Love Private Eye! One of the regular features, "From The Message Boards", is a parody internet forum, a seething nest of grotesqueries.
For years there have been occasional appearances by "Tim The House Husband" in the "Message Boards", always singing the praises of his obnoxious woke brats and ending, "Am I wrong to be proud?"
The worst of his horrid brood is Poppy, who used to "identify as recreationally trans". I was rather disappointed when Tim announced that she had "transitioned to Pip and gone vegan".
I used to think that "identifying as recreationally trans" was very funny and excellent satire but that development made me think that it was a pretty realistic trajectory.
It is very unusual for Private Eye running-joke characters to age in real time, unless they are based on actual people, like the Royals in the Short Story Specials by "Dame Sylvie Krin".
Pip doesn't get so much air time when Tim does pop up now. So I wondered if the "From the Message Boards" author had inadvertently painted him/herself into a corner: it would be gruesome making satire out of a young woman struggling with a binder or having her breasts amputated.
Some of the recent, disturbing videos by TT Exulansic made me think of Poppy/Pip, morphing from the spoiled , "recreationally trans" child Poppy, into a self-obsessed, censoriously vegan, "transman".
I just hope the guy who is always complaining about discrimination against "consensual cannibalism" doesn't escape off the pages next 