Linehan was probably trying to take a shot at Caldwell-Kelly for using the term to describe her own body, but instead, he essentially suggested all women cannot orgasm at all. As it turned out, 12 years of marriage to a scriptwriter of such exigent standards as her husband had been a pretty good apprenticeship. she tells him.

https://twitter.com/angrysigh/status/1089987420999815180, @Glinner I feel so sorry for your wife then…, — Glitchy Dragon (@True_Degenerate) January 28, 2019, — yung nagus (@joestanton) January 28, 2019.

“The actual ‘women can’t nut’ post came right in the middle of all that, and I was kind of just making fun of him and watching him get more and more mad,” Caldwell-Kelly told the Daily Dot over Twitter DM.

I felt like I came in by fluke. The IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan has soured his reputation over the past year thanks to his rampant transphobia.

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"If I had been in my twenties," says Helen, "and somebody had tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'This is just a little clip of your life - what it's going to be like when you've got kids.'

“Princess Mom”, Gabrielle Darone, is a trans-identified male with a pregnancy / birth / breastfeeding fetish. "I think moments of dipping my toe into fundraising and stuff like that.

At first I was a bit nervous." "You stalked me for two years!" Darone, who has actually fathered two children, intends to play-act a faux birth, replicating contractions and the pain of labour with an electrical muscle stimulator. "I felt very out of my depth in the room with Graham and Sharon and Holly," says Helen. " "We're very clear on what our skills are. Any way a given trans woman orgasms is perfectly womanly in its own right. He joined a Facebook group intended to support breastfeeding mothers. "Because I'm Irish," says Graham, "it's clearer to me how much has changed that we're even able to see it [abortion] as a possibility. Helen had the procedure as advised, recovered and the couple went on to have two children. Another woman suggested he try approaching a local mums’ group for help. But instead of telling this fetid creep to fuck off, the women in the group are actually indulging his warped fantasies.

Her own mother flatly refuses to help look after the kids, and her husband, hilariously, is yet to be spotted at home. Darone still lives with his “future ex-wife” and their children. They soon became aware they'd struck on a rich seam for comedy. Such is the chokehold gender ideology has on society; we’re enabling and applauding someone who should be on some sort of register. The pair were married in 2004 and soon after found to their delight that Helen was pregnant.

"Our neighbours moved to Norwich, and our daughters were best friends. Helen is great at zeroing in on them. "They go into the office, shooting the shit with friends, occasionally making a phone call. Especially a parent who has had quite a high-powered job. Some parents can be a bit mad. But it's all changed since Helen and Graham began working together - collaborating on the TV show Motherland. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and spends her free time developing queer adult games. Graham and Helen Linehan are scoping out the restaurant of The Savoy Hotel in London, on the hunt for a late breakfast. When their eldest daughter was ten months old, they left London and moved to Dublin and were horrified to discover that under Irish law, Helen would have been obliged to continue with the pregnancy to full-term or face prosecution. I'm good at structure and making sure everything is in the right order, and Helen is great at finding those things that can happen. "Helen is brilliant at spotting what makes a good story in something that happens to her in real life," Graham says. The concept grew out of Helen's experience of parenthood. He only appears on-screen on the other end of a phone as she tries with increasing desperation to coax him back from work away-days, stag nights, and the pub. ", It was reading John Irving's book The Cider House Rules that changed his mind. Graham Linehan with wife Helen, who collaborated on the Motherland series.

Since there seemed to be ideas in common they suggested they collaborate. As someone who has had a stillbirth, this is disgusting. ", The issue "was one of the reasons we left Ireland", says Helen. In the thread, Linehan repeatedly attacked Caldwell-Kelly, claiming she “appropriated womanhood,” posting her pre-transition photo from her 10-year challenge, suggesting she was appropriating her Muslim religion and claimed her gender identity was merely a “racist fetish.”, After Linehan screengrabbed a tweet from Caldwell-Kelly’s timeline in which she said she would “nut so hard I would shoot a hole through the international space station,” one user asked Linehan, “Do women ‘nut? Plain BS. ... Twitter users gave their condolences to Linehan’s wife.

And in 2015, they went public with their story to highlight why they believe so strongly that the constitution must be changed. "I'm always home!" At their first trimester scan, they discovered that the foetus had acrania - a fatal abnormality which meant it would not survive outside the womb. When I was a kid, above everything else, the abortion issue was bone-deep in people, it was bone-deep in me. Oh, if only some kind woman would offer him the “invaluable gift” of allowing him to ‘feed’ her baby, it would be his '“dream scenario”. She also points out that Linehan’s behavior doesn’t just hurt her, it also targets trans people of faith. “A lot of the supportive messages I’ve gotten have been from people who have become or stayed religious, not just Muslim, after transition who he’s really hurting here,” Caldwell-Kelly told the Daily Dot. — JuniperTheSloth (@JuniperTheSloth) January 28, 2019, https://twitter.com/notheryet/status/1089967266345689088. Motherland is one of those shows that captures so much the contemporary mood - tapping an as-yet unexpressed wellspring of truth - that as soon as you see it, you wonder in amazement why no one has tackled it before. Almost immediately, she started mining the experience for comic material.

The show is set around a state school, and one of the three main characters is the caustic-tongued single-mother Liz, played by Diane Morgan. Sections, Graham Linehan with wife Helen, who collaborated on the Motherland series. Whereas their wives are at home, their arms full of washing." This crystallised into an idea for a TV show when her children started school.

I was just desperate to sit down and talk to someone about something other than babies... You can't synch with your friends when you have a baby, so it's pot luck who you end up with. What is more Appalling is the way society feed this monstrosity under the lieu of equal rights for trans. That makes no sense because trans women are women, regardless of their genitalia, hormones, or how they have sex.

No woman wants to experience that! “Applying that old idea of inauthenticity to trans people really hurts all the more so when it’s about something like that.”, ahahahahahahahahaha pic.twitter.com/eMY4UJWukt, — the crying of thot 69 (@AliceAvizandum) January 28, 2019, https://twitter.com/TasteThisSass/status/1089970045869006848, — dolphin pilot (@TheAmitie) January 28, 2019, https://twitter.com/FalafelFlof/status/1090174542314643456, — dirtseagirl (@dirtgee) January 28, 2019. "Like everything else that we do.". It's a brilliant thing of a man who is forced by injustice to act against his morality. (The cast of Motherland; Philippa Dunne, Diana Morgan, Anna Maxwell Martin, Paul Ready and Lucy Punch). ". Both tall, they make a striking couple. Now, Linehan is going viral again, this time for claiming women don’t “nut.”, Linehan’s hot take came up after he attacked Muslim transgender woman writer Alice Caldwell-Kelly, who is also the creator behind the viral Twitter bot @sextsbot. These women, who think they are protecting and supporting trans people, are merely bit-players in the grubby fantasy of a deeply disturbed fetishist. "Mumming it," as she puts it. Graham was already into his stride as a comedy writer when he and Helen met. But in the end it's something he feels he has to do, because it's illegal. "All I wanted to do was talk about The Sopranos or music. As a comedy writer he is co-responsible for the sitcoms Father Ted (1995-98), Black Books (2000-2004), and The IT Crowd (2006-2013), as well as writing sketches and routines for other shows. He was introduced to Helen by her brother, the actor Peter Serafinowicz, who appeared in an episode of Black Books, starring Dylan Moran.

They spent a long time trying to tear the alarm off the wall. ", Is Graham anything like the shirker father as depicted the show? (CC-BY-SA). Funnily enough, his wife is being “uncooperative” over his plans to simulate a birth in her house. Thursday, 5 November 2020 | 10.2°C Dublin, Menu

TV writer Graham Linehan has claimed that opposition to his inclusion on an RTE programme about transgender issues has seen him abused, and his family targeted.