I am 60. I look around me, and a lot of older men my age, older and below have problems mentally. They seem to go a bit gaga. Maybe they are looking for answers. Lockdown seemed to throw a few people through a madness loop.
Famous examples. I mention this person not because they told me on Twitter my Cow cartoons weren't funny. which stung I must admit. The person was a comedy behemoth...But at least Boy George and Julian Clary seemed to liked them. They both followed me before I came off that particular platform.
I speak about the amazing comedy writer and director Graham Linehan. I don't know what caused his behavioural change . Perhaps a constant diet of Mrs Brown's Boys on a YouTube loop in his basement sent him over the edge.
Whatever it was, he decided instead of writing and directing some of the worlds greatest comedies it was his role in life to become an anti Trans Gender activist. In my experience that's not that funny and it doesn't reward you with any BAFTAs. I guess it doesn't involve any thinking. Just drain yourself of all joy and rant your pants off in a dark room, screaming into the digital void.
Not as bad as Vladimir Putin, I grant you, who got it into his head to invade Ukraine, but still I would say it was a wrong turn to say the least.
Mrs Brown's Boys has a lot to answer for.
It's a choice I guess. Not the best choice to take in my experience. A trap I could have easily slipped into myself. I started using words like WOKE as a derogatory term, until it was pointed out to me(My kids actually) what sort of other people were cheering me on to say it. I then realised that Anger leads to hate, fear and foaming at the mouth if someone male chooses to wear a dress and lipstick on Only Connect.
Keep the peasants busy pointing fingers while we pick their pockets clean and burn the whole world to a crisp for the mighty dollar. I see the play.
I can see why me and my peers in Kent are so susceptible. My community was very much a racist one. Very homophobic and sexist. The anger and fear was there. The dislocated community's from London didn't provide that harmony we all needed. My brothers who are 10 years older than me were brought up with this.
What set me apart was TV. My saviour. Sesame Street taught me my ABC and racial tolerance to other races and puppets. Star Trek taught me logic and again tolerance of different culture, albeit, pretend alien ones not only Tribbles.
Although watching it back now, the sexual politics of that show were very questionable. Chekov was a sex pest dry humping rocks on the nearest planet he beamed down to. That missed my growing brain, thank goodness. Or maybe it was part of that great tapestry of misogyny.
So am I racist? Well yes to a degree and homophobic and anti trans...all that. I think you have to own that shit.
Where I grew I have been conditioned to think like that. Being gay was some sort of sick illness., the person you didn't want to be. I don't think we really understood what it was. I knew Mr Humphreys on "Are you Being Served" was one. He seemed quite fun. At school it translated into the black spot. God things are so much better now.
Jokes about other races were common place and Trans just wasn't a thing. If it was I do believe people would have exploded. I recognise it's wrong to hold such views and I am working on climbing out that self destructive pit of despair. That's what it is. That sort of hatred and fear will rot you inside out.
Members of my family are in the pit. The conditioning stuck.
I have had to work on it. I think I'm doing a pretty good job, Having said that there is always room for improvement. To do this I have had to leave people behind. I'm much better for it and so are my family.
I hope Graham drops that rancid stone he is carrying. The poor man needs help. I hope he finds some peace in the joyful comedy he used to write. Then we would all benefit.
I forgive you Graham for not liking World of Cow. I hope that sentiment helps with your journey to wellness.
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