2008… comedians freely engage in non-PC banter about a pregnant trans man

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A clip has surfaced on social media of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2008. Some big-name TV stars, including Dara O Briain, can be seen having a giggle about the notion of a man giving birth. They’d never get away with this kind of comedy banter now, and Dara has repeatedly ignored Graham Linehan’s calls to speak up about gender ideology. I found it interesting to see that even the most fervent BeKinders of 2023 have a few very un-PC skeletons in their closet.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-endless-hypocrisy-of-the-comedy-class/

Good god. Imagine that showing now!!!

It's great that people have changed their views, or at the very least are ashamed to openly attack and dehumanise minorities.

The writer very nearly gets it, but then swerves at the end as if this single issue was different to all the other forms of bigotry in the past.

"We often see modern people looking at clips from very old TV – The Black And White Minstrel Show or Are You Being Served?, for example – and looking horrified."

Dara O'Briain has made a living out of making fun of people with irrational beliefs (eg women who promote natural childbirth, people who do the lottery etc) and always makes a big thing of his mathematical mind and how clever and logical he is. So it is a mark of his cowardice that he refuses to say that men can't be women. And in fact that he gets extremely irate if you ask him to do so.

Agree entirely. Hopefully soon men will understand that their grotesque parodies of and offensive slurs towards women are unacceptable, and we will never see another suggestion that drag queens with sexist names are wholesome family entertainment promoted by the national broadcaster.

Yes, having a go at a pregnant woman because of how she choses to present is disgusting.

Also, Claudia Winkleman has eyes, who knew?

It's great that people have changed their views, or at the very least are ashamed to openly attack and dehumanise minorities.

Yes totally agree. It is almost impossible to understand why it was ever acceptable to dress up as an oppressed group and parody them. That would never happen now would it?🤔

Dara O'Briern was a twat back then and he is still a twat now. Was it him who made a very offensive joke about Downs Syndrome a few years back?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure it was him, or one of his ilk

How can you take a pregnant woman's claims to be a man remotely seriously?

Well, you can't. But it's hardly newsworthy.

What I find shocking about it all are that these twats are still doing their awful panel "comedy" shows.

That's bold! Presumably you'd then move on to pantomimes, Pride parades and kayleys.

At some point woman-face will also be seen as an abomination.

There is a big difference between panto dames and sex drag acts that talk about w9nems body parts etc with disdain.

...kayleys? Do you mean ceilidhs? And is your point about kilts? Because if it is, I'm embarrassed for you.

The “offending” few minutes’ banter has mysteriously gone missing from the episode on the show’s YouTube channel.

And Kayleys are an entirely different thing altogether!

Let's hope the organisation that stated same-sex orientation was akin to racism will be ready to change their views sometime this century. That attitude is vile.

Kayleys?

Everything that poster writes is either hilariously misguided or sadly bigoted. "Kayleys", I mean, come on.

I did google, I got a Canadian chocolate company.

Oh, right. Ceilidhs.

WTF, I still don't understand.

Kayleys? 😂😂

So did I, thinking I'd missed something (a new drag term maybe?). My best guess is that DadJoke has mangled ceilidh to absolute fuck.

I kilt up at any opportunity. I manage to bear the inevitable shite banter about it. My kilts don't make me gay or trans, they are just man skirts.

EMBDY CAN IMPUNE KAYLEIGHS OVER MY CAULD DEED BODY

I'm not sure why panto dames often crop up, as if anyone would be remotely upset if they were no longer included in pantomimes. Thinking about it haven't seen one for the last few years!