What famous people have you lost respect for?

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

This. It isn't true, because there is no evidence for it apart from a weird bloke's theory.

@TwistedWonder Thanks for reminding me of Noel's quote, it's even better than I remember. He's spot on and he writes some good tunes too.

The two faced Sheen creep should hang his head in shame...

Nah but now we have Labour and "their lying, self serving, divisive shenanigans".

We were always between the devil and the deep blue sea. All the same sow's litter.

Yet.

Dear god but your posts are naive!

Noel Edmonds and his cosmic ordering???😂

WTF would you have respect for someone who "literally shot and killed people for fun"?? Or someone who "killed the headmaster of his school"?? Or someone who "literally killed and ate people and washed it down with wine"???

I have no idea about the veracity of any of those claims but surely it's warped and sick to respect people you consider to be murderers?!!

They were both as bad as each other!

Um....... seeing as the post you are quoting is literally referencing fictional film characters, I think it's safe to say it's a joke!!
(I bloody hope so anyway 😳😂)

I wouldn't be so sure!

This site is actually batshit!!

Plus, a joke is meant to be funny!

Yeah, he’s a bell-end for sure.

It is telling that these people are actors. They take on characters and people ascribe the the actions of the character to the actor. The actor can be totally different in real life

yeah all these people write anti war songs shouldn’t bother. All the folk songs and the songs of the working people to protest against inequity and in support of working people should be erased from history. The song and poems that were anti war or describing the massacres of yore (cannons to the left of us, etc) should all be put in a skip. We just need people to come out and sing, “en maybee ya gonna be def win too say me cos yore may wunder whoal”

Kemi Badenoch is a woman. (I realise this may be confusing for some people who appear to think black women are women in the same way that trans women are women.)

Wilhelm Burgdorf was a high ranking Nazi. Monroe Burgdorf chose the surname Burgdorf when he decided to become a teanswoman and therefore he must be a Nazi.

I mean, if it's the case for JK Rowling's pen name then it must be even more true for Monroe?

Yes I expect that's what happened, @TWETMIRF - if someone on the internet reckons it, that's all the evidence I need!

I tend to apply Occam's razor principle in situations like this.

What is more likely?

JK Rowling, who has never given any indication that she supports gay conversion therapy (and has in fact publicly expressed the opposite sentiment) deliberately chose her nom de plume in honour of a gay conversion therapist?

Or, JK Rowling, who has always had great fun naming her characters, liked the name Robert Galbraith and doesn't spend her time Googling to see whether any name she chooses might possibly be problematic? (Particularly bearing in mind that when she chose the name Robert Galbraith she wasn't yet the subject of a witch hunt and hoped to achieve literary success using an anonymous alter ego rather than selling more books using her own already very famous name.)

OK.

Quite @MissScarletInTheBallroom

He stared at a gorilla’s breasts while they were breast feeding and he misgendered a jelly fish.

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It's not OK to openly abuse a woman just because she's only one woman, or because you disagree with her political views.

Kemi Badenoch deserves to be treated with a minimum of respect, just like everyone else.

If you're comfortable with someone being abusive to Kemi Badenoch because you personally disagree with her politics, are you also comfortable with someone being abusive to JK Rowling and Rosie Duffield because of their views on women's rights? (JK Rowling has received "enough death threats to wallpaper her house with" and Rosie Duffield was advised not to attend the Labour party conference due to concerns about her personal safety.) Was it OK for Brexit supporters to threaten Anna Soubry to the point where it was no longer safe for her to return to her house? If no, what's the difference between the former and the latter?

And what's the common factor here? Can we think of any male politicians, authors or public figures who have had to deal with abuse and threats to their personal safety because of their political opinions? How many death threats has Richard Dawkins received for having the same opinion as JK Rowling?

If you can't see the problem here then you are part of the problem.

And for what it's worth, Kemi Badenoch has greater legitimacy to speak on behalf of women than most other people, because she is both a woman and a democratically elected MP.

Who the fuck is David Tennant? An actor with an over inflated sense of his own self importance, and allegedly the father of a "trans child".

There's an excellent clip of Helen Joyce being interviewed, where she says that the "trans child" is a phenomenon that is responsible for the ideological capture of a huge number of our institutions. It only takes one person, somewhere high up, who has or is rumoured to have a "trans child" and the entire organisation is frozen in the headlights, unable to do or say anything that might upset this VIP with a "trans child". And the parents of "trans children" will defend this ideology to the death, even when it has become clear to everyone else that it is indefensible, because the alternative would be to admit that they have harmed their own child.

@MissScarletInTheBallroom 👏