Graham Linehan is a Terf.

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He has been fighting long and hard for the repeal the 8th vote, and rightly so, but now he has been getting shit on Twitter for his views.

I’d link but I use the twitter app and I don’t know how too.

Ha I'd forgotten that one. The Heather Mills McCartney suit

We love My Lovely Horse. DH says Neil Hannon is writing the music for the musical which makes me very happy.

He's still at it.

twitter.com/Glinner/status/1006807588955140096

"Oh fuck, I’ve attracted the attention of Owen Jones, The Young Prince of Men Telling Women Who Is And Isn’t A Woman"

I LOVE that photo of Owen Jones looking all smug and Alistair Campbell in the background looking like 'youre such a stupid little twerp'

Linehan has got some staying power, that's for sure.

I don’t want to say it too loud but I do often talk to his wife via twitter and she is on side too. I get the feeling that she might post here.

Linehan isn't going to take any shit from these Transactivists. That's for damn sure. We need more and more like him with a big platform.

The answer is no, you fucking useless woke versions of the religious police

Graham, sir, you are fabulous. Keep up the good work.

Amazing also how a man can say this on Twitter and get only moderate level sniping, but if I or any other woman said it, we’d get a supernova level flaming. Such is life.

God forbid a lowly woman should express an opinion.

He is impressive. You can see where the stuff in his work comes from.

He seems to be losing quite a few followers but I don't reckon he's the type to care too much about that sort of thing.

And he's still able to spread the word. Another comedy writer - Ian Martin, who often works with Armando Iannucci, e.g. Death of Stalin - has been tweeting one or two gender critical things lately. Maybe that's nothing to do with Graham's influence but, either way, every little helps!

mobile.twitter.com/IanMartin/status/1007219249222438912

Will any of them be brave enough to do a ‘brass eye’ on this issue I wonder?

There’s not enough really sharp satire at the moment. People are scared.

I saw this yesterday.

People are unable to accept anyone who has any sort of criticism to the ideology.

And people unable to distinguish between criticism of an ideology and abuse of a person who holds that ideology...

It did me good to watch that Father Ted clip again. Thank God for Graham Linehan.

It's interesting about Ian Martin - I've seen him do other tweets that were quite pro-TRA. Maybe he's been peak-transed.

There really needs to be a Brass Eye. The satirical potential of transgender ideology and activism is limitless.

I thought a couple of years back that we'd reached a point where there's no way a mainstream broadcaster/content provider would broadcast something like Brass Eye, at least as a new programme rather than as a historical curiosity. The huge waves of offence and anger it would trigger would be too much and would make it a non-starter.

These days, what's favoured seems to be the in-group (progressives) being able to take the piss of out the out group (non-progressive views, not just racism or xenophobia but Brexiteers, critics of identity politics, conservatives, religious people, etc) with everyone looking on feeling safe and reassured.

It makes me feel uncomfortable, like a sort of policed consensus. Just to be clear, this isn't a call for the return of Love Thy Neighbour or similar gems from the 1970s.

These days, what's favoured seems to be the in-group (progressives) being able to take the piss of out the out group (non-progressive views, not just racism or xenophobia but Brexiteers, critics of identity politics, conservatives, religious people, etc) with everyone looking on feeling safe and reassured.

You're right. But I think this is a wave. And will pass. Much of identity politics is so batshit and pompous and restrictive while throwing truly disadvantaged people under the bus that eventually opinion forming "progressive" people will rebel and challenge it. And that's what I think we are seeing start to happen.

I will try to cultivate some of your optimism to take into the weekend.

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by how toxic identity politics is to society. It was an excellent progressive concept to start with but I don't think people anticipated quite how easy it would be to hijack and what a Teflon-coated monster it would become.

Amazing also how a man can say this on Twitter and get only moderate level sniping, but if I or any other woman said it, we’d get a supernova level flaming.

He was in hospital last week and some TRAs were directly tweeting him to say they hope he'd die.

I agree that women get it the worst but TRAs are just vile.

Caitlin Moran yesterday retweeted David Aaranovitch's Times article on free speech and the attempts to silence gender-critical voices:

twitter.com/caitlinmoran/status/1007224216045936640

Bloody hell, these people actually believe that Twitter is real life, don't they? And that the views espoused in Twitter accurately reflect the views of the real majority!

It really is like an episode of Brass Eye on there.

I thought a couple of years back that we'd reached a point where there's no way a mainstream broadcaster/content provider would broadcast something like Brass Eye, at least as a new programme

I have thought exactly the same thing. I rewatched one of the episodes a few months back (DH is forrin’ and had never seen it) and we both remarked that this wouldn’t get made now.

Bloody hell, these people actually believe that Twitter is real life, don't they? And that the views espoused in Twitter accurately reflect the views of the real majority!

They do. It's worked well so far because Joe Public had no idea such people existed so had no opinion on them. But now Joe Public is beginning to sit up and take notice. It will come as a shock to the system when this is no longer a battle of Twitter tribes hidden away on social media and they have to engage with what people really think when they become aware.

There’s a lot of telly that wpuldn’t get made now. Reynholm in The IT Crowd is trickier post Weinstein/#metoo.