Robin Ince quits working for the BBC over his support for men in dresses and terrorists

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Shame really he’s a nice guy, a huge bibliophile, met him a few times at book signings, the last live show of his I saw he did shoehorn in “and of course trans women are real women” or some such nonsense.

guessing the infinite monkey cage is cancelled now, that was in my top five podcasts.

can’t do a popular science show and think women can have a penis though. Wonder what Brian thinks?

the video of his love resignation , presumably at the end of a monkey cage recording, is here
https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1plg02g/bbc_presenter_robert_ince_claims_he_has_been/

notably he doesn’t say how men in dresses are being treated badly. Everyone has a blind spot.

Cricket is very much his thing.

Could not be a bigger twat about gender and woke left crap.I used to be a paid supporter of his personal podcast the bugle, went to live shows etc and one episode they laid into JKR for all the wrong reasons - I emailed them, told them why, stopped everything. Bellend. All those “protect young trans people” jokes in the news quiz are his.

Haha spot on 😂

I hope this thread hasn't felt like a kicking for you OP. It's fine to have a "love the work despite this artist" approach, it's just that for me personally someone adhering to genderism is a turn-off that I can't get around.

Fully agree.

Oh, I agree, that's why people like him and, say, Alice Roberts are so desperately disappointing. The great revealer indeed.

Not at all!!

If I say separate the art from the artist to everyone all the time it needs to go both ways for me, but sometimes it doesn’t. I said he was a nice bloke because I met him briefly a few times, he really was interested in books a lot and we chatted about that, enjoyed it. I suspected there was a bit more to it - as everyone is revealing!! But didn’t know it was this bad at all

Basically he loves second hand book shops as much as I do and we bonded for a few minutes other that :D

Yeah it's the difference between someone enjoying themselves being funny, and someone displaying themselves being funny.

All the BlueSky centrist "Why can't everyone just get along" dads are jolly upset, natch 🙄

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Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?

Wasn't John Oliver involved in the Bugle?

I think it’s usual in statements like this to include something on the lines of “I’d like to thank the wonderful production team of The Infinite monkey cage and my talented co-presenter Brian Cox, with whom I enjoyed a very happy collaboration for x years.”

Instead he’s written a very petulant statement that makes him look like an angry toddler whose mum has told him he can’t have a second chocolate biscuit.

Robin:
Read the Supreme Court decision.
Try Science
Remember no one is indispensable.

From the New European

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sack-monkey-business-behind-robin-inces-bbc-departure/www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sack-monkey-business-behind-robin-inces-bbc-departure/

"Some BBC insiders, though, are somewhat more sceptical about Ince’s leaving. Several noted that relations between Ince and his co-host Cox had been chillier in recent years, making the show’s production somewhat fraught. At least one suggested Ince was not always the most enjoyable talent to work with, though this is not a unique complaint at the Corporation."

His tantrum proving both that he is not impartial and not a scientist.

Unfortunately not. She made a comment on one of her shows that left me thinking 'oh no, not you as well'. I've looked but can't remember which episode but it came up on another thread and someone else recalled hearing it as well.

Sadly it looks like Gia came off Twitter a year ago

after her amusing reprimand of Adam Rutherford

(Brian Cox’s wife)

Has never been a scientist. He has a degree in English and Drama and is a stand up comic and actor.

I'm shocked to note that Gareth Roberts did one on him as well: https://theageofstupid.substack.com/p/middle-class-holes-5-otto-english

"You made me do it"

How classically masculine. Zero accountability.

‘so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.’

He’a talking about trans people here, yes? How weird to assume all trans people are kind and empathetic.

In the last few weeks I have seen/heard this sort of thing countless times. ‘Trans people are the most beautiful/kindest/purest people’. What, all of them? Is there any possibility some of them could be arseholes? I find it alarming that people can think and say that trans people are all nice. No one would speak like this about any other group. I honestly think that some TRAs genuinely believe there is something other-worldly about trans people.

I guess it’s happening because the house of cards is falling down. They can no longer pretend that science or the law is on their side, so they have resorted to ‘But trans people are beautiful angels!’

Gia also has a podcast; haven't perused iy much recently

It's fine, Brian is the actual talent in that relationship.

An unfortunate cross-post there.

I've just looked at his blooski and he appears to have wandered around Manchester on his own into the small hours after the recording finished. There's also a photo of him having a picnic on a gravestone. I don't think he's a well man.