Bluestocking lock in!

And I've thirded 👍

Duly seconded, Quentin.

Apart from anything else, the mansplainy friend of Dorothy Tim gets nul points from me for really rubbish trolling. Like anyone like the friend described would really be a regular on MN. Nope, not buying that for an instant.

On another note, I have had to back away slowly from another thread. I don't know about you but when someone feels it necessary to preface their remarks with "I'm not a consipiracy theorist but..." then proceeds to throw in references to everyone except the Illuminati, I always find the phrase "Methinks they doth protest too much" echoing in my head.

Bumping

Funny that. I thought the thread was on AIBU not FWR originally... but I'm probably imagining that.

But said friend has disappeared from the thread forever. Hmm.

The trans thread where the mansplaining friend of the weepy TIM is back on AIBU.

About time they renamed the Women's March 'the March for People with an Interest in Sexual Assault for All the Wrong Reasons' or similar

Given that they've already platformed a self confessed rapist.

Slim to none I'd say.

What are the chances of the Women's March apologising for championing serial sex pest Dier's right to harass Rose McGowan, now that the various screenshots of Dier's social media accounts have come to light....?

As far as I know there is no relationship. We need to talk is organised by Venice Allan who was one of the organisers of the event in London which involved the meeting at Speakers Corner after it was forced out of its original venue. A Woman's Place was set up quite soon after that with the aim of educating people about rights to female spaces and getting the issues talked about. It makes sense to host these talks, but a Woman's Place does more than that, they are launching a website soon, it's more of a targeted campaign.

Can anyone enlighten as to the relationship between the We Need To Talk group and WPUK? Is there some kind of back story as to why they are both holding similar events but don’t seem to reference each other (that I have noticed at least, perhaps my Twitter bubble is hiding things)

I'm so annoyed that so many trans threads are deleted from the main board. I'm not sure about that one, it was too goady to be true, but the board just has this sanitised air about it, like they want it to be kept clean and naice. But it removes some evidence of debate and in some way contributes to the 'its an overreaction' response to the trans issue and women's space.

It was one of those 'why is it so transphobic here' threads from a dude whose lady friend with a penis had been crying all day about it. She was also more beautiful than feminist women. Or something. Got deleted in the end.

Reading this, I am now discovering there is a difference between 'discriminate against' and 'oppression'. Thankyou

It's been building up for a while athing

Now in the last few days we have this business with Labour, women's aid proposing to employ TIMs, relentless propaganda churned out by the bbc, the women's march stuff, the treatment of Rose McGowan, various examples of assaults on women and girls being treated as less important than male people's right to shout women down. It's starting to feel relentless and frightening.

What is going in tonight around here? There are some very angry GC posters but missed the why.

Eresh
Anyone who is able to keep going and argue on Twitter has my total admiration. I know it's important to do it for the lurkers but it's grim.

Every so often I will have a look but I always end up down a rabbit hole and always end up with the radge.

Who was it said that the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome....?

Yup the dudebros on Twitter are utterly infuriating and so fucking sanctimonious, it could feel like being lectured by 100 different versions of Owen Jones .....shudders.....

I can tell you that's an extremely accurate description

Discrimination seems straightforward to identify, challenge and legislate against. Oppression - is much more structural, and ‘unseen’?

Yes I'd agree with this: overcoming oppression is a bigger deal because it involves completely overturning power relations and rebalancing resources between classes.

Hope its ok to pop in and shre something I heard... not sure if it means anything.
Ended up listening to a drunken mansplainy lecture yesterday. Just disengaged and extracted myself as no energy to waste. But... amongst the slating of feminism and other equality movements there was a mention of "trans age", "going too far", and "all those PIE memes going around". (PIE = paedophile info exchange.)

I think that the trans age thing is already gaining ground, and I suspect it will be this that peak-transes the majority of the public.

Unfortuantely feminists, lefties, and LGB people will be blamed...