OPINION
You know, if trans activists really wanted to convince us that transgenderism isn’t a mental illness, they could start by not acting so batshit crazy all the time.
And you’d think celebrities would have worked out by now that you can never be woke enough for these demented cross-dressers.
But no, here we are: another woke celebrity getting hit with the hurricane-force fury of the Twitter ladyboys over something totally innocuous.
Comedians Richard Ayoade and Jonathan Ross today joined a rapidly growing list of beloved entertainment stars who trans activists are trying to cancel.
The pair’s ‘crime’ – according to the campaigners – was to review a book written by controversial comedy writer Graham Linehan.
Linehan, of course, found out long ago that today’s censorious inquisitor is tomorrow’s tumbril-riding meat for the chopping-block. When Mark “Count Dankula” Meechan was arrested and fined for the heinous crime of teaching a pug to do a Nazi salute for a prank, Linehan furiously attacked his fellow comedian. Then he found himself in the Cancel crosshairs. He was suspended from Twitter and publicly attacked by screeching rainbow dementoids.
Mr Linehan is long-time target of activists, who shut down his planned appearance at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival. He performed elsewhere in the city.
Belatedly, Linehan admitted his own mistake in not defending free speech. Asked at Edinburgh if he’d had a change of heart about Dankula, he confessed:
“I realise now that Mark was objecting to the kind of madness that we’re objecting to. He did it in a way that I found a bit hacky, but, y’know, that’s not a crime… When I’m in a position to, I’ll somehow make it up to him.”
Linehan, of course, wrote such classic sitcoms as Father Ted and The IT Crowd. One of the stars of the latter, Richard Ayoade (“Moss”), also tried on the woker-than-thou act.
He is married to Lydia Fox, who is the sister of controversial actor-turned-aspiring politician Laurence Fox.
Mr Ayoade was said to have been furious with Mr Fox when the latter was a guest panellist on Question Time in 2020 and said ‘woke’ people are ‘fundamentally racist’.
In April, Mr Fox told The Sunday Times he had fallen out with his brother-in-law. He revealed he didn’t got to Sunday lunch at their house for a few weekends as a result of their feud but claimed to have since become friends again.
Mr Fox said: ‘[He] was furious. He told me I have never encountered racism. I responded. “Yeah, of course I have”.
‘I’ve encountered racism from black people towards me, when I was working in Kenya [as a safari driver] for seven months.’
In a twist that absolutely no one could have seen coming, Ayoade suddenly found his head on the Cancel Culture chopping block.
All for saying something nice about his old friend and collaborator, Graham Linehan.
Last night, [Linehan] announced he had written a book about his experiences of going from the widely-celebrated writer of Father Ted and The IT Crowd to being cancelled.
The front cover of ‘Tough Crowd’ features two quotes from Mr Ayoade and Mr Ross.
Mr Ayoade, who shot to fame playing Maurice Mosse on The IT Crowd, said: ‘His brilliance in prose is equal to his brilliance as a scriptwriter.’
Mr Ross’s featured remark said: ‘A must-read book – funny and utterly compelling.’
Cue the outraged screeching from the cocks-in-frocks.
But the innocuous comments sparked an online pile-on from activists directed at the two comedians.
Bad Writing Takes fumed on Twitter: ‘LGBTQ+ fans have been shocked and disappointed to discover that along with the usual collection of transphobes, Graham “Glinner” Linehan’s new book contains an endorsement from Richard Ayoade.
‘Ayoade has not publicly endorsed transphobic or anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry before.’
Jen Ives claimed: ‘Just tore down my topless Richard Ayoade poster.’
Trans woman and broadcaster India Willoughby posted online: ‘Well that’s Richard Ayoade in the bin, along with already confirmed TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminist] Jonathan Ross.
‘What is wrong with these people?’
Which, by a strange coincidence, is exactly what the rest of us have been saying about these nasty, hateful autogynephiles for years.
The book quote row is the latest in a seemingly-endless series of attempts by trans activists on twitter to cancel high-profile figures.
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So, who’s next? My money’s on Matt Berry, who’s gutlessly, cravenly crawling to the tranny inquisitors over the episode of The IT Crowd where his character, Douglas Renholm, finds that the apparently perfect woman is, in fact, an ex-man — and promptly dumps him.
Disclaiming the episode as “ridiculous and dated”, Berry sneered at Linehan that “I don’t share any views that the writer has”.
These pathetic cowards almost deserve it when they inevitably get cancelled.