Edinburgh Fringe comic spat on and shunned by colleagues as a 'transphobe' for show about women

I think North Korea are quite good at this, the armed guards who walk the crowd checking everyone claps and cries in the right places and arresting those who aren't doing it convincingly enough?

Laughing AT the wrong kind of shows will also become a hate crime.

and in seemingly Kafka-esque fashion you won’t be told whether you laughed at the wrong show or failed to laugh at the correct show as both shows will be running at the exact same time in the exact same venue.

She was seen cavorting with known problematic persons

Would you mind telling us why you think Glinner is a 'known problematic person' @PeriodBro?

Just watched another couple of videos of Ives' gigs.... not funny at all. My take out is that they get a few laughs here and there. And even at the end... the applause was not all that enthusiastic.

meh. Maybe DadJoke can accept that Ives' is not funny, and has little respect for others.

In fact, it would seem to be hypocritical to accuse (hence why the accusation is from someone else) people attending their show with ulterior motives anyway. Considering just what they did at the LGB Alliance Conference.

But hey.... never let the truth get in the way ...

If this is the kind of ageist awkward non-comedy in Jen Ives's show, I can suggest another explanation for the "whole row" of people who failed to laugh.

Don't go giving them any ideas, Rhannion.

Maybe it will be a hate crime in Scotland now to not laugh at shows at the Edinburgh Fringe😂

Elaine Miller is a physiotherapist specialising in women's health ie post partum and menopausal issues. This field includes transmen and "nonbinary" females.

Can anyone explain HOW exactly her expertise would be relevant to a transwoman? Either with a functioning penis or an inverted one?

It would be like going to a criminal barrister then complaining that they couldn't do the conveyancing for your house purchase.

So far you've suggested that "transphobia" is knowing the definition of woman & not laughing at an unfunny comedian.

I'm getting the impression that you're just an angry man who enjoys writing silly things on the Internet.

Who the hell has got money & time to spend going to a comedy show and not laugh? 😂Has it crossed your mind that maybe, just maybe Jen isn’t funny? Do you seriously think anyone could be bothered to do that?

Are we going to have to get out our camping chairs and picnic food for a long wait again?

Yup. Infidel.

As I said, your issues with religious intolerance are your issues.

She was seen cavorting with known problematic persons, and did sit with arms afolded and verily not a smirk nor a chuckle was seen to pass her lips the whole time the blessed kind and gentle comedienne was making jokes about hating old people. BURN THE WITCH.

But they're not.

By any objective criteria.

The show is about women, not people with vulvas.

Or is that literally it?

"She has been on Graham Linehan's show - burn the witch!"

As I said, has anyone reported this hate crime?

They should, PeriodBro.

If we let people get away with sitting quietly with their arms crossed, it'll embolden them to behave even more violently next time.

If this behaviour isn't nipped in the bud, what next? A tut? Yawning? Eye-rolling?! It doesn't bear thinking about 😢

A check of their thinking is in order.

Please elaborate.

She's not!

Anyone know how many seats in a row?

It’s £12 a ticket so it’s very generous of the Terven to support a stunning & brave comedien like this.

Well, she's been on Graham Linehan's show and thats always a good sign.

S

Really? Just the one row? Clearly there are a lot more be kind people around than I would have expected having watched that sad clip. If I was paying to see an hour of that lacklustre effort I probably wouldn’t have walked out ( unless I was sitting at the end of a row) but I wouldn’t have laughed either.

Yes I can imagine how it would be easier not to laugh at Jen Ives. Perhaps it is true after all.

Ever try to sit through a funny comedians show and force yourself not to laugh?

It's not easy to purposefully not laugh at a proper funny person

From Twitter. That's very true.

Isn’t that what the RC church used to do / does with troublesome priests who are caught fiddling with their parishioners. It’s a dangerous and dishonest way to deal with behaviour that you know is wrong. It gives the behaviour legitimacy, it gives the person involved the sense that they are the one being victimised. By simply moving the worker to another venue they are colluding in the behaviour.