Graham Lineham on Newsnight tonight!

[Destinysdaughter]

Just saw this on Twitter. Should be interesting...

ooooo women can speak for themselves hmmm

He's doing very well under the circumstances but this is so hard to watch

Of course Stone wall wouldn't come on. Cowards!

He has PTSD. Absolutely clear.

That interviewer - forgotten name - should not be doing attack stuff.

Have to turn this off.

Oh fuck off withthat saying that women can speak for themselves, yes we can but we are not being allowed to! He is spot on

Jeez Sarah Smith. Let him speak

The women who can talk, aren't invited

Yes it would have been nice to invite some of the women - Newsnight are not inviting them.

Fuck!

That was, as pp said, brutal!

Well done Graham and thank you

That was a hard watch. Good effort in the face of a hostile interviewer.

They are peddling the spousal consent needed lie.

This is why we need a women's version of something like Full Fact - they punch above their weight in pulling down zombie claims.

Stupid female

I think she should cut him some slack, but this is no way to describe Sarah Smith.

Sarah Smith did not get to the heart of this debate

Why is he getting such a hard time and not allowed to speak?

Wow, I haven't watched Newsnight for ages, paxman was a pussycat compared to that.

She missed the whole point 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

If she / Newsnight didn't want a man to speak, why didn't they invite a prominent female on, instead??

And I also thought the Mary Beard programme was odd. I may have shouted "sex not gender. And it's observed!" at the TV.

I dunno why he was invited on.

That was horrific to watch

Yep she missed the whole point

Fuck.

I’m shite with Twitter, but would like to thank Graham so much for speaking out. That interview was a travesty - shocking! and to keep on with this takes real courage and commitment.

He got over some points really well in the face of a very hostile interviewer. So wish he'd challenged her when she argued that no one is telling children they've been born in the wrong body. Hopefully twatter will put her right about that particular misconception.

Ooops - lots of cross-posts. Sorry.

When women who are used to this sort of thing get interviewed they do better obviously I do have a lot of sympathy for glinner that was a stich up

DH says he did well though

Like I say I wouldn't manage under that sort of pressure

So on the whole I say thanks glinner

Maybe people will listen some as he's a man

Because sure as fuck women aren't getting through

And that was a point glinner made more than once

So yeah on the whole thanks because they weren't about to invite a woman were they

Arrgh. Sorry been pub. Feck?

I think it worked in his favour that he seemed vulnerable. TRAs paint him as an out and out transphobe but he’s just a normal bloke who is standing up for women.

The interviewer, on the other hand, is painful to watch. She’s so rude and she talks over her guests. I get that you need to challenge people’s views but she is just a blunt force - no intelligence or subtlety in her interviewing style at all.

She deliberately diverted attention from the whole point by keeping the focus on the stupid Nazi thing - which is deployed equally (more commonly?) by TRAs.

His frustration was palpable. And then, when he manages to regain a bit of thought space, 'We're out of time'.

No shit.