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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Stewart Lee (a comedian apparently) calling MN a "hate site"

181 replies

CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment · 28/04/2024 12:27

Is there a backstory here or is he spouting random nonsense? Would MNHQ be interested in his defaming their site, also some ageism and condescension.

Relevant passage towards the end (after a hot take on Gideon Falter 🙄) :

"It was with some relief I finally had my now retired Basic Lee show filmed in Salford last week by Sky. The definitive record of this much-discussed, but comparatively rarely seen, show should diffuse the ongoing online storm in a teacup reflecting its imagined content, which has already resulted in the location of my family home being posted on the guest book of the schools advice, recipes and hate site Mumsnet by a furious old lady."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/28/context-is-vital-gideon-falter-met-police

Context is vital. That’s why I’m filming everything I say and do from now on | Stewart Lee

As Gideon Falter’s standoff with the police demonstrates, it’s important to be able to see the bigger picture

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/28/context-is-vital-gideon-falter-met-police

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illinivich · 28/04/2024 18:03

Stewart lees has been writing the same comedy for years, people either like it or they dont. But the idea that it goes over peoples heads is silly. Its not deep.

OutOfTheHouse · 28/04/2024 18:04

Onlywedressbetter · 28/04/2024 18:00

Are you that stupid, Stewart lees writing clearly has gone way over your heads. Get a grip .

Are we stupid? Get your punctuation sorted first and then we will have a chat about who is stupid.

Sorry, no we won’t because we are just a bunch of silly mummies and old women who share recipes and chat about pushchairs.

Onlywedressbetter · 28/04/2024 18:06

Yep, you said it

FeckOffAstonUniversityDoxingDepartment · 28/04/2024 18:07

Onlywedressbetter · 28/04/2024 18:06

Yep, you said it

Your slip is showing.

duc748 · 28/04/2024 18:08

Maybe someone should ask him on X. Is he literally claiming to have been doxxed on MN? Can we see the receipts, please?

littleburn · 28/04/2024 18:09

LunaNorth · 28/04/2024 12:48

Stewart Lee? His wife left him, didn’t she?

I liked her series. About an angry middle aged woman getting sick of her husband’s shit and roaring off on a motorbike to live in the New Forest.

Wonder where she got the idea for that?

Exactly! Tedious, deconstructionist, anti-joke comedian, beloved of pseuds everywhere. Now in a relationship with a woman 18 years his junior 🙄 So alternative yet so predictable. I guess male mid-life crisis is the great leveller.

quantumbutterfly · 28/04/2024 18:12

The bit at the bottom asking for donations to the guardian..

This is what we're up againstTeams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don’t want you to see.
Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science.
Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press.
Bad actors spreading disinformation online to undermine democracy.
***
But we have something powerful on our side.
We’ve got you.
The Guardian is funded by its readers and the only person who decides what we publish is our editor.
If you want to join us in our mission to share independent, global journalism to the world, we’d love to have you on side.

made me laugh more than the article.

Abhannmor · 28/04/2024 18:14

I'm proud to say I've never found him funny.
But if I'm honest I'm not a Ricky Gervais fan - Office excepted. Just grateful he is basically sane and rational.

Onlywedressbetter · 28/04/2024 18:14

Yawn

quantumbutterfly · 28/04/2024 18:14

LunaNorth · 28/04/2024 12:48

Stewart Lee? His wife left him, didn’t she?

I liked her series. About an angry middle aged woman getting sick of her husband’s shit and roaring off on a motorbike to live in the New Forest.

Wonder where she got the idea for that?

maybe mumsnet told her to ltb

irishmurdoch · 28/04/2024 18:15

I've seen all his shows in the last 10 years but won't be going again. In in the last one he demonstrated that he has no understanding of what GC feminists believe or want- or he does, but chooses to misrepresent it . The main basis of his joke about Mumsnet was that we just sit around getting pissed in the afternoon, so why should anyone care what we say about anything.

AstonUniversityPotholeDepartment · 28/04/2024 18:18

Stewart Lee put an anti-FGM campaigner (and survivor) Nimko Ali on his tedious annual hate list, without saying why she had qualified for it.

Presumably it was because she is friends with Carrie johnson, née Symonds; one certainly hopes it wasn't speaking against FGM that was the source of his problem with her. But given that my primary association when I read her name is "FGM campaigner, founder of the Five Foundation", I'm sure you can appreciate the shock I felt at seeing her name.

quantumbutterfly · 28/04/2024 18:18

FuriousOldLady · 28/04/2024 13:46

It wasn’t me.

I don’t agree with those tactics.

Even for mouthy ill-informed gobshites.

😂

quantumbutterfly · 28/04/2024 18:25

crunchermuncher · 28/04/2024 14:23

Husband and I went to see him recently - used to like a lot of his old stuff.

It was a massive disappointment, especially when he started having a go at JKR and implying she was morally wrong, then having a go at mumsnet and making very misogynistic comments about wine drinking mummies radicalising people - as if your brains fall out once youve had a baby (and wilfully blind to the fact that men and non mums also use this site). And apparently we are 'just' wine drinking mummies, but at the same time really dangerous radicals 🙄

I was so upset by being dismissed by an old white man with no skin in the womens rights game I cried on the bus home. Husband was also pissed off and has lost all respect for him.

But hey, #bekind right?

tbf they do pull your brains out through your nose to mummify you, of course they don't need to bother if you're so open minded it's already fallen out.

RedToothBrush · 28/04/2024 18:28

duc748 · 28/04/2024 18:08

Maybe someone should ask him on X. Is he literally claiming to have been doxxed on MN? Can we see the receipts, please?

Doxxed?

You mean he was shocked that someone Off Of The Mumsnet, once recognised him and he thinks this is doxxing?

quantumbutterfly · 28/04/2024 18:29

Astrabees · 28/04/2024 15:31

You can disagree with Stuart Lee as much as you like but having been to one of his sell out gigs a few weeks back I can say he is extremely funny, very clever and as an author, scriptwriter and journalist very relevant.

is that you stuart?

OutOfTheHouse · 28/04/2024 18:34

quantumbutterfly · 28/04/2024 18:29

is that you stuart?

If it was he’d be able to spell his own name.

AstonUniversityPotholeDepartment · 28/04/2024 18:40

RedToothBrush · 28/04/2024 18:28

Doxxed?

You mean he was shocked that someone Off Of The Mumsnet, once recognised him and he thinks this is doxxing?

I think I've found the post, and it's a mere mention of the rarefied district he lives in, without any other information. It's on the thread that was mostly responding to his hate list and the people he'd included in the "Pedal Bin" section, such as, inexplicably, an FGM campaigner.

@dittymcdit commented on that thread, I imagine SL will read this thread. And his takeaway will be that we are all transphobic Pearl-clutchers aren't intelligent or left wing enough to understand his comedy

Well, he definitely did read it, but his takeaway was that we shouldn't dare imply that he might live in very genteel surroundings Grin

^https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womensrights/4444132-What-has-Stewart-Lee-done?page=1

What has Stewart Lee done? | Mumsnet

I see lots of people on Twitter are slagging off Stewart Lee because he listed a lot of non-woke folk like Graham Linehan in his "pedal bin" of people...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4444132-What-has-Stewart-Lee-done?page=1

quantumbutterfly · 28/04/2024 18:40

OutOfTheHouse · 28/04/2024 18:34

If it was he’d be able to spell his own name.

He could be identifying as stuart, he seems to be identifying as a comedian.

SapphireSeptember · 28/04/2024 18:53

Maaate · 28/04/2024 15:38

The only instance of a lawyer being hassled on here I can remember is when RMW made some highly unprofessional and borderline contempt of court comments towards a woman who they (iirc)were the opposing counsel for.

Who is RMW? Tried googling but couldn't find anything. I recognise those initials from other threads but can't remember who it is. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Waitingfordoggo · 28/04/2024 18:54

Robin Moira Wright I think.

Waitingfordoggo · 28/04/2024 18:54

Or White!

Lwrenn · 28/04/2024 18:55

He's no Dave Chapelle is he?

You know, funny.