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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Omid Djalili on women's rights issues - not funny at all

392 replies

derxa · 16/02/2021 19:01

mobile.twitter.com/omid9/status/1361739351911235591

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Doyoumind · 18/02/2021 21:58

Bloody hell x 2.

  1. OD is doubling down worse than before. What is going on with him? Confused Some excellent responses on twitter though.
  1. Even on this thread jj is here to tell us we're wrong Hmm
MissBarbary · 18/02/2021 22:05

[quote nauticant]There is gold in replies to him:

twitter.com/omid9/status/1362511435578957827[/quote]
Including one from Francis Wheen ! I'd be mortified if I a got a public ticking off from him.

nauticant · 18/02/2021 22:10

It's so strange I'm wondering whether there's something motivating him to deliberately court public humiliation.

Sophoclesthefox · 18/02/2021 22:11

He’s gone totally tonto. Blimey.

Campervan69 · 18/02/2021 22:19

Wow. Embarrassing for him.

jj1968 · 18/02/2021 22:26

I don't know who Dr Em (M?) is or what she said. I don't think he called Selina Todd a Nazi although I can see how it could be interpreted as that.

She made claims about other groups he thinks are Nazis based on the original tweet. Given that the first tweet is ambiguous, the idea you can then ascribe opinions to him he has never voiced based purely on speculation is arguably defamatory. Can't see it ever getting to court though, especially if the tweets have been removed and he probably should take a break and have a lie down.

BuntingEllacott · 18/02/2021 22:28

The male ego is quite a sight. You really can't miss it when it's standing proud, can you?🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

nauticant · 18/02/2021 22:31

I'd imagine if he comes to his senses he'll go on a deleting spree. One tweet worth saving is when he agrees that he's acting like a stalker:

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210218222640/twitter.com/omid9/status/1362511435578957827" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">web.archive.org/web/20210218222640/twitter.com/omid9/status/1362511435578957827

archive.fo/wip/Lnwj8 (this is currently in a queue awating being archived)

PotholeParadies · 18/02/2021 22:32

What is wrong with him?!

He'll dig through to the molten core of the earth at this rate!

Mollyollydolly · 18/02/2021 22:35

I don't normally let tossers on twitter get to me but I swear I'll put my foot through the tv if he comes on. It's like some mad lockdown fever. His agent should take his phone away.

nauticant · 18/02/2021 22:36

I expect to see it blamed on lockdown related stress and as a result the balance of his mind was disturbed.

Doyoumind · 18/02/2021 22:45

Sadly, I think it will all blow over for him because it isn't a problem if you bully women. That makes me very angry.

zanahoria · 18/02/2021 22:47

It is fairly clear that he has not following legal advice. I doubt any lawyer would tell him that what he really needs to be doing is to go back on twitter and kick off again.

PotholeParadies · 18/02/2021 22:47

The guy who tried to use David Baddiel has tweeted this about Dr Em. The fucking cheek.

It’s not for nothing. It’s for self promotion. But no one is doing that at my expense. And no one should ever stand for it. Ever. When I called her out on it she dropped her scholarly tone and said she’s not a professor just a woman who is disabled. It’s an absolute disgrace.

twitter.com/omid9/status/1362510778440556545?s=19

BuntingEllacott · 18/02/2021 23:11

Wowsers. I mean, good lord. At this point my son would be told to go to his room and not come out until he had thought long and hard about his behaviour. If he persisted, it'd be a technology ban for a few days too.

PotholeParadies · 18/02/2021 23:23

I don't believe in cancellation- if other people want to go see him, it's their money.. It would be rather hypocritical if I did. I'll buy JK Rowling books and other people can buy Djalili tickets. Besides, our struggling theatres need the money.

But I'm not above yarnbombing, so with that in mind, here are some dates and locations if anyone else wants to support their local haberdashery by buying craft materials. Or making #IStandWithDrEM stickers .

www.ticketmaster.co.uk/omid-djalili-tickets/artist/30742

PotholeParadies · 18/02/2021 23:32

Counting down till Omid appears here and claims I'm purveying online hate by suggesting women might tie a feminist knitting project to a bench near an arts centre. Grin

PotholeParadies · 18/02/2021 23:41

I wasn’t and I have done. Clearly. Unfortunately the “Dr. EM” thread had two tweets that were malicious, libellous and started the hate and had nothing to do with my tweet or the article. If you follow her go look at them. Being disabled does not give you a free pass.

twitter.com/omid9/status/1362543343880851458?s=19

JosieJarker · 19/02/2021 00:34

Ive met dr em.
She prefers embroidery to knitting.

PotholeParadies · 19/02/2021 00:53

She's out of luck there. My embroidery sucks.

Guys, I don't know how tonarvhive tweets, but please, please archive this!

With respect James...

If I said in a tweet about you:

“By the way have we mentioned that you’re paedophile? I guess everyone knows that already”

But then said “I’m seriously ill and in a wheel chair” but tweeting with clarity and coherence, would you call me out for that?

twitter.com/omid9/status/1362548777039626246?s=19

That rather implies to me that our friend Omid doesn't think people can be capable of typing tweets and be wheelchair-users.

F'ing hell!

HollywoodTease · 19/02/2021 00:54

@jj1968

I don't know who Dr Em (M?) is or what she said. I don't think he called Selina Todd a Nazi although I can see how it could be interpreted as that.

She made claims about other groups he thinks are Nazis based on the original tweet. Given that the first tweet is ambiguous, the idea you can then ascribe opinions to him he has never voiced based purely on speculation is arguably defamatory. Can't see it ever getting to court though, especially if the tweets have been removed and he probably should take a break and have a lie down.

She absolutely didn't, and the tweets are still there.

She retweeted his original tweet, stating "As always a man tells us there are more important things to deal with than women's rights.
Women talking about sex discrimination, proposed legislative overhaul which will remove their rights are Nazis?"

She then tweeted a list of people who have been no-platformed by Universities in the last year or so, to make the point that these people (mostly left-wing women) must be, by Omid's standards, nazis.

A lot of people then went directly to Omid's timeline to tell him he was wrong, and he blamed DrEM for that and ended up with his undies in a bunch because more people on his timeline disagreed with his ill-thought-out and unfunny "joke" than supported it.

IANAL but I don't see any defamation there, just a butt-hurt bloke who, instead of thinking "shit, I might have got this one wrong" decided to double down and blame his shame on a woman with less than 1/5 of his twitter following.

He's an arse.

JosieJarker · 19/02/2021 01:08

He might not have called selina todd a Nazi but he did call women on twitter nazis, Adolf and Eva Braun.
Really not a good look and I'm at a loss as to why anyone would be defending him.
Its not funny, or banter, or just a bit of a laugh or whatever excuse these pricks always use.
I dont know who this man is but I strongly suspect he hasn't in fact spoken to any lawyers recently.

Redshoeblueshoe · 19/02/2021 01:19

My favourite tweet was the one that asked if he used the same coke dealer as Oz Grin
Omid isn't giving up . . . . .

ScreamingBeans · 19/02/2021 02:25

Oh god I have been looking at some of the tweets and am genuinely cringing for him, this is so embarrassing.

I suspect he just posted something without really considering it, doesn't have a clue and on realising that he'd opened a can of worms, decided that as it's only women who are annoyed with him, he can dig in.

Then some men started joining in and telling him he's wrong, so he decided to threaten someone with lawyers.

It's all so embarrassing, how can he not have known that starting a conversation with an allusion to Nazis, was never going to end well.

I clicked on the link to his tour, the tickets at my local theatre are about £30.

Before this if I'd known he was touring near me I would have suggested going to see him because I'd had an impression of him as someone quite funny. But after this, I'd rather donate the money to Dr Em's fund if he sues her.

SeaRabbit · 19/02/2021 05:39

This is my favourite - advice from an actual lawyer which he seems to reject

twitter.com/DeepakNambisan/status/1362449701438644229?s=20

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