Thorn was much more polite than he needed tú be about this - Webb was dodging to avoid being held to account for a position he obviously holds He said in so many words he was a "gender-critical feminist" and tried to pretend this has nothing to do with Thorn or his daughter
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Is that Thorn's remit, to challenge his guests about their views on contentious issues? Passive aggressive more like. What did he want RW to say? He wanted him to say something, what was it? To repent? To explain himself? To discuss a very complex issue on what was meant 1/
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I don't think anyone who's attacked gender-affirming parents should expect to sit down and have a talk with a gender-affirming parent in any context and not be challenged
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Amazing how the GC demand is "Speak up! Children are being damaged! It's your responsibility to get involved!" on fucking Twitter Then when you're faced directly with one of the parents "damaging children" you suddenly clam up and get very quiet and it's a "complex issue"
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What, when it's very clear that RW has been intimidated into silence in the first place. How dare you, here you all are on the flimsiest of contexts smearing him & threatening his reputation & career & you have the nerve to complain that he no longer wants to talk about it.
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I'm sorry I don't see any legislation being passed anywhere against Robert Webb or his kids and yet somehow he's the victim in this scenario
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Thorn even made it extremely clear why this issue is so personal to him - because he feels he and his daughter owe so much to Gender Spectrum, a US charity with a similar "agenda" to Mermaids, and Webb joined a public movement to call this "agenda" abuse and get them shut down
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So what if it's personal to him? Why is that a reason to ambush him about it on a public broadcast? What did he hope would happen? You haven't told me that yet either? What did he want RW to say?
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He wanted an apology of some kind, the way most people would when they've been attacked and insulted
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So he ambushed him. He wanted RW to explain his position on a very sensitive issue, in a short amount of time, in an interview where he was there with someone else. And Thorn did this knowing, as has been proved by several responses here, that 1/
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He wanted an apology for a direct insult
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