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[tencrush]

Russell's tasteful acceptance speech at SFX.

ETA the speech for those of you who don't like clicking links:

"Hello SFX, it's Russell T Davies here, I'll just dictate this on to your answerphone. Thanks very much to everyone who voted, and I'd also like to thank... Oh, hold on. Sorry. No, I'm busy, I'm on the phone to SFX. It's a magazine. No wonder you haven't heard of it, it's a specialist magazine. For special people. Yes, with special needs. They've given Torchwood a prize for Best TV Episode. No, stop laughing, they have. No, they really have. Honestly, stop laughing. I'm not kidding, seriously, stop laughing, now. No, it's not the Comedy Awards. Which episode? Day 5. No, not Day 4. No, definitely not Day 4. I didn't write Day 4. I don't f**king care what you think, Day 4 didn't win, okay? And no, he's not coming back to life, so forget it! You're no longer playing Ianto, you're my houseboy, so accept it, okay? Anyway. Yeah, thanks SFX, and thanks to the magnificent cast and crew, and to BBC One for their support. I'm really delighted and honoured that people made the effort to vote for this, so thank you hugely. Hold on. You missed a bit, Gareth, over there, that's it, bend over. Bye. Click. Brrrr."

Hey, I don't really care what anyone else thinks, I think Rusty's a huge skeeve. Seriously, yeah, of course I lolled (briefly), but no, man, if Gareth was a chick and Rusty was Moffat you'd be all over this fucking shit. It's skanky sexual innuendo by a big-time producer about a young actor. It's not witty, and it's not clever. I don't think GDL's crying quietly in a corner about it, he's a big boy, but still. Point still stands.

My main beef with this is: why does he keep feeling the need to poke this fannish shit? Let it lie already, Russell.

Comments

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

'Yes, with special needs.'
Stay classy, Russell.

'Hey, I don't really care what anyone else thinks, I think Rusty's a huge skeeve.'
I'm with you. Apparently he was joking (at least according to the people who seem to think Russell can do no wrong) but I have to wonder if they would be so quick to pass it off as a joke if a straight producer said that kind of stuff about a young female actress.

'My main beef with this is: why does he keep feeling the need to poke this fannish shit? Let it lie already, Russell.'
I can you why, he wants the attention. He like a real life internet troll.

[x-starfuckers.livejournal.com]

but I have to wonder if they would be so quick to pass it off as a joke if a straight producer said that kind of stuff about a young female actress.

Word. That man is vile.

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

I've heard people (who seem to think he can do no wrong) explain it away by saying that he was joking but I don't really see how basically calling an actor you let go 'a nice piece of ass' is supposed to be funny.

[x-starfuckers.livejournal.com]

The comments about Gareth actually make me slightly nauseous. It was bad enough them treating Ianto as a 'nice piece of ass' in the show, let alone the actor.

Uh.. saying that, it appears I have an icon of GDL's bum. Oops.

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

'The comments about Gareth actually make me slightly nauseous. It was bad enough them treating Ianto as a 'nice piece of ass' in the show, let alone the actor.'
It is sickening.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

It's beyond skeevy: it's actionable.

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

So true.

[caledonius72.livejournal.com]

sexual harassment is sexual harassment regardless of gender or sexuality and is totally skeevy. I would be on a disciplinary if I said something like that in my workplace, so why/how can he get away with it?

[fide-et-spe.livejournal.com]

See my mind went to the same place as yours, must be working for the civil service! Saying it once would cause a disciplinary. If the person you said it about chose you could be done for bullying and harasment and undergo an investigation. Saying it more than once and in print as RTD has, well you would probably end up losing your job.