We're being spammed

I just googled too, and really struggled to find any Venn diagrams including transgender, Ive attached the one I managed to find, which is simple and clear

Can anyone see any issues with it?

Also looking forward to the diagram, but the ones already posted were luvverly.

Someone mentioned upthread about posters starting to agree then wavering and those ones are dodgy... I started to talk to DH about all this and felt all stupid and I can see how I'd definitely be outwitted in a discussion about this. Not all of us who waver/ask questions are being sneaky

That was me. And you're right. People with questions or who want to thrash out doubts are really really welcome.

I was thinking of posters whose question becomes vaguer and vaguer the more they post, until the whole rest of the thread is centred around everybody trying to understand what they're asking. Or posters who start off agreeing with an assumption the thread is premised on (e.g. that most sexual assault is committed by men); but then shift their position so the thread becomes all about arguing about the premise rather than the actual issue that the OP raised. These tactics can completely derail threads, and they can usually be spotted by the fact that the whole thread is being dominated by one poster.

I think you're right though, better to be sealioned a bit than risk putting off genuine questioners. Sorry everyone.

Don't burst my bubble flamingo!

Realfacts pretty sure you're preaching to the choir with those but they may come in handy

I thought I'd get some in whilst we were waiting for the big reveal.

We are being spammed. We're being observed on other sites and facebook and twitter. All this lovely attention. Do you get the feeling SOMEONE is worried?

Flamingowings - thank you. This is one situation where I'm glad to know I was being over the top!

Placemarking for the diagram

I bet I'm going to like it. I need a treat after a crap and boring day.

The sport thread was quite interesting. I had previously not really thought about it as a big issue (although had seen in passing threads on here but ignored them as not interested etc) Having reached peak trans now, I can see the importance and that thread helped me to chrystalise my thoughts- why it matters that sport is segregated by sex. Writing that it's simple but that thread was good for physical attributes that can't be determined by hormones. Also the photos... How ? How is this allowed? Really struck home to me.

Someone mentioned upthread about posters starting to agree then wavering and those ones are dodgy... I started to talk to DH about all this and felt all stupid and I can see how I'd definitely be outwitted in a discussion about this. Not all of us who waver/ask questions are being sneaky. Honest guv!

yes, it looks it from looking at the threads. Best to ignore them.

Flamingowings that is an unfortunate cross post which makes it look like your boobies stink. Possibly like a sea lion.

I am sure they don't.

While we are talking about boobies and waiting for a nonexistent diagram which will convert us all the instant we see it have you ever noticed how men sometimes feel they have a relationship with them completely independently of you? I think it's really weird...

A couple more.

I've found some...

Common ground and compromise is a bit thin on the ground when the options on offer from the authoritarian males is the traditional demand that women: Submit, or die.

Phooey. I went off, ate my pancakes, came back...

... nada.

OK, I am late to this party but I've just followed a link from a thread I started (the one about the clapping game) to this thread.

Not entirely clear what a sealion is (obviously I need to follow a few more links), but I just wanted to say that my OP on the clapping game one was totally in good faith. This is a rhyme my daughter taught me this morning. I grew up in a different region and sang different rhymes - some of them pretty rude (as is normal with playground rhymes), but none with references to DV, however cartoonish.

I genuinely was a little shocked and wondered whether I was just overreacting. The thread did not go the way I was expecting and I can totally see why it got moved to Chat. Very probably I was wrong to post it in Feminist Chat in the first place. I was hoping for a bit of petspective from a feminist viewpoint and that's certainly not what I got. I can only apologise.

Obviously I must have made a wrong call. But that doesn't make me a fake or some kind of antifeminist spammer. I'm sure this stuff does go on, but this isn't one of those times.

P.S. I do NC a lot after posting about some personal stuff (and being identified once). But that doesn't make me a spammer, either.

Booooo