Russell T Davies losing the plot in more ways than one

I despair.

I used to think he was wonderful. I do think he has a blind spot when it comes to women, unfortunately, like so many men.

But it's also perplexing that he doesn't understand the threat gender ideology poses to gay rights, both because young gay men and lesbians are being homophobically "transed" and because lesbian (and to a lesser extent gay male) organisations have been infiltrated by people of the opposite sex. These are not difficult things to understand. I suppose some people just choose not to understand.

RTD is a misogynist. It comes through so clearly in his writing. Women are servant-humans to men, there to further the plot or support male endeavour. They don’t get convincing dialogue or stories of their own.

It’s A Sin was based on the memoir of the fantastic Jill, who was relegated in the TV show to be the nursemaid for the men with no need for her to have a life or ambition of her own. No recognition that ordinary women (particularly lesbians) cared for men dying of AIDS at a time when the world turned its back.

I'm the last one to defend Trump, but I haven't seen any evidence he plans to roll back gay rights, particularly. Is there actually any evidence of this? Genuine question.

I read the article about this in the guardian, and nowhere in the article did it give any clue about which gay rights were affected in the UK. I couldn't understand why the term 'gay rights', rather than, say, 'LGBT rights' was being used, since the only area of alleged rollback (ie correction to comply with the actual legal situation) relates to trans people.

Unless of course Russel T Davies was referring to the curtailment of lesbians to meet and associate without men, or to define their homosexuality???

Didn’t you see the kid slowly transitioning throughout years and years? It was a horrific ‘background this is normal and natural type thing.’

He’s awful

I have never got the love for him? His writing is not great, the dialogue is always so unnatural that it distracts from the plot.

That's such a dumb thing to say about Trump, there is no reason to think he has any problem with gay people. He's always been pretty clear that he doesn't care, he hires plenty of gay people, and iirc, his mentor was a gay man.

I don't understand how it is that people like Davis just make this stuff up, with no reference to reality.

He said that Trump wants gay people

‘biologically altered to become as straight as him’.

My irony meter has exploded.

I used to think he was amazing - I remember the transhumanism plotline in Years and Years and wondering if he “got it”. Although I’m increasingly convinced that a lot of these people absolutely “get it”, they’re just craven enough to discard it in name of ambition.