Graham Linehan makes women getting raped all about him.

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Can never keep up with the consensus on Linehan on here, but perhaps we should bear things like this in mind before parading him as any sort of empathetic thinker...

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I'm also a rape victim and I think he makes a pretty fair point in this case

Except I'm not a TRA - I agree with everything Glinner has said in the past and am certainly no fan of the gender woo, but don't try and tell me how I should feel about him using the rape of multiple women to air his grievances about one 15-year-old episode of a show not getting repeats any more.

Also how exactly did I 'defend C4 airing MAFS'? I feel like there should be some sort of reading comprehension test for posting online...

Yes, this is the point he's making. It took them a long time to pull the MAFS despite very serious allegations of serious crimes happening.

Yet the slightest complaint from a TRA and a very funny episode is pulled which is objectively lot less offensive than rape (which is a criminal act)

He is actually highlighting the way in which Channel 4 is part of rape culture, using his own show's treatment as a comparator. He really is on your side!

To be fair his career is long gone and he knows that so that’s not really a concern for him anymore.

Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining - he's just using this to air his grievances. I don't blame him with how he's been treated, but using this to do so is crass in the extreme!

Yes. There's also the fact that the MAFS scandal didn't happen overnight. Channel 4 was making the show in an unethical way for years. There's probably some overlap in the timeline, between their public virtue signal over The IT Crowd, and their failure to protect women behind the scenes at MAFS.

I can't fault Graham for speaking up on this one. I don't like it either.

That’s not the point he’s making. He is taking about a broadcaster being so sensitive about hurty feelings for some people that they pulled one perfectly brilliant and bloody hilarious episode of TIC, but didn’t give a shit about shacking young women up in an apartment with rapists and abusers that they'd only met for 5 mins. And getting airtime out of it.

It’s about double standards. Again. Not his ego.

I can hear Bananarama playing in the background.

Welcome to Mumsnet, OP.

There is no consensus. On anything. HTH.

Glinner had to leave the country so that he could get away from being persecuted by litigious trans activists and the captured police force.
You are just another Glinner obsessive.

In case anyone is interested I started a thread about C4's lack of safeguarding, because each time I think I cant be shocked by the number of times women are put in danger, there is always another example.

Hope the thread will allow those who have found the gross sordid exploitation of the series somewhere to express what they feel.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5531957-the-dark-side-of-married-at-first-sight

It ain’t what you say it’s the way that you say it. He is totally calling out the hypocrisy and good for him.

That's a bit harsh op is a rape victim herself

Are you more annoyed with Glinner who in my opinion make a valid point or the MAFS debacle? Why Project your disdain at Glinner? Why come here and tell us to think twice before 'parading' him.

The more Channel 4 gets called out for it's shitty behaviour over the years the better.

Indeed. The whole premise of the show was that a man and a woman (usually) would live together as if married without dating first. This denied the women involved any opportunity to vet the men by dating them first.

Around 6% of men are rapists and roughly one woman in seven will suffer DV during her life. A man raping or battering a woman wasn't an "if", it was a "when".

And that's before you consider what kind of man would want the opportunity to live with a woman who hadn't had any chance to assess his character first.

The whole premise of the show is a safeguarding failure of a nature that makes Big Brother look like a wise idea by comparison, because at least BB had cameras to keep everyone's worst inclinations in check.

Zero people were harmed in the filming of that The IT Crowd episode. Zero. Glinner is right to call out Channel Four's utter hypocrisy and disdain for women's safety, and he is perfectly reasonable in contrasting how his own show was treated to do so.

What comparison? That rape is far worse than supposed "transphobia"
and yet somehow Ch4 were more upset by the latter?
I agree with him.

I think this poster was referring to Glinner's post as a "poor me" not the OP's?

Me too. I don't see this as him "making it about himself". He's just drawing a comparison with which he is familiar.

Another rape victim here and I agree with you too.

Same

There is no 'consensus' on here about Glinner, other than that he believes that males can't become female and shouldn't therefore be given access to female spaces and prizes.
He's just a human who gets some things right and some things wrong.
I think in this instance, pointing out hypocrisy is fair enough.

Me, too.