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Nogbreaks · 19/12/2022 08:26

Feels Meghan has done to him to justify the vitriol and misogyny of that article he wrote where he’d like to see her naked and assaulted?

I mean WTF? How in earth did a major publication think that it was fine to publish his little sexual fantasy about hurting a woman like that?

I’m no fan of the Royals in any form, and could care less about their infighting, but why are we surprised that there is so much violence against women and girls when this kind of article by an influential man is seen as okay to write?
Where’s his description of a naked, vulnerable Harry being assaulted??

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Givemyheadpiece · 19/12/2022 20:22

‘His daughter sounds really nice at least.’

or like she had the reaction of most women, anyway

bagthoughts · 19/12/2022 20:24

Yes it just shows what a psycho this man he's really I've not like Jeremy Clarkson for many many years he is an arrogant egotistical idiot that thinks he is the shit I really do hope this gets him cancelled. Ever since he punched the producer in the face I just can't stand the man I think I hate him more than he hates Megan!!

TheaBrandt · 19/12/2022 20:26

Ironically he has done more to prove Meghans point about abuse in the media than anything else she has said or done so the twat has shot himself in the foot

NeverDropYourMooncup · 19/12/2022 20:27

Let's add some specific context to the scene Clarkson refers to. In the author's own words.

Once we got her clothes off her, though, she was just another whore.

Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.

“My wife has sweeter teats than those

“she’s saggy as my mum

Want a suck on this, Your Grace?” A man in a butcher’s apron pulled his cock out of his breeches, grinning.

She did not feel beautiful, though. She felt old, used, filthy, ugly. There were stretch marks on her belly from the children she had borne, and her breasts were not as firm as they had been when she was younger. Without a gown to hold them up, they sagged against her chest.

And then there was no stopping the tears. They burned down the queen’s cheeks like acid. Cersei gave a sharp cry, covered her nipples with one arm, slid her other hand down to hide her slit, and began to run, shoving her way past the line of Poor Fellows, crouching as she scrambled crab-legged up the hill. Partway up she stumbled and fell, rose, then fell again ten yards farther on. The next thing she knew she was crawling, scrambling uphill on all fours like a dog as the good folks of King’s Landing made
way for her, laughing and jeering and applauding her

That's what Clarkson and probably Morgan were salivating over.

Givemyheadpiece · 19/12/2022 20:27

@TheaBrandt i agree.

Rhondaa · 19/12/2022 20:35

God, @NeverDropYourMooncup the author's own words are utterly disgusting aren't the. Who on earth reads and enjoys this offensive crap??

Fremdschämen · 19/12/2022 20:36

www.ipso.co.uk/news-press-releases/news/ipso-assesses-over-12-000-complaints-about-jeremy-clarkson-article/

IPSO assesses over 12,000 complaints about Jeremy Clarkson article...

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twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1604891448171798530

JOHN NICOLSON M.P.

Following grotesque comments made about the First Minster and The Duchess of Sussex, I do not believe Jeremy Clarkson should be allowed back on our screens. I've written to the Chief Executive of @ITV

NeverDropYourMooncup · 19/12/2022 20:45

In that chapter there is also the comment that she should be scared of what the crowd might do to her next - up to the reader to infer whether that means rape or murder/lynching.

Hmmm, Lynching. Wonder why that could be problematic in this context?

Rowthe · 19/12/2022 20:55

Fremdschämen · 19/12/2022 20:36

www.ipso.co.uk/news-press-releases/news/ipso-assesses-over-12-000-complaints-about-jeremy-clarkson-article/

IPSO assesses over 12,000 complaints about Jeremy Clarkson article...

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twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1604891448171798530

JOHN NICOLSON M.P.

Following grotesque comments made about the First Minster and The Duchess of Sussex, I do not believe Jeremy Clarkson should be allowed back on our screens. I've written to the Chief Executive of @ITV

True.

It was a mocking tweet

mrshoho · 19/12/2022 21:00

Fremdschämen · 19/12/2022 20:36

www.ipso.co.uk/news-press-releases/news/ipso-assesses-over-12-000-complaints-about-jeremy-clarkson-article/

IPSO assesses over 12,000 complaints about Jeremy Clarkson article...

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twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1604891448171798530

JOHN NICOLSON M.P.

Following grotesque comments made about the First Minster and The Duchess of Sussex, I do not believe Jeremy Clarkson should be allowed back on our screens. I've written to the Chief Executive of @ITV

Have to agree with him too. He doesn't deserve the privilege of presenting on TV or writing columns in newspapers.

EmmaAgain22 · 19/12/2022 21:11

Grim isn't it

I've stopped reading a few books due to the misogyny and violence, though I never trued reading these.

JC saying this really highlights that people see the royals as characters, rather than real people.

Givemyheadpiece · 19/12/2022 21:35

Imagine being his daughter. I’d be absolutely livid and embarrassed if he was my father . I can’t imagine he’s been much of a role model for her given his vitriol towards women.

derxa · 19/12/2022 21:37

mrshoho · 19/12/2022 21:00

Have to agree with him too. He doesn't deserve the privilege of presenting on TV or writing columns in newspapers.

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-mp-branded-misogynist-bigot-27988007
Aye creepy auld John Nicolson

derxa · 19/12/2022 21:40

Rhondaa · 19/12/2022 20:35

God, @NeverDropYourMooncup the author's own words are utterly disgusting aren't the. Who on earth reads and enjoys this offensive crap??

Disgusting😡

cakeorwine · 19/12/2022 21:45

I mean what was his thought processes? Did he not just think it through?
Does he not care what people think about him?

I would love to know what was going through his head? I know, I'll write a column expressing how much I hate Meghan Markle, and I will say I hate her more than Rose West and then say what I think should happen to her, by describing a scene from Game of Thrones.

Who thinks like that?

Virginiaplain · 19/12/2022 21:51

Please complain to ipsos
www.ipso.co.uk/complain/complaints-form/#

TodayIsFridayHooray · 19/12/2022 21:53

I can't stand H&M! I'm totally not a fan! I love most of piers Morgan's rants about them 😁 and enjoy reading most articles picking out the hypocrisy and lies told on the part of H&M. But ... even I thought this was terrible of JC and really really pretty bad taste and way way over the line. What was he thinking? Not cool. Very not ok.

newnamethanks · 19/12/2022 23:05

Mooncup that quote is vile. All part of the normalisation of porn. Never thought I'd be in step with Mary Whitehouse but here I am. Foul. We women need to wake up before we revert to scenes like this in the market square for weekend entertainment. Burn the witches.

ReneBumsWombats · 19/12/2022 23:29

The man has already decked two people and used the word "Irish" as a slur against one of them. He also made some creepy comment about spanking Greta Thunberg.

What the fuck does it take to get him off our media? How revolting do you have to be?

hopeisathingwithfeathersx · 20/12/2022 01:03

The column has been taken down now. Very good news and evidence that public objection can make a difference.

vera99 · 20/12/2022 01:20

ReneBumsWombats · 19/12/2022 18:31

Nobody watches Titus Andronicus. It's shite.

Yes and no have seen it 4 times in my sad life 1 at the RSC and 2 student productions in Edinburgh, it's early Shakespeare, context and revenge,blah ,blah. At the time of the production public executions were relatively common along with bear baiting,cock fighting,death by plague and fire and a pretty unshakeable belief in the existence of God transmitted through a vengeful patriarchal Church. A female Queen though, Elizabeth1 so wasn't all bad......

Morestrangethings · 20/12/2022 04:51

DrDinosaur · 19/12/2022 12:09

LOL! I'm a married 60 year old woman, with a delightful grown up daughter.

I find that hard to believe.

Givemyheadpiece · 20/12/2022 05:18

‘I mean what was his thought processes? Did he not just think it through?’

the opposite. It was very deliberate, thought through, deemed clever, and passed by Editors.

Piggywaspushed · 20/12/2022 07:03

The most viewers GOT ever had in the UK was 3.8m. It is on Sky Atlantic, a channel not everyone has. GOT is not as big a programme as its viewers think it is The Sun, believe it or not, has about 28m readers, the majority of whom will not remotely have 'got' the GOT reference.

Either Clarkson is so far up his own arsehole , he thinks everyone watches what he does, or he knows full well that his analogy is obtuse. Deliberately hiding behind an analogy or reference to get away with misogynistic bile is his thing - see also, Coren and Johnson.

Givemyheadpiece · 20/12/2022 07:11

I don’t get the ‘ he was using a scene from GOT’ defence. We know he was. How does that make it any better?
if he’d have had her burning with a reference to Wickerman, or dunked in a pond like witches used to be, or alluded to the rape scene in The Accused, would that have made a difference or been a defence??

and as for the comparison to Rose West, a woman who sexually tortured and murdered children, including her own - that’s sickening.