David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"
I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!
ETA: Apparently it was a parody account that said the stairs line. I still want it on a T-shirt.
@goatsarah Tennant didn’t say the line, but he is pretty awesome on trans issues. The whole thing exploded because of a t-shirt he was wearing. In addition, he’s been wearing a nonbinary pride pin to all his public appearances for some time, apparently in support of one of his kids.
Bwahahahaha, and appreciate you took the time to add it was a parody account. God forbid we don’t get hysterical over the bits in peoples small clothes.
@goatsarah@guiltmanager The stupid thing is I think charging for an enhanced account tier would have been fair (cf. YouTube Premium). It's the ridiculous practice of categorising said accounts as 'verified'.
@alastair87@goatsarah its absolute... insidious genius. it promotes misinfo and it promotes scammers and it promotes bad actors smeering reputable people and it promotes bad actors who can gain legitimacy by pretending to be reputable brands and the list goes on. its exactly what musk wants, I believe. its how fascists operate.
@goatsarah@guiltmanager I wish people wouldn't delude themselves that Elon Musk is stupid. He's a nasty, arrogant, probably evil individual who gets a bit manic sometimes but collectively dismissing him as stupid when he wields so much influence and power and disturbing ideological notions on how to (ab)use it is extremely dangerous.
@alastair87@goatsarah sadly agree with you. he is insidious and as you say very dangerous, he knows what he is doing, in fact maybe he puts on the stupid act to cover up for that, like johnson and his clown act.
@alastair87@guiltmanager He's not stupid, but he is a lot less clever than he thinks he is, and he is apparently at the mercy of his own ego and lack of impulse control.
@spyro@goatsarah@guiltmanager I think there's a danger of confusing different types of intelligence and awareness. Humans are quite clearly as a collective super-smart intellectually in terms of our ability to creatively outwit other species and manipulate our environment. We mostly don't seem to have the type of intelligence, at least in our current mode of operating, to regulate that impulse that prevents us from going way too far with our 'advantage' and destroying everything.
It's not totally unique to humans, there have been monkeys that have also been observed overfishing their environment, but it's rare. That's not including the cases where we've set other species up to cause harm by transplanting them somewhere else.
@goatsarah Digging into this it seems that the "TERFs can't climb stairs" bit wasn't actually said by him but damn, what a good line, I laughed out loud
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He had a tshirt in support of trans kids, the shirt was black with pink text on it if I remember correctly with, and I quote: "Leave Trans Kids Alone You Absolute Freaks"
I'm not the biggest fan of him, I started getting a little tired with all the focus he got in doctor who, but I love that he did this.
@goatsarah listen I love that line, but it was a joke by a parody news account, not David Tennant himself. Bringing twitter jokes over here without context only makes it more important not to spread misleading untruths without fact checking 😅
@GalatFemme You are, like, the fiftieth person who’s said this. Yes, fine, but this has gone viral and is stressing my micro instance. I would edit the post to reflect that, but that would just stress it again, so I need to wait until the virality has gone to dick about with it. That’s probably going to be tomorrow at the rate the queue backlog is slowly clearing, assuming it doesn’t encounter another massive growth spurt.
And I still want it on a T shirt. I don’t really care who said it. It’s not like we’re influencing elections or some shit here.
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