Jon Ronson on Graham Linehan January 2024

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[@tomfenn7149]

Since the Cass Report, Graham Linehan has been vindicated. Why will no one accept this? Why are you cowards? Is it through embarrassment through being wrong from the word go? Solidarity with Graham.

[@greengardener517]

Graham Linehan's "behaviour" consists of not thinking gender non-conforming children should be drugged, and believing women sometimes need single sex spaces, wards, prisons, sports. It's hardly radical. He's disappointed in his supposedly ethical celebrity friends for not standing up for what was right, even though it was unfashionable. He's right.

[@martybyrnemusic]

Interesting that he has such "hardly radical" views, yet needs to obsessively foam at the mouth, screaming at people all day and night, every day of his life on Twitter, aligning with literal Nazis, racists and homophobes to try and stay relevant, being disowned by his family and pretty much everyone who has ever worked with him in the process.

[@davidparry5310]

By 'not thinking gender non-conforming children should be drugged', you mean 'believing that trans youth with physical gender dysphoria should have their psychological well-being further endangered by being forced to undergo natural puberty'. That's not merely not right; it's abominable and wicked!

[@davidparry5310]

@@catscratchfever7540 Wow, talk about a bogus analogy, and an appeal-to-nature fallacy!

[@climaksy1659]

@@davidparry5310 the only fallacy is deez nuts in your mouth. fr tho you need to touch grass and stop commenting on these videos, it will be good for your mental health.

[@earendil261]

He'll be proved more and more right as time goes forward.

[@shuddupeyaface]

I think of Father Ted as a warm handshake. Not an absolutist condemnation. But the almighty inquisition might think otherwise.

[@Aengus42]

Graham Linehan is right about women losing their rights, spaces and sports. He's right about children being given puberty blockers, mastectomies and hysterectomies. I'm surprised at you Jon, thought you were a thinker. Such a shame...

[@rigsby1454]

Ronson can never answer what he disagrees with

[@rachelneal2886]

Well this didn't age well did it Jon?

[@w8m4n]

How extremely radical and bigoted of Graham to think children should be protected and women should be allowed to be women safely

[@thethinkingcatakaneonormie3527]

Really I got Graham's book on audible and I think it's shades of grey not a clear argument, frankly I think Twitter is Garbage and people who treat it as a place for conversation especially on subjects of politics and gender

[@Mrstheatre]

you are still asleep. Have u budged your position since the Cass Report or are you going to be a forever fence sitter

[@cmmndrblu]

Ronson's a gossip. States things in extremes. Graham has always been speaking in favour of the rights of women, girls, gay people, and frankly everyone, to have access to same sex spaces, to not be called transphobic for believing sex matters, for lesbians to be allowed to have female only dating apps. All of which is in line with UK law, and has been miserably misrepresented by Stonewall and other interest groups due to mission creep. And that's before you even get to the scandal around surgeries, and hormone blockers. Osteoporosis, diverticulitis, fistulas. The people who were ill-served by iatrogenic harm matter too. Homosexuals matter. Women matter. Pretending they don't, shutting them up is a problem. Graham Linehan has a spine, and good for him.

[@plumjam]

Well it turns out that Linehan was right all along.

[@anonnymous4684]

Really? According to whom....?

[@littlecatfeet9064]

What is Graham Linehan wrong about re trans issues?

[@kevinharpermusic]

Everything

[@littlecatfeet9064]

@@kevinharpermusic not a useful answer. Men in women’s prisons? Children given unnecessary experimental treatments?

[@nascar0509]

Absolutely nothing.

[@marblex]

@@kevinharpermusic got an example?

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Its the way he acts so mean in public to people suffering. He loses everyone's sympathy at that point 👉

[@mikefoster6018]

I remember Linehan sending his followers after me simply because I corrected him. I loved Linehan's work and had zero history with him, apart from one brief chat online about a boardgame we both liked. The second time I messaged him was a comment on one of his (somewhat excessive) anti-gun tweets. I just said I thought his stats looked quite far out on the issue. He blocked me, forwarded my message to his 485,000 followers with the message BLOCKED FOR STUPIDITY on it and, as a result, a few of his fans messaged me with things like "it's YOU who should be shot". It was a strange feeling. The creator of Father Ted was a bit of a hero to me. Then he just went for me. So yes, my brief experience of him seems entirely consistent with what Ronson says.

[@mikefoster6018]

@@catscratchfever7540 Why are you talking like I shouldn't be making my point about him? And your question about friends seems a bit irrelevant. Maybe stop trying to divert attention away from bullying behaviour.

[@ytsm]

He certainly is a mercurial character, and I think he'd be the first one to admit to this. Have you managed to ask him why he did this? I'd like to think he'd apologise, much in the way he has to a few people that have been subjected to his venomous side. I know he's been very apologetic with Count Dankula. Regardless, it definitely sucks that he did that to you and I hope he does make amends.

[@mikefoster6018]

@@ytsm He blocked me immediately, at the same time as shaming me to his 485,000 Twitter followers. So no apology. I just think it's classic 'victim but actually a mob' mentality. I should say I've not got any strong opinion against his views on trans or guns. I just think he got a gun-related stat very wrong for the sake of making his point.

[@psantini2968]

Graham Linehan has taken a position of courage. Jon Ronson has chosen safety and self-protection.

[@davidgraham8058]

He has chosen refuge in consensus. It will soon destroy him. Graham Linehan chose freethinking and inquiry which will always isolate you socially but makes you free.

[@davidparry5310]

Nothing courageous whatsoever about campaigning to make the lives of an already beleaguered minority even shittier - quite the reverse if anything.

[@davidparry5310]

​@@davidgraham8058Ironically, it's Linehan's position which hinges on that old enemy of freethought, received wisdom.

[@davidgraham8058]

@@davidparry5310 No it’s not. Linehan’s position is that of a true liberal. The people demonising him for expressing basic biological truth are the totalitarians. Luckily, their ridiculous ideology will be over soon.

[@lmaololroflcopter]

Graham Linehan called me a groomer on Twitter, even though I’m a moderate on the trans issue. It’s a weird feeling to be baselessly accused of being pro-child mutilation by the co-creator of Father Ted, but there you go.

[@malcolmhorton8848]

Ivan the terrible of the treblinka death camp was a moderate Nazi!!!!

[@shahjoffe2669]

you didn't think it through did you Jon? you saw what was happening to people who spoke up for what's right, and you did the cowardly thing.

[@eddiestaunton514]

Jon Ronson had made a living exploiting those who stand up for something, he built his own career on never backing or standing up for anything, Graham is a hero

[@XavierJAlexander]

You’re a weirdo

[@alihart]

Can't stand Ronson's "who me?" schtick. There is nothing wrong, in my view, with men dressing up in frocks and such if that's what they need to do, but there is a lot wrong with men and trans pressure groups lobbying to be allowed into women-only spaces, sports and particularly lobbying for puberty blockers for children.

[@markcraine4213]

Bullies on both sides. Ronson is just too unaware of his own unconcious bias. What does Jon Ronson think of non extreme gender critics? I would agree Graham has got a bit obsessive but lots of what he’s saying is true.

[@whalefish83]

Of course Ronson sides with the system. The guy is a coward and a disingenuous back-stabber.

[@w8m4n]

The more i see this sort of pandering bullshit the more I support Graham

[@tinawebley3985]

Thank God for people like Graham Linehan and others who are standing up for women's rights and trying to protect children.

[@eilrahc__]

Sad, obsessed losers who ruined their lives because they can't log off?

[@chrisf9377]

@@eilrahc__ We both know that you're an underachiever.

[@ohwellwhateverr]

@@eilrahc__ Brave people who refuse to lie and stand idly by as women and children are put at risk.

[@jordanfowler7153]

We don't need him, thanks very much

[@eilrahc__]

@@chrisf9377 I've not lost my job and family though.

[@marblex]

Just to be clear Jon - Graham was brilliant, and still is brilliant. You, on the other hand, not so much

[@CT99234]

This is an issue that just sends people nuts. I am fans of both of these men but i have to say that Grahams behaviour on this issue does often feel like bullying.

[@Aengus42]

I think you've got that backwards, it's the hideous trans extremists that've bullied everyone into keeping quiet.

[@kelleygreengrass]

I love Graham. You're a nobody.

[@marknewbold2583]

I hope Graham is happy with his new allies Trump and Putin.