Corpus 2

@MinorDisaster 'I think a sustainably farmed, cruelty-free, purple, green and white ostrich feather fan might be just the thing to get me through election night.'

This you?

That is such a good idea. I'd forgotten about scale. I was too busy making plans to make election night more bearable.

I think that settles the question. And they're big fans of Dylon (aren't we all).

Gerbils are only little. They could be eyelashes salvaged from the bins at the back of RuPaul's Drag Shows.

Dye presumably from foraged blackberries and nettles. Feathers from... um... indigenous white ostriches?

Or was it Dylon and Hobbycraft?

I think a sustainably farmed, cruelty-free, purple, green and white ostrich feather fan might be just the thing to get me through election night.

Oh absolutely! Multi-talented gerbils are the best thing ever.

Yep, I was right about the fan dancing class, the little minxes!

@ifIwerenotanandroid Such talent!

Some more snaps from the team's album; though I think top right is actually them at their fan-dancing class.

I've asked them for you, & they say they home-dyed some of these

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vileda-Turbo-Classic-Microfibre-Refill/dp/B07BJQGV21/ref=asc_df_B07BJQGV21/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697306065299&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=255777801919642011&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045705&hvtargid=pla-432514702050&mcid=70e7ce5a11e537b98dc06f709e7f0891&th=1&gad_source=1

I think you'll agree they did an excellent job.

Have those gerbils joined Great British Sewing Bee? Those fab costumes look as if they might have been created in the Transformation Challenge but I'm not quite sure from what. Sponge cleaning cloths?

@@Onetransphobicmother

From what we've seen so far I think tunnocks and cheese will be revealed to have transphobic undertones.

I’m looking forward to finding out what ordinary, everyday phrases are transphobic,

I nominate women, and girls. The biological kind.

I’m looking forward to finding out what ordinary, everyday phrases are transphobic, or ‘right wing dog whistles’ in Eden Palmer land!

Should we make list to check off against Eden’s talk/future writing?

I nominate ‘Safeguarding’

Are Aston doing a Tennant with this? He’s not coming across well in the mainstream media today as well as social media. Too early to say if his reputation is damaged but it will stay with him forever as a story. The story in The Times states how Badenoch is doing more for gay kids than Tennant is. I don’t particularly like the article, but I understand the conflict needs to be discussed. And it can’t be a hate crime to discuss this surely?

By his own admission, Tennant did not follow social media and surrounded himself with one ‘side’ (easy to do when people, like The Guardian journalists, are hounded out of their jobs for discussing it).

But reality gets in the way and people had to discuss it. Because it was safety and privacy and livelihoods that were and are in the balance. Particularly for the most vulnerable, and then the most important people in the world to mums - their children.

And mumsnet is a refuge for women discussing this because it was too hot a topic for papers who once championed women and gay rights.

I hope there are some people at Aston that are getting this. The ideology is finally being discussed thanks to many (mainly) brave women speaking about reality. There is a danger of this PhD looking outdated.

This work isn’t just an undergraduate honours project. It’s a PhD and carries weight. It’s Aston-approved by their ethics boards.

Love the kitty!

Onetransphobicmother · Today 06:50

Good morning to all the lovely linguists out there. When you've got a moment perhaps you could analyse this?

Very good, have a gold ⭐!

Brilliant

Good morning to all the lovely linguists out there. When you've got a moment perhaps you could analyse this?

Oh Nicci you're so blind
You're so blind it blows my mind
Hey Nicci
Hey Nicci

You've come here for a fight
But here's a terfy song
You think you are right
I know you're very wrong

Hey Nicci, hey Nicci

Oh Nicci it's not pretty
We know you understand
Female only spaces
Are not anti trans

Hey Nicci hey Nicci

Oh Nicci you make me sick
With your mad demand
Sterilising confused kids
Like the gender Taliban

Oh Nicci hey Nicci

Girls like you Nicci
That's what you do Nicci
You wreck lives Nicci
Don't be an arse Nicci

Oh Nicci hey Nicci

Oh Nicci it's so icky
I know you understand
If there's a cock inside the frock
The wearer is a man

Hey Nicci Hey Nicci!

I do agree that I’d like to know what she said and I was being a bit facetious in saying we’re being judged and tried as transphobes in a very much kafkaesque manner. There’s just no way they’d share Eden’s ‘evidence’ or Eden’s conclusions when deep down they are not confident of either. If they were, they’d offer to openly share those materials.

Thanks to @DrBlackbird for the new name. Hi Nicci and Eden, hope you're enjoying reading all the hateful terfs. What a way to spend your youth! Why don't you turn off the computer and go have some fun.

Digging up a corpus will do that to you.

I'm curious about how far she's reaching. Besides if someone's badmouthing me I don't think I'm unusual in wanting to know what's being said, to know what the 'evidence' is. Is it just the corpus that is being scraped? At the moment I feel I'm on trial and I've had no sight of the evidence and not much information on the charges.

What else do we need to know other than Eden has loads of words (years and years of them) proving we’re all major transphobes?