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Graham Linehan on the chapter about him in Jon Ronson's new book

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impossibletoday · Yesterday 21:50

Graham Linehan on Jon Ronson's new book

My ex-friend Jon Ronson may be a case study in the corrupting toxicity of trans ideology. An interesting read.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/29278d258cf0921b

My ex-friend Jon Ronson may be a case study in the corrupting toxicity of trans ideology

His book chapter about me stands as an indictment of him and the cowardly social class of people who refuse to confront uncomfortable truths

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/29278d258cf0921b

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moto748e · Yesterday 22:12

Call it confirmation bias if you will, but reading the two pieces side by side, I know which one sounds the more convincing.

SylvanMoon · Yesterday 22:18

Graham's article is very good. An indictment of these cowardly "friends" so many of us have known.

nauticant · Yesterday 22:19

I think Ronson's knowingly ironic style combined with I'm not mainstream but I'm on the Right Side of History is probably coming to the end of the road in terms of current fashions. He'll continue to do well with his target audience of progressives which might be enough for him.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · Yesterday 22:33

thanks for posting this OP. Linehan's piece in particular is really interesting

Gretel346 · Yesterday 23:10

impossibletoday · Yesterday 21:50

Graham Linehan on Jon Ronson's new book

My ex-friend Jon Ronson may be a case study in the corrupting toxicity of trans ideology. An interesting read.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/29278d258cf0921b

Linehan: 'These few trans people behaving very badly over here are representative of all trans people'

Ronson: 'It doesn't work that way'

Linehan: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE BAD TRANS PEOPLE!!!!'

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Gretel346 · Yesterday 23:32

Gretel346 · Yesterday 23:10

Linehan: 'These few trans people behaving very badly over here are representative of all trans people'

Ronson: 'It doesn't work that way'

Linehan: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE BAD TRANS PEOPLE!!!!'

🤪

It's straight out of the Piers Morgan 'DO YOU CONDEMN HAMAS?' book of forced denunciations for not eagerly participating in scapegoating otherwise you are a heretic!

Lovelyview · Yesterday 23:43

Jon Ronson seems to be an abject coward. Trans ideology is exactly the sort of thing he should be investigating given his interest in modern culture yet he seems unable to see it at all.

moto748e · Yesterday 23:45

I'm sure he sees it well enough, @Lovelyview . He just doesn't want to risk going there.

OverpricedCupcake · Yesterday 23:48

Lovelyview · Yesterday 23:43

Jon Ronson seems to be an abject coward. Trans ideology is exactly the sort of thing he should be investigating given his interest in modern culture yet he seems unable to see it at all.

Of course he sees it, he just chooses to ignore it.

Lovelyview · Yesterday 23:53

If he knows Graham is right then why did he put a whole chapter in his book about it? You'd have thought he wouldn't go there either.

FriedGold32 · Today 00:39

Lovelyview · Yesterday 23:53

If he knows Graham is right then why did he put a whole chapter in his book about it? You'd have thought he wouldn't go there either.

Slagging off Graham from a distance has become one of his crutches.

I liked when he went on the Fifth Column podcast where he and the hosts spent an hour and a half berating Graham and laughing at how mad and crazy and nuts he is.

Then after Trump won, the Fifth Column did a podcast where they finally confronted the trans issue and well I never, turns out they all agree with Graham's beliefs pretty much 100%. Then went back to never mentioning it again.

Pathetic cowards all of them.

moto748e · Today 00:58

Yeah, all those liberal commentators that I used to like back in the day in the Graun, it's interesting to see those who've stood up, and those who haven’t.

IwantToRetire · Today 01:48

Thanks for the link.

Compared to some more recent articles Glinner seems more calm. I am not begrudging he any past articles where his raw emotion shows through.

But I am sad that he keeps on having to write his story, his life, because grossly hypocritical people, some of whom were once his "friends" still do not hesitate to drag his name in.

Not unlike JKR being dragged into some facile tweet or whatever, because someone wants to be noticed.

They are all loathsome.

Glad, even if it is down to the Telegraph (again) to give him the right to reply.

I suspect that sometimes it must seem like ground hog day.

Whatever steps he is able to take to move forward, all the sniveling sheep just have to try and make out they were in the right - and still are.

TransParentlyAnnoyed · Today 03:26

impossibletoday · Yesterday 21:50

Graham Linehan on Jon Ronson's new book

My ex-friend Jon Ronson may be a case study in the corrupting toxicity of trans ideology. An interesting read.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/29278d258cf0921b

Linehan is a racist, Islamophobic misogynist - and has proved all three many times over.

He doesn't like women, and has a really abnormal interest in trans kids - their genitals in particular. The naked photos he keeps posting like revenge porn show exactly who he is.

"Thousand of kids" - surgery is banned for under-18s almost everywhere for pity's sake.

His ex-wife is incredibly discreet about him, given his obvious weird behaviour (presumably for the sake of her poor kids) and he seems to have done absolutely no parenting these past few years. Her brothers seem to have taken over in that regard.

The man seems obsessed with trans porn.

Worth noting that multiple trans women have reported he made advances to them.

Having a prolonged public breakdown is not activism, and it definitely isn't feminism. He talks about women (especially gay women) like they're animals needing protection.

The end of that article - where he names old friends who have wisely distanced themselves from his abject behaviour - is so pathetic I almost felt sorry for him. Then I remembered all he said and reposted about women when Renee Good was murdered.

The guy is a racist incel obsessed with children's bodies. How that isn't a red flag visible from space to all women, I will never understand.

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