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

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SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 10/10/2025 12:27

The FiLiA Women's Liberation Conference was targeted overnight, the attackers even live tweeted the violence.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25532194.live-brighton-centre-vandalised-feminist-conference-begins/

Local politicians are so far silent.

This is literally terrorism, using fear and violence to shut down legitimate peaceful discussions.

Video of the incident: https://x.com/TransBashBack/status/1976555969439223934

Live: Venue vandalised and protesters demonstrate at feminist conference

The Brighton Centre has been vandalised as a feminist conference begins there today.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25532194.live-brighton-centre-vandalised-feminist-conference-begins/

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Namelessnelly · 12/10/2025 16:29

dropoutin · 12/10/2025 16:14

This is literally terrorism

No it isn't (not that I'm condoning it, of course).

Terrorism is violence against non-combattant individuals, to spread fear for their personal safety. There's a difference between that and the destruction of or damage to property only.

So if the IRA blew up a car with no one in it, it wasn’t terrorism? Really? Do you know how daft that sounds?

SinnerBoy · 12/10/2025 16:26

It's not simply the vandalism, it's the threats and violence employed, to try and force women to acquiesce to their stated, illegal aims.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 16:23

Damage to property is literally covered under the Terrorism Act 2000, rightly or wrongly. So in the UK this could be considered a terrorist act.

dropoutin · 12/10/2025 16:14

This is literally terrorism

No it isn't (not that I'm condoning it, of course).

Terrorism is violence against non-combattant individuals, to spread fear for their personal safety. There's a difference between that and the destruction of or damage to property only.

SinnerBoy · 12/10/2025 16:03

Kimura · Today 08:57

They have less public support, less resources and they started on the back foot. They are absolutely the minority in this scenario.

They have loads of support from powerful people and institutions; the BBC, Guardian, Independent, most of showbiz, judges, the Police, MPs - including the local one, who went to bat for them by trying to have the event cancelled.

You have steadfastly minimised the actions of the trans extremist zealots, saying that it's just a bit of paint and broken glass. You say that you wouldn't have been intimidated, well bully for you. Most of the attendees were, as intended by the Traniban mob.

You don't seem bothered that the mob of men initially blocked the entrance and public footpath, as the cops stood and watched. They eventually made them stand aside, but the men shouted and screamed abuse and threats, including through megaphones.

Another nothing burger, as far as you see it.

You minimised Sophie Molly's online threats, saying it looked amateurish; it did, but a threat's a threat, nonetheless.

You initially said that you'd not heard of women being assaulted at LWS and similar events. Even though you know that women have been assaulted and manhandled, you are still trying to minimise it.

These men make threats and carry them out, in order to try to force women to allow them into female single sex spaces. The use of violence, threats and intimidation to force the compliance of a population, or part thereof, to obey most certainly does fall under the definition of terrorism.

It would be bad enough as a one off, but it happens constantly, at any and every women's event.

ArabellaSaurus · 12/10/2025 14:56

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 09:37

Mate, they will do something awful if they aren’t stopped. They have punched women in the face multiple times. They absolutely think they are justified. So did the man who shot Charlie Kirk.

Feminists have spent years warning people about the risks and dangers of self ID, genderism, etc. We've been proved right many times. Yet warnings about a group of men - yes, a small group of men, yes, many of them look a bit daft from the comfort of one's armchair, yes, they are idiots - are being ignored by police and ridiculed on here.

These are aggressive, misogynist men whose behaviour is openly escalating. The website is explicit that they have chosen to target people who they feel are deserving of their rage. They have already injured and attacked women; this isn't even going into the numbers of women intimidated and terrified by their screaming abuse, banging on windows, holding signs calling for decapitation or killing of women, pictures of nooses, signs that call for 'death before detransition' and 'arm the dolls', etc. Or those who just try to drown out women's voices with loud noises.

This is a dangerous situation, and it needs to be taken seriously. Alternatively, we can suggest that women should not meet in public or express views that men find upsetting.

LooseCanyon · 12/10/2025 13:05

Theeyeballsinthesky · 12/10/2025 12:43

Yes imagine being intimidated by a man screaming witch in your face

x.com/leokearse/status/1501885221888835587?s=46

To paraphrase a famous saying:

Men are afraid women will call them men
Women are afraid men will kill them

Theeyeballsinthesky · 12/10/2025 12:43

spannasaurus · 12/10/2025 11:55

Imagine admitting that you're intimidated by that lot. How embarrassing.

Yes, how silly of women to be intimidated by aggressive men screaming violent threats at them

Yes imagine being intimidated by a man screaming witch in your face

x.com/leokearse/status/1501885221888835587?s=46

spannasaurus · 12/10/2025 11:55

Imagine admitting that you're intimidated by that lot. How embarrassing.

Yes, how silly of women to be intimidated by aggressive men screaming violent threats at them

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 11:41

That’s fucking awful @ThatBlackCat

ThatBlackCat · 12/10/2025 11:36

Kimura · 12/10/2025 09:16

Imagine admitting that you're intimidated by that lot. How embarrassing.

There were men inches from women as they went in on the first day. Some where screaming in the womens faces. One said she made it inside and then had a panic attack. If you can't how males scream into womens faces will upset women, I am just stunned. Apparently a few of the men were screaming at the women that they were murderers.

Regardless of what side you personally are on, you are seriously minimising the affects of a group of males inches from women screaming at them. You really just don't seem to get it. You really don't.

SinnerBoy · 12/10/2025 11:22

Kimura · 10/10/2025 16:31

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

I'd say it's implicit in your comment;:

It's criminal damage and the police were on the scene immediately. Angry people break stuff when they feel like they're not being listened to. Especially when the people who aren't listening pop up in their back yard.

ThatBlackCat · 12/10/2025 11:21

Kimura · 12/10/2025 07:08

You know full well why they take issue with the organisers of this conference. There are links to their statements in this thread.

It's justification to them. That doesn't mean it's justification to you, me or anyone else, or that they're right, or that people should accept it or agree with them. I certainly don't.

I don't think that anyone here is naive enough to genuinely believe that a bunch of Trans activists want to stop women speaking at a conference 'just because' they're women.

I can only assume that some posters have a reason for on deliberately misrepresenting the situation.

I don't think that anyone here is naive enough to genuinely believe that a bunch of Trans activists want to stop women speaking at a conference 'just because' they're women.

You are very naive if you don't believe that. I am not saying all transactivists are, but it's common knowledge that a fair amount of men on the left truly are misogynistic but cannot be up front with it, so the frustration bubbles over. As someone else said in a quote (I don't know who) "Trans rights activism is so liberating for misogynists. They can't believe their luck, being able to openly show the contempt and hatred they feel for women, while still getting to pretend they're progressives."

You're fooling yourself if you don't think there are men on the left who are misogynists and are using trans as an 'outlet'. It's a boon for them.

Kucinghitam · 12/10/2025 11:01

FOJN · 12/10/2025 10:51

There are currently 634 votes but only 329 posts with several posters making multiple contributions to the thread which means the majority of people voting are not posting; they represent the silent majority.

And a particularly prolific number of posters (a number larger than 0 and smaller than 2 Wink) who are really really really desperate to educate everybody that there is nothing to see here, hardly anything happened, but whatever happened it's all justified anyway because twisty-turny-weaselly reasons, anybody who isn't all cool and relaxed about it is obsessed/foolish/silly/drunk/etc, can everybody look away and not keep bumping the thread... oh...

FOJN · 12/10/2025 10:51

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 10:22

Also, just an update on the poll. Out of 627 votes so far, 95% of people don’t think the OP is unreasonable. So only about 35 people disagree.

There are currently 634 votes but only 329 posts with several posters making multiple contributions to the thread which means the majority of people voting are not posting; they represent the silent majority.

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 12/10/2025 10:41

Kimura · 12/10/2025 09:30

Secondly, I really hoped a useful actor, such as @Kimura would turn up and do all the hard work for me, shining a light on how poor the arguments for supporting this sort of stuff is, the tired tropes about minorities, and not being supported and how that makes it OK for angry men to smash stuff up.

Except I've not made any arguments for supporting what they did, or said that its ok for angry people to smash stuff up.

I fundamentally disagree with their core belief. I'm just not interested in joining in with this overblown reaction to what happened the other day, and I'm not willing to pretend that I can't possibly understand why they did it.

It's funny, one of the things you hear a lot about the trans issue is people saying something along the lines of "I don't have to participate in their fantasy." I've certainly said similar.

It's ironic then that people here seem intent on participating in a fantasy where a militant terrorist group comparable to the Taliban or the SA have committed some unthinkable act of violence, for no other reason than some vague notion of not want women to speak.

Its almost like some of you want them to do something genuinely awful, just so you can point the finger and say you were right.

Thanks for proving my point yet again.

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EasternStandard · 12/10/2025 10:35

TheKeatingFive · 12/10/2025 10:21

It's because of the 'upset' isn't it?

I see it’s the upset men. Watch out for those they tend to smash things threaten and be violent.

No we don’t want them.

And the pp scoffs at anyone intimidated by that male aggression, I wonder how close they’d have to be to mind it in their own life but anyway, men smash women say no.

CohensDiamondTeeth · 12/10/2025 10:34

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 10:19

What @LooseCanyon said. And now I see I’m “obsessed”, unlike that pp of course who has been pushing this goady nonsense since the beginning of the thread.

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I feel like I should have got my bingo card out for this one!

TheaBrandt1 · 12/10/2025 10:33

Their cause is absolutely pathetic and ridiculous (we want to see women get changed?!) but their methods are violent and frightening.

If an angry man smashed your window because he was angry with you no sane person would question a woman (or man for that matter) being scared by that.

What’s ironic is they haven’t realised it’s them who are the bad guys and the witch finder generals of their generation.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 10:24

Petitchat · 12/10/2025 10:18

Therefore, simply put, they just want to be in womens spaces, mainly the toilets?

Poor the men and their having to use men’s toilets plight!

LooseCanyon · 12/10/2025 10:22

Kimura · 12/10/2025 10:20

Well you're entirely wrong, but crack on.

Some of you do seem like you were born yesterday, yes.

Disingenuous and patronising, wrapped up in one lovely package 😏

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 10:22

Also, just an update on the poll. Out of 627 votes so far, 95% of people don’t think the OP is unreasonable. So only about 35 people disagree.

EasternStandard · 12/10/2025 10:22

Kimura · 12/10/2025 10:19

Yes I have.

No you’ve justified male violence but you haven’t addressed why women push back without it.

The more violent the group you defend are the more reason for women to say no.

TheKeatingFive · 12/10/2025 10:21

Kimura · 12/10/2025 10:19

Yes I have.

It's because of the 'upset' isn't it?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 10:20

Sure 👍🏻

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