Jonathan Ross supports Glinner

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Johnaton Ross has tweeted about Grahame:

I struggle to understand the opinions of intelligent men I previously admired - Jon Ronson and Billy Bragg - that strike me as tragically ill-informed and depressingly self-aggrandising. I know you are paying a heavy price for this G, but I admire and applaud you.

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Finally. Bet poor Glinner has been so pissed off surrounded by people who no doubt agree with him but who are too scared to come out and say so.

Campervan69

Just feels like such a relief!Ross have over 5 million followers!

I am usually loathe to get into all this on FWR, because it's not really my focus here, but I confess I saw it and was just so bloody relieved to see a well known name actually criticising those men who have been so woefully disappointing in recent months and weeks. I hope he does not recant in sack cloth and ashes. I suspect we may be far enough along the track that he won't.

However, I'll pre-empt, cos I know the Russell Brand dickery will be brought up, and I will just underline here that I am pleased because Ross is critical of other men's behaviour here. It says nothing about my other opinions.

May the relief/bunfight commence.

LadyQuarantinaPluckington

No idea about the Russel Brand stuff

Anyway it's good that he has publicly come out in support of Glinner and has talked about Bragg and Ronson.

Wow I just scrolled through screens and screens of responses and they're all applauding him.

I guess the TRAs haven't sent out the (baseball) bat signal yet but still, this is heartening.

Am glad Glinner has got someone with celeb power backing him up finally.

Does anyone else get the sense that Ronson's position on this issue is a lot about the porn performers he made friends with, like he finally got a seat at the cool kids table and now he's just a bit too eager to fit in? I have the impression that all the up close and personal porn experience messed with his objectivity and with his usual ability to embrace being an outsider. I used to really like him. :/

There is some heinous shit on the timelines of these porn dudes that he seems to admire.

I'm hopeful he'll hold firm and there won't be a vague apology.

He has a public-figure wife and two daughters, one of whom is a lesbian. I can't imagine he'd tweet this without being inspired from the women in his life.

Good
I hope more & more are going to speak up

I find it interesting that he has named names rather than issues - very clearly shows his position whilst not actually stating it!

Who is Glinner?

Who is Jonathan Ross?

What is google

Wow, I’m newly impressed with Ross. Well done, it’s a brave statement in crazy times.

IchbineinBerlinner Wed 18-Mar-20 01:25:29
Who is Jonathan Ross?

ItsLateHumpty Wed 18-Mar-20 02:17:10
What is google hmmwink
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:-)
I've now looked him up, he's Graham Linehan, Irish comedian and broadcaster.

Good for Jonathan Ross.

I’m not on Twitter so I can’t view Glinner’s tweet that he replied to. What does it say?

A very nicely written message from someone sho has always been pro Gay rights, lets hope we get a few more, either from Jonathan or others wanting to speak up.

thats good that is.

Kick Ass indeed!

That's a great tweet - spot on about Bragg and Ronson.

Brilliant!

Good news

graham had tweeted this: 'Discovered another male celebrity mate trying to put pressure on people close to me to shut me up. It's a fucking laugh, standing up for women, I tell you whut.'

i am soo interested in the types of people who get caught up in this. jon ronson and billy bragg come across as well-meaning, nice, liberal, and sympathetic to 'the underdog' - it feels like they have an absolute block or 'thing' when it comes to women and girls though- is it simple misogyny or 'othering' i dunno.

I really hope he doesn't back track

There's definitely a degree of 'othering' - women are not-men, men who are willing to chop their cock off* are not-men, therefore they totally belong in the same category.

• The general public's typical view of what a male who identifies as a woman is, IME

he wont backtrack- thats the tweet of someone who knows what hes saying - and acknowledging what glinners gone through shows hes aware of the stakes.

Ross maybe learnt his lesson from his association with Russell Brand and the abuse of Andrew Sach bless his soul.