Calls for Graham Linehan to be removed from Prime Debate on transgender issues!

Muckka

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Seen this pop up a few times, in this thread, online and amongst teens.

What de fcuk is a woke male?

Chewbacca could tell you that, they're usually hairy animal like creatures...

Or else they're supposedly men who've capitulated for a quiet life, and he takes it on the chin.....let's herself wear the trousers kind of thing....

TheValeyard

Muckka wrote: »

Chewbacca could tell you that, they're usually hairy animal like creatures...

Or else they're supposedly men who've capitulated for a quiet life, and he takes it on the chin.....let's herself wear the trousers kind of thing....

Evolution of Hipsters?

Bannasidhe

Dick phelan wrote: »

I ask this as a genuine question not to make a cheap point. If a white person or whatever said they now identify as black would anyone accept them for what they say they are. If not then why? Why is it we would say no to somebody saying they are a different race but accept people who say they are a different gender. Personally i think your born as you are, what you want to be is irrelevant when it comes to genetics and science. The facts are the facts and it's crazy a certain section of society think we should ignore it and pretend we can all change our gender if we like. Na i ain't getting on board with that.

Well, technically our race is there from the beginning in our DNA. Right from the moment the sperm fertilised the egg.
And although our gender id determined by the sperm, isn't quite that simple as it relies on whether or not certain hormones are released.
You can have people who are literally both genders at the same time. Bizarrely, - and I hope the still don't do this - the gender was decided by a doctor looking and saying ummmm... yeh... this one looks female/male without actually checking the chromosomes for like... a clue.

You have the "Guevedoces" in the Dominican Republic where all children are born looking female and only at puberty do some of them begin to 'become' boys. All the children are raised as female and many of those who later turned out to be male say the never felt comfortable being girls. It felt wrong.

No amount of hormones will change our 'racial DNA' - having said that you can have blond haired, blue eyed children of black parents and vis versa.
I knew a family in London where the mother was white blonde English, Father light skinned Indian, son was white blond, blue eyed and daughter was very dark skinned and looked Indian.

Cockford Ollie

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Seen this pop up a few times, in this thread, online and amongst teens.

What de fcuk is a woke male?

Probably someone who goes along with the concept of white male privalage. The equivalent of a self loathing Jew.

Humphrey BoaGart

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Prime Time are airing a special about transgender issues on Tuesday night at 21:35. I believe it mainly involves young people but will also show older people who have transitioned.
Graham Linehan is due to appear on this but a petition has being started to have him removed. There was an article on the matter on an Irish newspaper website but it has being removed.
Where do people stand on this matter?

Personally I can see both sides on the matter when it comes to kids/teenagers transitioning and how it may effect them in the long term since it's such a big change to make but I'm no expert on the matter.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/opposition-to-father-ted-creator-graham-linehan-being-on-tv-transgender-debate-skz8mp2rb


https://www.change.org/p/donogh-diamond-rte-to-remove-graham-linehan-piece-from-upcoming-prime-time-show-on-transgender-issues

F*cking Hell!

CalamariFritti

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

That seems quite high a number actually. That’d be around 16,000 people in Ireland.

It sounds high in absolute numbers but its really well under 0.5% of the population. Like I said it is what it is and there shouldn't be any discrimination and there should be support and all that but I'm not sure what all that fussing about is either.

HandsomeBob

Dick phelan wrote: »

I ask this as a genuine question not to make a cheap point. If a white person or whatever said they now identify as black would anyone accept them for what they say they are. If not then why? Why is it we would say no to somebody saying they are a different race but accept people who say they are a different gender. Personally i think your born as you are, what you want to be is irrelevant when it comes to genetics and science. The facts are the facts and it's crazy a certain section of society think we should ignore it and pretend we can all change our gender if we like. Na i ain't getting on board with that.

Transgender is an issue that has been studied, researched and most importantly experienced on a significant enough scale to allow for other two previous points.

Your comparison doesn't work because of that. I've heard of it alright and seen the odd thrash talk show exploit those who feel that way, but right now it isn't a legitimate comparison.

Franz Von Peppercorn

seamus wrote: »

You think most women are anti-trans?

Anti self identification, yes.

squawker

I would like to hear his opinion

Even if I agree or not

ricero

Ben Shapiro makes good arguments in regards to transgenders. I do believe for the most part it is a mental illness.

Mod-Banned

HandsomeBob

RTÉ just showed an ad for prime time featuring Linehan typing furiously with a demented look on his laptop haha. Maybe it is a set up.

One eyed Jack

HandsomeBob wrote: »

RTÉ just showed an ad for prime time featuring Linehan typing furiously with a demented look on his laptop haha. Maybe it is a set up.

It’s a complete setup of course, which Linehan knows well, but he doesn’t care about that so much as he cares about his views reaching and resonating with a wider audience - the Peter Casey effect I like to call it.

ste

Dick phelan wrote: »

The facts are the facts and it's crazy a certain section of society think we should ignore it and pretend we can all change our gender if we like. Na i ain't getting on board with that.

Why do you need to get on board with anything? Just let people live the way they choose. Isn't that what this is all about?

In a recent episode of It's Always Sunny they had a bit on what signage to out on the male/female toilets & it obviously decended into a farce (v funny) but the real answer was to just name both toilets Toilet/Wash room (wharever).

Really if things don't negativily impact/interfere with your life & makes others more comfortable/happy why wouldn't you support that? That's not asking you to "get on board" with anything other than being basically decent.

Let's not taint the simple concept of treating people well with edge cases.

Vincent Vega

Heh.

Muckka

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Evolution of Hipsters?

Yes some people call them soy men or soy boys.

They drink so much soya milk that it supposedly slowly chip's away at the agressive side of the male nature, unknowingly it does the opposite, makes them more agressive and some grow man boobs.

My friend is transitioning to a woman at the moment, and they're drinking a lot of soya products.
They're finding they're getting a lot of mood swings etc

The woke man thing is really a man who's going to sleep, not really masculine is it going against his nature.
Makes him as much use as a chocolate fireguard.... Feed two bird's with the one scone kind of effect...

Topgear on Dave

squawker wrote: »

I would like to hear his opinion

Even if I agree or not

Not allowed. Superior people to you have decided he should not be heard.

batgoat

Topgear on Dave wrote: »

Not allowed. Superior people to you have decided he should not be heard.

Seems pretty off for a person with no qualifications in relation to the subject to liken being transgender to bulimia......

TheValeyard

batgoat wrote: »

Seems pretty off for a person with no qualifications in relation to the subject to liken being transgender to bulimia......

Are you part bat part goat or part goat part bat. Or a bat dressed as a goat. Or a goat dressed as a bat. Or a human dressed as a goatbat. Or a human dressed as a bat that's actually a goat?

pleas advice

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Seen this pop up a few times, in this thread, online and amongst teens.

What de fcuk is a woke male?

i was a woke male last night, went to bed early, woke at about 2 in the morning and couldn't get to sleep again, didn't even get to see the blood moon because of the clouds.

Alrigghtythen

If Billy wants to put on a dress and call himself Mary, I can't see the issue.

I do have an issue with censoring people who state that Billy's wearing a dress.

squawker

batgoat wrote: »

Seems pretty off for a person with no qualifications in relation to the subject to liken being transgender to bulimia......

So you have to be qualified to have an opinion now?

freshpopcorn

I clicked into the petition to see had it many signatures. I noticed one off my old teachers names in the recent signatures and he was a Boards user!

Gravelly

squawker wrote: »

So you have to be qualified to have an opinion now?

Only if you’ve the “wrong” opinion. If you have the progressive-approved opinion, you can be any oul head-the-ball and demand to be taken seriously, and call out anyone who questions you as a bigot.

yosser hughes

Alrigghtythen wrote: »

If Billy wants to put on a dress and call himself Mary, I can't see the issue.

I do have an issue with censoring people who state that Billy's wearing a dress.

If Billy wants to use the same changing rooms as your 7 year old daughter at the pool is that not an issue for you?

Alrigghtythen

yosser hughes wrote: »

If Billy wants to use the same changing rooms as your 7 year old daughter at the pool is that not an issue for you?

Yes that's an issue and should not be allowed.

Franz Von Peppercorn

ste wrote: »

Why do you need to get on board with anything? Just let people live the way they choose. Isn't that what this is all about?

In a recent episode of It's Always Sunny they had a bit on what signage to out on the male/female toilets & it obviously decended into a farce (v funny) but the real answer was to just name both toilets Toilet/Wash room

That’s not how it ended up. Dee didn’t want the guys in her toilet. The ending was calling it an animal sh1thouse.

Really if things don't negativily impact/interfere with your life & makes others more comfortable/happy why wouldn't you support that? That's not asking you to "get on board" with anything other than being basically decent.

Self identification has a clear effect on women’s spaces, prisons, refuges and sports.

Let's not taint the simple concept of treating people well with edge cases.

Not really that edge case.

Feisar

Gravelly wrote: »

Only if you’ve the “wrong” opinion. If you have the progressive-approved opinion, you can be any oul head-the-ball and demand to be taken seriously, and call out anyone who questions you as a bigot.

Great point

One eyed Jack

Gravelly wrote: »

Only if you’ve the “wrong” opinion. If you have the progressive-approved opinion, you can be any oul head-the-ball and demand to be taken seriously, and call out anyone who questions you as a bigot.

That’s not true at all. You don’t have to be a qualified medical professional to have an opinion on either transgenderism or anorexia, but you can hardly deny that it helps your credibility a lot more than some jackass giving their opinions where it’s apparent that they haven’t a notion what they’re talking about. You can be any head-the-ball and demand to be taken seriously applies to anyone, even Graham Linehan, and he is entitled to dismiss anyone who disagrees with him as a “progressive”.

I don’t feel a need to question him as I don’t believe he has the potential to make any useful contribution to the discussion. Questioning him would be giving his opinions a legitimacy I feel they don’t deserve. IMO he’s simply best ignored, but RTÉ have chosen to entertain his nonsense because they desperately need the cash they know the programme will generate from advertising revenue.

yosser hughes

Alrigghtythen wrote: »

Yes that's an issue and should not be allowed.

Billy's rights might override that.
So you see the consequences of being cool with trans men self identifying? Or just being blasé about men in dresses. Sure what's the big deal,live and let live right?
The point being when you legislate to normalise this it's too late to change your mind. When politics seems to be so influenced by vocal wingnuts on twitter you mi just get these unintended consequences

Franz Von Peppercorn

yosser hughes wrote: »

Billy's rights might override that.
So you see the consequences of being cool with trans men self identifying?

Would be illlegal in ireland. Probably.

Not that theres been many test cases in Ireland.