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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 21:45

I'm really hoping that at least some papers review it and rip it to shreds - it deserves it!

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ToeToToe · 14/10/2018 21:43

The script is awful, it's like Susie Green's TED Talk written as a third rate drama.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:43

What is with these kids asking about the sex lives of their parents - do they have no boundaries!

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Moanella · 14/10/2018 21:42

Grandad the voice of reason so far.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:42

The grandad has got it right!

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IAmNotInvisible · 14/10/2018 21:42

Dad - "I gotta be there for him?"

Er yes. He's your child. You're supposed to be there for your children. It's in the dad job description.

Excellent and innovating script writing.

NotTerfNorCis · 14/10/2018 21:41

If it's as bad as you all say

There's a lot of positive feedback on the #butterfly tag on Twitter though.

MrsToddsShortcut · 14/10/2018 21:39

Exactly. If I'm a boy and I'm wrong (to the point of being beaten) for liking 'girl stuff', maybe I am a girl. Then Dad will stop hitting me.

Trinity1976 · 14/10/2018 21:39

If it's as bad as you all say, hopefully it will be a big own goal for Mermaids.

MrsToddsShortcut · 14/10/2018 21:38

Dad wants to 'keep his son'. Apart from being manipulative, this is also quite dull.

Wow. Nice but of child abuse there, based on a kid in a pink jumper.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:37

And dad wallops him when he's wearing a skirt and dancing. No reason at all this wee boy might think he's a girl - none at all

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 14/10/2018 21:37

This is horrendous.

NotTerfNorCis · 14/10/2018 21:37

The dad will eventually learn to say 'I'd rather have a living daughter than a dead son'.

IAmNotInvisible · 14/10/2018 21:37

How many kids are going to watch this and start thinking they are trans? Girls that don't like pink and glitter, for instance?

To be honest I think most will think it's drivel. I don't think many will relate to it at all.

Moanella · 14/10/2018 21:37

Just the acting alone is fucking appalling.

scotsheather · 14/10/2018 21:34

They show the father being sensible (about blockers) and abusive at the same time, thats really sad.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:34

And now the mother is saying that she wanted a girl - FFS this is red flags all over the place.

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NotTerfNorCis · 14/10/2018 21:34

How many kids are going to watch this and start thinking they are trans? Girls that don't like pink and glitter, for instance?

This is dangerous stuff.

IAmNotInvisible · 14/10/2018 21:34

It's getting almost unwatchable. I could have been watching The Cry if I didn't already know the ending ........

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:34

And now mother is talking about hormones in pregnancy...

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Jodie777 · 14/10/2018 21:33

God, it's awful.

NotTerfNorCis · 14/10/2018 21:32

Nice young lady suggests puberty blockers.

To make later surgery possible.

No one is asking if anything else could be the issue.

MrsToddsShortcut · 14/10/2018 21:32

We know that 90% of kids on puberty blockers go straight on cross sex hormones.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 14/10/2018 21:31

I cannot believe that a GP would suggest gender dysphoria and blockers on a first appointment without having seen the child.

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MrsToddsShortcut · 14/10/2018 21:31

Oh. I see. There are ways to 'be boys'. Who diagnosed him that quickly? Oh! Straight onto blockers.