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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??

OP posts:
TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 06/10/2024 21:41

Genghis Khan. You initially think 'what a great chap, he unified the Mongolian steppe into a massive empire that challenged the powerful Jin dynasty in China and captured territory as far west as the Caspian Sea'

But then you find out that his armies may have slaughtered more people than Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler's combined. As many as 40 million people were killed under his rule.

Also Margaret Thatcher selling off the council houses, that wasn't very clever either.

PeachTiger · 06/10/2024 21:41

Sam Smith

MissAnthr0pe · 06/10/2024 21:43

William and Kate.

Runnerinthenight · 06/10/2024 21:45

MissAnthr0pe · 06/10/2024 21:43

William and Kate.

Why?! What have they done to you?!

Blessedbunny · 06/10/2024 21:46

Blessedbunny · 06/10/2024 20:30

It’s easier to say the ones we do have respect for….

jkr
keanu reeves
rick gervais
david Attenborough
george Michael

Adding Taylor swift to the list

Notaflippinclue · 06/10/2024 21:47

Hunnymonster1 - if you are a cis woman then what is an ordinary, common or garden, down to earth, natural woman - in your cis woman opinion

Thewolvesarerunningagain · 06/10/2024 21:49

Sharptonguedwoman · 06/10/2024 21:10

Best bet here is that he has a trans child. He's very pro trans.

Well that and using his platform to tell women to shut up. He’s chosen to advocate a trans agenda and to use violent imagery to do so. He had other options to get his point across, he chose to make his public posturing aggressive and offensive.

Blessedbunny · 06/10/2024 21:50

Thewolvesarerunningagain · 06/10/2024 21:49

Well that and using his platform to tell women to shut up. He’s chosen to advocate a trans agenda and to use violent imagery to do so. He had other options to get his point across, he chose to make his public posturing aggressive and offensive.

Exactly like Keir Starmer

Runnerinthenight · 06/10/2024 21:51

Plopcandle · 06/10/2024 20:09

JK Rowling. Can’t think of anything more pathetic than her sitting alone and trolling twitter constantly, just because she hates trans people so much- what a loser

Or sitting and doing the same on MN per chance?

JK Rowling doesn't "hate trans people" - she values women and women's spaces!

IMustDoMoreExercise · 06/10/2024 21:52

StressedQueen · 06/10/2024 13:29

What did David Tennant do?

Made anti-women comments

Runnerinthenight · 06/10/2024 21:55

MadeleineMummy · 06/10/2024 20:18

Yes, but the rape crisis centre will not let self-identifying females into the female toilets if they are biologically male. This makes her a bigot. Also she calls women with penises men which is a terf statement and she should be cancelled. She refuses to believe that women with penises are female.

No, it makes her a realist and a supporter of women's rights! I don't want to go to the toilet with a 'woman' with a penis!!!

HTAF could you just sit there and type, "She refuses to believe that women with penises are female." ????

A person with a penis is male, however they choose to identify! I actually think the world has gone fucking mad!

Go JKR!!

Runnerinthenight · 06/10/2024 21:58

MadeleineMummy · 06/10/2024 20:21

What have the Royals done to deserve being celebrities apart from being accidents of birth and being related to someone who could murder more than someone else or the illegitimate child of the historical mass murderer. They are not like Jordan or Samantha Fox who got there by talent and hard work.

"Jordan and Samantha Fox" - "talent and hard work"???

What, getting their tits out to be leched over by men? Holy fuck. How low has society fallen?!

Blessedbunny · 06/10/2024 22:00

Runnerinthenight · 06/10/2024 21:58

"Jordan and Samantha Fox" - "talent and hard work"???

What, getting their tits out to be leched over by men? Holy fuck. How low has society fallen?!

😂😂😂 it’s ok… at least now we know @MadeleineMummy is a bored bloke in his mums spare room (see other comments from him about women having penises etc)

Waitingfordoggo · 06/10/2024 22:01

crockofshite · 06/10/2024 21:24

What on earth is a gender atheist??

Is it not obvious?! Someone who doesn’t believe in the cult of gender. Gender critical people- we know that people are either male or female and that you can’t change sex.

BunnyLake · 06/10/2024 22:03

OptimisticMermaid · 06/10/2024 20:33

Dalia lama though. Very very dodgy!

Oh yes him. He went down in my estimation like a ton of bricks. Vile man.

BunnyLake · 06/10/2024 22:05

Blessedbunny · 06/10/2024 22:00

😂😂😂 it’s ok… at least now we know @MadeleineMummy is a bored bloke in his mums spare room (see other comments from him about women having penises etc)

No biological woman would say that so they pretty much out themselves don’t they!

WigglyBeanstalk · 06/10/2024 22:05

MadeleineMummy · 06/10/2024 20:18

Yes, but the rape crisis centre will not let self-identifying females into the female toilets if they are biologically male. This makes her a bigot. Also she calls women with penises men which is a terf statement and she should be cancelled. She refuses to believe that women with penises are female.

What a lot of goady twaddle. Entertaining though - in a sad way

Runnerinthenight · 06/10/2024 22:06

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.

Well cast aspersions as you wish. I believe in the principle of "innocent until proven guilty".

Anyone with an ounce of sense could see that Savile and al Fayed were sleazy characters. I never could stand Savile and I was a child when he did Jim'll Fix it!!

SweetcornFritter · 06/10/2024 22:07

Hunnymonster1 · 06/10/2024 17:58

I am a cis woman but I have no issues with trans women which must be very hard to feel like you are not who you should be all your life.

i agree that life must be hard for those genuinely suffering from gender dysphoria however many men now identifying as trans are simply men who get a sexual thrill dressing up as women, these were formerly known as transvestites. Do you see any distinction between the two groups?

Yousay55 · 06/10/2024 22:08

Huw Edwards

Runnerinthenight · 06/10/2024 22:09

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.

Edited

Why the hate on the best British male tennis player in generations Andy Murray and the accomplished, successful actress Sarah Lancashire????

Blessedbunny · 06/10/2024 22:09

BunnyLake · 06/10/2024 22:05

No biological woman would say that so they pretty much out themselves don’t they!

Yep!! 🙃

Frankensteinian · 06/10/2024 22:12

Caitlin Moran. Pretending to be such a brave straight talker for women, then when there was something actually important to say she was quiet as a mouse about trans. Absolute coward and a fake

BunnyLake · 06/10/2024 22:12

MadeleineMummy · 06/10/2024 19:27

I think Trans women should be allowed to self identify as a female and any age as biology is relative. If a 35 year old non-transitioned trans woman who self identifies as a 14 year old girl wants to fight my daughter in a boxing ring then I feel that only the bigots would consider this unfair. Likewise if my daughter wants to self identify a a 60 year old male and wants to fight Mike Tyson, then I think she should be allowed even though the bigots would think she would get brain damage from the encounter. Trans rights are human rights, they are not male rights.

I hope this is a hypothetical child.

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