The Walking Unwomanly
Or, Angry Man Is Angry.
With Hallowe’en approaching, I thought I’d lift this from the comments:
World’s number 1 Harry Potter fan. https://t.co/uo4pz7GAl9
— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) October 26, 2026
Lest it be unclear, J. K. Rowling doesn’t in fact “pass anti-trans legislation.” She isn’t funding “genocide.” She’s not “murdering” anyone, except perhaps rhetorically, and she’s not “killing children.”
And you’re not a woman, sir.
And those claims of “human rights” that are allegedly being crushed are just another fabrication, another attempt to deceive.
Regarding the impassioned scene above, Clam asked,
Well, indeed. Our cross-dressing chappie, the one barking instructions, is not, I fear, making a compelling case. Or eliciting anything approaching sympathy.
He’s just a man with mood-control issues who casually tells lies about others and himself, and who evidently likes to scold his imagined audience, on a holiday for children, for daring to have priorities of their own, even down to what kind of Hallowe’en costume he thinks they should be allowed to wear.
The lippy doesn’t hide his fundamental obnoxiousness.
So, in that sense, he has made himself “abundantly fucking clear.” Though he doesn’t seem to realise exactly what has been revealed.
To some extent, I think he and other maladjusted bullies exploit the assumption that you should want to be, and want to be seen to be, friends with everyone. In solidarity with everything. At least everything fashionable. As if that would be possible. Which is rather silly.
I give you a TV theme that despite everything about the rest of the show, garnered an Emmy nomination.
And if you’re feeling like something from the Mirror Universe…
Magnum P.I. is fascinating from a history-of-television POV. The first season hews very closely to the original premise, which was an Americanized version of James Bond. It also had a very different theme. What you remember as the theme was originally the chase music, which was promoted to full theme halfway through the first season.
About halfway through the second season the show takes a strong lurch – it’s so sudden it’s very noticeable – into the 1980’s comedic cheese that typified that decade’s television. Apparently Selleck himself was responsible for that, he felt that Magnum was too unrelatable and started adding the wheedling, slightly bumbling comedic elements. The scriptwriters followed and the show as you remember it was born.
I’ve recently been binging old 1970s TV, in part because it was nearly all shot on film and so you can actually get HD remasters of it (as opposed to 1980s and 1990s TV, which was shot on studio videotape and so will never be better than DVD quality). I am routinely flabbergasted by just how much better the writing is across the board compared to everything since. I know there’s selection bias there because only the really good stuff gets remastered, but still. Between The Rockford Files and Columbo I’m pretty much set.
Dark Shadows is surprisingly watchable but damn, 200+ episodes before the vampire even shows up. And the way the show dances around the obviously gay backstories for multiple characters is hilarious.