Men violently preventing women from congregating, communicating and networking, is what the Taliban do. Why is it happening in the UK?

Of course.

I've been to The Filia conference in Portsmouth, Cardiff and Glasgow. Every single time there were protests outside the venue. This has escalated though, causing actual physical damage to a building. I don't think it is an overreach to call them domestic terrorists, as their aim is to terrorise women who are simply meeting to talk about their rights, as women.

Since there is video footage and this group have claimed responsibility, I really hope they get the book thrown at them!

To be clear - Angry people break stuff when they're not being listened to. The people this particular bunch are angry about popped up in their back yard, so they went and broke their stuff. It's not that deep

I've just had a look at the speaker list. The first 3 I've clicked on was a survivor of human trafficking, someone campaigning against sex dolls and female robots that position women as sexual objects and someone who suffered extreme injuries when the Taliban tried to kill her for trying to educate girls.

It makes no sense to be angry at these women or to try to scare them, or prevent them from speaking.

While I do not agree with criminal damage as a method of protest in most circumstances, it would obviously have a severe chilling effect on freedom of if we started treating all protesters who broke the law as terrorists. Extinction Rebellion smashed a lot of windows (including while people were in the buildings) and spilled a lot of paint over buildings too. Banksy spray painted the Royal Courts of Justice a couple of weeks ago. Protesters attacked the police at the "raise the flag" Tommy Robinson protest recently. I mean there are lots of examples. They are illegal acts, done in the name of ideology, but they are not terrorist acts. Criminality + a view you disagree with does not = terrorism.

Angry men smash things. Yep I can see why women don’t want them involved.

And that bolded quote is justifying it.

@SingleSexSpacesInSchools the answer to the question posed in your title is "because...far left". Similarities with the Taliban are very clear.

Exactly. The purpose was absolutely intimidation. Which some people seem to be conveniently ignoring.

It's such a powerful behavioural display. I'm easily shaken. I've not been around much violence. I'd really enjoy a feminist conference but violent acts like these frighten me and keep me away. It is a powerful form of control.

You MUST be being deliberately obtuse at this point.

Sorry i dont agree with you on this. Terrorism is about causing fear and (hopefully) harm in the name of a cause. Protest is objecting to something that you disagree with. Protest does not have to be violent, particularly in a democracy. This action last night against the venue was deliberate, illegal and clearly designed to be intimidating. If not then why were masks necessary? It fits a domestic terrorism brief perfectly.

Well you can't possibly believe that, because no one really does. On account of no one really thinking men can be women.

If they had been blown up, they'd probably have asked for it.

YY.

So violence and threats against women should be ignored because it’s predictable? Normal? And you don’t see why you are part of the problem ?

Show me where I said GC women have smashed things here in the UK.

#OperationLetThrmSpeak.

Also they were angry that the town put out bunting g in suffragette colours! The FUCKING AUDACITY when Brighton does nothing for the lgbtqia+

I love the fact that you think I'm here to spin anything 😅

The only point I've made on this thread is that I think it's daft that's people are crying because a few smashed windows in perhaps the most predictable bit of vandalism of the year wasn't on the front page of every newspaper.

Some people are so pathetically tribal that anything less than nodding along must mean that they're 'the enemy'.

Have a guess if I think trans women are women or not.

Hopefully the wanton destruction is simply because they are RAGING that, finally, the world is slowly admitting that the emperor was always an emperor despite wearing jangly bracelets and a short skirt and, no, he's not welcome to help himself to our resources.

The police are captured, the media is captured.

But the one positive of social media is that we now get to see this kind of juvenile, destructive moob jiggling twattery, which damages their claims of being so weak, docile and crippled by 'cramps' that they can hardly function... as does the voting public.

Anyway, a happier takeaway - I absolutely love the phrase 'hooping about' and will absolutely be hooping this weekend.

Name one incident where GC women have smashed things here in the UK. One.

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Imagine threats received every single time a group of muslims want to have a meeting and protestors hissing at them with the police needed to keep the peace. Nothing in the news over years, only sympathy for the harassers of the muslims. Imagine then, pork thrown at the mosque in the middle of the night before yet another meeting.No one hurt. Not even a window broken. Justifiable protest against a group who again failed to listen to the harassers and had the gall to turn up in the protestors backyard. Kimura and friends turning up at Mumsnet to spin the events. What we call such people ?

Though it is a disgusting thing to do, YABVU to compare it to what all women are suffering under the Taliban.

I didn't say that, did I? I said people - including women - have historically smashed things when they're angry.

Not sure why such a basic fact is so controversial.

Interesting that trans activists don't attack courts who have said the exact same thing. Because there are men there?

It won’t be. The bbc have got form for enabling the trans ideology. Anything that is now posted will be slanted. Men literally can’t stand the idea that they have been excluded from access to women.