Damian Barr

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I know there's loads going on at the moment, and Damian Barr is just one bearded misogynist in an increasingly dystopian world, but he's the one who kicked up a huge self-righteous fuss about Baroness Nicholson and got her ousted from her position at the Booker Prize on the grounds of homophobia and transphobia. Who would have imagined that such a zealous icon of ideological purity would turn out to have said things like this??

twitter.com/MLagouste/status/1278345389150662658

(Oh yes. Any one of the several million of us on FWR who has seen a bearded misogynist hiding behind a trans-rights banner...)

The tweet is gone, how can you see old deleted tweets?

I’m sure someone will have saved a screenshot somewhere. Not surprising that he turns out to be another righteous hypocrite.

A misogynist who's a hypocrite. Is anyone surprised?

can you be sure thats him?

I bet his finger is on fire he’s deleting past tweets so fast

In all seriousness though, any GC woman being caught with tweets like that would be in a world of pain - doxxed, threatened, reported for hate speech

I bet damian isn’t though

I wonder what the difference is 🤔

It might be this one Snorkers:

twitter.com/EllaWitchwood/status/1278367210562629638

Can you see the tweet in this link?

twitter.com/BobBibBab1/status/1278346065411014656/photo/1

Wow, that's really pretty awful of him. Pillock.

The always excellent Ella Witchwood has a great thread on it here

twitter.com/EllaWitchwood/status/1278270801389764609

I bet his finger is on fire he’s deleting past tweets so fast

Oh yes. Alas, poor Damian, too late.

What an awful person. I feel v v passionately about what women are having to ensure right now, but NEVER ever in a million years would I or anyone else I know say anything so disgusting and offensive. This is true hate speech. Laughing about Anyone trying to injure themselves is bad enough, but the use of language too.
This man is a hypocrite and a disgrace and completely without scruples.
He must lose his job over this.

Wow that one about the suicide attempt is truly disgusting. What sort of person would find that even 'darkly' amusing?

And what a hypocrite (which, as I intimated, is no surprise with men like this).

I know schadenfreude is not a good thing, but I'm schadenfreuding like mad here.

Whid have thought anyone would use trans rights to just he a dick..

We did try to warn people that actually most these people actually dont give a shit about then , their rights or their safety

But I guess us women dont know anything do we

What a disgusting thing to say wonder if that will cost him his job ....

i hope lots of people here about this.

Just imagine if JK Rowling had written a tweet laughing at a trans person's failed attempt at suicide. Just imagine.

@Kit19

I bet his finger is on fire he’s deleting past tweets so fast

In all seriousness though, any GC woman being caught with tweets like that would be in a world of pain - doxxed, threatened, reported for hate speech

I bet damian isn’t though

I wonder what the difference is 🤔

Ooh I know, Miss, I know

I bet this won't be reported in the Guardian!

😮

What an absolute bastard.

Man he is deleting tweets like crazy.

Oh, if only there was some way or recording - or taking some sort of digital image - of the tweets... because once you delete something it’s gone for ever, right? 😉

I'm cooking dinner but keeping an eye on other twitter revelations. He really can't delete quick enough. There's just so much...

twitter.com/Bigoldsupermoon/status/1278377004115677191

I think this tweet is spot on:

'Looking at his timeline using this language about trans people, I’m beginning to see why so many gay men are rabid TRA. They know they treated trans people v poorly, using these terms & are desperate to engage in whataboutery blaming women for abuse they gave out themselves."

twitter.com/BobBibBab1/status/1278352424600842240?s=19

Oh and of course he's made loads of misogynistic comments too. Of course he has. I think he's finished. He has to be, after all he set the precedent with Baroness Nicholson.

Transphobic tweets presented in video format:

twitter.com/BobBibBab1/status/1278354188070793217