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

I shall make it abundantly clear to you, and to anyone else foolish enough to cross me; my political stance is defined by rationalism, common sense, and a desire for measured behaviour.

phew, glad you stressed that, i might have missed it otherwise in all words

I shall make it abundantly clear to you, and to anyone else foolish enough to cross me

Trans activists argue that the U.K. is terf island and transphobia central, while everyone else watches armed police arrest a man for tweets. Not sure how they ever thought GL’s arrest was going to be a positive for them.

He said, if you're a woman and there's an abusive man in your space, the last resort is self defence including a punch. But lets bear in mind this is a statistically smaller woman against a statistically larger man with 160% punch power that of women. So it's definitely not an even fight. This is last resort stuff that women think about every single day. The keys in fingers, the hairspray in your bag. What can you use if someone bigger and stronger than you tries to harm you (or your children) and the police do fecking feck all until you're fecking dead.

Are women no longer allowed to defend themselves against male perps in the UK? Because that seems to be what the police are saying. Is Wayne Couzens calling the shots from prison?

That part is the funniest, I can’t stop laughing. I wish I was as clever and powerful as this poster thinks they are. 😂

Theit sex would be immediately obvious as soon as they open their mouths.

What needs to happen now is that predatory men do the right thing and stay out of women's spaces so that trust in the social contract can be re-established. It is appalling that these men's bad behaviour has caused issues for women in their own spaces, in multiple ways. These men should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

It was very much an 'oh to have the confidence of a mediocre man' moment.

I mean just to add - women not being allowed to defend themselves and having to allow any old man that wants to to sexually harass her, invade her privacy, dignity and harm her safety and exclude her from public spaces is very much the TRA agenda. Mixed sex spaces are less safe for women, more sexual assaults happen there. This is fact.

This must be what the police are supporting. It's not the law though. What they're doing is illegal.

Hoping the US offers Graham refugee status due to this political persecution for daring to think women should have a right to self defence.

Thanks Graham for still seeing us as worthy of human rights.

Same!

Looks like this will run on for a while, so here is thread 2 for when this one fills up:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5403886-graham-linehan-arrested-on-arrival-at-heathrow-part-2

Absolutely, the phrase made me think of that.

TRAs & their allies on here get terribly stroppy & upset if you point out the ridiculousness of a man dressed as a woman.

I left X a couple of years ago. The tweets where a man was posing in his bathroom (usually) pouting, with clown make up, a cheap wig & wearing either lingerie or something approximating a 1950s secretary.

The responses telling him how amazing he looked, as his genitals strained against his knickers, his stomach escaped the waistband of his skirt, his wig clashed with his beard.

I couldn’t give a crap if a man wants to dress like that. But he doesn’t pass, it doesn’t make him a woman & allow him to enter sss. Even if he did pass (in soft light, on a good day & from a distance) so what? He’s still a man. If a 20 year old man can pass as a 15 yr old boy it doesn’t make him a child. If he then enters spaces meant for minors he’s a creep & a safeguarding issue. No difference.

The only thing that makes me think it's serious is the sheer bloody length of those walls of pompous, puffed up tripe. It's possible he's getting ChatGPT to do it; I don't think so but I can't be certain. But assuming not, no troll puts that amount of effort into it; it's totally counterproductive when it costs you more energy than the people you're trying to wind up. And he double posted after a flounce...

”You won’t like me when I’m angry”!!!!

Ah but self defence is 'premeditated violence' not just ordinary bog standard violence...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wes-streeting-government-parliament-home-secretary-ted-b2819074.html

Quite, remember when that 30 odd year old re e-nrolled at a school in 6th form as he felt he could do better in his exams? And worryingly, wanted to be a doctor. When discovered, it was rightly thought to be appalling and a massive safe guarding breach. Why are men invading women's spaces by lying somehow lauded as special and brave? The pretence and risk is the same.

As I said on another thread:

How to spot an incel 101.

Any male who tells a woman that she has no right to say no to anything regarding a state of undress, vulnerable conversations involving close bodily contact and medical situations.

No matter what the context.

No exceptions.

Transcels are just a subset of incels.

'Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is expected to raise the case at a House Judiciary Committee in the US on free speech on Wednesday.
Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick described the incident as “a complete waste of police time”, adding: “We desperately need to end this nonsense and go after actual criminals.”
But new Green Party leader Zack Polanski told BBC Newsnight the posts were “totally unacceptable” and the arrest seemed “proportionate”.'

So half the country is now considering whether it is proportionate to suggest that males using women's single sex spaces are being abusive.

It's certain they are breaking the law.

Is it abusive for men to use women's spaces? Is it right?

There was no reason for him to be arrested at the airport. At all.

I'm sorry that happened to your friend.

Self defense is not against the law and advising self defense is not inciting violence. If it was, self defense would be against the law.

None of what you say means that he deserved to be arrested.

Zack is the transes' new hope, after Your Party turned out to have Muslim MPs.

They are already shouting at Zack to sack one of his co-deputies for literal genocide. Sad times.

What makes him think we like him now?

The outcome of this tweet is going to be a lot of people wondering whether men who are going into women's single sex spaces are abusive, and what the proportionate response from women could or should be towards men who break the law in order to use women's spaces where women are vulnerable, in a state of undress, etc.

Secondly, they will wonder why a man talking about how women might respond to abuse is being arrested by armed police.

Men need to stay out of women's spaces.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5403886-graham-linehan-arrested-on-arrival-at-heathrow-part-2