Charity stream hosted to spite transphobic tosser Graham Linehan [split topic]

[phantom_power]

B...b...but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippies_(TV_series)

[idunnosomename]

He wrote (very small, possibly negligible bits of) Father Ted but that doesn't make him a Roman Catholic

[Puce Moment]

He's so delighted with that tweet he has decided to pin it to the top of his account.

It's a point regarding popular social waves that show themselves to be repugnant and murderous, isn't it? Or not?

[Cuellar]

Yes, in a desperate effort to appear 'hip', people would welcome Charles Manson into their homes and say "Hello, Charles Manson, famed nutcase and murderous weirdo, please set your followers on my family, I want you lot to kill them because we're very progressive"

[idunnosomename]

Glinner's a bit like Brexit isn't he? You'd think it would just stop but he goes on and on and on and somehow keeps getting worse.

[Bronzy]

Ah yes, because trans people love to go into people's houses and murder them, don't they?

Brandon Teena and Gwen Araujo were well-known for doing it.

[idunnosomename]

ah but. here is one tweet by a trans activist using hyperbolically violent rhetoric! this proves i am right, and you ergo, beard. *smokes pipe*

[Blumf]

Wasn't there a slight Hollywood fad for trans serial killers back in the 80s/90s? Silence of the Lamb being the big one, but stuff like Die Hard's conceptually messy Color of Night (1994)

Suppose it goes back earlier than that, what with things like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which also gets you extra hippy bonus points.

All of this got lots of TV time back in the 90s. Wonder how old the people making the trans/hippy killer link are, I'm guessing late-30s to early-50s.

[phantom_power]

He's so delighted with that tweet he has decided to pin it to the top of his account.

It's a point regarding popular social waves that show themselves to be repugnant and murderous, isn't it? Or not?

But hippies didn't show themselves to be repugnant and murderous. It was just Manson, who was a nutter whatever length his hair was. It is almost as if it is disproving the point he is trying to make

[idunnosomename]

the thing about that tweet is that no one on twitter seems to understand it either

[Cuellar]

But hippies didn't show themselves to be repugnant and murderous. It was just Manson, who was a nutter whatever length his hair was. It is almost as if it is disproving the point he is trying to make

But that is his point, isn't it? It's not all 'trans' people who are evil, it's just that they've been taken in by evil people who want to use it as a cover to attack women.

Like that definitely definitely definitely true story about Ian Huntley demanding to be sent to a women's prison because he felt like he was a woman.

[Neomod]

Wasn't there a slight Hollywood fad for trans serial killers back in the 80s/90s? Silence of the Lamb being the big one, but stuff like Die Hard's conceptually messy Color of Night (1994)

Suppose it goes back earlier than that, what with things like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which also gets you extra hippy bonus points.

All of this got lots of TV time back in the 90s. Wonder how old the people making the trans/hippy killer link are, I'm guessing late-30s to early-50s.

Don't forget Harry Palmer in Dressed to Kill (1980)

[Puce Moment]

But hippies didn't show themselves to be repugnant and murderous. It was just Manson, who was a nutter whatever length his hair was. It is almost as if it is disproving the point he is trying to make

Well, yes. That is the logical response, although it should be noted that Manson did not kill anyone. He sent out his flying monkeys to do it for him - a bit like Glinner's sychophantic followers. A bit. But not really anything like it.

[Enrico Palazzo]

Wasn't there a slight Hollywood fad for trans serial killers back in the 80s/90s? Silence of the Lamb being the big one, but stuff like Die Hard's conceptually messy Color of Night (1994)

Suppose it goes back earlier than that, what with things like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which also gets you extra hippy bonus points.

All of this got lots of TV time back in the 90s. Wonder how old the people making the trans/hippy killer link are, I'm guessing late-30s to early-50s.

[Blumf]

In all the films he stars in, Robin Williams plays a serial killer, all of them... Except One Hour Photo and Insomnia.

[Cuellar]

Don't forget The Crying Game. Not a murder thing (or is it? I can't remember, I think someone dies). Comes up not only in Partridge, when Linehan is in the car with Partridge and Jed Maxwell, but ALSO in Father Ted when they're protesting against the dirty film.

Sensing a Partridgean "I don't find them attractive, just confusing" motive behind all this.

[Barry Admin]

Ace Ventura too has a trans baddy, and is quite stunningly transphobic.

[Cuellar]

Oh god yeah.

Jim Carey is CANCELLED

[bigfatheart]

To be fair, the Crying Game was a big zeitgeisty hit at the time, wasn't it? Referenced in the Simpsons, Larry Sanders, Harry Hill's Channel 4 show to name three jokes I can think of off the top of my head, with varying degrees of tastefulness.

Seeing as Glinner spends half the Father Ted commentaries talking about how he'd do things differently (and almost invariably terribly) in hindsight, maybe he now wishes the reference in Ted had turned into a thirty minute diatribe about Charles Manson.

[daf]

Do you remember when hippies were so revered and indulged that famous people would let the Manson Family wander around their houses?

Do you remember when comedy writers were so revered and indulged that famous people would let them tweet all day long about Transexuals?

[Twed]

Ace Ventura too has a trans baddy, and is quite stunningly transphobic.

Yeah. The only correct approach to this stuff is owning up to the fact that you were wrong. It really does seem that this Linehan stuff is mainly about not being able to do that.

[Ferris]

Don't forget The Crying Game. Not a murder thing (or is it? I can't remember, I think someone dies). Comes up not only in Partridge, when Linehan is in the car with Partridge and Jed Maxwell, but ALSO in Father Ted when they're protesting against the dirty film.

Sensing a Partridgean "I don't find them attractive, just confusing" motive behind all this.

Mentioned in a Father Ted episode as well (the old women, "Billy's is rounder at the top") in the first series.

[Dr Sanchez]

Linehan and Gervais are very similar in terms of the downward trajectory in the quality of their output and also the fact they're both quite cunty and forceful about their beliefs. They also have ex writing partners who have abandoned them and gone on to do better work.

Maybe they should team up and write a sitcom about an atheist transphobe who loves kindness.

[Cuellar]

Mentioned in a Father Ted episode as well (the old women, "Billy's is rounder at the top") in the first series.

Indeed, which is why I mentioned it IN MY VERY POST!!!!!!!!

[Cuellar]

Linehan and Gervais are very similar in terms of the downward trajectory in the quality of their output and also the fact they're both quite cunty and forceful about their beliefs. They also have ex writing partners who have abandoned them and gone on to do better work.

Maybe they should team up and write a sitcom about an atheist transphobe who loves kindness.

What's the common denominator? Yes, twitter. Honestly, sack the whole lot in. If I worked for twitter I'd just pull the plug out one day 'woops sorry!'

[Sebastian Cobb]

Yeah. The only correct approach to this stuff is owning up to the fact that you were wrong. It really does seem that this Linehan stuff is mainly about not being able to do that.

If that was too much for him, he'd have probably gotten away cancel-free had he just shut up and ignored it.

[Ferris]

Indeed, which is why I mentioned it IN MY VERY POST!!!!!!!!

...wait what. How did I miss that?

Apologies. Lack of sleep.

[phantom_power]

Ah he has taken to calling people who are against him "gender hippies", which may clarify things, even if his point is still bullshit

[neveragain]

That was Arthur Mathews' show, nothing to do with Linehan.

[RicoMNKN]

Social media is an evil drug...

Very much this.  I can see addictive elements in my own use of Twitter, but it's broken people like Glinner.
I assume we'll get laws akin to gambling at some point - social media sites use so many similar shitty tricks to keep people on their sites, giving no regard to their users' mental health.