Flip the roles
During his speech at the British LGBT Awards, David Tennant told Tory politician Kemi Badenoch to ‘shut up’ in a passionate award speech. The former Doctor Who star was honoured at the glitzy awards ceremony for his support of the trans community, winning the accolade for celebrity ally.
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‘But I think I suppose if I’m honest I’m a little depressed by the fact that acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it, as long as they’re not hurting anyone else, should merit any kind of special award or special mention, because it’s common sense, isn’t it? It is human decency. We shouldn’t live in a world where that is worth remarking on.’
So why is he assuming that men pretending to be women is not hurting anyone else?
I bet he would see the point if the variables were different. Rich people pretending to be poor? Bosses pretending to be workers? White people pretending to be brown? Colonials pretending to be indigenous? Able-bodied people pretending to be disabled? Bullies pretending to be bullied?
He then referenced Badenoch, who has served as the Minister for Women and Equalities since 2022. The politician recently spoke about the Conservatives’ pledge to change the 2010 Equality Act, which she said would ‘clarify that sex in the law means biological sex and not new, redefined meanings of the word’, claiming that this change would ‘protect women and girls’ spaces’, The Independent reported.
This move could mean that trans women are denied access to women-only spaces, even if this puts them in vulnerable situations.
Ahhhhhhhh there you go, there it is, there’s the massive sky-concealing blind spot.
Men getting access to women-only spaces puts women in vulnerable situations you absolute fucking imbeciles.
I used to like David Tennant as an actor. Him aggressively championing this dubious cause has made him sink in my estimation.
I did too.
I used to feel a bit isolated, because I never liked David Tennant. Whilst my friends were drooling over his performance as The Doctor, I simply found him irritating. Then my husband, who was staying with friends of ours in Australia, told me about a new programme that he was starring in, that they all thought was great, and he persuaded me to watch the first episode. Well. I must say that it was the worst thing I’ve ever watched; I only stuck with it to the end of the episode in order to find out who was the murderer. My disappointment at the horrible waste of time turned to fury when I discovered that it was a serial; and I wished either that the perpetrator(s) had killed every single one of the horrible people in the show, or that someone would take inspiration from Betjeman. Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Broadchurch. Never watched another minute. Did burn my husband’s ears on the phone when he asked me what I’d thought, though!
At least I’m not suffering from disappointment at Tennant turning out to be a plonker. Silver lining, and all that!
Yeah, but that’s definitely what the trans lobby is doing…he might not realize that, though. Put this bluntly, I imagine he would disagree, but not see the relevance to his own cause.
tigger @ 3 – Heh – snap. It so happens that I watched episode 1 of Broadchurch last week and I too was underwhelmed. Will not be watching any further episodes. The source of my quondam liking of Tennant was an episode of Foyle’s War…a series I’ve seen an abnormal number of times because a small local station here broadcast an episode every Friday for years and I developed a liking for it as background.
iknklast, I know, that’s why I said it!
Women are the new bullies now, you know. [snort]
Yeah, I figured that was why you said it. Too bad you’re a woman, and your opinion doesn’t matter! (Maybe you should claim to be trans-Tennant, then you’d matter because, well,. trans).
One of Tennant’s kids identifies as gender-special. Also, everyone involved in Good Omens has been fawned over by the gender community for years (mutual fawning, really), especially since season 2. There’s a sort of cycle of wear a pro-trans shirt, get adulation poured on self, feel good, repeat that I can imagine is quite compelling.