Graham Linehan visited by police again.....

[MrsSnippyPants]

twitter.com/glinner/status/1071728465399988224?s=21

Twooter
The police being eager to visit a "sleb" over an accusation is one explanation for their curiously proactive response, but then it beggars the question why were they never so eager to visit other "slebs" like Jimmy Saville despite numerous tip-offs...

Glinner
Thanks for coming onto this thread. It's unfuckingbelievable what's happened/happening to you.
Hopefully you're working on a comedy about it all!

He appears to have an incredibly fragile ego and is very emotion led. You just hand him the rope and he’s so belligerent he can’t help himself it’s tragic.
I’m seriously concerned about his access to members of the public. He is not a safe pair of hands and I really sincerely believe he is a danger to women.

This is worrying me too and not just Harrop. The TRA narrative is starting to fall apart, and the TRAs are getting angrier and angrier, and because the police don't give a shit things seem to be starting to escalate. I'm worried someone is actually going to get hurt.

I really hope the press pick this up, thus severely embarrassing said police force and Dr Harressment.

Much support to you @glinner

The TRA narrative is starting to fall apart, and the TRAs are getting angrier and angrier

In addition to Jane Clare Jones' discussion of totalitarianism (quoted upthread), I find this discussion of individual and collective narcissism to be a useful perspective:

Research from my PrejudiceLab at Goldsmiths, University of London shows that people who score high on the collective narcissism scale are particularly sensitive to even the smallest offences to their group’s image. As opposed to individuals with narcissistic personality, who maintain inflated views of themselves, collective narcissists exaggerate offences to their group’s image, and respond to them aggressively. Collective narcissists believe that their group’s importance and worth are not sufficiently recognised by others. They feel that their group merits special treatment, and insist that it gets the recognition and respect it deserves. In other words, collective narcissism amounts to a belief in the exaggerated greatness of one’s group, and demands external validation.

bigthink.com/aeon-ideas/why-collective-narcissists-are-so-politically-volatile

Well done Sandy.

Bloody hell. Papers, please plaster everywhere that tax payer money is being wasted on police dealing with this bullshit when they have insufficient time or resources to deal with real crimes.

I swear, the word 'transphobia' has been Pavlov's Dogged in to public services, to the point where someone says it and they all start running around in circles, crashing into walls, and panicking like a bunch of Edwardians when someone shouts 'women and children first!'

Oh here some one brings up the carceral punishment thing on harrops tweet.

But then suggests sending people for ‘compelled education in transgender stuff’.

Fragile ego and a very unstable angry man. Not a good combo. He HATES women. I'd never want to be treated by someone like him - and a worry for me is he is so obsessed with this crusade (even though its massively damaging his career and he doesn't even have any 'skin in the game') that he must be on high alert to anyone, including patients, who are not en-pointe with the TRA-accepted language and suspect they are "transphobic".

Does he give those people his best standard of care?

to Caroline and Glinner.

So sorry you are having such a hard time.

Caroline I cant believe yours has got to such an extent. Really shocking and hope police will do something

And after the pointless police visit comes--the prosecution! How dare anyone oppress this dear man!

I can only think that this is being pushed downwards onto the rank and file.

I would like to know by who.

@glinner All the best to you and yours. The fecker is running scared. Cowardly Custard's and Many Companies' last stand.

Sandy. Brilliant as always, thanks

I do feel a bit upset about this - I suppose the youngsters would say I'm feeling triggered. Can this possibly be the way it looks? Of course I think it's OK for the police to pursue allegations of malicious communication, but this on the face of it doesn't seem understandable - as a pp said, surely the investigation could start with a review of the communication involved and whether it could be considered malicious?

I sat in my bedroom with furniture pushed up against the door and called 999 in fear of my life because a psychotic family member with a knife was downstairs, and was told to contact the mental health services, the police wouldn't come out to me. (They've since apologised). Resources are limited. Someone has to decide what gets prioritised and what gets studied. Who is making those decisions?

I've got no interest in 'flooding' the police with reports, I think that's daft. Should we be aiming to agree with a more right-wing analysis that the entire concept of hate crime that the State has an interest in prosecuting is flawed? I'm seeing the point right now, for sure.

Blimey, Glinner, it’s the gift that keeps on giving, this business Best wishes to you.

I think we need a running thread on This Week In Denunciations. We could catch up on who's been caught in a wrong think, who needs a stint in the gulag, perhaps a look forward to people who are showing signs of breaking rank and who might need a bit of pre-emptive reeducation.

Glinner, I suspect that you would be a regular feature Well done on treating Harrop's tantrums with exactly the baffled lack of reaction they deserve.

Was he the reason the police visited last time @Glinner? I can’t remember.
If so, and it is found to be a waste of police time, would it not therefore be considered harassment?

No; the other one last time. The one who believes themselves to be a lawyer.

No that was the Lawyer™ Steph wozzername.

This Week In Denunciations

I chuckled so hard I aggravated my sports injury. Thanks a bunch, Sophocles.

This is worrying me too and not just Harrop. The TRA narrative is starting to fall apart, and the TRAs are getting angrier and angrier, and because the police don't give a shit things seem to be starting to escalate. I'm worried someone is actually going to get hurt.

You're not the only one. A thwarted narcissist is a very dangerous person, and there are going to be more and more of them about as the trans narrative starts to unravel.

Isn't Susie Green's ex a former higher up in that police force, Bowl?

You're not the only one.

Me too. But I have this frankly superstitious thing about expressing it out loud or even thinking it too loud.