Fr Ted creator/writer Graham Linehan Arrested over posts on Transgender issues

Graham's a very unsympathetic character in this debate, he does an awful lot of mean spirited and stupid things, but there is a question of how this case got so far. The facts don't add up to much here and it's pretty clear the complainant went to the event to harass people and be a nuisance.

Yes, lets have a look at some of Sophie's best bits, pre the incident in question.

These are very brave women aren't they, infiltrating these gender-critical groups whilst simultaneously living in fear. Had some people fooled at being something they're not but they were found out eventually. It always seems to be transwomen that are up for this kind of activism, you'd think it would be the men, the transman that would be more into it? Strange that, I wonder why that is?

Graham Linehan worked on, inter alia:

I aM Alan Partridge

Fast Show

Big Train

Armstrong & Miller

Motherland

IT Crowd

Black Books

Jam

Brass Eye

The Day Today

Harry Enfield

Garth Morenghi

Little Britain

Saturday night armistice

He is a comedic genius, and it is a tragedy that he has been black balled from comedy. Ultimately (and already it is apparent) he will be seen as a martyr who sacrificed himself against demented mob. Personally I wish someone else had taken his stand.

He had nothing to do with a lot of those. Most of them have been forgotten about in any case.

It's been decades since he displayed anything resembling genius.

He's not remotely a victim of anything. He's done this to himself. A lot of his former collaborators want nothing to do with him for good reason.

The lad's a looper and as such, I feel sorry for him, the same as I do for people like Gemma O'Doherty.

No one believes that a fella can put on a dress and magically become a woman, and those that say they believe it are performing for internet likes. But they're not hurting anyone, in 99% of cases they're not impacting on anyone else, and generally just want to crack on with life and be left alone, like the rest of us.

No sane person thinks a man should be entitled to declare himself a chick and then be given the freedom to wander around women's changing rooms but really, these things are so rare in the real world (not the internet) that it's a sad, pretty mental thing to get so het up about that you knacker your career and lose your family.

Sad all around

He directed an episode and it's a show that has aged terribly and was pretty awful at time too TBH. 😂 That's not modern stalinism, it's that public taste has drastically changed. Eg a modern Carry On movie probably would do awfully now too.

We don't. It was trash.

Why are you replying to my post like I'm defending any of the above? I said it was daft. Did you not read what I said?

I also said it's rare in the real world. How did you know about any of the examples you posted above? You didn't see them in real life, you probably read about them on twitter or whatever.

To repeat myself, it's a strange thing to get so worked up about that you lose your career and your family. That fella needs to turn off his Internet for a week and go for a walk

Sorry but H*LL no.
He is 1000% the architect of his own downfall both personally and professionally.

He took 1 milquetoast critique of trans representation in an IT Crowd episode and turned it into a vendetta against the trans community, all just to win internet points.

Plenty of people hated it even at the time of release. If it was released now, you'd likely have a much larger audience disliking it rather than liking it. That's not to say shows making questionable jokes is unacceptable btw eg It's Always Sunny is still going strong, Curb Your Enthusiasm frequently went into the controversial too.