Another failed comedian enters the fray
Alan Driscoll is “A musician, writer and comedian from England, currently based in Melbourne, Australia”. At least according to his own website.
On his website, I found various examples of Driscoll’s bottom-shelf observational comedy which provide some insight into his view of women.
In one routine Driscoll talks about the male objectification and sexualisation of women, stating that desensitisation from porn use means men need both visual and physical stimulation in order to orgasm. “And that’s okay…”
On another track called Hack Jokes he describes the problems of having OCD. “I’m not as bad as I used to be; I used to have to take three showers each time I killed a prostitute…” The routine continues on the theme of femicide with Driscoll describing a method to counter OCD symptoms called ‘fixed image technique’. Taking a ‘quick polaroid’ of the body, he says, means he now no longer has to re-visit the crime scene to ensure the prostitute is really dead.
These are jokes, but thanks to Driscoll’s nervous, flat delivery, they don’t read as jokes, especially for someone like me who has spent many years campaigning against the commodification and exploitation of women. I currently work with an organisation that provides practical and emotional support to women and girls escaping the sex trade. I’ve seen the violence and trauma these women, some barely out of childhood, have suffered. So you’ll forgive me if I can’t be entirely objective about this particular sketch.
Just compare Driscoll’s ‘killing prostitutes’ routine to his lengthy, oh-so earnest and virtue-signalling oration about equal marriage. Note the change in tone and delivery.
Driscoll describes how angry and upset homophobia makes him. He is at pains to show the audience what a wonderful LGB ally he is, telling them, “Bigotry is one of the things I get too angry to be funny about”.
Strange, then, that he spends so much of his time hurling abusing and undermining The LGB Alliance, the only charity which defends and supports the rights of those same-sex attracted.
He dives on any and every opportunity to smear the charity and its founders.
In the tweet below he is responding to Matt Lucas’ appalling comments about the organisation (coincidentally delivered just after Lucas appeared as a judge on Ru Paul’s drag race). Of course, Driscoll’s libellous accusations against Bev Jackson and the LGB Alliance are entirely untrue, as evidenced by his spurious attempt to link them with comments made on completely separate Twitter accounts.
The Twitter account operated by LGB Alliance Canada and Arty Morty both mistook a trans-identified female wearing infantilised clothing and a badge reading ‘slut’ for a trans-identified male. The mistake was honest and of little significance. The point they were making remains the same; a trans activist attended a demonstration and represented transgenderism dressed as a toddler while simultaneously wearing a badge alluding to adult sexuality.
And their mistake was perfectly understandable given the profusion of trans identified male ‘adult babies’ who have been fiercely defended by the gender zealots.
It’s telling that Alan Driscoll chooses to ignore that fetishists and predators are using gender ideology as a cloak with which to conceal and validate their behaviour.
If Driscoll was really as upset by homophobia as he claims, instead of contriving reasons to spew vitriol at veteran gay rights campaigners, he’d be the LGB Alliance’s biggest cheerleader. He’d be outraged that impressionable young lesbians are being coerced into relationships with males, that gay and lesbian spaces are being overtaken by straight people, that heterosexual males like Alex Drummond and Philip Bunce are representing the LGB community, and that homophobic parents, aided and abetted by amoral clinicians, are transing the gay away by turning gender non-conforming children into lifelong medical patients.
His album has the melancholy title ‘Airline Peanuts’, as if Alan is constantly in the air on the way to another gig, but Alan is not just a hack comedian, he’s an incompetent hack comedian. He is another example of what Julie Burchill referred to when she wrote “Woke is the revenge of the dullard on the wit, the curtain-twitcher on the hedonist, the wallflower on the whirling dancer.” He joins Aiden Comerford as another example of what misogyny, envy and too much free time can do to disturbed men who have failed at the one difficult thing they attempted to do.
How interesting that Alan and his friend here assume I am Graham's 'minion' and have been instructed to write this piece. It speaks volumes to their view of women and our relationship to and with men. I'm an independent self-employed woman in my 50s and I am nobody's minion! I have been a feminist campaigner / activist for over 30 years and take instruction from no man in my feminism! Alan and his friend just can't conceive that I might write what I want for this site, that a man might actually respect a woman's expertise and experience rather than dictate to her like a 'minion'. I think with every spiteful comment and insult about Graham, Alan just reveals more & more about himself.
https://twitter.com/country_jim/status/1444277491129110534?s=20
Driscoll has screenshot and shared my observation about Felix, an observation which I hold to be both sad and true, but one which I would never have sent directly to her. Funny how 'trans allies' like him are fine with hurting people they pretend to defend if it allows them to score points against their real target.