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Dr Christian is down to his last £20K. Aww, poor lamb. It's £20K more than I've got. 😆 He's such a tool. He just needs to hide under a rock for a decade or so.

Pretty shitty to play the mental health card as a defence if he was practicing medicine (even virtually) during that time. On the ball enough to dispense medical advice but not reign in your ego on social media? Pull the other one. What's up doc? Hopefully your time as a respected professional.

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I feel exactly the same way about his playing the mental health card. If you can be bothered to plough through the court transcript, it appears that he couldn't provide any medical evidence to substantiate. And he claims there was no way he could have retrieved the post going to his registered address while he was staying with his parents, 5 whole miles away in Fulham. (Even though the swanky apartment building where he owns/owned 2 flats has a 24 hour concierge...)

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Can I be that broke? I want to be that broke.

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I'm no fan of Arlene Foster but hell, Jessen was given several chances to retract. He's a bloody idiot. He's also loaded so he has a nerve to get people to crowd fund him. Of course, contrasting with Marion Millar who is taken to court over frankly trumped up charges, this really is sick making.

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Yes, he openly scoffed when told (by a prestigious libel lawyer) to take down his tweet. To quote said lawyer, "I don't think he's laughing now."

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Devastating analysis! I hope someone sues the pants off GoFundMe.

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Thank you!

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Creepy Christian, he of the badly drawn hair, needs to grow up, stop whining, and take responsibility for his actions.

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Is Marion Millar able to raise funds another way? Can Go Fund Me be reported for unfair decision? I’m not sure what her rights are here? Dr Christian is ridiculous. A simple removal of the tweet and an apology was all it needed. When you have over 300k followers you have a responsibility not to share unsubstantiated gossip.

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Removal and apology, I'm afraid his massive ego just wouldn't allow that.

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She raised over 30k through Paypal, and has tweeted her thanks and that she doesn't need contributions at this time. I think that was over the course of 24 hours! It's so ridiculous.

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Not ridiculous that she raised the money, of course, but ridiculous that she was charged.

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She has a PayPal account that (so far) has not been taken down. Search around and make sure it's the right one, not a fake one.

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Thank you 😊

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It's the trade-off for having fanboy followers. They get the audience ... but they also get the filter button.

Being an unknown isn't entirely without its advantages 😉

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Meanwhile, 41,000+ young women are using the platform to try and raise money for "top surgery". (Just do a search on GoFundMe.com.)

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I know, it's heart-breaking, isn't it? Shame on all the moral bankrupts who facilitate this.

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Isn't he the fella who thinks it's okay for men to have sex with children if it's their culture? Who thinks porn should be introduced in schools? Yes, yes he is.

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Indeed he is. And he thinks it's fine for so-called 'family' newspapers to display pictures of half naked young women. Years ago, when I was part of the No More Page 3 campaign, I tried to have a polite, adult discussion on Twitter with him about the damage caused by the commodification of the female body. (He couldn't see the problem, of course...) Instead of engaging with the arguments, he continually quote-tweeted me with snarky comments & I got totally piled on by his brain-dead followers. So, while I'm no fan of Arlene Foster, I did cheer this judgement!

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Ugh! The quote tweet pile-on. I very rarely experience it (not high profile enough for anyone to use a showcase to elicit praise from their messed-up followers 😃) but when I DO the red mist descends pretty quickly; I go to battle with all of 'em! 😎

I love it, not gonna lie. I'd describe it as alternative therapy 😜

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Must admit, being a feminist on Twitter, I'm more than used to the quote-tweet pile ons etc. I just mute the thread & let em howl at the moon. But it showed Jessen's true colours & proved he's not interested in the actual argument, just a sneery smug bastard who enjoys belittling people.

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Two more gems from him on Twitter:

'Dr Christian Jessen

@DoctorChristian

Mar 28, 2019

Trans women have been accessing female safe spaces for years, to shelter from thr abusethey face. You predictably flail about randomly shouting ‘misogyny’ and ‘male entitlement’ yet its women trying to turn way women looking for help. But then feminism is nothing if not divisive.'

and from Nov 8, 2018:

'Dr Christian Jessen

@DoctorChristian

Transphobia catches up with you in the end: Jenni Murray pulls out of Oxford talk amid trans row #trans'

Big schadenfreude, except that this is so deserved, rather than an actual misfortune. Yet he has too much self-regard to see it.

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Who says schadenfreude is a bad thing? 😛

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Not me! And sometimes it's all we've got. But isn't it more about when someone has a misfortune that they might not have deserved? This is completely deserved comeuppance, a punishment for wrongdoing.

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True dat.

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He was playing Billy Big Balls ignoring the correspondence thinking his status as a Stonewall acolyte would bail him out of any litigation.

That's bad enough.

But to use the genuine lockdown torment of others as an alibi? What a punk. He ain't suffering from poor mental health. No fucking chance. And yeah, I am being judgmental; just like he was being judgmental about someone's faith. So 1 - 1 then 😀

The duplicity of crowdfunding sites is no surprise but hopefully this will peak a few neutral observers. Any peak is a worthwhile peak 😉

BTW, JL. Have you thought of doing a spot of private investigating to supplement your income? Super sleuth much? Lol

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Haha! How do you know I don't...?? (But thank you for the compliment!)

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So he mocks and ridicules an impending court hearing and then goes running to GoFundMe when he gets his ass handed to him in court...

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He can dish it out...

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...but he can't take it.

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Is there any other way we can help Marian with costs?

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