caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

I feel like we already knew Stephen Fry is a smug posh boy shithead, but I genuinely can't tell if that's for a reason or just because everything terrible now comes with a sense of inevitability and déja vu


caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

I mean maybe I'm just thinking of the way England's obscene hereditary aristocrat-in-chief died and he was all "oh flipsy bibbles! Frot my crumpets! Dearie dearie mimsy!" etc. about it, but I could almost swear he's done "oh but both sides though" about terfs before


caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

(Trans Twitter, as always, remembers: he has indeed been shitty about trans people before.)



There was a very distinct period when you weren't really allowed to end up on the British Broadcasting Corporation's God-given television unless you were the right sort of people, by George; and so England has this backlog of "anti-authority" comedians whose early career credentials go "he made some very cheeky remarks as a schoolboy at Eton, I can tell you!"



caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

I feel like we already knew Stephen Fry is a smug posh boy shithead, but I genuinely can't tell if that's for a reason or just because everything terrible now comes with a sense of inevitability and déja vu


caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

I mean maybe I'm just thinking of the way England's obscene hereditary aristocrat-in-chief died and he was all "oh flipsy bibbles! Frot my crumpets! Dearie dearie mimsy!" etc. about it, but I could almost swear he's done "oh but both sides though" about terfs before