Graham Linehan visited by police again.....

Bloody hell. Papers, please plaster everywhere that tax payer money is being wasted on police dealing with this bullshit when they have insufficient time or resources to deal with real crimes.

I swear, the word 'transphobia' has been Pavlov's Dogged in to public services, to the point where someone says it and they all start running around in circles, crashing into walls, and panicking like a bunch of Edwardians when someone shouts 'women and children first!'

Well done Sandy.

The TRA narrative is starting to fall apart, and the TRAs are getting angrier and angrier

In addition to Jane Clare Jones' discussion of totalitarianism (quoted upthread), I find this discussion of individual and collective narcissism to be a useful perspective:

Research from my PrejudiceLab at Goldsmiths, University of London shows that people who score high on the collective narcissism scale are particularly sensitive to even the smallest offences to their group’s image. As opposed to individuals with narcissistic personality, who maintain inflated views of themselves, collective narcissists exaggerate offences to their group’s image, and respond to them aggressively. Collective narcissists believe that their group’s importance and worth are not sufficiently recognised by others. They feel that their group merits special treatment, and insist that it gets the recognition and respect it deserves. In other words, collective narcissism amounts to a belief in the exaggerated greatness of one’s group, and demands external validation.

bigthink.com/aeon-ideas/why-collective-narcissists-are-so-politically-volatile

Much support to you @glinner

I really hope the press pick this up, thus severely embarrassing said police force and Dr Harressment.

He appears to have an incredibly fragile ego and is very emotion led. You just hand him the rope and he’s so belligerent he can’t help himself it’s tragic.
I’m seriously concerned about his access to members of the public. He is not a safe pair of hands and I really sincerely believe he is a danger to women.

This is worrying me too and not just Harrop. The TRA narrative is starting to fall apart, and the TRAs are getting angrier and angrier, and because the police don't give a shit things seem to be starting to escalate. I'm worried someone is actually going to get hurt.

Glinner
Thanks for coming onto this thread. It's unfuckingbelievable what's happened/happening to you.
Hopefully you're working on a comedy about it all!

Twooter
The police being eager to visit a "sleb" over an accusation is one explanation for their curiously proactive response, but then it beggars the question why were they never so eager to visit other "slebs" like Jimmy Saville despite numerous tip-offs...

What is so amusing about Harrap is the fact that it doesn’t take much to get him upset. He appears to have an incredibly fragile ego and is very emotion led. You just hand him the rope and he’s so belligerent he can’t help himself it’s tragic.
I’m seriously concerned about his access to members of the public. He is not a safe pair of hands and I really sincerely believe he is a danger to women.
glinner

Since Harrop is under active investigation by the GMC can someone let them know about this malicious report? I have already sent my letter in.

I wonder if the police just fancied meeting a celebrity, and seeing where they lived etc, so decided to be a bit more proactive than was necessary. After all, it must have sounded like a nice interesting call compared to what else they may have had to do.

That’s about the measure of it dipple. Look at Posie and Caroline having details of their children and their schools shared and the police shrugging and saying there’s nothing they can do. The difference in approach is astounding, particularly as there are children involved.

Brilliant sandy!

Wonderful, Sandy

Yup.

It takes ten women to say something for it to be listen to as closely as one man.

So let me get this straight.

I had an actual proper real life stalker who sent me flowers to work, followed me from work to train, phoned repeatedly, texted repeatedly, (hundreds if times a day and all hours day and night) made up multiple Facebook accounts wrote lies about me on social media - all because I turned down his advances- and the police told me he was just trying to be friendly and @glinner gets the police at his door because some one got the butt hurt in Twitter?

Ffs.

999 hurty feels, courtesy of Sandy.

Glinner

i had a bottle thrown at me once by a bloke in the town centre There was a couple of policemen there at the time. They just looked at me and then turned away.

Its a struggle to get the police out when you need them.

And its not all tweets they are interested in. The Grenfell residents have had many racist classist tweets since the fire Really nasty stuff and it hasnt got anywhere near this amount of attention from the police.

Glinner hasnt done anything wrong and gets police visits. Racists target Grenfell residents..............tumbleweed.

Women get harassed and threatened..............tumbleweed.

Terfing I've also noticed that the Dr & his usual band of backslappers have not tweeted about this at all.
Curious

Well thingybob. You are just a woman

He is a defender of all trans people throughout the world if no5 the universe

You don't need armies to enforce totalitarianism if you can persuade a populace to monitor and police each other.

In a truly successful police state there’s no need for police anymore.

Good old Norfolk police taking harassment so seriously. When I reported my harasser after hundreds of malicious phone calls, thousands of emails containing death threats and mail sent direct to my home address, I waited three weeks for a visit.

It is all quite minority reporty. Well, at least there is still this intermediate step of the police talking to subjects of interest regarding their intentions before punishment is meted out. So we‘re not quite there, yet.

This is just ridiculous. I had thought the good doctor was merely a twerp and an ignoramus, but he’s really lost the plot and is showing signs of becoming deranged.

Thats an interesting threshold Harrop has set in respect of tweets he thinks are worthy of police attention.

Hope Harrop applies the same standard to his own tweets in the future.