Graham Linehan arrested on arrival at Heathrow

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Arrested again! Details on his Substack. This is beyond a joke; 5 armed officers!

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/i-just-got-arrested-again

Threatening physical violence I believe. If someone walked up to you in the street and threatened to kick you somewhere, you'd have the right to feel intimidated and call the police.

How many trans-identified men have you reported for threatening to rpe or kll women? Do you think Linehan's tweets are more serious or less serious than those?

What about dragging you out of somewhere you shouldn't be on the first place?

If women are advised to kick in self defence are they arrested? And what about all the rape death threat to women tweets?

My dad told me to slam the palm of my hand very hard against the under side of their nose so the bone goes upwards.

Then kick them in the balls.

I'm so angry that this can still happen. I thought we were starting to move on from this shit.

Well no I'm very obviously not saying any such thing. The fact that you're pretending I am is illustrative of the type of tactics that have led to GL's arrest though.

So this is all about the naming of Dr Upton?

I noticed Jo has (finally) posted about him on her Twitter.

Well if anyone is still asking "what has Jo said that's homophobic/transphobic" she's openly defending someone who spends a lot of his time harassing, defaming and threatening gay and trans people and anyone who supports them.

And can we address the right-wing manipulation going on about "the police being armed to arrest someone for tweeting". The arrest happened at an airport, the police there are routinely armed for general national security reasons.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/father-ted-co-creator-graham-141003577.html

“The arrest was made by officers from the MPS Aviation Unit,” a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said in a statement to media. “It is routine for officers policing airports to carry firearms. These were not drawn or used at any point during the arrest.”

I believe that running the teeth-side of a comb (plastic or metal) sharply along under someone's nose will make them lose interest in everything else for a while; and unlike a kick in the balls, they won't be expecting it or ready to dodge it.

Then, while they are thoroughly distracted, is when you kick them in the balls and run like hell.

In the matter of the photo you can smell, there is a slur used against post-operative trans people which is horribly offensive (as well as sounding to me like complete nonsense): that their pseudo-vagina smells like the contents of the intestine it's made out of. I can see why that would upset anyone it was used against, and if trans twerps thought that was what Glinner meant, they would have some justification in being upset. But I doubt that it was what he meant.

Agreed. Also, the process is part of the punishment. So being arrested, put in a cell etc. It's fucking outrageous. @Glinner I'm glad you're here, there are millions of us who think this is wrong. Fucking TRAs. How has it come to this FFS?

Do try and get this right, please.

He advocated that if a woman using a women-only facility is being menaced by a man who shouldn't be there she punches him in the nuts as self-defence. No one knows if any random man in the Ladies is trans or not, safe or not. And any man in the Ladies is committing an offence.

I assumed it was the smell of a crowd of soap dodgers who live in their mums' basements, nothing to do with post surgery potential whiffiness, that hadn't even occurred to me.

And I thought it was funny.

that their pseudo-vagina smells like the contents of the intestine it's made out of.

I don't think that is nonsense, very unfortunately - the people I've heard talking about it have been transwomen themselves.

However, that's not what was meant

Or if, say, you held up a sign saying "Decapitate TERFs"?

It is different because the TW is transgressing women's boundaries first and not being punched in the balls simply for being a TW, in GL's tweet.

Sarah Jane Baker says "punch a Terf" just wherever, for being a Terf. Gleeful. Just punch a terf.

I'm glad to hear it. Start a crowdfund if you need it.

What do you think I got wrong? Attached is a screenshot of (one of) the tweets GL says precipitated his arrest. He specifically stated 'trans-identified male' (eg, trans woman).

Of course trans women are men, so I don't see what part of my post is "wrong" or even varies from what you are saying. JKR has, to best of my knowledge, never advocated for kicking trans women (eg, MEN) in the nuts, whether they are intruding in women's single sex spaces or otherwise.

ISTR the punch a terf man got away with it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66676737

I assumed it was the smell of a crowd of soap dodgers who live in their mums' basements, nothing to do with post surgery potential whiffiness, that hadn't even occurred to me.

Yes, anyone familiar with photos of autogynephilic men will have seen the men who film themselves in underwear in rooms that look as if someone has done a very thorough search of a charity shop. Grubby old clothes all over floors that haven't seen a hoover for years, mysterious stains on walls and carpets and bedding and piles of junk. They look as if they ought to smell of damp and mould and infestations.

"Baker said she wished she could take the words back and that she had friends who were trans-exclusionary radical feminists."

Ah, so he used the old tried and tested 'but I have black gender-critical friends' defence. In this case, it seems to have worked.

Yes I've been told to scream "fire!" because people will be more likely to come running to help if you shout that, whereas apparently people are far less likely come running to help if you shout "rape!" which is fucking depressing!

Well and also, she's not a she is she? "she" is a man. We're finally allowed to say this now after the SC ruling.

People are comparing Glinner's situation with the Lucy Connolly tweets, but they're very different:

Connolly advocated "Mass deportation" and setting "fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards" - this was advocating collective punishment and violence against an entire group that had nothing to do with the offence she was supposedly upset about (the Southport murders).

Glinner said that if a male is in a female-only space, women should "make a scene", "call the cops", and only suggests violence as a last resort if the lawbreaking male doesn't leave. Because if the male is in the ladies changing rooms/loos, it's a fairly reasonable assumption that they have nefarious intent, especially if they refuse to leave.

I think it's very different suggesting violence against innocent people in their residence (which would also potentially put the emergency services responding/nearby people and properties in danger), and suggesting violence against a male who is breaking the law to enter a space where women are vulnerable.