Originally a comment by Artymorty on For rejecting an ideology.

So glad you highlighted this. It can’t be said often enough. Graham is a deeply compassionate, and passionate man. The Glinner we see in his exquisite writing — every single side-splitting joke in every single episode of The IT Crowd was penned by him alone, against all odds and deadlines and budget constraints, and all the other challenges that are faced by a sole showrunner who is also the sole director who is also the sole creator and who is also the sole writer of a hit comedy series that runs for years — is the same Glinner I have the privilege to know in person: he’s a deeply principled and loyal man with a very fast-paced brain, who’s been both pushed and drawn into the gender mess because of his intuitive sense that something’s amiss, that it runs counter to society’s higher ideals and objectives.

It’s been excruciating, seeing such a decent man put through the wringer. Every day of this mess I tell myself, we’re getting closer to “the end” of it, whatever that means. But to me “the end” will be the day I finally see movies that tell the stories of the victims. Women in prisons. Sandie Peggie. Magdalen Berns. Rosie Duffield. So, so many more. And Graham Linehan is a victim, too. I want to see his story, his terrible struggle, acknowledged on the big screen, along with the other victims of this godawful mess.

He’s a deeply human human being, despite his world-famous celebrity. I can’t bear to live in a world where that’s treated like a character flaw instead of a cherished asset.