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

How do you stumble across something like that? Either you go looking for it or your SM algorithm is filled with negative trans posts that brought you there.

And this is the problem with judging trans people only with information you see on your algorithmically presented feed. You’re going to see your biases show up and make it seem like they’re all lunatics. Even if this forum exists - what does that prove about anything? Like, have you ever met or interacted in real life with a trans person?

Kind of like how some people pretend to be feminists but have no problem with JK Rowling getting death threats because they disagree with her.

Ya this is reading like some LibsOfTikTok stuff… Particularly since most of the more liberal audiences abandoned Twitter a while back.

Do you think Linhan is a feminist then, after insulting a dead woman just because he didnt agree with her politics?

I don't think Linehan of 10 years would be liking posts that show zero empathy for a woman being shot dead. Its funny that the only thing he apologised for from that post was regarding voting!

That persons algorithm must be a fùckin septic tank if thats whats being launched across it. They would appear to have the odd fetishes IF that story is true and that is getting reccomended.

MOD EDIT: warned, other posters are not the topic of discussion.

Because other posters are allowed to make their own assumptions about my beliefs.

I like how you have a problem with me saying that, whereas the post I replied to made up lies about my beliefs with zero foundation, and you don’t have a dickiebird to say to them. Why might that be?

Not that it’s anybody’s business, but I’ve exclusively volunteered, managed and coached women/girls for over a decade. And I’m only in my mid-30s. I’ve coached girls who have gone on to reach elite level in their sport. I’m not saying I’m responsible for that, they’re the ones with the talent, but I’ve been lucky enough to help nurture talents who go onto compete at the highest level. Now my own daughter and my two nieces are into early ages sport, and I plan to come up with them again providing the club(s) want me to, meaning I’ll be at this for at least another decade. In fact I’ll probably continue until I can’t do it anymore. Why girls? Because you can’t get enough volunteers to coach boys. They don’t need another one. Girls don’t get half the interest outside of their own parents.

I chose to do this because I’m fortunate to be childhood friends with someone who was an elite sportswoman. I heard her talk about how people (in particular men, but not solely) see women’s sport and how it is treated as a second class sport when for women and girls it is the top of the tree. She was coaching girls one day and asked me to come down. I never looked back. I never considered coaching until I got involved and saw the shocking level of resources put into girls’ sport compared to the boys. Is it any wonder there’s a perception about the quality of women’s/girls sport when the support they get is horrendous? I’ve spent thousands out of my own pocket to make sure the girls have what they need.

Considering most of the posters who are arguing a toss with me here are your standard edgelords who say nothing about women’s sport except for when trans people are involved, I think it’s a fairly sure bet they haven’t done as much as me for women’s sport.

But yet, according to the poster I replied to, I don’t give a sh*t about it. I happen to agree with the principle of trans women not playing women’s sport, especially if they’ve gone through male puberty. However what I will not accept is the sudden rise of people who suddenly care, but yet have never supported women’s sport. I hear it all the time in my own club whenever this topic comes up. It’s always from people who watch the men play and have never bothered their arse to come to watch the women.

So next time anyone wants to question my beliefs, they can shove it up their hole.

But your treating them different to every other serving staff you have encountered, unless you make it a habit to brag on the internet about not abusing them too.

Very strange.

It's also extremely unhinged behavior, indicative of someone who's truly lost the plot.

That makes a lot of sense. The IT Crowd was his last real success and it's quite obscure now.

So if for some weird reason everyone who likes Formula 1 racing also liked making Ice Cream "boats" using budweiser and you liked a Formula 1 post you would very likely start seeing posts telling you how to make those ice cream boats despite never having shown any interest in such yourself.

Huh?

The OP said he liked a couple of posts by Rowling and ended up being directed towards anal ketchup videos.

I have had fun testing this myself in the past. Setting up entirely new "clean" accounts and clicking minor things with them and seeing how quickly I get dragged into the darkest extremes of any given topic. Some platforms are definitely worse for this than others.

Great, since you have experience, why don't sign up a "clean" account, thank a couple of posts of Rowling and let us know how long takes before you are watching someone to get the bottles of Heinz out?

Pretty sure a degree of it's happened with all the platforms. Just Twitter turned up the dial when Musk took over.

Well, I'm the type that uses ad blockers and regularly nukes the cookies on my PC, so I don't really have an ongoing algorithm. Although I can only point to YouTube in that regard because I'm not on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram or any other shite like that. But if I was getting directed to videos of people shoving ketchup where the sun doesn't shine, I'd seriously be considering abandoning "social" media altogether.