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.
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Love this quote even more, now.
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No doubt non-canonical, but there are references to dalek opera and poetry (Exterminate Daffodils!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek#Dalek_culture
fictional alien race featured in the Doctor Who universe
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in reply to Pelayo • • •Also also, the Daleks were very specifically created by scriptwriter Terry Nation as "Nazis in space", so to anyone who knows the show's history (which Tennant definitely does), comparing a group of people to the Daleks comes with an implied "and we know who they were based on"...
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in reply to Mx Amber Alex • • •Plus, him having played The Doctor having beat the Daleks every time he's just framed himself as being that level of opposition to TERFs.
Put him in a room with Rowling and let's see some sparks! lol
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in reply to Uraael • • •It is worth noting, though, that immediately following this statement the said Dalek hovers in the air, thus bypassing the stairs.
Wonder if TERFs can do that to
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in reply to Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky • • •The accuracy of the stairs thing isnt the point. It's a british joke of near folklore proportions. Media outlets post 2005 were all excitedly telling us about the hovering when in actual fact they did it in 1986 - the myth and folkore and jokes persisted despite the factual evidence.
What's more important here is that former Doctor has just likened TERFs to the comically evil Daleks. He's deftly used the power of Doctor Who lore -not forgetting his own IMMENSE popularity- against the whole anti-trans movement. That's HUGE. And just in time for the Doctors very first companion played by a Trans actress too.
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in reply to Uraael • • •As someone who doesn't know anything about either of these, thanks!
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in reply to Uraael • • •Yup, you're completely right, I was just making an (apparently bad) joke in how dangerous TERFs are
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EXCLUDE!
EXCLUUUDE!!
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in reply to Uraael • • •Probably Paul
in reply to Mx Amber Alex • • •It was a British popular culture thing that daleks from Dr. Who weren't that scary, really, because you could just climb some stairs and then they'd be stuck.
Tennant played Dr. Who, so he's likening TERFs to daleks, because TERFs are also fascist-adjacent assholes who want to exterminate people. It's also funny because most of the leading transphobes are of the boomer generation, and quite possibly are starting to struggle with stairs.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •sadly it seems the account that came from was a satire account https://twitter.com/PoliticoForYou/status/1678695501313503232
but it is 100% something i am going to keep in my back pocket to use against TERFs and other fascist
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in reply to miawgogo :KirbyVerified: • •@miawgogo :class800: ah, the perils of relaying Twitter gossip in an age when it’s practically impossible to access!
Still, he seems like a good egg on the issue and I still want the T shirt.
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A classy act, without doubt.
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in reply to Zekovski • •@Zekovski ☀️ 👕 🥗 this went viral. I’m on a micro instance run from a Mac mini in my living room. At one point, this post was making the server run about 12 hours behind.
Editing the post causes a whole new rush of activitypub to happen as it has to go and inform everyone who has interacted with it, just making the problem worse.
I eventually did edit it when the load dropped a bit, but that still took 7 hours to propagate through.
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Seems like a lot to me. I wonder how ActivityPub makes it so much work.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •David Tennent and Georgia have a nb / trans kid. They are always publicly supportive of trans or nb people.
Today he wore a tshirt and badge to a Good Omens media call. Previously he had other badges to wear
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tl;dr: He didn't say it. A parody account did.
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@maloki @birdy Yep, there is a scene in one of the Doctor Who episodes where the Doctor and his companion are followed to a staircase,by a Dalek, and the Doctor goes "don't worry, Daleks can't climb stairs" to reassure his companion that they can escape
... only to then discover that the Daleks have, apparently, learned to climb stairs since their last encounter
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •yeah me too. Accept the actual quote was better than anything else that I've seen.
I'm not worried, TERFS Can't climb stairs. Besides, I kept one of my sonic screwdrivers
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Hi, he did not actually say this; it was posted by a parody account.
See e. g. this article: https://insidethemagic.net/2023/07/david-tennant-leave-trans-kids-alone-you-absolute-freaks-mw1/
https://twitter.com/PoliticoForYou/status/1678695501313503232
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in reply to Sven Slootweg • • •They are also often referred to jokingly as "Fascist Dustbins" as their design was deliberately meant to mimic the Nazis in the post war Era of DW
Which makes the "X Cant Climb Stairs" quip a brilliant way to call someone a fascist without them realising
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •comparing TERFs to a horde of maniacal tyrants trying to exterminate everything they see as not enough like them.
yes. that tracks.
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Minor detail: not the Doctor himself, but Rose and two other guys in this crazy billionaire's bunker.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •This article attributes that dynamite quote to a parody account. I agree they would be some great t-shirt fodder.
https://insidethemagic.net/2023/07/david-tennant-leave-trans-kids-alone-you-absolute-freaks-mw1/
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That's in the revival. The classic series had a similar scene involving the doctor. Back then the reveal, that darleks are in fact able to float up stairs was so shocking, they made it a cliff hanger. That's where this particular quote comes from. The quote with Rose goes: "it's stuck, it hasn't got legs"
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The person spreading this info is a satire twitter account. (https://twitter.com/PoliticoForYou/status/1678695501313503232)
But the response would be amazing!
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I believe that one of the reasons he is so outspoken on LGBTQ+ issues (aside from working with Russell T. Davies for years 😊 ) is because one of his kids may have recently "come out" either as gay or trans! 🏳️🌈
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Terfs can't climb stairs
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Not the cheapest but has a nice quality.
Anyway I did order one of this for me so I must thank you for the idea ;)
And the T-shirt will still here if you change your mind ;)
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I really have to make some effort to complete the classic series. Unfortunately, is not that simple 🙁
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •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 😅
https://twitter.com/PoliticoForYou/status/1678695501313503232
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in reply to Lakshmi • •@Lakshmi 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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So perhaps not the power move we'd like it to be, but still damn funny
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •@Hypolite Petovan Ok, done a couple of things to improve my life. Consulted htop, noted the machine isn't actually stressed and doubled the number of worker threads.
And I server blocked the other guy because he seemed like a bit of a knob.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •BEHOLD! @jujibla just made a T-Shirt
oh, red-bubble doesn't shows a preview...
LINK: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/148505191
#redbubble #tshirt
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Being as I have a spreadshirt account and all, I had a go at making this happen: https://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/shop/design/terfs+cant+climb+stairs+womens+t-shirt-D64af30206ae4d92b2d51e7e0?sellable=92pdVM5o9pcRbayj5JnL-631-8
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dalek icon source: https://thenounproject.com/icon/dalek-1356626/
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At least, if you're an intelligent person, with even one shred of empathy/concern for our planet, you can easily see the stupidity.
If, OTOH, you share his lust for money and attention, I'm sure he "looks like" a great role model.
Fortunately, I have no interest in becoming a capitalist wanker, so my eyes are open.
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in reply to Ian Molton • • •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.
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He's boring. Next.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Am having trouble so far finding an explanation/breakdown of what "terfs can't climb stairs" means exactly.
Am not posting this looking for enlightenment specifically. Though it would be nice & appreciated, of course.
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