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There are an unreasonably large number of dog owners who assume that because they love their little pet everyone else must too. Other people's dogs are only slightly less annoying than other people's kids.

There was a thread on here about a runner for one who wasn't trans at all and was understandably upset by it.

Nobody's actually said that, though, have they 🙄

Kinnel.
Depends where you live.
Up North we'd all have had a laugh about it.
Woman included

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Males - entering female spaces.

Females - understandably on high alert.

Males and handmaidens - "you females are bad for policing female spaces and being paranoid! It's all your fault! How dare you be naturally on high alert for males!"

Gaslighting and DARVO writ large.

Agree to disagree :)

I haven't seen one actual verified example of this. Simply rumour and people saying they were. Where as we have hard core evidence of males in female spaces.

Again, I state even if this supposed 'policing' was happening, you don't think it's the fault of the males who CAUSED this, in the first place, by entering us spaces thus causing women to be on, naturally and understandably, high alert? You seem to be victim-blaming women for their very natural reaction. When if males weren't violating our spaces, women wouldn't need to be on such high alert.

It's not rocket science.

Explain in what way a male with penis and testicles who identifies as a woman is different from a male with penis and testicles who identifies as a man? Go on. Tell us. Without saying (the obvious) that the only difference is.... the male's say so.

No one is "policing womens appearances". Except males and transwomen, again, males

Apart from the fact that women who aren't trans are telling you that it happens to them as well.
I just did.
Also there was a thread on here with some poor runner who was being ripped apart for being trans when it turns out she wasn't at all 🥲
So it clearly does happen, policing women's appearances whether you like to pretend it doesn't or not.

A male with a cock and balls is NOT a woman. And never will be.

No one is "policing womens appearances". Except males and transwomen, again, males.

Being able tell a sex (gait, voice, philtrum width, jaw structure, limb length etc etc) is a hard-wired instinct in females since the dawn of human existence, for our survival. We can do it at a side-ways glance. It's a survival instinct.

I’m a rape survivor too. Trans women are women.

Even in a hoodie, most women can tell a male from a female
Not always true..Has happened to me and it feels shit

What is harmful is handmaidens attacking women for paying attention to our instincts

No, what is harmful is those policing women's appearances and what constitutes "looking like a real woman" whatever the fuck that means
Find those much more of a danger personally.

Why do misogynist bigots and handmaidens never want to debate the issues, instead they pick at delivery, typing or grammar?
Answer; they know they have absolutely no justification for their vile views.

It's called EMPHASIS. And what is embarrassing, is you calling a rape survivor a 'bigot' for needing a safe single sex space. You must be so proud of yourself for cheering on the removal of all womens sex-based rights and spaces.

Not wanting males in females safe single sex spaces is not 'bigotry'. That's not what that word means. 😂

That’s just sad.

It's a myth that 'cis' women have that experience. Even in a hoodie, most women can tell a male from a female.

And if it does, the fact that males are in our spaces, which therefore, understandably, LEADS to women fearful and paranoid, is now switched around as OUR fault, as so we are gaslit, too! Newsflash, fearing MALES (not 'trans') in female spaces is not 'silly' nor harmful. What is harmful is handmaidens attacking women for paying attention to our instincts and using the misogynistic slur 'hysteria'. Males entering our spaces, understandably causing women to be on high alert, is the fault of males for invading our spaces. Not the fault of females for having those understandable reactions, in the first place. Quit gaslighting women and doing DARVO.

One from DC.

DC (aged 2.5) had a minor protest in a shop. It was actually a minor one, no screaming or flailing or anything that would constitute extraordinary or even particularly comment-worthy behaviour for a two year old. They hadn't liked a sensory stimulus so exclaimed "oh no" until it went away.

A stranger walking past stopped and told them: "You know, little boys and girls don't like children like you who do that. They won't want to be your friends."

DC stopped, looked at them absolutely calmly, and, with a coldness I've never heard from them before, said: "Good."

I was on a walk early in the morning - which is along a trail and fairy busy mainly with elderly people exercising. It doesn't feel at all remote or scary. I see the same people most days. One day a man who was walking who I had seen before - suddenly just leaned over to me as I walked past and hissed loudly in my ear. I literally screamed and jumped a mile - as I looked back at him he was just walking on casually as if nothing had happened. I have seen him since and he has never done anything like it. I am starting to wonder if I imagined it - it was such a strange thing to happen.

It was Halloween at uni and being a student I had time to work on my costume. It’s the only time I’ve spent a while making a costume. I was a big Tomb Raider fan and wanted to look exactly like the character from the original game. I paid attention to the little details and had to paint the guns and belt to get them just right. Anyway, I popped into Tesco and there were loads of other students dressed up. A few people in the queue next to the one I was waiting in complimented my costume and I was feeling happy and thanked them. I hadn’t engaged or ask them they’d just done it. Then the woman who was serving my queue in such a nasty tone said something like “Yeah right, in no way do you look like Angelina Jolie.” And then laughed at me. I wish I’d said something back.

That's a lovely story. Brilliant.

I attend a church choir and there is a woman there who makes exactly those sorts of comments. To the point I am wondering if it may have been her! She thinks they are funny and she is being ever so amusing.

It;s neither of those things. Once she made one of those sorts of comments on our choir whatsapp group and another member exploded and told her to STOP MAKING STUPID COMMENTS!

Well- then it was ON. Cue two women having the written whatsapp version of a screaming match. It lasted for days and made attending choir a little tense.