Linehan and JK Rowling are both interesting cases to me, in that they both created beloved pieces of media (in Linehan's case, Father Ted and The IT Crowd) and they both could have quite easily just sat back and had a chill life, working on whatever they like knowing their legacy was secure, and they both decided to just completely fuck the whole thing up by being hateful to trans people for no particular reason. Rowling probably less so because she still gets that Harry Potter money no matter what, but Linehan pretty much got himself blacklisted from every sensible area of the industry, destroyed his marriage and now just seems to be endlessly bitter about everything.