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

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derxa · 16/02/2021 19:01

mobile.twitter.com/omid9/status/1361739351911235591

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PotholeParadies · 17/02/2021 21:06

Recent? 2007?

Is this like when I claim the 90s were only ten years ago and the Spice Girls are still what all the kids are listening to?

PotholeParadies · 17/02/2021 21:11

Omid is instructing lawyers he says. To sue Dr EM for defamation.

Great, more digging.

Blocking me will not help her. I reiterate, online abuse and incitement of hate is a serious issue. Especially now. It was all a laugh to start with but her thread defaming my character is utterly disgraceful. This is now a legal issue.

twitter.com/omid9/status/1362139942655254532?s=19

derxa · 17/02/2021 21:14

Bloody hell when I started this thread I had no idea the Twitter row would get so bad. I think Omid wanted some controversy to promote his shows or something. He waded in making 'jokes' not really understanding how bad it is for some of these women in academia. He really is an example of the old 'male chauvinist pig' stereotype.
I previously would never have described myself as a feminist but the scales have fallen from my eyes.

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PotholeParadies · 17/02/2021 21:19

He's got a tour coming up. I'm going to check if my local theatre is on the list. If it is, I will bloody wallpaper the theatre with I ❤ Tarunperin and #IStandWithDrEm stickers for that week.

jj1968 · 17/02/2021 21:22

@PotholeParadies

Recent? 2007?

Is this like when I claim the 90s were only ten years ago and the Spice Girls are still what all the kids are listening to?

Quite possibly, but Omid is older than me so could apply to him too.
SunsetBeetch · 17/02/2021 21:24

What does he mean here?

How can he say he didn't call certain feminists nazis when he's also said this?

Step away from the twitter, Omid.

Omid Djalili  on women's rights issues  - not funny at all
SunsetBeetch · 17/02/2021 21:25

@PotholeParadies

He's got a tour coming up. I'm going to check if my local theatre is on the list. If it is, I will bloody wallpaper the theatre with I ❤ Tarunperin and #IStandWithDrEm stickers for that week.
Paging Kellie Jay....
PotholeParadies · 17/02/2021 21:31

Derxa Nail on head. Chauvinist dinosaur.

He's posted repeatedly that "It was all a laugh to start with". He knew he'd upset women but they're only women so it was just a laugh. So he kept prodding. Just a laugh, right?

Now his agent has given him a call and he's panicking. Didn't those women realise it was all just banter? How dare they take the joke too far?!

If he'd taken the initial responses seriously in the first place, he wouldn't be in this position.

MissBarbary · 17/02/2021 21:49

Has he apologised @Tarunperin for calling her Adolf and Eva Braun?

Bizarrely I'm now blocked by @Tarunperin despite never tweeting anything and "liking" the tweets supporting her.

PotholeParadies · 17/02/2021 22:03

No apology. Lots about how he was engaging with it all "jokingly" and lots and lots and lots about suing.

PotholeParadies · 17/02/2021 22:13

He's tagged David Baddiel in. This is just embarrassing.

What an unfair, underhand position to put David Baddiel in. If David wants to come in and defend Omid against charges of anti-semitism, it should be purely his decision.

Omid Djalili  on women's rights issues  - not funny at all
NiceGerbil · 17/02/2021 22:16

Good lord

I take my earlier post back.

PotholeParadies · 17/02/2021 22:25

Gerbil, what did you say? I can't keep track of MN and twitter!

Helmetbymidnight · 17/02/2021 22:26

my bet? david baddiel will try to mend bridges in a funny conciliatory way. hes clearly gc but he has enough on his hands fighting anti-semites without dealing with raging misogynists too.

Melroses · 17/02/2021 22:29

Goodness, he needs to hand his twitter account over to his PR.

Embarrassing.

PotholeParadies · 17/02/2021 22:37

David Baddiel's being cautious here. He's not responded directly to Omid, but he has replied to someone else who tagged him in his reply to Omid. If you can follow that.

My bet is David is carefully investigating the backstory before he tweets anything on it. I couldn't possibly predict what he'll say or do, but if I were him, I would be very professionally unhappy with Djalili right now.

Helmetbymidnight · 17/02/2021 22:43

i agree. its all a bit 'some of my best friends are jewish' - which is just ...oof.

dr em is a real pankhust, isnt she? the story will become enormous if omid does proceed his ridiculous crusade.

PotholeParadies · 17/02/2021 22:47

"Look! Here he is!"

"Dave, tell them I'm not!"
David: "Mate. I'm trying to have dinner."

Helmetbymidnight · 17/02/2021 23:03

awful behaviour, and yep, i saw david baddiel had replied to someone else on the thread. i bet they are chatting privately.
really baddiel should tell him to calm down, this escalated horribly. and omid should listen. (he might listen to a man!)!

AnotherLass · 17/02/2021 23:03

Having looked through the tweets, I think now that he just didn't have a clue, shouted about Nazis without even looking, and then was completely taken aback when people started talking about feminists.

I think the reference to "online hate" in the tweet above at Sarah was about "hate" addressed at him, not at trans people - he meant the feminists who were telling him he was talking shite.

He was obviously upset by it, but instead of saying "oh, I realise there is something here I didn't understand, sorry for saying something so dumb" he instead started lashing out and saying that he was being bullied.

It's possible he's drunk. I don't think that he's a TRA spitting bile, just a bloke who doesn't like to admit he made a mistake, which I do find easier to forgive. But he is making a tit of himself.

MissBarbary · 17/02/2021 23:08

:22jj1968

PotholeParadies

Recent? 2007?

Is this like when I claim the 90s were only ten years ago and the Spice Girls are still what all the kids are listening to?

Quite possibly, but Omid is older than me so could apply to him too

Oh come off it- I'm older than both of you- the many people who have been no platformed in the last 2-3 years have not been Nazis.

donquixotedelamancha · 17/02/2021 23:25

He's tagged David Baddiel in. This is just embarrassing.

That's hysterical. Look, look I know a Jewish person so can't have been anti-Semitic.

David Baddiel is fairly GC, anti-censorship and funny, three reasons I can't see him being sympathetic to OD.

NiceGerbil · 17/02/2021 23:28

Pothole I had a quick squiz and said just said I don't get it either.

The people who said hold on about it were right

Melroses · 17/02/2021 23:32

@donquixotedelamancha

He's tagged David Baddiel in. This is just embarrassing.

That's hysterical. Look, look I know a Jewish person so can't have been anti-Semitic.

David Baddiel is fairly GC, anti-censorship and funny, three reasons I can't see him being sympathetic to OD.

And he's busy promoting his latest book, "Jews Don't Count". He would be a fool to get involved in this mess.
NiceGerbil · 17/02/2021 23:40

How do you feel about being a purveyor of online hate!

Has anyone threatened to rape him with a baseball bat with barbed wire round it? Kill him? Kill his children (if he has any)? Burn his house down?

I'm imagining not. And certainly not by women who know the difference between male and female :/

If anyone on here has ever been confused by the idea of masculine fragility that is it right there!

Women's words = actual violence.
Women saying no is incomprehensible.
Etc