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Joe Lycett should not be presenting GBSB

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Charmtaste · 27/08/2021 17:54

Joe Lycett is a horrible misogynist. He has no place hosting GBSB. If he is allowed to continue then it proves that society does not care about misogyny.

Joe Lycett should not be presenting GBSB
Joe Lycett should not be presenting GBSB
Joe Lycett should not be presenting GBSB
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OhWhyNot · 28/08/2021 12:08

I’m not pissed off NiceGerbil

Just don’t agree with some on here

WhenSheWasBad · 28/08/2021 12:27

@C8H10N4O2

The whole point is it’s punching down. It’s a reprehensible act

No - its the joke which is punching down.

Violence against women by men is not considered a reprehensible act by society at large whatever fine words people might utter. If it were truly considered reprehensible, then we would not see the murder and assault rate we do against women. Most of which goes unpunished.

You would equally snigger and admire him if he as a white man were making jokes reinforcing racism? Or if he were making "cripple" jokes as an able bodied man?

I can’t be arsed explaining this again.

Joke isn’t re enforcing/condoning violence against women. It is about an increasingly consumerist society.

Clymene · 28/08/2021 12:35

And yet he could have chosen to say hit a man in the stomach @WhenSheWasBad but he didn't. Why do you think that might be?

WhenSheWasBad · 28/08/2021 12:44

And yet he could have chosen to say hit a man in the stomach @WhenSheWasBad but he didn't. Why do you think that might be

Because the act of violence had to be deplorable. I would argue it is more reprehensible to attack a woman than a man (on average).
Men are generally larger more muscular and better able to defend themselves. Obviously I’m not saying it’s ok to baseball bat a man in the stomach on Black Friday but not ok to do the same to a woman.

The whole point is it is an appalling attack that virtually everyone in society would view as shocking and indefensible. But because it’s Black Friday that magically makes it allowed.

VickyEadieofThigh · 28/08/2021 12:47

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

He’s the main reason I don’t watch Sewing Bee any more, though I can’t honestly say I knew about this.
Me too - he annoys the crap out of me.

Finding out recently that he's tweeted some deeply nasty stuff (the rape one was quite something) just underlined it for me.

newnortherner111 · 28/08/2021 12:49

A tweet sent in 2019 by someone who is 30 or 31 years old is not some bad judgement of a teenager which you might consider forgiving. YANBU to think he should not be presenting GBSB.

hocusspocuss · 28/08/2021 12:49

The jokes were found and reposted by an anti trans tweeter to discredit Joe Lycett, as he had recently tweeted his support of the trans movement.

You don't have to like the jokes. Nobody HAS to like a joke.

You don't even have to get them.

The context is the most important thing here, as primary motive was an attack by the anti trans movement to discredit and cancel anyone who thinks differently to them. Joe is dangerous to the anti trans movement because he has a large public platform. Therefore they must try to dismantle that platform.

Glinner will be sending him one of his weird cakes next. Hmm

GreyhoundG1rl · 28/08/2021 12:52

Your posts are really weird, hocuss.
The anti-trans movement??

hocusspocuss · 28/08/2021 12:53

@GreyhoundG1rl

Your posts are really weird, hocuss. The anti-trans movement??
Glinner and his band of flying monkeys. Aka lots of people from Mumsnet.
GreyhoundG1rl · 28/08/2021 12:57

Yeah, that post didn't make the general trend any less weird...

hocusspocuss · 28/08/2021 13:00

@GreyhoundG1rl

Yeah, that post didn't make the general trend any less weird...
Trying to discredit what I say by calling me weird isn't going to work.

It's weird that people think a man should be fired from his job for tweets he wrote ten years ago when he was a young man in his early twenties, with a much smaller platform and following. Tweets that could be interpreted in a number of ways.

That's the weird thing right here. I'm just pointing out how it all came about, but if you go on Twitter that's pretty obvious to see anyway.

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 28/08/2021 13:00

So do you actually know who found the tweets the hocus

TSSDNCOP · 28/08/2021 13:02

He was 22/23 when those tweets were written. Lots of people, me included, said or did stupid shit at that age thinking we were funny. We weren't, we realised that and we grew up. Doesn't make it right to have done the stupid shit in the first place, but I think it's tough to beat someone with a very old stick.

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 28/08/2021 13:03

Then hocus

Not the hocus

hocusspocuss · 28/08/2021 13:03

What's worse is Ronaldo actually raping a woman in 2009, paying her off and being signed by Manchester United this week. But he hasn't been openly supportive of trans rights so he's fine and we just won't talk about that.

Mumsnet is such a lovely place.

GreyhoundG1rl · 28/08/2021 13:04

I agree that no one should be fired from their job on the basis of their views, whatever they may be, hocuss
All I said was that those views make him appear to be an obnoxious little prick. In my view, of course.
The rest of your posts are a little bizarre, though. Again, in my view...

GreyhoundG1rl · 28/08/2021 13:05

Trans rights, for example. Can you list what rights trans people should have but are currently being denied? No one seems able to do this.

hocusspocuss · 28/08/2021 13:12

@GreyhoundG1rl

Trans rights, for example. Can you list what rights trans people should have but are currently being denied? No one seems able to do this.
Listen, the thing is, I don't have to argue about trans rights with you. I think trans women are women and you don't, because you definitely want to talk about that now. Funny isn't it, that you were attracted to this thread...

There was a thought process that brought me to my opinion but I don't have to tell you that either. I can just say 'bye'.

GreyhoundG1rl · 28/08/2021 13:14

Listen, the thing is, I don't have to argue about trans rights with you. I think trans women are women and you don't, because you definitely want to talk about that now. Funny isn't it, that you were attracted to this thread...
Of course you don't.
Interesting (non) response, though. As expected.

GreyhoundG1rl · 28/08/2021 13:14

Oh, and bye 😂

SlipperyDippery · 28/08/2021 13:16

@GreyhoundG1rl

Listen, the thing is, I don't have to argue about trans rights with you. I think trans women are women and you don't, because you definitely want to talk about that now. Funny isn't it, that you were attracted to this thread... Of course you don't. Interesting (non) response, though. As expected.
“Don’t have to answer” Read: can’t answer
GreyhoundG1rl · 28/08/2021 13:20

And I wasn't "arguing" them, just wondering what the hell they were. I'd need to know this to formulate an argument against, if I was minded to.
Guess that won't be happening,

HermioneKipper · 28/08/2021 13:22

@GreyhoundG1rl They never want to debate it openly because they only have one argument.

“TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN!!!!!” Because we say so.

Women’s very valid concerns about any man being able to self id and enter women’s safe spaces and sports are then shouted down by screams of BIGOT, TERF and telling us to choke on their lady dick. 🤷‍♀️

GreyhoundG1rl · 28/08/2021 13:25

Yes, that poster is very fond of the Terf word, I noticed.

fridgepants · 28/08/2021 13:29

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