Hobbes & I, just watching the worldwide lunacy escalate. My days here are now numbered. Adult Human Male. “Stop f**king writing to us.”- ‘Jackie’ Magazine
How We Got Where We Are.
A Personal Observation.
1. After, homosexuality was decriminalised(1967 for UK, 1980 for Scotland & 1982 in N. Ireland), after decades of being arrested, beaten up, feared, loathed, truly marginalised, after HIV wretchedly & terrifyingly tore through…
Sorry. Just one more point..
There’s an exact equivalent to this.
When a man knowingly & purposefully decides to walk behind a woman down a dark or deserted street. Quickens his footsteps when she does. Crosses the road when she does.
Some men get excited & exhilarated by the…
@JustStop_Oil
@George_Osborne
Their wedding day. I don’t give a damn what side of politics they’re on, what side you’re on. Anyone who’d do this to anyone else is wrong. You’re f**king scumbags.
The fact the disgusting hashtag
#RIPJKRowling
is trending on this mess of a platform, tells you everything you need to know about the mindset of these TRAs. Read the comments.
Don’t ever ask me to justify my position on this again.
It’s sick. Just sick.
#IStandWithJKRowling
I’m an adult human male. I’m not ‘cis’.
You’re free to use it about yourself. I’d prefer you not to label me.
I don’t use ‘preferred pronouns’.
You’re free to use them about yourself & your friends. Please don’t assume we all use them. I’m same-sex attracted. 1/
Today, the only sentiments you should be expressing is sorrow & mourning this poor child.
To those of you politicising, weaponising, trolling, throwing around accusations & blame before knowing ANY facts, show some respect. It’s NOT the time. Shame on you.
#BriannaGhey
1.
@Martina
knows EXACTLY what she’s ‘endorsing’. I realise a WOMAN WITH HER OWN OPINION is hard for you to get your head around.
2. Martina OUT in ‘81. A world renowned tennis champion several times over & one of the most influential gay-rights icons, EVER, who just might,…
Interesting.
Just watched you, on video, berating a woman for wearing a Union Jack hat, in the street, calling it “deliberately provocative”, wagging your finger, then storming off like a petulant brat, without waiting for her response.
That you chose to take a flag off the…
What does one do when you no longer trust
The Police
Politicians
The Media
The Experts
The Science
The Commentators
The Reality
Seriously. Where does one turn?
'I watched Gimme Gimme Gimme for the first time and it was too offensive to be made today' - MyLondon
Thanks for the compliments,Danielle. But criticising GGG for its social commentary is a bit like writing an essay on Scooby Doo being ‘problematic’. 😉
I really don’t think the extraordinary power & courage of this action by
@jk_rowling
can be underestimated.
In one fell swoop, she has liberated millions of women to stand alone, & defend their own hard fought for & won rights to stand firm against this insidious dogma, which,…
I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women - irrespective of profile or financial means - will be treated equally under the law.
So.
An arrogant, petulant, destructive, misogynistic little boy is given a box of matches.
Burns down your shed.
Burns down your trees.
Burns your car.
Burns your money.
Until finally, with the last match, he burns down your house.
You look around in horror, at the…
When
@KathyBurke
and I did a play together (decades ago), and we didn’t know our lines or were smoking during singing rehearsals, the director would send us to the far side of the room. Kath would whisper to me on the way, “Here we go. Back to Cunt Corner...”
Dear Sam Smith’s PR people,
I know you’re only in it for the cash, but, fucking hell, show Sam a bit of mercy. You’re giving a drunk driver a bottle of Scotch & a nudge.
Why wasn’t the shy guy with a good voice enough?
God.
I spent a week working with Barry Humphries, Dame Edna, & Les Patterson. And let me tell you it was THE funniest, most inspiring, outrageous, luckiest week of my life.
What great UNIQUE BRILLIANT GENIUS. Thank you, thank you, thank you for a lifetime of joy. 💔❤️
RIP
Yes, I KNOW this is faux fur & I KNOW the world of fashion is often ridiculous & plain stupid.
But, personally speaking, I find this repellently LOATHSOME.
@KirstieMAllsopp
If you actually listened to what
@jk_rowling
is saying, you might come to realise she IS the middle ground. Nothing controversial about women preserving their rights & boundaries. Absolutely nothing. 10 years ago this entire debate would be considered risible & unnecessary.
Watch this video. Pay close attention to what the blonde PC says & her behaviour.
Completely unfit for the job. Obviously totally captured.
Zero ability to access the situation, rationally.
Zero empathy.
Disproportionately angry.
100% entitled narcissist.
@WestYorksPolice
After witnessing some of the most blatant, vitriolic, truly disgusting antisemitic displays today, from some openly cheering on one of the most despicable terrorist groups in the world, who’ve just committed some of the worst atrocities ever seen, in full view of police & public…
The response to this plea from a lone woman on a bus, from this finger-wagging, judgemental man, is revealing indeed.
It shows a remarkably indifferent & callous mind & certainly comes from someone who has NEVER had to walk the dark streets, clutching keys strategically, or been…
Pretty fed up with these he/hims, she/hers etc, lecturing & hectoring us about Section 28, the 80/90’s AIDS crisis & what it was like for gay people during that era, when most of these “folx” weren’t even born or were still in nappies.
You HAVE NO IDEA.
NONE.
Sit back down.
Good grief.
Just watched some film critic, commenting on the Golden Globes, saying, next year, she wants more ‘gender-balanced & non-binary directors’..etc.
That’s her wish? That’s her priority??
Here’s an idea. How about wishing for a return to making GREAT MOVIES?
Period.
Hi Owen.
I’m a homosexual.
Gay people are, by definition, homosexual, ie, same-sex attracted.
Big fat full stop.
And I mean that most un ironically, folks!
We HAD It.
We had acceptance.
We had tolerance.
We had equality.
We had respect.
We had harmony.
We had made great headway since the gay hate of the 80’s, where one REALLY understood what being marginalised meant.
We impinged on no-one else’s rights.
I think I’ve just about had my fill of
@Waterstones
, continually hiding books they do not ‘approve of’, of some snarky staff rolling their eyes & being f***ing rude, should you ask for books by certain “baaaad women!”
Not one more penny. Done.
#boycottwaterstones
If I have to sacrifice any future acting jobs over this issue, then so be it. I am NOT nor ever have been transphobic. But I will NOT sit by & watch whilst brilliant women such such as Stock, Forster, Rowling, et al, are sold down the river based on lies & misinformation. No.
Terribly sad news. Used to watch Paul O’Grady in the 90’s, as Lily Savage round various pubs, then theatres, as his fame grew. Used to meet him in Joe Allen, where he’d make me laugh, sneering at other ‘slebs. One of the funniest, kindest & most talented of men.
RIP Paul. 💔
You absolute, f**king little tosser.
Owen Jones, ladies & gentlemen…doing everything in his power to excuse barbaric terrorists.
This is a new low. Even for him. 🤌
Funny how things work out.
When I was younger, I couldn’t get seen for many jobs, because I was an ‘out gay man’. Not acceptable.
As I’ve grown older, & lived through reactions such as utter horror in the 80’s, people shaking my hand for being ‘brave’ or simply moving away,…
Sorry about the prolonged silence, as I’m moving house, but I just want to say this…
Thank you
#HelenaBonhamCarter
Your comments about the hounding of
@jk_rowling
are absolutely right.
Tell your friends…😉
For 33 years, I’ve managed to work & get on with a majority of different people, often with entirely opposing beliefs to mine.
How?
Because NO ONE believed that ‘bringing your ENTIRE self to work’ was workable. It was called “being professional.”
That’s HOW we all got on.
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Good morning. Thank you ALL so much for your lovely birthday messages, especially to
@jk_rowling
,who is clearly responsible for adding quite a hefty number of new followers. I’m faxing her a slice of my birthday cake as a token of my gratitude….😏🙏❤️
Regarding
@rickygervais
“SuperNature’ show, EVERYONE & EVERYTHING gets it in the neck. Everyone. Yes, even us gays. And it’s HILARIOUS.
It's kind of the point, isn't it? He also has a good go at himself.
Which is also kind of the point, isn't it?
Learn to laugh at yourself.
I know Hobbes is the true draw for this account so I’m delighted/relieved beyond words to tell you that he had his brain scan today, & it came back all clear.
He’s just weird. Aren’t we all?
Cone still on but 🤷. He’s ok.
Thank you for all your messages of support & love.❤️
Man makes a factual observation.
Woman makes same factual observation.
Men spend hours & hours screaming abuse at woman.
Still think this is nothing to do with some men’s utter loathing for strong women?
Misogyny writ large.
#IStandWithRosieDuffield
Before I turn in (yes, I’m old), just wanted to share this. Someone just asked me how I would have felt if a straight actor got my role in GGG, instead of me.
It would have been a) because he was better & b) my tough luck.
THAT’S the reality of the acting profession. Night. X
How much longer are people going to stand by & JUST WATCH THIS and SAY NOTHING?
This woman has been TERRIFIED TO DEATH. Her children have been identified. These ‘activists’ have to be STOPPED.
HOW IS THIS ACCEPTABLE TO ANYONE??
@metpoliceuk
“But, James, just what is it about the TRA & Q+ movement that makes you want to distance yourself from them?”
“See clip below of a TRA smashing cymbals in a horse’s face, whilst trying to shut women up.”
“Um…context?”
“I think it pretty much speaks for itself, doesn’t it?”…
Please can we collectively make sure
@LNER
does NOT take action against an innocent driver, because one or two people were ‘offended’ by “Morning,ladies & gentleman” over the tannoy?
We shall be watching,
@LNER
& your immediate capitulation has not gone unnoticed.
Please RT.
Hate to drop the proverbial fly into your ointment, India, but the “mega-long troll post” was NOT about you.
You were, in fact, referred to as “last, but least”.
And THAT’S what has irked you.
This kiss.
This was the kiss that took our breaths away in the cinema, years ago.
Watching this was one of the most unforgettably romantic moments of my life.
RIP Julian Sands. 💔
Kurt Zouma. Not sharing your despicably cruel & ugly video of you kicking a cat, as it’s nauseatingly hideous & deeply upsetting.
You are a F**KING DISGRACE…
#KurtZouma
#Thug
Just dropped our little best buddy off at the vet hospital. Having his dew claw operation done tomorrow morning.
I’m blubbering like a big baby in the car. 🙄😢
Send the boy good vibes!🙏X
Had a nice haircut yesterday. Been out this morning, picked up some things, walking round the village, saying hi to neighbours.
And all the while, much to my oblivious horror, I’ve spent the entire morning looking like Beaker…
I mean, ffs…
You weren’t there to see what actually happened, you went straight for the guy defending himself, you arrested him for ‘assault’, you then watched the video, & you “de-arrested” him.
His name is
@GhorbaniiNiyak
& he is owed a huge apology.
Do that instead of embarrassingly…
Just watched that interview with Sophie Ridge, Margaret Hodge, & Owen “I’ve just been to a rave, me” Jones.
Putting aside his juvenile gurning, & predictable “yeah, buts…”, what is SO striking is just how f***ing rude & disrespectful he is to women in particular.
Every Time.
This is simply astonishing.
Teacher reprimanding a child, because the child refuses to acknowledge another student identifies as ‘a cat’. Video & audio below…
I shit you not.
2023.
@jk_rowling
@rickygervais
@RosieDuffield1
@Fox_Claire
I don’t always agree with my followers.
My followers certainly don’t always agree with me.
Same goes for my friends.
Same goes for my family.
In fact, I’ve never met a single person who I agree with 100% on everything.
But none of that matters.
It’s called ‘being an adult’
I know she’s not here on Twitter anymore, due the crippling abuse from the increasingly deranged TRA contingent, but I’d just like to say to Amanda Abbington, you danced up a storm & were utterly brilliant.
You’ll be missed & you are much loved. ❤️💪🏻
I’m not RTing it, as it’s simply the crassest, ugly & misogynistic piece of toss I’ve ever read, but that
@Independent
piece on
@jk_rowling
‘s crucial centre for raped & abused women, illustrates clearly that some people’s moral compass is not only broken, but totally shattered.
Hobbes update.
Operation went well. That infected dew claw out. He’s recovering with some wonderful nurses!
I keep imagining him, sitting up in bed, like Sid James, making saucy comments to a passing nurse, then yakking a dirty laugh, with Bernard Bresslaw in the next bed…
I do absolutely love it when the outrage, envy & self righteous fury over
@rickygervais
broils on for days on end…
He’s having so much fun, he’s just written the single word “Legend”, as his entire bio to annoy all the right people & it’s glorious…
🤣
🎼Huppy Baathday ta mee
Huppy Baathday taa meee
Huppy BAAAATHDAY to me-EE,
Huppy Baathday tooooo meeeee!🎼
Very little to celebrate these days, but going to try, just for today. Thanks for all your lovely wishes so far….🙏❤️
Almost 0 miniature donkeys have arrived yet, btw….
Equality.
That’s what we were fighting for. Nothing more, nothing less. Stonewall championed this notion with their ‘Equality Shows’.
And we HAD it.
Now this lot, with their aggression & Q+ misogyny, have f**ked it all up.
Egged on by Stonewall.
Thanks. Thanks a bunch
So…waitaminute…
Louise Distras (woman) looks smart for a photoshoot & “she’s suddenly not about feminism or punk rock.”
Billy Bragg (man) dresses like an accountant from Leamington Spa, to meet the Queen, but HE reckons he retains his ‘man o’ th’ people, anarchist’…
“Unsafe”.
In no particular order, “unsafe” used to mean walking down a dark street at night, alone, keys clutched in hand, a man’s footsteps quickening behind you…
Coming out of a gay pub, after 11pm, checking both ways, trying to ignore the hostile gangs of youths, shouting…
And, yes, I admit. I DO have a ‘dog in this fight’. One of my young relatives started cutting herself after one of these ‘non-binary’ workshops was invited to her school. It created utter chaos amongst these kids, who immediately felt the need to label themselves, creating…
Feeling empty & bereft. I don’t believe one has to be a staunch Royalist to recognise the feeling of a constant in our lives, suddenly departed. Distinguishing between the “firm” & Elizabeth are two quite separate entities.
I certainly will miss her…
A remarkable woman.
@adamdavidson
Hi Adam. By the tone of your question, I don’t expect a reply but I was dropped AND erased from an audio company which produces Dr Who stories for signing a letter in support of JKR & asking Stonewall for a ‘respectful debate’. Nothing to do with my feelings. All very real.
Goodness. The vitriol pouring from some on here tonight, is extremely telling.
All because some of the strongest women we have on this island,got together & had a great time. The defiance & resilience these women represent must be terrifying.
They REALLY don’t like it, do they?
When I see a picture like this, of an animals devotion to a human, & vice versa..it actually causes a physical ache in my chest. The lump in my throat just won’t go away…
#RIPNdakasi
Oh, for goodness sake.
It doesn’t matter if you disagree with me about Khan. You’re fully entitled to disagree & that’s fine.
I follow & am followed by tonnes of people I don’t agree with on some topics. I’ve never yet met anyone who I’ve agreed with 100% on everything.
I’m…
Example 1.
John Boyne, sincerely & admirably, apologises to Graham Linehan.
Graham instantly accepts apology &, graciously, acknowledges his own part in the row.
Thousands of people commend & express admiration for this ‘unusual activity’ on social media. Of course, many did…
If I wanted a coherent & honest opinion, quite frankly, Emma Watson, (an extremely lucky young girl plucked from obscurity as a child actor, who owes a certain someone BIG TIME for her entire career) is the last person I’d approach.
Get more sense from an inflatable yak…
Rest In Peace, Matthew Perry. Thank you for making the world laugh. Back when most people were permitted to have a sense of humour & life was relatively normal. I’m sorry these wretched zealots can’t see beyond the end of their noses but, believe me, you will be much missed. ❤️💔
Reminder that Friends has aged horribly & contains a lot of homo/transphobic content, especially around the Chandler character, so be careful what you share.
That said, it's a tragedy to lose Matthew Perry, especially after all he has gone through & survived with addiction. RIP
Amanda Abbington signs up for Strictly.
Cue an exchange between 2 supposedly adult authors.
Note the last reply.
“…if you’re qu*er & considered yourself in danger or at risk..”
‘At RISK’?? In DANGER’??
What’s she going to do?
Cha-Cha someone to death?
Beyond pathetic…
On NO other issue would the BIG GUNS…the slebs, the actors, the singers, or those desperate for fame..be so utterly silent.
They’d be screaming blue murder.
Daily death threats to
@jk_rowling
…they look away, they listen to agents & publicists, they abandon her.
SPEAK UP.
When I was a kid, I had a Raggedy Andy print above my bed, spelt out with the letters to my name , JAMIE. In red. Not blue. Not pink. Red.
I also had a small wicker basket with my toys & dressing up clothes, which consisted of both men & women’s clothes, which I used regularly…
YOU f***ed this up, Kelley.
You, Hunt, Stonewall, Pride., GLAAD etc.
YOU enabled & encouraged this.
YOU smeared lesbians as “sexual racists”.
We’ve been warning you FOR YEARS.
You don’t get to spin this around & cry, “But..but what happened…?”
You did.
Deeply saddened to see today's British Social Attitudes Survey shows such a marked decline in positive attitudes to trans people. In 2019 82% of us said we "weren't prejudiced at all" towards trans people - now just 64% of us feel we can say the same. 1/5
It’s a hospital.
A bloody hospital.
I’d already presumed that meant one would be “welcomed, safe & respected.”
Or is this code for “Shut up, women. We’ll put men on your wards whether you like it or not..”?
Replies turned off gives me reason enough to suspect the latter.
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