If Glinner is such an 'ally' why is he working only with white men?

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I'm a GC feminist, but I do find all the fawning around Graham Linehan to be pathetic. He's barely given a peep about women's rights in the past, and suddenly he's jumped on the anti-TRA bandwagon, centering himself in what is and should a women-led movement (i.e. feminism).
The last straw for me is seeing fellow feminists fawn over this tweet - he posits himself as an ally, yet shows 0 interest in opening up the world of comedy beyond the thoughts of white men.

twitter.com/Glinner/status/1111351941374922752

A heterosexual man being critical of transgenderism =! feminism

He hired white men to play Irish priests as well, you know. Shocking isn't he.

Father Ted was set in Ireland in the 1990s, the country was mainly populated by priests who were white men, because that is what the majority of the population in Ireland looked like at the time.

It just seems a bit odd to pick on the one person who IS doing something, to the tune of £28,000 worth of legal bills.

Motherhood

Written about women, by 3 woman plus Glinner. He’s doing more than most comedy writers!

Yes, he is still part of the patriarchy and I find some of his behaviour has shown this and I thought that photo was emblematic of this. But anyway not sure how useful this discussion is, I think my stake has quite enough logs on it as it is

Motherland or Motherhood?

Datun 'the one person'. I assume you've never head of Meghan Murphy then i.e. an actual woman and feminist currently suing twitter over their censorship of feminist ideas?

Why focus on Glinner in particular OP?

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Father Shaft was black.

Because I sat that tweet and saw red as I've said at least twice?

Sorry, what? He's been advocating for abortion in Ireland for years.

www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/graham-helen-linehan-ireland-abortion-amnesty-international

OP so talk to us about the other men you have issues with, what are your opinions on them?

Have you ever actually watched anything he has written?

Datun 'the one person'. I assume you've never head of Meghan Murphy then i.e. an actual woman and feminist currently suing twitter over their censorship of feminist ideas?

Of course!

I meant if you're going to pick on somebody why pick on someone who is doing something?

Not 'why don't you pick on someone else who is doing something.'

... they often start with the exact phrase "as a GC feminist".... I think?

You saw red because he was working on the musical of Ted with the co-creator and original composer? Mmm. I see red when I see women's panels with no biological women, or signs telling women to ignore their instincts in single sex spaces, or misogynistic men trying to get women sacked for wrong think. All things I've seen Glinner publicise to his 600k + followers in the last few days alone.

and to see an all male team like that by someone who seems to cast himself in the role of 'ally'
And when he works with Sharon Horgan, Holly Walsh and Helen Linehan, what then? Or is that not enough, he must only work with women to be allowed to be an ally?

Bluestitch and you think I don't? Can't I criticise all of those things and Graham Linehan? I didn't realise being a glinner superfan was a prerequisite to being a gc feminist.
But apparently shapiro and peterson are 'gender critical' so the definition must have expanded rather from what I understood it to be!

a couple feminists

Maybe you mis-understood it ?

You saw red because he was working on the musical of Ted with the co-creator and original composer?

It just makes no sense. To isolate one photo as some sort of example of him not being the right kind of guy to support after what’s just happened, after his campaigning for abortion rights as well... no sense. You are reducing a person to one tweet and attacking other women for supporting him because he works with white guys sometimes. This is nothing to do with feminism.

God I just laughed out loud at the Meghan Murphy comment directed at Datun.

Seriously OP, bow out graciously, you're coming across as an idiot.

You aren't the person who made the comment about Linda Bellos not knowing anything as well are you?

You can criticise him if you like, and people can disagree with you. I mean what do you want him to do about the fact that Arthur Matthews and the Divine Comedy fellow are blokes? Should he have asked a couple of random women to join in the photo to look better? And as has been pointed out already, he does work with women.

Motherland

Do you think women shouldn't have supported him, OP? Is it their support that you are finding difficult to swallow?

I mean, which ever way you cut it up, he's gone above and beyond over this specific issue.

because "Gender Critical" means Critical of gender, as in, not likeing the sterotypes of Boy's and Girls things.

What did you think it was?