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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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Probably Paul

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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Sarah Brown

@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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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)

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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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nev

Hi, he did not actually say this; it was posted by a parody account.

See e. g. this article: insidethemagic.net/2023/07/dav…
twitter.com/PoliticoForYou/sta…
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David Tennant Unbothered By Critiques of Pro-Trans Statement - Inside the Magic

David Tennant wore a shirt that said "LEAVE TRANS KIDS ALONE YOU ABSOLUTE FREAKS" in his Good Omens interviews, and it sparked some comments.
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Daniel Howard 🌻

This article attributes that dynamite quote to a parody account. I agree they would be some great t-shirt fodder.

insidethemagic.net/2023/07/dav…

David Tennant Unbothered By Critiques of Pro-Trans Statement - Inside the Magic

David Tennant wore a shirt that said "LEAVE TRANS KIDS ALONE YOU ABSOLUTE FREAKS" in his Good Omens interviews, and it sparked some comments.
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Vittelius

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@EinPhysiker @joepie91 @maloki @birdy
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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Sarah Brown

@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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amazing, ok, here's what i'm thinking. by no means final, but this is the general idea

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Craig Mcgee

@alastair87 its absolute... insidious genius. it promotes misinfo and it promotes scammers and it promotes bad actors smeering reputable people and it promotes bad actors who can gain legitimacy by pretending to be reputable brands and the list goes on. its exactly what musk wants, I believe. its how fascists operate.
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Alastair Cooper

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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