Glinner

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It's also quite distasteful how he frequently references his divorce - which would otherwise have been a fairly ordinary life-event - whilst his ex-wife remains silent.

Imagine the AIBU.

AIBU to think my husband should stop drinking and posting on Twitter in the middle of the night and jeopardising our family's safety by constantly personally engaging with TRAs?

Because that's what he did, is still doing, and it's a form of abuse. There's a great deal he could say without being repeatedly sued and he constantly blames everyone else for his personal difficulties.

JKR is too gracious to comment but if be beyond mortified if I landed in several national newspapers with a spokesperson declining to comment. One comment out of frustration might have been understable but he's said it over and over. Imagine if an ordinary man were repeatedly asking a woman to acknowledge him? We'd rightly conclude he has a boundary problem and the same applies here.

His ex-wife hasn't posted an AIBU though and most women who do choose anonymity. If her privacy has been compromised (and I agree it has) I don't think it helps much if we start discussing it here, particularly in a thread that began with tweets that were dug up from over a decade ago.

He hasn't simply said he’s disappointed that she hasn’t spoken up in his defence.

He said JKR is a bit responsible for him being branded as toxic. She's not. I agree with @DrLouiseJMoody Glinner has placed himself as both Victim and Knight in Shining Armour, all the time not bothering about the individual women he actively uses or criticises for not supporting him enough. Including his own wife and family.

I love his work. I'm glad that he spoke up for women against the TRAs. I wish him peace, love and prosperity for the future.

That video clip breaks my heart. You can hear he is hurt. He isn't attacking JK at all, he's hurt.

"accuses"

Accuses.

What a dramatic headline. And you just know some gullible fool will take it in and believe it.

I follow him and apart from Gaza, he is completely normal to me, and on the ball. One of the most sanest straight shooters I've come across. Not even remotely unravelled.

He is hurt. That's clear to see.

What's also clear is this video is all about him and his problems. Some of which he attributes to JKR. Which is nonsense.

Women are not here to relieve men or bolster them. This is a "poor me", evil women made my life harder post from him.

I'm a bit disappointed. Is he doing this for the American audience?

So what?

Some "names" won't acknowledge me and vice-versa. I'm fine with being disliked by some since I'm secure enough in myself and know I'm contributing in various ways. Of course it's a nice ego boost when someone well-known amplifies me but that's just a side-effect of something I'd be doing anyway. I can't fathom commenting about a lack of acknowledgement and basically demanding recognition.

Tonight, Graham has made yet another post stating that a "small group" are lying "to take down their targets" and that without them more progress would have been made. But we're not the people who have amplified AGPs, ignored trans widows, and object to Repeal. Women have been trashed by Graham and I've never seen him apologise.

A little humility, introspection, and recognition that he occupies a privileged position would go a long way.

There are only two types of men: those who watch porn and those who watch porn and pretend they don't.

Really? I thought it was because trans activists repeatedly doxxed his wife and children?

Who told you that?

TBF, the only time I ever see his divorce mentioned is when TRAs bring it up, I've never seen him mention it directly 🤷🏼‍♀️

My issue with Glinner started when he was good friends with the very man that wrote the polices that he lost everything railing against.

It's a huge blind spot with a large number of people. I genuinely do not get it.

You must have missed any interview or podcast he's ever been on.

Was just thinking that . Jesus Henry ....talk about twisting his words.

Meanwhile: - Am I being unreasonable to thinks it's time someone broke the Celtic / Rangers duopoly at the top of Scottish Football?

@DrLouiseJMoody Dunno pal but Glinner is a bastard because in 2012 .....

This 100%

Not just that.

It's just bloody odd to think that if you speak in support of someone, you are their support human.

If you really believe that, then Glinner must be the support human of millions of women who don't want to be forced to pretend that men are women.

Weird.

He isn't perfect – no one is – but I feel sorry for him. He is a rare comic genius and he lost everything due to his beliefs. Not all gender critical celebs have had their livelihoods ruined. JKR obviously is untouchable but similar writer comedians to him, like Ricky Gervais, have survived unscathed despite very open material challenging the trans movement gospel.

I have noticed for a while that JKR doesn't defend Glinner, despite backers pulling out of his West End Father Ted production, having his wife and children's lives threatened until they left him, to maintain their own safety. He's been systematically bullied and had his entire life dismantled because he believes people with willies are called men and shouldn't have access to protected female spaces. I have wondered why JKR is silent on this.

They did. They made life threats.

That made me laugh!

This.

I do think he's lost his marbles, along with everything else. It's the Cassandra Effect - speak the truth, that you know to be the truth and watch everyone you loved and admired and worked well with back away from you and treat you as a villain. I think most people would have a bit of a mental breakdown over this.

Yes that's right. Glinner entered into this arena, and stayed in it, to boost his profile and career. That's the obvious conclusion that makes total sense and is completely plausible.

Its certainly more plausible than the alternative explanation that Glinner is a man who lost everything to stand up for a group of people he is not even a member of, and lost his friends, his acquaintances and his career, and saw everyone ostracise him and this has gone on for years, leaving him in an ongoing traumatic situation and it really, really would have helped to alleviate his self of vulnerability and isolation and psychological distress if a high profile figure had spoken out in his favour. The silence instead compounded the feeling of isolation and social shame and shunning. I am not making an argument for what JKR should or should not have done. I am saying I do understand how Glinner experienced it the way he did, and its reasonable for him to have felt that in the traumatic situation he was in. Being shamed and ostracised and unemployable like that is traumatising.g

You may not have experienced this type of situation, but I have been through a long term situation very similar to Glinner's and a completely understand where he is coming from on this.

I think the man is an absolute hero who has lost everything to battle for women and girls. I admire him.

Rowling hasn't mentioned him one way or the other. Maybe she's seen the way he's behaved to other people who have also suffered for speaking up - Kathleen Stock, Helen Lewis, Jesse Singal to name a few. Maybe she's seen the way he has a tendency to mention people he considers 'on his side' when he launches attacks, so that they're involved whether they like it or not. Maybe she wants nothing to do with him for all these reasons but at the same time appreciates that he is in pain, and doesn't want to openly criticise him and add to that. And, like the genius he is, he is forcing her into a position where her avoidance of him is now the focus of public attention.

Glinner can't be expected to ignore some of the attacks on him, but anyone who encourages him to see himself as a victim of every circumstance is doing him no favours. Plenty of people don't like Helen Joyce and she has the good sense to shrug her shoulders and sod them. It would be different if Rowling was doing anything to dissuade others from associating with Glinner but she's not. She seems to have no time for purity spirals.

I've been through arguably worse than Glinner largely due to my involvement in this debate and don't feel the need for others to recognise me, although of course, it's a nice bonus if and when they do.

He told my partner that it was a good thing when TRAs attacked her e-shop since it created attention. Well, she had to rebuild it and lost income placing her in a far more precarious situation than Glinner. I wonder why he doesn't think it's a good thing when he's attacked? Poor, vulnerable, victimised, heroic, Graham nobly speaking out for all women.

Yep, that's true.

Everytime I read a thread he has started on X there's plenty of comments along the lines of "how's your family herp derp" though