Rishi is a bully because he says 'a man is a man'

I lurk a lot on this board and have also been several times to Thursday night recordings of the various Friday R4 comedy shows. The average audience age every time I've been must have been well above 50. A sea of silvering hair. In stark contrast to the panel of 'comedians'. Three or four decades of sexism and life experience as a woman can make you pretty terfy. Plus the menopause can really make the scales fall.

I'm not at all surprised at the lukewarm audience reaction. I wonder if the BBC will edit in one of the fake rounds of enthusiastic applause/laughter they get the audience to do at the very start under the guise of 'checking the volume levels'.

This doesn’t surprise me. Whatever your political leaning, everyone knows that RS was just stating what everyone knows to be a fact. It doesn’t make you a Tory or in favour of Tory politics to agree with a factual statement made by our Tory PM. It’s puerile to think in this way but then many comedians are puerile. It sounds as if the ones on the R4 show need to catch up with the public mood on the issue.

Speaking the truth is not bullying.

Gaslighting and performative victim hood is manipulative bullying.

Just another man attacking anyone standing up for women's rights to their identity, their privacy and safety.

I went to a recording of the news quiz last night where as you would expect the tories were roundly mocked for a lot of their party conference nonsense over the last week or so.

There was a noticeable dampening of the applause and laughter in the radio 4 audience when the transwoman on the panel starting having a go at sunak about this. The BBC panel of comedians was all in but the audience far less so.

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Who cares what this Belgian person thinks? Can’t believe it’s been given column space. The person also contradicts themself by talking about having the hide of a rhinoceros but finding Rishi’s statement of fact hurtful 🤷‍♀️

Then reality's a bully. <shrug>

You can't require the rest of the world to lie through their teeth to try and keep such fragile people happy, and you can't keep reality in a box away from them. You can only provide them individually with the emotional support necessary to learn to be less fragile, less dependent on and overly entitled towards others in requiring this kind of care and labour from them (even from total strangers), and to cope with reality with less distress.