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What famous people have you lost respect for?

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FeetupTvon · 06/10/2024 12:59

There are currently quite a few I have lost respect for, who are yours and why??

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OptimisticMermaid · 06/10/2024 20:33

Dalia lama though. Very very dodgy!

TwistedWonder · 06/10/2024 20:33

Gary Linekar. Pompous self important tosser

LindorDoubleChoc · 06/10/2024 20:34

Oh look the extremely strange JKR haters have rallied themselves.

Demonhunter · 06/10/2024 20:34

SabreIsMyFave · 06/10/2024 19:48

@Hunnymonster1

I am a cis woman.
But I have no issues with trans women.

Well I'm not a 'cis' woman. I'm a bloody woman. This 'cis' shite can get in the fooking bin. Stupid, ridiculous, woke shite. Anyone who calls me 'cis' woman will get a short shrift from me, and I would NOT call myself this on any forms I had to fill in.

I'll never get my head around women who are happy to be put into a sub set of our sex all because a bunch of men want to claim the word too. So we must budge over and give up the one word that describes the adult female of our species. Not just that, when people bowed to that demand they came after the word female!!!

Boils my blood.

Blessedbunny · 06/10/2024 20:34

sorrythetruthhurts · 06/10/2024 20:29

Been whispers about him for ages, and also seen a video where he's being interviewed on some show and the whole time he's staring down the top of the woman next to him. Apparently he's quite handsy from what I've heard.

Not sure if the full story will ever come out, so no idea if he's a Schofield or a Prince Andrew.

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😂 What?

You are going from ‘looking down the top of a woman’ to Schofield and ‘prince’ andrew? 😂😂

🙄🙄🙄😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

lightand · 06/10/2024 20:35

Thankfully, I think[could be wrong] that the @hero@[and I dont use that term lightly@, that should be speech marks but my keyboard refuses to do them, worship of celebrities, has somewhat dimmed. Thankfully.

LuluBlakey1 · 06/10/2024 20:36

Hunnymonster1 · 06/10/2024 15:01

You mean his stance on trans people because his child is trans and fucking nothing to do with women's rights at all . You guys are wrong and stupid he has never said nothing bad about being a woman at all he said some people are trans get over it and yeah he's bloody right and I am a woman to

Not guys- women.

SabreIsMyFave · 06/10/2024 20:40

Fescue · 06/10/2024 20:32

Well, if you said that about Chris Packham you would get sued. But David Attenborough would never dream about getting wound up by your ludicrous, unsubstantiated lies. For one thing, if what you say is true we would have heard about it by now or at the very least he would not be funded anymore.

This. ^ Disgusting post by @sorrythetruthhurts Hmm

floppybit · 06/10/2024 20:40

HeeseChamwich · 06/10/2024 13:05

David Tennant. I've always loved basically anything he's in (apart from Dr Who) and always thought he seemed like a decent bloke. His stance on women's rights put me right off. Twat.

Me too

Wishfulthinking1977 · 06/10/2024 20:40

For me it's Joe brand and Kathy burke. Loved them as comedians etc but their opinions on twitter a few years ago about people they had worked with and also anyone who didn't agree with them were vile and did make me lose not respect as I respect everyone is entitled to their own opinion but my opinion of them as nice people.

Blessedbunny · 06/10/2024 20:41

TwistedWonder · 06/10/2024 20:33

Gary Linekar. Pompous self important tosser

Yes. I hear he’s about to get his just desserts too

SabreIsMyFave · 06/10/2024 20:42

@Wishfulthinking1977 Agree a little bit about Kathy and Jo.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 06/10/2024 20:43

You guys are wrong

Officer, there's been a misgendering!

PottedPlantCrazy · 06/10/2024 20:44

HeeseChamwich · 06/10/2024 13:05

David Tennant. I've always loved basically anything he's in (apart from Dr Who) and always thought he seemed like a decent bloke. His stance on women's rights put me right off. Twat.

Fully, fully agree.

Blessedbunny · 06/10/2024 20:45

Demonhunter · 06/10/2024 20:34

I'll never get my head around women who are happy to be put into a sub set of our sex all because a bunch of men want to claim the word too. So we must budge over and give up the one word that describes the adult female of our species. Not just that, when people bowed to that demand they came after the word female!!!

Boils my blood.

Same. There are millions of us. Just wouldn’t know it. The men are louder.

Allthehorsesintheworld · 06/10/2024 20:45

I don’t know any famous people well enough to respect or disrespect them.

sorrythetruthhurts · 06/10/2024 20:46

Fescue · 06/10/2024 20:32

Well, if you said that about Chris Packham you would get sued. But David Attenborough would never dream about getting wound up by your ludicrous, unsubstantiated lies. For one thing, if what you say is true we would have heard about it by now or at the very least he would not be funded anymore.

Just like everyone heard about Savile and Al Fayed at the time you mean? Most of these don't come out until decades later.

Of course it's not going to come out for years, if ever, and even if it did people would react like you and refuse to believe it. There are many people who still believe Michael Jackson is innocent.

Believe what you like, I don't care. I'm answering the question posed by the OP, you can have whatever opinion on it you like.

Worryer · 06/10/2024 20:46

Chris Evans for weighing Victoria Beckham back in the 90s TV show TGIF. Hate it every time I see that clip come up on reels. Well the hell did he think he was?!

Fescue · 06/10/2024 20:46

You guys are wrong and stupid he has never said nothing bad about being a woman at all he said some people are trans get over it and yeah he's bloody right and I am a woman to

Stupid?

"never said nothing bad" does not equate to positive. It is two negatives.

This is how I would rewrite your post, so I looked less stupid. Five suggestions.

You guys are wrong and stupid. He has never said anything bad about being a woman at all. He said some people are trans, get over it. He's bloody right and I am a woman too.

Your views, of course, are your own. I am not questioning those views.

Fescue · 06/10/2024 20:47

sorrythetruthhurts · 06/10/2024 20:46

Just like everyone heard about Savile and Al Fayed at the time you mean? Most of these don't come out until decades later.

Of course it's not going to come out for years, if ever, and even if it did people would react like you and refuse to believe it. There are many people who still believe Michael Jackson is innocent.

Believe what you like, I don't care. I'm answering the question posed by the OP, you can have whatever opinion on it you like.

Post the video you referred to. Go on.

Ger1atricMillennial · 06/10/2024 20:53

Over the last 10 years I have just learned to just not be a fan of anyone in particular. To get to the top of the tree and maintain a reasonable level of integrity is pretty impossible. The question for me is who are they harming and is it avoidable?

For example I agree with JK Rowling regarding the preservation of single sex spaces (bathrooms, changing rooms, prisons, health spaces and sports) but it has been difficult to support the rhetoric she uses. I think she does it like that to keep it in the news. She is going to get a lot more engagement from writing an offensive tweet then a reasonable one. Its the same as the Trump hack of saying daft and offensive stuff because that will be on the front of the news. However for us that agree with her, it is then easy for the TRA's to point to those tweets as a source of transphobia rather than listening to the very valuable reasoning behind it.

I am very uncomfortable about the "cult" like following that she gets for this behaviour. Its getting to the point where it is just as corrosive as the "Trans-Women are Women" rheteroic by just boiling everyone down to either "woke" or "terfs" or "karens".

LuluBlakey1 · 06/10/2024 20:54

I can't think, at the moment anyway, of many 'celebs' I have any respect for.

Sir David Attenborough
Sir Andy Murray
Gordon Brown
JK Rowling
Victoria Coren
Ricky Gervais
David Mitchell
Ian Hislop
Paul Merton
Alan Bennett
Sarah Lancashire
Chris Packham

I loathe footballers, all reality tv stars, Loose Women, Harry and Me-again, influencers, women who are prepared to sell their bodies and sexuality for publicity and money, men who are sexist and exploit women, anyone who mistreats animals, liars, Tories, Republicans, cheats, talentless nepos, money-grabbers, the orange of face and body, those with black slug eyebrows, the tattooed, the badly dressed, the smug, the hypocrites, the preachy religious hypocrites, the dim but loud, the druggies, alcoholics, the women-beaters.

Doesn't leave anyone much really. Most celebs fall into several of those categories.

MadeleineMummy · 06/10/2024 20:55

Blessedbunny · 06/10/2024 20:27

It’s tricky isn’t it… for people to say ‘tw are women’ when it is obviously and more importantly, evidentially not the case, is bonkers.

I understand the nuances of biology; that people’s bodies come in all sorts of configurations based on chromosomes whether X and Y or an intersex combination of either as well as the complications of characteristics based on how people view themselves and how they traverse a highly gendered society that has historically been striated based on gender based roles. I understand the complexities of biology, characteristics and how people chose to identify. Society has moved beyond gendered based norms where there are men who are the hunters and women the child-rearers into a more complex one based not on genitalia but encompassing all the nuances of gendered characteristics,facial hair, genitalia, chromosomes, the complex interplay of hormones, society, upbringing and self perception. While I support trans rights and the right for someone to feel comfortable and to be accepted by society at large and by their peers, I also think that it should not be to the detriment of women who have faced historical gender based abuse and discrimination. while I have a lot of sympathy for intersex people, I also think that self-identification is not an ideal situation which impinges upon the rights of biologically born and biologically identified females who struggled and struggle with gender based violence. At the end of the day it is invariably someone with a oenjs that rapes. we need to ensure that women are protected and are given spaces that allow them to feel comfort and succour and to be themselves without being an object. Whether this is non-gendered changing rooms and foilets to solve a solution of comfort in gendered spaces or some other means, I don’t know. What I feel strongly about is that women’s rights should not be superseded by trans rights and some sort of accommodation derived from communication and discourse should be agreed upon. Otherwise this issue of both women’s and trans rights will be decided upon by far right ideologies who believe in neither and will use infringements of the rights of both to provide ignorant ideological aound-bites not based on the complexities of the situation to quash the rights of both parties.

SinnerBoy · 06/10/2024 20:58

FeetupTvon · Today 18:37

Harry

Why would you respect someone simply because they were born into a position of enormous privilege, simply because of an accident of birth and the fact that his ancestors were just the toughest mob of gangsters?

YellowSundress · 06/10/2024 21:00

Drinkdrinkduuurink · 06/10/2024 18:27

She was abusive. Very abusive. And leaving shit on the bed, vile.

They were both at it, but she also came across as extremely unlikable.

*for some reason I didnt quote the poster. This was in regard to the woman who lost the case with Depp.

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And...depp' texts with bettany made him ...likeable?

What he said and did is just as bad as anything she said or did yet she's the one who has been completely villified.