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I Robin Ince doing that thing..

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Notagain20 · 26/08/2021 15:38

... where male celebrities pronounce on the transgender issue on twitter then only reply to men? No matter how obscure the man, ignoring well informed or high profile women?

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pascheretloire · 27/08/2021 18:34

@Deliriumoftheendless Josie Long has been a good little handmaiden for years though. A disgrace of a woman.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/08/2021 17:43

To be honest, that faux-naive, goading attitude is more contemptible than saying nothing (contrary to my previous posts!).

So many blue tick men do this.

Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons · 27/08/2021 14:21

Shocked to see RI has scurried off Twitter now Hmm

I Robin Ince doing that thing..
Abhannmor · 27/08/2021 08:46

@InspiralCoalescenceRingdown

I'm guessing this is the Varoufakis tweet? action4equalityscotland.blogspot.com/2021/08/hang-in-there-sisters.html?m=1

@Abhannmor I googled it, according to Wikipedia, Ince is 52! I guess we can roundly ignore him now because he's an old white man?

Also, 26! I wish I could write half as good as that at any age!

Yeah that's me written off then! And at 26 I was a bartender. Ah well.
BraveBananaBadge · 27/08/2021 08:39

@Theeyeballsinthesky

“ I just don’t understand what is going on”

But funnily enough he knows enough to decide women are the ones in the wrong Hmm

To be honest, that faux-naive, goading attitude is more contemptible than saying nothing (contrary to my previous posts!).

So disappointing.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 27/08/2021 08:30

“ I just don’t understand what is going on”

But funnily enough he knows enough to decide women are the ones in the wrong Hmm

ZuttZeVootEeeVro · 27/08/2021 08:22

Robin Ince Blue heart
@robinince
· Aug 25
I just don't understand what is going on and can't help but feel that people are being played yet again

Notice how he thinks silly women concerned about their safety, dignity and the idea that we can be redefined at a mans demand, are the people who are being played?

Not him. He would never be played.

merrymouse · 27/08/2021 08:08

He actually had quite a long twitter chat with me a few weeks ago - basically saying all his feminist friends tell him there are no problems and I was blowing it all up out of proportion.

At least in the olden days before feminism was fashionable, women who 'just wanted everyone to be equal' didn't pretend to be nasty feminists.

InspiralCoalescenceRingdown · 27/08/2021 07:56

I'm guessing this is the Varoufakis tweet? action4equalityscotland.blogspot.com/2021/08/hang-in-there-sisters.html?m=1

@Abhannmor I googled it, according to Wikipedia, Ince is 52! I guess we can roundly ignore him now because he's an old white man?

Also, 26! I wish I could write half as good as that at any age!

Abhannmor · 27/08/2021 07:42

Glinner is 53 , @InspiralCoalescenceRingdown. So he was 26 when he started on Fr.Ted. Sigh....

borntobequiet · 27/08/2021 07:37

I find him annoying. He’s always struck me as someone who has risen in his profession on the coat tails of other funnier, cleverer people.

BraveBananaBadge · 27/08/2021 07:24

I assumed she might have meant Yannis Varoufakis, but not aware of the context tbh.

Igneococcus · 27/08/2021 05:57

From Suzanne's piece:

I am well used to the fox botherers and the Corbynited Right Side of History mob and the smooth Greek motorcyclist telling the women of Afghanistan to “Hang in there sisters”.

Who is the "smooth Greek motorcyclist"?

NiceGerbil · 27/08/2021 05:11

I have never heard of this ince fella before.

Malin52 · 27/08/2021 05:07

Ince is only celebrity status Z because he was pals with Gervais, was always his stand up warm up guy and has appeared in lots of his stand up DVDs.

You never hear with of them talk about each other now. Gervais is squarely GC as we know. Wonder how that sits with Ince's misogynist woke politics.

NiceGerbil · 27/08/2021 04:32

Reading some of the tweets on that and esp the men saying TWAW etc really brought it home that when men say TWAW what they mean is tw are not men. And that explains a lot.

BraveBananaBadge · 26/08/2021 23:45

That's absolutely wonderful from Suzanne. Nail on head.

Roomba and Operation you are spot on too.

yourhairiswinterfire · 26/08/2021 23:19

@Notagain20

... where male celebrities pronounce on the transgender issue on twitter then only reply to men? No matter how obscure the man, ignoring well informed or high profile women?
Suzanne Moore has done a write up on this.

suzannemoore.substack.com/p/men-who-just-cannot-hear-women-ince?r=cldek&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

littlbrowndog · 26/08/2021 22:56

Just a posh bloke who has no skin in th3 game

Never heard of him

Who cares what he thinks

Never going to affect him or his family

OperationDessertStorm · 26/08/2021 22:47

It’s so infuriating. When you start Cherry picking what science is ‘real’ or what facts are allowable, you get all of us into this mess with anti vaxers, climate change deniers, creationism etc. He’s cracking the door.

What sort of failure of a feminist would say it’s ok for women to be locked up in a prison with ANY male with an ‘identity’?

ARoombaOfOnesOwn · 26/08/2021 22:42

I don’t know how you can claim to be intelligent and a sceptic and talk about science and be known for being good at those things and also say non-binary makes sense.

InspiralCoalescenceRingdown · 26/08/2021 22:30

@Heidi1982

Ughh, I saw Robin Ince live recently and although some of his set was very funny, he was rude about Glinner and people who "don't understand non-binary" and "get upset about pronouns." At that point I stopped laughing. He slagged Glinner off for being an old white man, which was ironic!
What? The obvious aside, surely they're roughly the same age?

Ughh indeed!

BernardBlackMissesLangCleg · 26/08/2021 21:52

So I now don't especially want to listen to Infinite Monkey Cage so much

yep, I get this. it's not for me, is it? Robin thinks I'm a pearl clutching daftie. It just makes me not want to spend my down time with him

BraveBananaBadge · 26/08/2021 21:40

Gave Glinner a bit of a hard time in my last post, when he was on Twitter I used to totally get why people kept their head down when he targeted them with tricky questions. I'd have pretended not to see too, it was often very uncomfortable.

So much has changed in the landscape since then. I see now to ignore it is to be complicit.

Pudmyboy · 26/08/2021 21:17

Me too, this has opened my eyes. Sigh. It is really difficult to know who you can trust to support women these days.