Linehan tweeting misogyny and racism now

Can anyone clarify exactly what Graham did that has given rise to the idea that he's anti votes for women?

Given a choice between voting for someone who locks female prisoners up with men, or voting for someone who will scrap gender pay gap reporting, I'll vote for the president who will protect female prisoners. I'd have expected the proper old-school Left to agree with me on this. Gender pay gaps address problems faced by women who are privileged enough to have a job (a.k.a. the ever-demonised "middle-class white feminists"). Rehousing men into the male estate where they belong protects some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people within society.

Gender identity cultists will justify anything, no matter how much it hurts a group of women who are more likely to have been DV victims and more likely to have been brought up in poverty than every other group of women out there.

Look at the rest of the tweets made by the original author; he's clearly a virulent misogynist. No he's not being 'ironic' or 'exaggerating' - and even if he were, what is he exaggerating? Using strong misogyny to mitigate his light misogyny? Sorry, that doesn't wash. So why is Linehan retweeting it? And try not to answer with some five-dimensional chess move he's apparently making; agree with his GC views or not, he clearly has a problem with women, and has done for years.

He's been back to harassing JKR for not being deferential enough to him in the last few days ffs.

Nope. It is a product of their deranged fevered imagination and taking everything out of context.

Can anyone clarify exactly what Graham did that has given rise to the idea that he's anti votes for women?

Given a choice between voting for someone who locks female prisoners up with men, or voting for someone who will scrap gender pay gap reporting, I'll vote for the president who will protect female prisoners. I'd have expected the proper old-school Left to agree with me on this. Gender pay gaps address problems faced by women who are privileged enough to have a job (a.k.a. the ever-demonised "middle-class white feminists"). Rehousing men into the male estate where they belong protects some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people within society.

Gender identity cultists will justify anything, no matter how much it hurts a group of women who are more likely to have been DV victims and more likely to have been brought up in poverty than every other group of women out there.

The coin doesn't even mention race - but even if it did... Brunel's structures were built by slaves brought in through Bristol.

You are obviously not in the UK otherwise you would know that slavery was never really a thing here besides which Britain abolished slavery in 1833 & the vast majority of Brunel's structures were erected after that date.

Finally he is laughing at the coin because it is almost literally a meaningless token just like the phrase (OK it is worth 50p).

The UK has only become diverse in very recent times for example when I was born in 1953 there were only about 20,000-30,000 black people in Britain & perhaps 10,000-15,000 Asians. The figures now are about 2.5 million black people & nearly 6 million of Asian heritage.

"if we want to be a serious country with law & order, anything short of outright abolishment of the 19th amendment would be a grave half-measure".
The 19th amendment allowed women to vote in America. Is that statement also not misogynist?

It's a joke. It's obvious from the hyperbole of "a grave half-measure". Funnily enough a sense of humour failure seems to go with the TRA territory.

Thanks for your unqualified opinion. But the bi modal spectrum is scientifically uncontroversial.

"The human body develops through a complex cascade of genetic and hormonal events. While traditional models often reduce biological sex exclusively to gamete production (producing either large ova or small sperm), this approach can be too rigid to account for all human bodies in reality. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Variations in sex traits—often referred to collectively as intersex or differences in sex development (DSD)—mean that an individual’s chromosomes, hormones, and anatomy do not always align with a single category. The bimodal spectrum embraces this physical reality, recognizing that biological sex is a multifactorial combination of traits with observable, naturally occurring variance. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]"

Like I keep sayin' cultists will justify anything…..

I'm pretty sure GL doesn't want to remove women's right to vote, but even if he did, this would not change the fundamental fact that humans come in two distinct sexes which are not interchangeable. .

Do you know if mixed race people are included in those figures?

I don't know but suspect that the number of mixed race people in 1953 was very low because

1. There weren't many black or brown people
2. There was little interracial marriage.

I'm surprised at those figures. I grew up in a very multicultural area so imagined the figure was higher. My husband was one of the 20,000.

Do you know if mixed race people are included in those figures?

Women's spaces with no access to voting?

He's a wrong un, as are many in the GC movement - it's why I stopped engaging with it. You can believe that a man can never be a woman and vice versa without engaging in bigotry and intolerance.

The coin doesn't even mention race - but even if it did... Brunel's structures were built by slaves brought in through Bristol.

You are obviously not in the UK otherwise you would know that slavery was never really a thing here besides which Britain abolished slavery in 1833 & the vast majority of Brunel's structures were erected after that date.

Finally he is laughing at the coin because it is almost literally a meaningless token just like the phrase (OK it is worth 50p).

The UK has only become diverse in very recent times for example when I was born in 1953 there were only about 20,000-30,000 black people in Britain & perhaps 10,000-15,000 Asians. The figures now are about 2.5 million black people & nearly 6 million of Asian heritage.

I'm embarrassing myself? Do I need to find more examples of his misogyny? Claiming his ex-wife's show was shit once he was no longer involved in writing it? Leading a witch-hunt against Imane Khelif despite her not being trans? Vocally, enthusiastically supporting 'grab-them-by-the-pussy' Trump? I'm sick of him being held up as any sort of defender of women's rights despite clearly having no interest in women's rights outside of his own ego.

Exactly how much leeway are you happy to give him just because you agree with him on one subject?

The thing is: Graham Linehan could be the devil incarnate (and I'm not saying he is) he would still be absolutely correct that men can't become women and that they should stay the fuck out of women-only spaces.

Depends on the biological framework used.

Male in the sense of binary reproductive sex but female in the sense of bi/multi modal trait sex.

But good luck teaching cultists new tricks.

Exactly. The point of this thread is to smear us with guilt by association.

It's as ridiculous as suggesting that anyone who prefers motorways over A roads for long journeys is a literal Nazi because Hitler thought the same and so organised the building of the autobahns.