Announcement from Glinner

[AdultHuman]

medium.com/@glinner/please-note-13b56fdee612

£7,216

The TRA are trying to shut the crowdfunder down.

Can you believe it? So rabid are they in their hatred of women, they want to stop funds going to a Rape Centre.

twitter.com/Glinner/status/1112822761968357376

And comparing raped women who don't want to be around men in a rape shelter to racists.

They are disgusting.

They are truly truly disgusting.

Of course they are. Such knobs

@holdthefrontpage

www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/marcus-brigstocke-addict-recovery-nice-posh-boy-relatively-easy/

He has also steered clear of the transgender rights discussion, which he says has become “alarmingly toxic...I have to say I’ve kept very consciously silent on the subject.” This is partly in fear of the backlash, and partly because as a “straight, white male...there are questions about whether I’m helping or not.”

The "backlash" only ever comes from one direction

So brigstocke recognises his privilege but interprets it as justification for not sticking his head above the parapet?

I can kind of see why he feels that way, there was a thread the other day slating Glinner for being a white male who has made it all about him. He is probably thinking he will get shit from both sides. Annoying but it's possibly true. If that is him he has kind of outted himself anyway.

there was a thread the other day slating Glinner for being a white male who has made it all about him.

Yeah, but most of the responses to the OP were rebuttals.

Yeah the TRA throw that 'white male' stuff at glinner all the time. Glinner's voice is powerful, and they want to silence it.

I'm no fan of Brigstocke but I'll give some thanks to a celeb going for "looks complicated, I don't know" over the unquestioning and self-serving acceptance of the gender identity ideology.

Hmm. The Brigstocke article is behind a pay wall- but unless he mentions writing articles about his camper-vanny popping to the beach-y, bottle of red and cuddlies on the sofa lifestyle while conducting a year long affair then being about to marry another woman 11 years younger than him, I wouldn’t take his judgement on moral and ethical issues......

TBF he does a bit bertrand!

In 2013, Brigstocke’s marriage of 12 years to Sophie Prideaux, the mother of his 16-year-old son Alfie and 13-year-old daughter Emily, ended after he had an affair with his Spamalot co-star Hayley Tamaddon, a former Coronation Street actress. “It was my fault, what happened,” he says, adding that he would never incorporate it into any of his comedy routines, as he is fiercely protective of his ex-wife’s privacy. “But the broader topic of my failings as a man? Fine.”

Well Brigstocke, here’s a golden opportunity to redeem yourself a bit. You’ve got a daughter (I’m guessing more babies aren’t out of the question) and you’re not usually afraid to speak your mind.

Step up.

Yes-he’s always been braver than most. I used to andmire him for that- the way he made a nonsense out of the “Oh you’re not allowed to criticise Islam” brigade. And how he used to do political stuff from the point of view of someone who understood how the posh boys worked because he was one of them.

“I have to say I’ve kept very consciously silent on the subject.” This is partly in fear of the backlash, and partly because as a “straight, white male...there are questions about whether I’m helping or not.”

Is a cop out.

I agree that it’s a cop out. But ar least some sense of it being a nuanced issue. Unlike many others- looking at you, Helen Zaltzman.

It kind of is a cop out but I think it's also kind of clever.

Anyone who follows this (GC or TRA) knows exactly what he is saying but it also means you can't criticise him for being a "Cis" white male rich boy and sticking his oar in. Same with giving money to Glinner. It's picking a side but can you criticize a man for not saying anything just giving money that you know will be donated to rape victims?

If a person makes a career of speaking their mind, then stays silent when it gets alarming, it looks like all along they were just grandstanding for cash.

But why not take the money and, in this case, let relatively vulnerable (financially and physically) women take the real risks to protect women and girls from the onslaught...

£8,110

How did SH and the raging TRAs come up with £28k?

I expect the same mathematicians who decided the FPFW metro advert cost 100k or whatever they were claiming?

Oh honestly, I somehow missed the bottom half of your post, which says exactly the same thing I 'added'

www.independent.ie/irish-news/im-not-transphobic-and-i-never-have-been-says-father-teds-graham-linehan-37990105.html

Article in the Independent (Ireland): I'm not transphobic
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Just resurrecting this thread so people can refresh their memory of earlier events.
Not to continue speculation, which as HQ and others have said is ill advised.