We're being spammed

So let's not comment on those threads. If just the most prolific commenters don't they'll drop off soon.

Ova it was the trans and sport thread which made me realise what was going on - brand new poster, at that point had only posted on that thread, at their own admission has no interest whatsoever in sport, pops up to post over and over again "you should all be inclusive, sport is about being the best and taking advantage of natural biological differences anyway, look I just googled these testosterone limits which I don't understand but that shows it's all okay, hang on while I appropriate intersex for a moment, back to you should all be inclusive."

They now have a second sealion who's started the "trans people are nice really, what do you have to lose?" thread. (Answer, yes, we all know and have been saying all along that most of the trans people we know are indeed nice people - and we wish them to have full human rights. It is transactivists who want to appropriate women's rights that we have a problem with). Not surprisingly sealion number one is barking away on that second thread too.

I think how they're hoping sealioning will work is that they can just dilute and drown out the gender critical arguments in a chorus of barking, so that no-one will be bothered to read the threads any more.

So how does sealioning work then? Do they think we are limited to responding to only one thread a day or somethign? Weirdly enough I can comment on one thread, AND then on another one.

Babies and nursery rhymes. Not doing a good job of hiding what they think women are all about, are they?

The current trans & sport thread is a massive example of sealioning.

The sealions have started a clapping thread on Feminist Chat now, appropriately enough

Yes, I think we all need to be aware of sealions and together on making sure sealion threads are ignored and rapidly drop from view.

Oh that's what sea lioning is supposed to do. I have been wondering.

Surely it's not effective? It's just so bloody annoying...

Happens on the Brexit threads sporadically.

Trolls with the most crazy names, too - "sexymomma12345". We've also got a crop of new sealions I notice.

The sealion cartoon

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a concerted campaign to try to dilute and hamper discussion to the point where it becomes impossible, given that we are getting a reputation in the wider press as "the one place where you can discuss the downsides of extreme transactivism without being shut down." Plopping on threads screaming "you're a transphobe" hasn't worked, because we're not doing our womaning properly and keeping quiet when men tell us off. So now they're going with what I was told on a media training course was the "stuck record technique": "I am the calm voice of reason, there are other sides to this argument, you are not being kind and listening to the experiences of transwomen telling you they are women, no I can't tell you what transwomen are women means, but that is just you being unkind again.." and rinse and repeat. But they stick around with their stuck record so they can't be accused of plopping, even though they don't actually debate, they simply assert.

I thought the same. An attempt to distract with pointless threads.