a human shield off his own bat as such, but also isn't doing so and claiming cookies and a medal for what hundreds of women are doing all the time. He's just keeping on keeping on, being a decent person prepared to stand up to some manipulative fuckwits. I approve.

RichardLongcross · 19/09/2018 20:59

All I can hear in my head is Malcolm Tucker shouting "ARE YOU SO DENSE?" mid rant.

Anlaf · 19/09/2018 20:58

Lily Maynard! Anyway, I think he is a good chap

lilymaynard.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/the-twitter-peep-show/

SPOFS · 19/09/2018 20:58

Didn't David Mitchell's wife write something gender critical a while back? In the Guardian I think.

Anlaf · 19/09/2018 20:56

I think he tweeted the piece by the mum of the girl that Janice Turner wrote about and I cannot remember her name

And got loads of flak for it

OlennasWimple · 19/09/2018 20:48

I read and re-read those screenshotted tweets from Alina that were supposed to be a "gotcha!" moment.... And I can't see what anyone on earth can get offended by in them Confused

BlardyBlar · 19/09/2018 20:48

Another prominent male comedian/writer speaking out.

Very grateful to anyone brave enough to do so.

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