What number? One?
The Herald on Leith Arches and its smug abrupt rude cancellation of a scheduled event because Leith Arches doesn’t like its “views.”
An Edinburgh Fringe venue has axed a show involving Father Ted creator Graham Linehan following a number of complaints.
“You can’t have a show involving Graham Linehan, he knows which people are women!!!”
The writer was the “surprise famous cancelled comedian” at the night being promoted by Comedy Unleashed at the Leith Arches.
He was due to appear in the show alongside Bruce Devlin, Mary Bourke, Dominic Frisby and Alistair Williams on Thursday night.
Today is Tuesday. How charming of Leith Arches to do this with all of two days’ notice. What exquisite manners.
Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr Linehan pointed to the legal difficulty the Stand Comedy found itself in after cancelling an in-conversation event with SNP MP Joanna Cherry.
Earlier this year, the club said a number of “key operational staff, including venue management and box office personnel” were unwilling to work on the event because of “concerns about Ms Cherry’s views.”
However, after the politician obtained legal opinion from leading human rights advocate, Aidan O’Neill KC, The Stand backed down and admitted that the cancellation constituted “unlawful discrimination”.
And did the same thing all over again to someone else. Clever.
From reading Eliza Mondegreen it seems that TIFs wrestle with self-doubt about their transgender status on a fairly regular basis. This makes sense, since gender is a meaningless word describing something imaginary. Given the non-existence of the gendered soul, as well as the tragic inability of most TIMs to pass as female, one would suspect that many TIMs’ heads are snake-pits. Which makes them volatile, insecure people.
(This doesn’t even take into consideration the evident damage of cross-sex hormones on physical and mental health.)
They have joined a cult. They can’t tolerate anyone who questions their belief because, unlike many other cults, it is difficult to walk away from the gender-cult and resume your life as if nothing happened. TIMs and TIFs are marked for life for having fallen for this delusion.
Meanwhile, lot of trans-allies seem to have internalized the false notion that trans-people are challenging the “gender binary” (when in fact they do the opposite, along with “non-binary” people) and that they are also incredibly brave for doing so. Some of them probably think that nobody would do this to themselves if it wasn’t real. Remove, or otherwise destroy their genitalia. Look like a sick parody of the other sex. Destroy their health. Adopt all these affectations to become their “true self.”
Anyone who throws up roadblocks for trans-people’s “journeys” must be a bigoted, sadistic monster. Many Trans-allies become violently angry at the idea of the “transphobes.” Sometimes, when TRAs happen to be men in their twenties and the transphobic bigot is a woman in her seventies, their anger manifests itself as several hard punches to the woman’s eye-socket.
Other times they just behave like stupid asses and cancel performances they don’t like and harass conferences where GC feminists try to talk among themselves and get GC feminist women fired from their jobs.
Me, those several hard punches to an elderly woman’s eye probably help them get all the other stuff done; people give in because very few people like being punched. I can’t think of any other cult, outside of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism, that have commandeered so many resources of so many states. In short, it appears to have moved past ‘cult’ status into ‘established religion’ status, which only means that people consider it ‘real’ rather than ‘fake’.
None of these are real; they are all based in delusion and fantasy. But all of them have managed to get the state to enforce their fantasies, in many cases by force if necessary.
Holy shit. I hadn’t thought of it like that, but you’re right. In the UK, trans activism has more clout than the C of E. I can’t imagine an angry mob ever organizing at the urging of the Archbishop of Canterbury, or even Charles for that matter.
It’s going to take a long time to clean out all the captured institutions so that they work as they actually should.
It strikes me that this sort of thing (down with it!) was bound to bound to arise in our media saturated world. We all want to be the brave (and stunning) heroes standing up to fascism. If the fascism doesn’t exist it must be created. Tolerance, thoughtfulness, or just the simple acceptance that you aren’t qualified to judge this are rejected out of hand because they aren’t dramatic and they don’t give you a starring role. Never mind that this isn’t your story. The hero must be centred and everyone must be the hero. It’s Disney storytelling masquerading as politics.
Or if the fascism does exist, it actually requires effort to fight, so create a form of fascism that just requires screaming tweets and threats. So much less exhausting.