Graham Linehan on the chapter about him in Jon Ronson's new book

lol whoops

man alive. have you ever considered just stating what you think?

I mean in the sense that it doesn't do the GC cause any favours to have one of the most prominent voices in it spending ten hours a day on Twitter publically shitting his pants. This is how the "you're all cranks obsessed with genitals" views are born.

Aww.

and using terms you personally disagree with makes him a bad person because...?

c'mon, you're really sure you're right. this should be super easy to explain

It's a reasonably good starting point for internet linguistics surprisingly, as you can follow the sources and do your own research. KnowYourMeme can be useful but isn't great at putting things into context.

If you're interested in that kind of thing the Garbage Day newsletter is pretty good at tracking how the online world changes language, especially the phenomenon of everyday language being affected by content moderation, though it's quite US focused.

So the answer is no, you are unable to back up claiming he’s making “dickhead” comments. While at the same time pretending that you “might” agree with some of his comments, just shit stirring then.

Maybe spend five minutes reading the paper I linked to and you might get why certain assumptions might be made about the views someone using it.

Again, anyone even slightly online who says they aren't aware that there are certain phrases, especially used on X, that are massive dog-whistles is either not that observant or being massively disingenuous. If it's the former, you might want to realise that all those accounts called xxStopTheBoats1488xx might be being a little bit sarcastic when they talk about "cultural enrichment" or "religion of peace", y'know?

Also, if you know where my other sock with raccoons on it is, please do tell.

If you like him and agree with him on what he says and how he says it, you're free to do so. I'm not taking that away from you.

Wikipedia as a reliable source of information. 😂😂

'Kara Dansky'?

Ronson knew “Karen” White was a double rapist, knew evil White was in a female prison and knew White tried to rape women in the prison. He disagreed with Linehan pointing out those facts with a photo of White.

Now, um, let me see, who’s the defender of rapists and who is the defender of women. Perhaps you could help me out on this tricky conundrum…

Graham is a gamer, incidently. If 'playing various video games' makes you a 'gamer'.

Well, you can look at the Wikipedia page on it for a start. Internet is good for helping you look up terms you don't know. This board alone is full of shibboleths that are meaningless to those not already entrenched in GC discussion.

But if you're going to be disingenuous and pretend that something that's been widely discussed enough to have academic papers written about it as a sociolinguistic phenomenon being mentioned but not spelt out for you is some form of sly "TRA rhetoric", then my time is probably better spent pairing my clean socks.

cor, there's a whole lot of bananarama going on here

'he used a term some people all right thinkers disagree with also use. you know what that means, don't you? don't you?'

actually I don't. why don't you just actually say what you mean?

'Kara Dansky'?

Is it?

There's no documented link between Dansky's murders and camp trans, no evidence she met her victims there or that they even attended.

In the court case, the prosecutors never mentioned Michfest and said the motive was to do with gang-related issues.

That's what Jon put in the notes section for the chapter and is also the identical position Kara Dansky now takes post-trial.

Ronson wrote a piece about camp trans.

Decades later, one of the organisers of camp trans committed a heinous murder.

Graham claims that the victims were Michfest regulars. There is zero evidence they ever attended.

You are aware, I assume, of what 'NPC' means in terms of alt-right rhetoric.

I see Graham using this phrase a lot, and either he is entirely unaware of the wider semiotics there (which I find hard to believe for someone so very online and especially in gamer spaces) or he is comfortable with people making whatever assumptions they may choose to about someone using the term in 2026.

NB I haven't said whether I agree or disagree with Graham's views on this thread. And it is possible to agree with someone's views whilst also thinking they are detrimental to the cause.

I've see the term NPC used on this site, generally by poster who are claiming that is what women are being reduced to in reality because they right's have been taken off them in favour of pandering to the men's right movement.
I might consider using to describe how females have become nothing more that a footnote in their own cause, feminism.
It's a term that came from the gamer world but has escaped out into the wild and used often outside a 'gamer' context.
The fact that Glinner is using it could just show how much a part of the cultural lexicon it has become.
Just because those on the 'altright', whatever that is, use it doesn't mean that everyone who uses it is 'altright'. None of the posts where it has been used on these threads gave me the impression they were coming from 'altright' posters.

You are aware, I assume, of what 'NPC' means in terms of alt-right rhetoric.

I see Graham using this phrase a lot, and either he is entirely unaware of the wider semiotics there (which I find hard to believe for someone so very online and especially in gamer spaces) or he is comfortable with people making whatever assumptions they may choose to about someone using the term in 2026.

NB I haven't said whether I agree or disagree with Graham's views on this thread. And it is possible to agree with someone's views whilst also thinking they are detrimental to the cause.