Is Stephen Fry a repulsive, condescending misogynistic turd?

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I realised on the first thread about lovely Stephen Fry, that I should have put an AIBU. I’m interested to know the wider view, beyond us sex realists on the FWR board.

So if you’ve got time, take a flick through the last thread (link attached), and using that plus your existing knowledge of the man, what do you think?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5357749-stephen-fry-what-a-repulsive-condescending-misogynistic-turd?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

YABU - No he’s lovely.

YANBU - Yes, he is at the very least, a misogynistic wanker.

YANBU

Yes on top of the women hating he’s also an out of touch champagne socialist hypocrite. He’s utterly loathsome.

I'm glad he's finally come to his senses and realised just how obsessive and awful JK is! He's always been a person I admire.

No he isn’t. He just has different opinions from the majority on MN. Nice name calling though.

I’ve never understood why “champagne socialist” is an insult. Someone well off who wants to improve the lives of those who are less well off? What’s wrong with that?

Stephen Fry and his DH. Posted without comment.

Thanks @ResidentPorker , that means a lot!

I don’t really understand why he’s famous. Some skits, some poor acting thirty years ago. Regardless, I don’t have any admiration for him.

I've always found him annoying and self centred, not a fan. Wouldn't call someone repulsive without a very good reason though, like committing horrible crimes level

What does Stephen Fry do to improve the lives of those less fortunate than him?

That wasn't residentporkers question...

It’s patronising and out of touch. The kind of people who spout the Guardian but send their kids to private school and live in leafy enclaves so that they and their offspring never have to actually brush up against the unwashed and the riff raff. Then they have lofty (and often erroneous) opinions about the life, abilities and the voting habits of the disadvantaged and the working classes without ever actually having any clue about it.

As far as I know no actual horrible crimes committed. But if you read the previous thread you might see some rationale for his repulsiveness. But that’s dependent on what you consider repulsive.

His admiration for paedophiles and pederasts (read his books it's all there) is a good reason to think he's pretty repulsive. As was his telling victims of CSA to stop whinging - it wasn’t that bad.

I like him 🤷‍♀️

I was lucky enough to meet him at a dinner and he was charm personified.

I just remember watching him (and Chirstopher Hitchens) in this debate and totally loving them for it as having experienced CSA (Is the Catholic.church a force for good in the world). It felt like a kick in the balls to those perpetrators for those of us who felt voiceless.

But the human ego is a fragile thing and can be open to corruption and temptation. I don't know too much about him as a human being but sometimes you can be too good at what you do?

And like when he was asked by a journalist about the MP’s expenses scandal (going into some swanky event wearing black tie) he waved it away basically saying everyone did it and it was no big deal.

Most of the people I know working in corporate environments who have integrity would no more fiddle their expenses than fly to the moon.

Only an out of touch privileged dickhead would say that. The majority of the tax paying public were raging.

Rik Mayall once walked away from him in disgust as Fry insisted on trying to have a conversation about the paedophilic rape of children. Screenshot from the book Fat Chance (1995) below.

In 2015 he was quoted as saying - of the child rape gangs in Rotherham and Manchester "Yes we had "child prostitution" in the Victorian times, and now we have it in Rotherham and Manchester."

He said of child rape victims "It’s a great shame and we’re all very sorry that your uncle touched you in that nasty place – you get some of my sympathy – but your self pity gets none of my sympathy,” he continued. “Self pity is the ugliest emotion in humanity. Get rid of it, because no one’s going to like you if you feel sorry for yourself. The irony is we’ll feel sorry for you, if you stop feeling sorry for yourself."

https: // www.itv dot com/goodmorningbritain/articles/stephen-fry-comments-about-sex-abuse-victims

As an undergraduate he wrote a play "Latin! or Tobacco and Boys," which depicts a "relationship" between a schoolmaster and a 13-year-old boy.

At this point, anybody who is defending Stephen Fry is a walking red flag.

Not sure if the screenshot will be approved. You can find it here: https: // x dot com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1936048737098350780

Some years ago, DH was working in the conference room in the BA lounge. Stephen Fry came in with his husband. Shortly afterwards a middle aged woman knocked and came in to talk to SF about how much she was a fan. This bit is important: SF was charm personified to her face and she left happy. As soon as she left, they both tore her to bits, her looks, her dress, her provincial niceness. I don’t think they realised DH can type and listen! The mask slipped.

Yes.
Ask me a more difficult one next time OP!

Ahhh this is disappointing. I always liked Fry.

He does seem to believe that his opinion is important. I think he read out the script for the quiz show QI before Sandi toksvig, didn’t he. And acted with Hugh Laurie in a comedy show.. Hugh was very funny. He has made a great show of being bi polar.

I avoid him, pompous type.

Charm does not equal goodness.

See hundreds of other corrupt ex-public school boys for further examples.

Exactly. It's just virtue signalling.

He tells them to shop at Sainsbury's in that patronising AF voiceover he does.