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Seriously MN this is fucking bullshit.

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DeathAnTaxes · 24/08/2016 23:14

Message from MNHQ: We're afraid we felt we had to delete this thread as we feel like it has strayed way outside of our Talk Guidelines. We do regard deliberate, malicious misgendering (as opposed to accidental slip ups) as transphobic. Thank you to everyone who took the time to post thoughtfully here. We understand folks will want to talk more about pronouns and trans issues in general on another thread perhaps - but we would ask that you do so in way that doesn't rehash or repeat this thread. Thanks.&Message from MNHQ: We're afraid we felt we had to delete this thread as we feel like it has strayed way outside of our Talk Guidelines. We do regard deliberate, malicious misgendering (as opposed to accidental slip ups) as transphobic. Thank you to everyone who took the time to post thoughtfully here. We understand folks will want to talk more about pronouns and trans issues in general on another thread perhaps - but we would ask that you do so in way that doesn't rehash or repeat this thread. Thanks.

ONE poster wanted to discuss pronouns and they won. A thread about women being shut down by transactivists was shut down by a ta.

Fucking brilliant.

AND FOR THE RECORD THE PERSON'S PRONOUNS ARE 'THEY'

A vile misogynist was "misgendered" be being called he, because we can not even discuss who is doing this.. It is he's. It is men.

they was not even a thing 5 years ago. If I today demanded my pronouns be "Vagina owner" would everyone have to respect that?

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BeyondLovesSweetDee · 25/08/2016 07:33

Someone set up a mn refuge thread on Reddit GC, I'm on my way (having resisted for bloody ages)

Brekekekex · 25/08/2016 07:32

Another post in support.

Waitingfordolly · 25/08/2016 07:30

I'm bi but there's now no way I would be involved with anything LGBT because I can't imagine it would be a safe space anymore. I wonder how many other lesbians / bi women feel the same. When I was a student men were always complaining about us having women only meetings as we were excluding them. It feels like a case now of if you can't beat them, join them....

fionatalbot · 25/08/2016 07:28

Adding my support too.

NatashaRomanov · 25/08/2016 07:26

Also posting in support.
I'm not normally very 'vocal' on MN, but this is important.

BurstBees · 25/08/2016 07:23

If MN delete this board we can start another. And another. Until they ban us all, morph into Netmums and wonder how they let themselves be dictated to by a heterosexual male born person (sigh) who considers women 'cuntscum'.

HexBramble · 25/08/2016 07:23

Also bewildered by the deletion MNHQ.

Why are we pandering to this?

FelicityLemon · 25/08/2016 07:21

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

BeyondLovesSweetDee · 25/08/2016 07:18

There are so, so many eloquent posts here, I can't begin to single out those that I agree with

To all of you Flowers

ouchmyfanjo · 25/08/2016 07:17

Another in complete support.

redshoeblueshoe · 25/08/2016 07:15

Adding my support OP. Totally agree with pp who suggested MNHQ should be discussing this with us.
They won't.

FrancisCrawford · 25/08/2016 07:13

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

NotYoda · 25/08/2016 07:12

DeathandTaxes

Love that video

Are you Fucking Joking Me? indeed

PolterGoose · 25/08/2016 07:10

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

PinkSquash · 25/08/2016 07:06

Just posting in support.

CreepingDogFart · 25/08/2016 06:59

Adding support this is political correctness gone bullshit and is also a blatant whitewashing.

EmpressKnowsWhereHerTowelIs · 25/08/2016 06:58

Posting in support here too.

You know better than this, HQ.

AndYourBirdCanSing · 25/08/2016 06:56

Adding my support.

Sick to death of this.

BeyondLovesSweetDee · 25/08/2016 06:55

I'm noticing how many names there are here who aren't just FWR regulars :)

averylongtimeago · 25/08/2016 06:46

Another voice in support op. So many have posted exactly how I feel, on this page Morecoffe and pagenotfound say exactly my own thoughts.
MN is the only place I can take part in any kind of debate about this issue, why should that debate be closed down because of the feelings of a few deeply unpleasant people?

user1471098628 · 25/08/2016 06:43

Posting in support.

Advicepls7080 · 25/08/2016 06:25

Right I might be wrong and I need to catch up fully but surely you cannot be a woman if you have a penis you can be transitioning I imagine but surely having a penis makes you a man and I don't think this particular person is taking any hormones to make them a woman either?

He seems to think that dressing as a woman gives him the right to belittle us but have his voice heard because he's male. No thank you

FFTransform · 25/08/2016 06:19

Agree with the op and good post basil

Maybebabybee · 25/08/2016 06:04

Just adding my support.

MoreCoffeeNow · 25/08/2016 05:49

Another in support of OP.

I heard Germaine speak in the late 1960s and was an instant convert to Women's Lib, as we knew it then. I am a feminist. Went on marches, petitioned for equal rights etc etc.

But I would never have called myself a radical feminist. Now I do because it is the rad fems who are most strident in refusing to allow transwomen dictate who we are, what we can say, how we say it and who we have sex with.

Suddenly it's all about the menz. Well they can fuck right off.

We have a right to our own safe spaces and their penises, male or female, don't belong there.

Trans rights cannot be allowed to trump our hard fought for rights, the equality battle is not yet won. But now a subset of men is trying to hijack our agenda and take away what we have. No, just no.

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