Start your weekend laughing! Bill Maher is onboardthe GC train and telling it like it is.

[DontLikeCrumpets]

Great post Crumpets, thanks for posting.

"Maybe the girl who hates girly stuff just needs to learn that being female doesn't mean you have to act like a Kardashian."

I love this! Bill Maher can be quite funny. I love that he focuses on what's happening to children...that's the leading concern I feel for the majority of people.

To use an American expression, Delphinium20, his remarks concerning kids being put in danger by genderwoo hits this rant out of the ballpark. I so love that he gave Abigail Shier's book, Irreversible Damage a major plug

Good rant. Had to watch with subtitles and no sound as putting kids to bed so hard to get tone but he made a lot of good points. I like "kids are fluid about everything!"

Thanks for posting, crumpets.

“when I was a child, I wanted to be a pirate. Thank god no one scheduled me for eye removal surgery or gave me a peg leg.”

The women ( guest ? )
appeared to not agree with a lot of what he said.... her facial expressions were interesting

Ah yes bill maher, another great feminist ally.. seriously you need to stop aligning yourselves with anyone who throws a bone your way.

You need to stop aligning yourself with adult babies and rapists.

Oh wait, not everything can be divided into neat sides, can it?

Perhaps you should just stop telling women what to do. And look and what is being said not just who is saying it.

Or @Regularsizedrudy perhaps we just like this show saying these things. I don't align myself with anyone. Doesn't mean I can't enjoy comedy even if it is a bit try-hard

@catandcoffee that's Donna Brazille, Democratic Party political stragetist and campaign manager among other things. I'm glad she was hearing this from the horse's mouth.

This!

No way, @DontLikeCrumpets! That was Donna Brazile?! I remember her from the heady days of 2016 and the WikiLeaks scandal. Can't imagine she's anything other than a woo-ist, given the way the Dems currently are.

When I see people in here embracing bad comedians because they have some anti-trans material I'm reminded of Bernard Manning and how his audience would lap up and roar with laughter at anything he said as long as it was racist.

We want as many people on side as possible. Funny comedians would great, but we'll take bad comedians too. Comedians' job is to call out those that need calling out, and that's certainly needed here.

I do find this Maher chap cringeworthily unfunny, in a particularly American way, but at least it's only his style I hate - his actual observation is on point.

At least it's not someone like Stephen Colbert, who now appears to be spectacularly unfunny simply because of the ideological blinders he's wearing, despite the fact we know he could do better, and used to. You can't direct your comedic punches properly if you can't face the truth head-on.

(PS, does anyone else have the sense the previous poster has no personal knowledge of who Bernard Manning was, or the content of his routines, or the nature of his audiences, but needed some name of a "bad comedian" to fill in the blank for a rhetorical point?)

Signalling to the right camp that she's not onboard with the comments! Totally pandering.

You have no idea who I align myself
with or how I feel about trans ideology. I just refuse to laugh along with a well known/documented misogynist because he (or his writers..) might happen to agree with me on one issue. Bill Maher has done nothing for women or feminism.

Bill Maher has done nothing for women or feminism.

Empirically false, as he just did something just now.

😂 What an insult to the women who have dedicated their lives to improve the lot of other women. He didn’t even write this! It’s a bit created to appeal to his right leaning audience, bill Maher doesn’t give a shit about women, he cares about clicks and views and will say whatever will get them.

Just to clarify:

Listening to what someone says is not 'aligning' oneself with a person.

Laughing at someone's joke is not 'aligning' oneself with a person.

Agreeing with someone is not 'aligning' oneself with a person.

Clear? Good.

Voting for someone is not 'aligning' oneself with a person

For Fucks Sake!

More people telling us who we can and can’t listen to as feminists. Why on earth is feminism supposed to be so prescriptive? You can only be a good feminist if you listen to this list of people and don’t listen to this list of people.

When did feminism involve infantilising other women and taking away their right to make decisions on who to follow and for what reason?

bill Maher doesn’t give a shit about women

If true, so what?

No-one's making you watch him, you don't have to. You can not watch him for any reason you like.

What do you actually want?

Do you want him to stop talking about this?

Who said that? Are you saying listening to someone is the same as voting for them?

Is there a line? What if you walk past someone in the street and fail to denounce them, is that aligning yourself with them?

What they want, Necessary, is for women to feel ashamed, shut up and be nice and do what they're told.

No, thank you.