The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Apart from stuff on social media, an ex-partner telling me I’m unlovable.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 July 2025 source ↗
“You’re getting old.” My son Harris was factually correct, but I didn’t need to hear it.
The usual racist shit.
Loved you in Dallas.
There will always be so many who might say, “Ah, he’s a politician masquerading as an archbishop.” Politics is so all-pervasive, and in my theology, obviously, all of life belongs to God, and you don’t have compartments, this is your economic life, this is your political life, this is your religious life. Religion encompasses all of those. But yes, I wouldn’t myself have said I was setting out to be a political animal.
Victoria Rose, a British surgeon operating on children in Gaza.
Cancel culture: getting stuck on the discourse rather than looking at the system.
The Great Gatsby.
Passionate, loving, driven.
Before transitioning, I had a severe eating disorder. The doctor said, “Your body’s shutting down and if you don’t improve your mental and physical wellbeing, you’ll die.” Shortly after that, I started transitioning medically and my eating disorder resolved.
Gender-affirming surgery. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not widely available on the NHS and a lot of it you have to pay for yourself.
Frank Bowling, Michelle Collins, Justin Hawkins, Monica Dolan, Chaka Khan, Stockard Channing
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