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

There's certainly a section of the population who would object to anyone making suggestions about how to deal with men intimidating children.

Yes. Making a joke. I can’t help thinking it’s the mention of balls that’s really riled them. They’d be less bothered by a call to punch them in the tits. They’d take that as affirmation.

Oh dear god. He was suggesting it as a last course of action to women in female spaces with men who refused to leave. If he'd written it on a sky banner pulled by a plane, the point remains the same.

Ah, you may be correct. It yucks their yum, to point out the wee elephant in the room, doesn't it.

His tweet didn't just say men.

It specified men who were invading women's spaces.

So why weren't the people holding "decapitate Terfs" or "the only good Terf is a dead Terf" signs arrested?

Why haven't every single UK based poster whose tweets inciting and threatening violence appear on Terfisaslur been arrested.

Why isn’t threatening or inciting extreme violence against people who hold a protected belief taken equally seriously.

Yes, he did specify TIMs but only those who are found in women’s spaces and remain there after a woman has objected in other ways. We’ve been over this upthread.

R4 again… 13:26

"So why weren't the people holding "decapitate Terfs" or "the only good Terf is a dead Terf" signs arrested?

Why haven't every single UK based poster whose tweets inciting and threatening violence appear on Terfisaslur been arrested.

Why is threatening or inciting extreme violence against people who hold a protected belief taken equally seriously."

In all of the reporting of this I've barely seen any mention of the double standards involved.

This is absolutely glorious. It makes no sense on any level but sort of parses as sentences so you think it says something.

The tweet had a context! That context was a male refusing to leave a protected, women only space where the male has no legal right to be.

TONE POLICE KLAXON

It created a delightful mental picture of a rather tall man trying to physically cram himself into a tiny box on the internet.

Presumably they are also going to send 6 armed officers to anyone who has ever said "punch a terf". Unless they are not in the UK, in which case I expect them to arrested on arrival if they ever do come here.

Lisa Nandy

I have no idea. Because this thread is about GL?

A man who is happy to try and destroy the life of a woman who isn't famous, who isn't well known, but he took a dislike to because of a job she had previously done, is not someone to look up to or support in any way IMO.

@justteanbiscuits For clarity, trying to make sense of your post upthread, is the friend of yours who you refer to as 'she' a biological woman (XX chromosomes) or a biological man (XY chromosomes). I don't understand why Graham or any other GC person would accuse a biological woman of being trans. Why would they do that?

Why is the conversation "women don't defend yourself against a law breaker who makes you feel threatened" rather than "why aren't the police, public bodies and politicians doing more and better to prevent women from feeling this at risk and threatened?"

Is it because if we acknowledge this, it requires action...

The problem is, the "you can just tell" types can't just tell. If I know TWO women who have both had problems after someone else decides they are men, how many more are being abused after being encouraged by people like GL?

Or are you one of the "a bit of collateral damage is fine" women?

disappointingly she did nothing to get rid of the GI twits, and here we are. I can never ever vote green again, which is a shame because i have done since they were the ecology party.

Hi @Glinner I hope you can take some comfort from the fact that, although what happened to you was absolutely awful, the whole debacle has shone a massive spotlight on the trans debate, and apart from a few deluded activists, the whole country is on your side.

Re read my post. I made it very clear that my friend is not, and has never been trans.

GL took a personal dislike to her because of a job she had previous done that had a loose link to LGBTQ issues (it was FAR from the main purpose of her role). He then found photos of her online, decided she was a man, and doxed her. Other high profile anti trans activists jumped on the bad wagon.

A old colleague I am friends with is 6ft2, very large busted but very slim, and tends to wear bright lipstick and fairly 'out there' clothing. She has been verbally abused on a number of occasions for "being a man".

The one thing both these women have in common is having given birth, vaginally, which kind of removes all doubt, no?

I hope Glinner is resting, and taking care of his health. The FSU are on it, and the media and politicians will thrash this out now, so hopefully he can just take a bit of time to recover from the stress.

When the news of his arrest came out yesterday morning, lots of transes on Reddit and BlueHairSky were jubilant. The mad SEEN Police one especially, who I think made the original complaint.

And I thought about it for a bit, and suspected that it was going to be very, very bad for them. Not him. And so it is turning out.

This will peak a lot of people who had forgotten all about the mad hurty feelz "crimes". Time has moved on since the original complaint. This is shedding a lot of sunshine. Happy times.