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

Well, there's those men who attacked the women for attending university and the men who attacked the women meeting and marching for women's suffrage.

I think there's a common thread. If I could just put my finger on it.

Siri, show me a load of gobbledygook!

Its the special men doing their special men thing again.
Predictable, violent, and yet again proving their claims that they're all perfectly sane and safe to be around women and girls.

@Kimura 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.

Violent people often get violent when they are angry, yes. Which is why society has such things as police, courts and prisons.

Very poor article. No comments from local MPs.

Absolutely disgusting.

These violent men need the full force of the law throwing at them. 🤬

Hmmm

Sounds more trans activists than right wing. 🤷‍♀️

You said they were the 'people not listening', so you absolutely did.

Which protesters throughout history have attacked a rights organisation's meeting venue simply for meeting, please?

Again, nobody in this thread has suggested that Filia should listen to them.

Nothing is 'hard and fast' 100% of the time.

And women have smashed plenty up throughout history. You've never seen a woman in a riot? Who was smashing whisky bottles with hatchets during the temperance movement?

I haven't made a single excuse for anyone on this thread. I can't help it if people don't know their history.

mysterious really, isn’t it.

where rape and violence against women in their own homes is considered perfectly acceptable

You're right that it's not as widespread and extreme as the Taliban but the principle is the same. And unfortunately I don't believe that this country finds rape and violence against women unacceptable when the consequences of committing rape are frequently small to none for the perpetrator.

Also why SHOULD Filia listen to these people? Filia is a women's rights organisation.

No, spray-painting and smashing windows isn't terrorism. No more than vandalising aeroplanes is. It is criminal damage, absolutely fair enough to prosecute as such, but it is not terrorism. I don't agree with the current government approach of characterising protest as terrorism.

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Angry people break stuff when they're not being listened to.

This is absolutely NOT a hard and fast rule, otherwise women would be smashing stuff up all over the place. Your central premise does not hold up. That's why it sounds like you're making excuses for them.

Proper action was taken by the police, immediately.

People are aghast that some smashed windows in Brighton weren't breaking news on the BBC.

Words are violence but actual violence is criminal damage. The women at Filia was to talk, to be listened to but this is not acceptable to the traliban. However, the women manage to not be violent commit criminal damage. I can't think of a single event for transpeople that has suffered an iota of the obstruction, violence and intimidation that is par for the course when women try to speak.

Some posters are desperate to stop people talking about this, aren't they?

Not engaging with you further, I’ve made my point quite adequately.

So we agree, I didn't say that you - or anyone for that matter - were supposed to be listening to anything.

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.

Everything else - that you are supposed to be listening to them, that they're 'justified' in their criminal damage - these are things you appear to have up. Nobody in this thread has suggested them, except you.

It's been lovely having a break for a while.
Wondered where they'd gone?

Thank you @SingleSexSpacesInSchools, you got in there first with a reply very close to my own thoughts!

This is behaviour that was no doubt meant to intimidate and silence women, but because nobody was around at the time we can’t describe it as terrifying, apparently. Got it.