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Cambridge GenCrit Meeting - this is what happens when women try to speak

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LangCleg · 29/11/2017 09:34

Judith Green outlines the difficulties in putting on this meeting in the face of extreme transactivism. Some of the details are really quite disgraceful, from fake ticket purchases to ringing the venue.

www.socfem.net/2017/11/a-womans-place-is-on-the-platform

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Blanchefleur · 29/11/2017 12:27

I would dearly love to know exactly what it is they say to the venue, once they find out who it is, to put pressure on them to cancel.

I imagine it must seem like a piss-take at first:

"Hello, you are hosting a meeting about the silencing of women's voices? Well, we think they shouldn't be allowed to talk." Ermmmm...

Mxyzptlk · 29/11/2017 12:03

I hope it is only a small minority of the population which has these views but they are very cunning at pushing their agenda without making it obvious to everyone (the average person) what they are doing.

MrGHardy · 29/11/2017 11:55

And just this morning I read a tweet accusing "anti-trans" to be a campaign trying to silence trans activists. When in reality it's the other way round.

But then again, has anyone noticed how this is a trend in politics/discourse? Trump is the star example of it - accuse your opponents of the things you do (before they can accuse you of it).

norahnamechange · 29/11/2017 11:46

Even though I know it happens, I'm still shocked at this! Publicise and share!!!

Elendon · 29/11/2017 10:54

There is a thread regarding this link

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/11/27/oxford-college-votes-calls-gender-neutral-toilets-amid-fears/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_tmg

Here's the thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3098710-Good-news-for-a-change-Oxford-college-rejects-gender-neutral-facilities

Several students said they were concerned about the vote being made public, amid fears that those who voted against it would be seen as “transphobic” and their peers would “judge them”.

So I do fear that students at colleges and universities do fear being called out for transphobia which seems to be tagged alongside racism and holocaust denial now. (but not sexism, strangely).

pisacake · 29/11/2017 10:48

All universities have been taken over by dribbling babies. I'm not sure if there are any exceptions.

Even science institutions, like Imperial, have Safe Space policies.

It's utter nonsense from start to finish.

KarlosKKrinkelbeim · 29/11/2017 10:42

Cambridge used to be a university for clever people. What the hell happened guys?
It actually upsets me quite a lot. If this is the quality of people now attending the institution, the institution is surely fucked. Almost a thousand years of glorious intellectual heritage - now this.

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LangCleg · 29/11/2017 10:37

I can only hope that this level of coordinated silencing - and potentially violent - behaviour will become so extreme that your average person will become aware of it. Because it won't be popular if the understanding of what is happening goes mainstream.

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KarlosKKrinkelbeim · 29/11/2017 10:25

Thank you for posting this. It is sobering to contemplate how utterly deranged these people are. In a sense you feel sorry for them. Whose life is so empty they feel the need to do this?

Datun · 29/11/2017 10:22

I would dearly love to know exactly what it is they say to the venue, once they find out who it is, to put pressure on them to cancel.

“Do you know you are hosting a transphobic conference?” Doesn’t sound to me weighty enough leverage, judging by their massively over the top tactics elsewhere.

Elendon · 29/11/2017 10:19

To spend time booking those tickets and ringing the venue indicates a sick pathological mindset. Also a dangerous one too.

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LangCleg · 29/11/2017 09:53

I am quite sure the average person in the street has no idea at all that this sort of extreme stuff is going on.

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 29/11/2017 09:51

These people really do want women's rights to move backwards. And many of them will be women.

Datun · 29/11/2017 09:50

This isn’t just about a conflict of rights. This is utter fury that women are not obeying.

It’s beyond contemptible.