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I think the Very British Problems Tweet graphic could be rather telling. For a large and popular account that has zero history of proclaiming anything either way on this subject, I do wonder if it is a surreptitious 'nailing of colours to a mast', so to speak.

Black Books, The IT Crowd and Father Ted are obvious connections, as is Gervais. Cleese is very anti-w*ke and Webb has also spoken out.

When the above information is taken on its own merit, then perhaps I could be accused of reaching for a positive explanation that is not there... But when one considers the great sitcoms and comedy series that were left out - think Python, Yes Minister, Blackadder, et al - then perhaps it is not so much of a long shot.

Interesting!

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Jun 23, 2022Liked by mole at the counter

If males pretending to be women is brave and males pretending to be trans women is "mocking" then being a trans woman isn't really like being a woman at all is it.

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Jun 23, 2022Liked by mole at the counter

One thing is for certain, we need to be lobbying the Home Secretary to prevent any police forces being members of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions idiocy. How has any of this been allowed to happen?

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Jun 23, 2022Liked by mole at the counter

Morning all.I have the police complaints form ,does anyone know the date of that leicester police officer calling for people to send them stuff on Posie P. I'm having difficulties finding it on Twitter to note the time/date time etc. Naively I keep being astonished that police officers can be trans rights activists so blithely and expect to be able to police without fear of favour.Ghastly person.

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Who could possibly have guessed that a man who enjoys putting on women's knickers to flash a room full of kids, would turn out to have a sexual interest in kids? If only there had been some sort of clue...

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Update. I filled out a formal complaint to Professional Standards Leics Police. Part of the form has a compulsory tick box on the discrimination section. 9 characteristics stated, not one of them 'sex'.So I also included an complaint about the complaint form! FS.

Its relentless and exhausting this daft and sinister police nonsense. Pointed out that the characteristic of 'sex' was missing and that gender was not a characteristic in the Equality Act 2010 and told them they need to be better aquainted with the law their supposed to uphold. Dickheads.

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Jun 23, 2022Liked by mole at the counter

It is interesting they are trying to invoke heroines of the Irish revolution to support the TRA cult. Yesterday on twitter I was reading some Irish man (I don’t know who but I think he was a public figure) claiming that transphobia is imported to Ireland. So I wonder if TRAs are trying to position it that if you are Irish and holding gender critical views you are somehow brainwashed and oppressed by the British empire or at least you are being anti-Irish. I am not Irish but I just observed that and wondered if that was what someone was trying to imply.

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Jun 23, 2022Liked by mole at the counter

I noted with interest that Jesse Singal this week said that people criticising drag queen shows are "fragile". Explicit drag queen shows that link virginity loss and Disney.

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1538907950688911365

I couldn't help but think how fragile Singal was when Graham put on some make-up.

Straight men actively pursuing lesbians clearly need more protection than children that happen to enjoy Mary Poppins.

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I don't get Colm O'Gorman's "logic" - does he really think women would chase Countess Markievic (totally wrong spelling) out of a women's space because she wore trousers sometimes? Unless he believes a woman having political views or being involved in

a revolution means they are actually a man?

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Jun 23, 2022Liked by Graham Linehan

Graham, did you know that Father Ted is trending on Twitter today? almost 2,500 tweets! Here's one: https://twitter.com/DalgetySusan/status/1539661235460878336

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Can't get my head around that " trans" identifying man still claiming that ""trans " people are the most vulnerable and marginalised in the world ! THEY'RE in CHARGE of the Western World right now ,with their every demand being eagerly met by the authorities,endangering women and children in the process !! They tell so many lies , I'm surprised they don't choke on them !!

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It's no surprise that when 'gender' confusion propaganda is being introduced into younger and younger children's classrooms, we have Men in Drag popping up at toddler Library Story Hours. Get 'em younger and younger. Mommy, is that man a woman? Is that woman a man? Start them early in the 'belief' that men can pretend to be women. MEN presenting sexualized versions of women do NOT belong in Children's Story Hours with their newly published picture books of indoctrination. I'm no longer using the word 'Queen' either. Stolen language, another theft from women, bestows unwarranted 'womanly' affirmation upon these MEN IN DRAG. There's nothing 'queenly' about them.

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I have some advice for Jentoff.

Lose weight

Get a decent haircut

Cultivate a pleasant and polite manner

Don’t shout

Learnt to put up shelves, construct flat pack furniture, and to change tyres

Then you might not have to legislate women into having sex with you.

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Fantastic article by that teacher. Every headteacher in the land needs to read it. I am sending it to my school. (Where notably the LGBT club is run by a straight, young, "cool" female teacher all the students love).

Sadly I have to retire for ill-health reasons at 51 so I can't go back 😢.

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Jun 23, 2022·edited Jun 23, 2022

Thanks for drawing even more attention to the Reduxx article about the Jentoft/Amnesty tweet, Graham. Jentoft and Amnesty are both seriously taking the piss and think they're very big and clever conniving smugly like this while Christina Ellingsen is under police investigation for stating basic biological truth.

The situation in Norway is terrorising women who speak out so it is good to get this support. Thank you.

Would be great to see Christina Ellingsen talking about her case on The Mess!

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So I have a partial name on the Bristol pamper. If anyone has made a complaint about him, I'm happy to pass that on as it'll be trivial for the Police to look him up.

I'm not going to post it here.

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