Graham Linehan dice alla corte che stava cercando di convincere l’attivista trans a “smettere di spingergli la telecamera in faccia”

Think of what he could have done if he stuck to comedy and not gone down this path.

Is it just the trans he hates or is it the blacks and gays as well?

Should we all be racist now father?

All he wants to do is protect women!

Actually protect women from a tiny % of the population who he hates and also only protect women in toilets. Anywhere else and they are fair game I guess

Always find it wild how those articles do all in their power to not gender a trans person correctly lmao

He is utterly soulless.

You can nearly smell the drink off him through the picture

How did this man go from Father Ted, to obsessive transphobia leading to his family leaving him, to following and supporting actual neo-Nazis like Keith Woods?

From beloved national treasure, to despised national embarrassment.

I suppose moving to TERF island had a heavy impact.

Man needs to be put into a psych ward. He is seriously unwell. Even if trans people were these walking demons, revolving your entire life around them to the point that your wife and kids leave you and you’re now in court is insane. 

Like genuinely shows how sad these people are. All consumed by hate they’ve been told to feel, on the back of very little. 

And once again I’ll say it. I think it’s time r/ireland takes down the horse.

We all love Ted but I don’t love people who use its success to make the lives of others that bit harder.

Regardless of how you feel about his views, I don’t think he was the lad to lead the charge on a political issue.

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When he eventually stops getting attention over the water, he’ll move home and run for fucking Aontu.

I met him face to face at a creative industries conference in Scotland years ago, long before his weird obsession with trans people. As a comedy nerd I was so looking forward to meeting him!
He’d just given a brief talk to a receptive crowd from across multiple creative industries, and afterwards a few of us were clustered about chatting with him while he held court.

It turned out to be a case of “never meet your heroes” tho, he had all these negative pronouncements from on high about some projects I had worked on, and it was clear that he was one of those keyboard warriors who simply had to be allowed to win, he had to be right on all things. It was so awkward. The root cause was that he had some rejections of his work I believe, as he’d attempted to make inroads into writing outside of TV, eg video games. Anyway he proved to be bad company, pretty hard to speak to. There’s a point where most of us would just back off a fractious topic we don’t know well, which is making things awkward. Most people can detect the souring mood for the sake of professionalism and shift gears to smooth out the conversation a bit, but he just could not do it and bit by bit the folk around us thinned out and found other places to be, shaking their head that he’d turned out to be a bit of a combative jerk in a room full of creative people who liked Father Ted and were excited to talk shop with him.

Disclosure – I’m a (trans) woman, I don’t think he knew though as I kinda blend in. Whenever I hear of his obsessive online behaviour on the issue of trans people, I’m always reminded of that young TV comedy writer who managed to turn a room against him because he simply couldn’t be diplomatic or admit he was on the wrong side of something, a weird little internet man whose obsessive behaviour has undermined him professionally despite his successes. For what it is worth, he has my pity. It’s maybe a bit of a Kanye thing, or a Morrissey thing, where the guy really obviously needs therapy to help him stop self-sabotaging.

One last thing – anti lgbt bigots like to call out trans “ideology” and “activism”. What they actually mean is simply someone attempting to exist, and trying to retain hard won civil liberties. Like how do you even begin to engage with someone who from the off wants you exterminated, or at least aggressively marginalised in society? This is a man who publicly called a child a “groomer”, which is straight out of the vintage homophobia playbook.
Imagine the level of arrogance and psychopathy required to assume that your “hot take” and gut instinct on gender immutability should trump the lived experience of folk who know better, to an extent that you’d spend every waking hour plotting their erasure and harassment.