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Another Labour misogynist.....

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FattyCat · 09/12/2017 18:09

So Michael Cashman CBE has been twittering away today and publicly asking for people who signed the Jo Cox "Spartacus" letter, initiated by mumsnet, to be dealt with in some way by Labour.

He's the LGBT Global Envoy apparently. And co-founded Stonewall. I love it that I'm being spoken for by a women hating nob head like this.

Lesbians don't matter to LGBT. We fought against clause 28 and wiped the arses of people dying of AIDS in the eighties before it was a sexy clause and now we are expendable.

Women don't matter to Labour unless they have cocks.

30 odd years an activist for women and LGBT and all the fight has gone out of me.

Time for Dykes to get the "L" out of LGBT I think

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Nuffaluff · 10/12/2017 07:22

Yes I think that is what he's saying.
I wonder what his view is on people who say that some of them have fetishes.
Are those women allowed to speak?

JaneWonder · 10/12/2017 07:14

I think he’s saying any Party members who make and publish blanket statements accusing all Trans women of having deviant fetishes should be kicked out. That’s how I read it.

Nuffaluff · 10/12/2017 07:08

In one of the tweets he says 'administrative action must be taken- such views are not compatible with the Labour Party '. He's talking about female Labour Party members tweeting about AGP and men wanting access to women's spaces to carry out their fetish. The tweets by these women say most Trans women have AGP, which is going too far in my opinion. I think it's probably a significant number though!
However, he seems to be wilfully ignorant that there are such people out there. And why should he bother to consider there are many perverts who will take full advantage of this? As a man it will not affect him in the slightest.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 10/12/2017 00:00

Lots of men are naice until you question them or their privilege ...

MrGHardy · 09/12/2017 23:51

Wow, I tweeted one thing at him, and he already blocked me.

JaneWonder · 09/12/2017 23:04

NO ideas why he kept his Account as MichaelCashmanCBE. Maybe he didn’t want to change his Twitter handle after building up a name on that platform, or maybe he though pointing out he was a Lord in his handle would make him look like a dick.

I don’t know enough about Trans debates to judge his tweets. I’ve only just looked back about 10 tweets and those to do with trans seem to be him upset at women saying all trans men-to-women have a certain “fetish”.

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FattyCat · 09/12/2017 18:27

JaneWonder the things he has been posting on twitter tonight have made me lose all faith in the Labour party. And yes, he has been misogynistic. And anti-lesbian.

Why then does he have CBE on his twitter account?

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JaneWonder · 09/12/2017 18:14

He’s not just a CBE. He’s a member of the House of Lords and therefore votes on legislation, has access to Ministers etc.

I do know him from a previous job. On a personal level he is very warm and kind and fair. My work with him never led me to see any misogynistic tendencies.