• flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.uk
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      15 days ago

      It’s honestly funny that he’s destroyed his entire life over what was fairly mild criticism of an single IT Crowd episode. Well it would be, except the entire British media class and the bloody government comes out moaning about ‘freeze peach’ because he got talked to for incited violence against trans people.

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        15 days ago

        Just pirate it. I usually don’t mind separating art from the artist so long as they’re not profiting from my attention

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      15 days ago

      Wow, this is the first I’m learning about this controversy around one of my favourite episodes. I didn’t even know that it was pulled from syndication.

      From my brief reading, it looks like the episode was accused of being transphobic because of the fight at the end? That strikes me as strange, seeing as how she starts the fight, not him.

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      She’s a nameless extra for this one scene. The show is The IT Crowd, a British comedy show about members of an IT office in the basement of a large corporation.

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        Ok, thanks. I’ve seen the first season of the show but don’t remember the scene. I thought her pictures were from another series

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          It was a singular scene where Moss was fixing someone’s computer and actually hitting it off with her. But he’s so dense, he didn’t realize she was flirting with him.