Thread by @AllyFogg

Didn't tweet about this last night because I didn't want to spoil my evening, but I am so fucking done with #HIGNFY being such a reactionary pile of trash. Honestly, just wrap that show in a sack, smack it over the head with a shovel & dump it in the canal. The last straw? >

#HIGNFY had a question about that David Lewis bellend in Basingstoke, giving his idiotic stunt a good few minutes airing so all could have a good chuckle about the idea of someone being a woman "on Wednesdays" with a full "woman-ness of his beard" etc etc. >

Five people in the studio & not one of them thought to point out that what the guy is actually protesting about is that transgender women are (rightly) accepted as women by the rules of the Labour party, not one of them even used the word "trans" far less "transphobic" >

or attempted to explain the context, or to point out that the guy was not mocking some arbitrary bureaucratic rules of the Labour party - Jo Brand as host repeated unquestioningly his assertion that he was highlighting "how ridiculous the rules were" - >

the guy is obviously mocking transgender people & specifically bullying identifiable trans members of the party. The blatant intended message of his stunt was that trans women are a fraud & a joke and that it's frankly hilarious that a trans woman could be a woman's officer. >

It is frankly despicable that an influential political satire show did not even attempt to wring any comedy out of the pathetic actions of a despicable bigot, did not attempt to challenge what he was doing or the thinking behind it, >

Not one of them made any attempt to defend a compassionate, progressive policy or to defend some of the most harshly bullied, oppressed & discriminated-against minorities in our society. Instead they just gave his bigotry a good five minutes of airtime, entirely unchallenged. >

So yeah, fuck you #HIGNFY, fuck your reactionary conservatism, fuck your lazy establishment chucklefest, the sooner you fucking crumble into the sea & make way for a show that has some insight and actual fucking comedy the better.