Russell T Davies loses the plot

From yesterday

Bev Jackson at BevJacksonAuth
On BBCWomansHour this morning, EHRC Chair named the right of association of lesbians & gay men as the first area where it would be helpful to clarify that “sex” means biological sex. That Stonewall objects to this makes it crystal clear that today’s Stonewall opposes LGB rights.

It is shocking that an organisation that won the public’s respect for championing gay and lesbian rights now actually opposes those rights. But Stonewall is not an outlier. Most former gay rights - and human rights - organizations have turned against us.

Dennis Noel Kavanagh at jebadoo2
Just stand back and think about this. Stonewall actively oppose the right of homosexuals to assemble politically or socially in single sex spaces. That's just extraordinary when you think about it.

I watched " It's a Sin" ( and i also was around in the 1980's when 'it' was all going on), and was very disappointed to find that the female characters were very poorly drawn and unbelievable. They existed only to be supportive to the male characters and had no life or depth of their own.

Yes, I didn't rate that series at all. It featured incredible shallow portraits of the female characters - they were just two dimensional and there to be supportive.

Coo, Rustle does seem to love himself a bit and push the Me, ME, MEE!! thing a bit much. I think he wants to give the impression that he's some sort of Mahatma Mandela, or something. For someone who aims to do sympathetic characters, he's certainly got no ability to be sympathetic himself, at least, not towards people outside his narrow little gang.

Talk about pot calling kettle black.

archive.ph/cJb6i

Not sure how I missed this from January 2023. 😂 Popping it in this thread for tidiness.

"Doctor Who’s showrunner has criticised a new wave of “rubbish” TV screenwriters who are more interested in diversity than television.
Russell T Davies, the award-winning writer who is <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/cJb6i/www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/10/30/scary-monsters-bin-spare-companions-russell-t-davies-must-do/" rel="nofollow" target="blank">overseeing future episodess of the long-running sci-fi favourite planned by the BBC, has decried the quality of emerging creatives.
Many script writers are in the television industry to “increase representation”, Davies has claimed, and their work is “rubbish”.
He said: “I do a lot of mentoring, and there are voices wanting to be heard – of any gender or ethnicity – who consider themselves invisible.
“They hate the media that ignores them, and they’re trapped into wanting a job in that medium purely to increase representation. I read their scripts and they’re rubbish.
“They don’t actually love television, so they don’t know how to write for it.”

‘Go and work on the bins’
Doctor Who has itself been criticised for pushing a <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/cJb6i/www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2022/10/24/doctor-who-jodie-whittaker-exits-should-bbc-bin-time-lord/" rel="nofollow" target="blank">perceived political agendaa with its recent storylines, which have included a time-travelling episode taking in the bus protest of Rosa Parks, and moves to make the main cast more diverse.
Davies, who revived the series in 2005, has returned as showrunner to oversee future episodes after the most recent run suffered a mixed reception, with a new series set to launch in 2023.
Fellow creative Mark Gatiss, speaking to The Sunday Times, also shared his concern about the quality of emerging TV creatives, saying: “Sometimes I think I’m like Pollyanna because I’ve met so many people over the years who hate making television.
“It seems to make them so miserable. Go and work on the bins or something. It’s hard work – it gives you ulcers – so you have to love it.”
Davies has suggested a method of increasing enthusiasm for television would be to make the entire back catalogue of Doctor Who available on iPlayer, saying that the programme is “our heritage” and “deserves to be there so kids can fall in love” with the series."

helleofabore

Good 🙂

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3384407-Times-letter-petition-STONEWALL-CRITICISED-undermining-women-s-sex-based-rights-and-protections-Jonny-Best-et-al

Aarrgh, weird link pasting thing again...

I wonder if he is aware of Allison Bailey’s court case? Wasn’t this the catalyst for the formation of LGB Alliance?

No, that post-dates it. The main impetus was the total stonewalling of an petition attempt to get them to address concerns with their approach

Thread here:

Mishy - help me understand that. I thought the LGB Alliance were set up in order to help people who were being penalised because of their sexuality e.g. Allison Bailey, a black, working class lesbian who was being discriminated against in her work (allegedly) by, erm, Stonewall.

I do see hate, I wonder if it is the same hate that you see, though?

Don't you bore yourself?

he must have prepared that speech with all the 3 letter words nonsense, no one can improvise that quickly

I think he thought he was being clever. It definitely was prepared. Shame it was nonsense, both in content about the LGB Alliance and his ridiculous suggestion that no-one is allowed to create a charity for specific types of people.

I wonder if he is aware of Allison Bailey’s court case? Wasn’t this the catalyst for the formation of LGB Alliance?

Although truth and logic don’t seem to matter in this ideology

'Plus, yep, he is clearly just another bloke who doesn't give a shit about women or their needs.'

Indeed. Yet another big disappointment

I am not a fan of his so am predisposed to think he talks absolute tosh most of the time, but the timing on this, as the Stonewall pod drops, smacks massively of distraction/deflection by some very savvy lobbyists

Yes, I that he must have prepared the 3 letter word bit, it wasn't even clever from the off (largely because, as some else said, LBG is an acronym not a word) but he still massively overegged it and it just....didn't work

Plus, yep, he is clearly just another bloke who doesn't give a shit about women or their needs.

hmm I have just watched the clip, I agree he may well be intoxicated but he must have prepared that speech with all the 3 letter words nonsense, no one can improvise that quickly. And then when the camera panned to the audience standing up I thought...it's a bit 'tomorrow belongs to me' really...

helleofabore

I admire your optimism

Do you wake every day thinking ‘todays the day mishy will back up a plop with a rational and insightful post that will make us all think’

Or are you more ‘same shit different day’

It's all a scam in my opinion and more are waking up to them!

Evidence please Mishy.

Or is this just another drive by slug at an organisation that you don't like because someone else on the internet didn't like them....

Specific evidence that they are a 'scam' and that they do 'nothing for L, G, or B people'.

You know that 'T' people belong to LGB Alliance don't you?