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Ricky Gervais tweet

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Cuppasoupmonster · 02/10/2022 13:49

Grin
Ricky Gervais tweet
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RebOrHon · 02/10/2022 16:56

I was never a fan before but that Ricky Gervais tweet has just seen him promoted into to my ‘decent bloke after all’ category.

TheMarzipanDildo · 02/10/2022 16:56

I tend to agree with RG when he’s being serious about stuff tbh. I like his animal rights campaigning too.

I think he’s logical.

maddiemookins16mum · 02/10/2022 16:48

I used to loathe him, but things like this (and his utter love for his rescue cat) changed things.

Totalityloss · 02/10/2022 16:26

That Tom bloke is basically admitting that he’s advocating for a definition that makes no sense, because it’s the only way to include a group of people who don’t actually fit into the category he’s defining.

ReunitedThorns · 02/10/2022 15:57

MillyWithaY · 02/10/2022 15:33

Interesting (and depressing) isn't it how nobody goes after Ricky Gervais for his GC views, but God help any woman who speaks out?

Are you talking about the same Ricky Gervais that caused so much controversy for telling a GC joke on his Netflix special, with demands for him to be cancelled etc?

thedancingbear · 02/10/2022 15:44

MillyWithaY · 02/10/2022 15:33

Interesting (and depressing) isn't it how nobody goes after Ricky Gervais for his GC views, but God help any woman who speaks out?

Very fair point, this.

The misogyny in the JKR-bashing is as plain as the nose on your face.

MillyWithaY · 02/10/2022 15:33

Interesting (and depressing) isn't it how nobody goes after Ricky Gervais for his GC views, but God help any woman who speaks out?

Noteverybodylives · 02/10/2022 14:21

m.youtube.com/watch?v=WID6w4_gtwo

I love him 😂😂

YouSirNeighMmmm · 02/10/2022 14:17

I sincerely identify as non-binary on the school run but not at an other times. I do this to show up how ridiculous the whole self id thing is, and the nonsense of gender fluidity. I am not sure my sincerity in any way make my non binary status more legitimate or real.

Xoxoxoxoxoxox · 02/10/2022 14:14

I'm glad Ricky is continuing to speak up.
Tom Williamson so intent on re -defining woman but not mentioning the definition of men as usual. The arrogance of 'oh they can mean any old thing it doesn't matter'.

pink85 · 02/10/2022 14:08

It pains me to agree with anything Ricky Gervais says but on these issues he's 100% right. I can't believe we're in a world like this now where the meaning of woman is being argued about and anyone can be one if they feel like it. My head hurts 🙃

Catiette · 02/10/2022 14:07

I find arrogance/ignorance - & utter hypocrisy - of imposing these wholly new „definitions“, recently formulated to accommodate a small proportion of the population, onto 51% of it increasingly upsetting. It’s the gulf between standards that I find truly revealing: a female opposing this with „But I don’t identify as a woman,“ is seen as pedantic at best & bigoted at worst. I questioned it in a staff training session, gently pointing out that it imposed on me a rather amorphous societal/cultural understanding of woman with which I may not agree, while erasing my biological reality… yet somehow still felt guiltily petty for doing so. The presentation, ironically, was about the way in which dominant cultures may railroad individuals into denying/diluting their authentic selves. Again ironically (although luckily, I suppose) the trainer’s response was polite mystification.

Cuppasoupmonster · 02/10/2022 14:01

‘That’s the only definition that works for everyone’

Well it doesn’t work for me Hmm he means it works for men.

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GretaGip · 02/10/2022 13:57

Exactly. Flowers

Most women don't identify as a woman because They Are One

SirChenjins · 02/10/2022 13:56

Ricky Gervais can spout a lot of utter shite at times, but on this on he’s spot on.

I love the definition of ‘…sincerely identifies’ 😂 How is that level of sincerity measured - is there some sort of ‘how sincerely do you identify as a woman’ quiz that men have to undertake before being given a ‘I’m officially a sincere woman’ pink sparkly badge to wear on their flowery blouses?

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