David Tennant seemingly hates women

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Just seen David Tennant on The Assembly. Might be a repeat not sure. Flabbergasted that in response to a question about supporting transwomen in women’s spaces he said people need to ‘stop the hatred’, step aside and ‘let people just be.’ (Imagine that being said in his over the top faux ‘man of the people’ manner.)

He was then asked a question about making Good Omen’s 3 when Neil Gaiman has been ‘cancelled’ due to the light issues of being accused of Sex trafficking and rape of women. Here, he simply said he couldn’t ’leave people on a cliffhanger’ and moved on.

So, he’s happy to literally line the pockets of (very alleged) male rapists whilst at the same time arguing women not letting men in their spaces is hatred.

Fuck David Tennant.

Oh, and on DT as Crowley, he was exactly how I imagined Crowley. Not sinister, but a swaggering feline character with a dark side. I thought he captured that perfectly.

Yeah exactly.

I mean, there's no ambiguity here at all.

He's a misogynistic arsehole.

I know exactly what he said, and how you're misrepresenting it. He at no point said he hated women and I have seen no comment from him on spaces for women.

We have no safe spaces anyway, and there is virtually no justice for those of us (me included) who survived male violence. I was just reading how a young man was acquitted of killing a young girl despite stabbing her - once again, men can do what they want to us, without consequence.

I am sorry for all you've been through and hope you did get justice.

Tennant stood up for his kid, and the people who attack his child. He is angry that trans children suffer so much violence and hatred. That is not hating women.

Supporting your nb trans child is not misogyny.

Has he said she shouldn't exist because she's black? Haven't seen that. Has he said she shouldn't exist because she's a woman? Haven't seen that.

I'm a white woman and I shouldn't be threatened. My husband is a black man and he shouldn't be threatened. My daughter is a mixed race woman and she shouldn't be threatened. In fact no one should be threatened, although the quote of what he said doesn't sound like a threat to me. I don't see that her being black and a woman makes it any better or worse than if it was made to any of us unless she is claiming it was a hate crime in which case she should go to the police with her evidence.

Mmm, I think you're putting a particular spin on what he said to suit your narrative. And I say that as a gc woman whose not a particular fan of his (although I do think he plays Crowley well).

He wasn't cleared. The judge ruled that the victim would have to take the case to court in New Zealand (where she no longer lived). So very much NOT cleared.

The whole trans thing is a gift to misogynists who wants to pretend they don't hate women, isn't it? Now they can criticise, abuse, threaten and demean women at will- all they have to do is say they are protecting "the dolls", aka known as men who roleplay as women.

Tennant did not say that "feminists like Kemi shouldn't exist any more". He said that "acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be... should be common sense" - which is surely correct - and his remarks about Badenoch not existing had nothing to do with her being a feminist (and she obviously isn't). They were made in the context of her denying people's right to be who they want to be, which, goodness knows, she does in a number of contexts, not just the trans one. Essentially he wants to live in a world where people don't have those views. He is certainly not advocating for mass extermination of bigots.

As for suggesting that he is criticising Badenoch because she is a feminist, how would you square that with her view that maternity pay is taking from one group of people and giving to another and is excessive, and her wish to scrap the Public Sector Equallity Duty?

Gosh. Howse that work again?

I believe this is one of multiple threads people have pointed out the flaws in this argument. Yet you keep making it.

The issue is one of legitimate and illegitimate discrimination.

It is legitimate to discuss segregating single sex provisions based on sex categories of humans. It is not legitimate to segregate publicly accessible single sex provisions based on sexual orientation or religion.

Because while harm to female people for the purpose of excluding all male people above about 8 yrs old, do include physical harm, it also includes other harms as well.

There will always be some categories in the population that will have a small increased % of harm to the same sex of human using a single sex provision that they have the right to use based on their sex. The risk is not as great overall as allowing male people of any gender identity to use female single sex provisions.

Your argument is as flawed now as it was months ago.

acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be... should be common sense" - which is surely correct

WTF? No, it's asinine. A moment's thought can surely show you ple ty of examples where who someone wants to be is either impossible or unreasonable in its impact on others.

Everyone is who they are.

They have the right to live the best life they can subject to the laws and rights of other people, and ideally subject to being a decent human being. That includes, within the same boundaries, the right to try to change bits of themselves, lifestyle, physically or mentally, that they do not like.

But they absolutely do not have the right to have "who they want to be" taken by others as if it were actually who they are.

DT is cut from the same ilk as the fox botherer. They're perfectly prepared to burn the world to the ground rather than say to their child that 'no they can't change sex but they're perfect as they are anyway'

he gets a massive metaphorical boner from the adulation of the RSOH crowd and is far too dim and privileged to consider the experiences of anyone beyond his little world

“The idea that only the body & not the mind would have evolved with a reproductive function is scientifically illiterate. Yes, men & women overlap psychologically but also vary.”

It is irrelevant that there an overlap between male and female psychologically. There are very few people who put any credibility into male and female psychology being in anyway a reliable category definition for access to female single sex provisions or language and they cannot provide a reliable boundary for that definition in any meaningful way.

Both he and his wife are vile. He’s an insufferable idiot who is not as good an actor as he thinks, and she’s a talentless nepo baby who has jumped on the trans band wagon with a manic fervour as she sees it gains her woke points.

I dont think DT is a good actor. He is shouty.

I think in Rivals he is too much pantomime villian.

In Dr Who, he was great at promoting the show...but acting ....hmm...

Everyone is who they are.

It is important to make a distinction between a statement that everyone is who they ‘are’, when this reflects material reality (which is true) vs that everyone is who they say they are when this doesn’t reflect material reality and only their subjective reality or their aspirations (which is only accurate in reflecting what they believe they are or wish to be).

He is just a man who pretends to be other men for a living. Why actors' opinions are sought about anything other than their craft I really don't know. Who cares what they think. Just put on a good show, bank the money and fuck off.

Indeed. There was a chap who thought he was Jesus who made the news recently. I'd like to believe Jesus wouldn't have opened fire on secret servicemen guarding The White House but people interpret scripture dangerously subjectively sometimes.

Totally agree!

Actors pretend for a living, hopefully they realise who they really are when the show's over.

It's like when that aching bawsack Willoughby talks about the 'old biddy mafia' or some such shite when referring to women who believe in women's rights. He's the best part of twenty years older than me.

(Fucks sake. Edited for spelling)

Exactly

Why anyone gives a shit what they think, I'll never know

Yep, Willoughby is another one. Literally same age as JK Rowling, as well as old enough to be my father, and yet I've seen him tweet to tell JK that her age makes her irrelevant.

Does he identify as trans-age, too?

His wife strikes me as the type who will do anything for attention

Genuinely wouldn't surprise me.

Me neither. It’s the kind of thing a weapons-grade narcissist would think he was entitled to.