PC from Humberside
And then the police phoned.
https://twitter.com/HarryTheOwl/status/1088144875122499584
https://twitter.com/HarryTheOwl/status/1088144879690174464
Ah yes the “you liked it” crime. I remember that one so well – creepy people monitoring my Likes on Twitter and Facebook and even writing long screeds about them. It seemed stark raving mad to me then, and it doesn’t seem any saner now – and as for the police doing it, and deciding on the basis of doing it that the Person of Suspect Likes is unsafe to employ trans people – it’s just fucking batshit crazy.
https://twitter.com/HarryTheOwl/status/1088144883909570560
https://twitter.com/HarryTheOwl/status/1088144888867241984
Don’t we all just long to have a cop phone us up to tell us that “sometimes a woman’s brain grows a man’s body in the womb and that is what transgender is”?
https://twitter.com/HarryTheOwl/status/1088144892730195968
How can the cop possibly know he’s at risk of being fired for hate speech? Is the cop telling the company to fire him if he likes any more limericks on Twitter?
The world burns and this is what the UK police are busying themselves with.
But now he gets to lay claim to the awesome nickname “Limerick Criminal”. Totally worth it if you ask me.
‘Woman’s brain’??
‘Woman’s brain’??
We’re back to that again? That’s what pisses me off so much about this shit. The unthinking assumption that there is such a thing, in the womb, as a woman’s brain. And yet we are the gender essentialists?
The thing that continues to astonish me (and yes, I know why, but it still does) is that the police pretty much ignore actual women reporting actual harassment and actual threats until, in some cases, it’s too late and they’re dead.
Guest, that’s the bit that always makes me feel very very bitter about this type of situation. The rest of it is a legitimate concern, but the systematic ignoring of issues facing women and girls is a travesty.
How in the world could a woman’s brain grow a man’s body? That is biological nonsense (and yes, I am a biologist!). Why the hell do we constantly have to hear about a woman’s brain? There is no such damn thing, it is a human brain, and may or may not look essentially the same as whatever man happens to be standing nearby who has a brain to which we could compare said woman’s brain, but…no, a woman’s brain it must be.
And people like PZ, who never accepted that woman’s brain shit, is perfectly willing to climb on board the moment they wrap that woman’s brain into a cozy little woke trans-activist package and pretend it is “non-binary”. This stuff is binary as hell…
Why would a woman’s brain want to grow a man’s body around itself?
This whole thing is, to quote Stephen Fry, stool-water, arse gravy of the highest order. A brain, any human brain, starts out gender neutral. Any gender-specific thoughts that may emanate from it are learned, not inate, but of course we’re not allowed to say that because it’s violence or something.
Do we know for sure that was a cop? I wouldn’t put it past some people to impersonate the police for the purpose of intimidating him.
@Screechy
Well the Limerick Criminal made the call, so hopefully checked out the number first.
Screechy, in the first ttweethe says that he rang the PC, so presumably would have called the police station switchboard or a direct extension number, which would be the station number with just the last three digits changed. Even if Harry the Owl had been given a mobile phone number to call, with impersonating a police officer being a criminal offence it would be a particularly dim hoaxer who gave his number to his intended victim.
Not only does he get to be the Limerick Criminal, but now his twitter feed is packed with funny limericks people have written about the situation:
https://mobile.twitter.com/HarryTheOwl
It’s like the origin story of a supervillian. The police have created a monster.