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This woman is all of us.

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CAAKE · 17/02/2018 02:58

Lily Madigan speaking to a rapt audience at an Enfield North CLP meeting.

Photo is from this tweet -
twitter.com/enfieldnorthclp/status/964240546977013760

This woman is all of us.
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boatyardblues · 17/02/2018 15:38

Transmisogyny actually better describes TRAs’ attitude towards women than attitudes towards TIMs, which is more likely to be homophobia due to them stepping outside of rigid norms for male presentation/behaviour.

Mrsmiguelcervantes · 17/02/2018 15:38

Every day that Labour allow this misogynistic boy to remain in post is another day that they display their utter contempt for women.

Ereshkigal · 17/02/2018 15:33

I always want to ask the handmaidens- if 50% of positions go to men, and the other 50% to TIMs- would they regard that as adequate female representation?

I've tried this. They never answer.

MrsFogi · 17/02/2018 15:32

"transmisogyny" is a wonderful term I hadn't heard before but perfectly sums up so many concerns.

AdaColeman · 17/02/2018 15:26

See the post at 08:37:26 this morning.

MissMoneyPlant · 17/02/2018 14:42

Erm, I'm a bit unsure about the OP, having one woman circled. Would be mortified if it was me, especially considering the tactics of TRAs...
It's a glorious photo, I think we need it in full!

lovetheway · 17/02/2018 14:15

The only time the Labour party will have 'all women' panels would be if they were all TIMs.

I always want to ask the handmaidens- if 50% of positions go to men, and the other 50% to TIMs- would they regard that as adequate female representation?

AdaColeman · 17/02/2018 14:08

When Lily is the first trans Prime Minister, that audience will look back and remember how they were mesmerised by his charisma at that meeting.

(I'd have put the chairs in a circle though Lily, and abandoned the table, more inclusive and less preachy like, innit.)

ijustwannadance · 17/02/2018 13:40

Yes Ova, but real women can't possibly know what it feels like to be a trans woman.
Yet men seem to know exactly how it feels to be a woman.

OvaHere · 17/02/2018 13:23

But I thought transwomen were women? If that is case then aren't those women speaking for Lily? Or is there something different about Lily we should know about?

Thisusernamethingistricky · 17/02/2018 13:09

He feels 'sad' when he sees an all woman panel? How about FUCKING AMAZED because I don't think I have ever seen an all woman panel in the Labour party.

No, I think he means when the women on a panel are all 'cis' rather than an all woman panel iyswim? Given that trans women make up a tiny minority of the population there is absolutely no need to have a trans woman 'representing women' on every single political panel.

WeAreGerbil · 17/02/2018 13:05

I love this comment on the Twitter feed:

"They really shouldn’t have shared that picture. It’s hardly a ringing endorsement of Lily’s public speaking skills. Two of them look like they’re actually crying."

lovetheway · 17/02/2018 13:00

He feels 'sad' when he sees an all woman panel? How about FUCKING AMAZED because I don't think I have ever seen an all woman panel in the Labour party.

CAAKE · 17/02/2018 12:44

I think instead of skeptical woman I'm actually old man playing around with his phone and not even trying to look interested.

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Waddlelikeapenguin · 17/02/2018 12:34

That photo is amazing. All those hands over mouths to stop them from screaming fuck off Grin

Plus i have now discovered Miranda Yardley, hurrah!

hackmum · 17/02/2018 12:31

I think Lily is probably an MRA troll. The jokes about being Savile's apprentice and the comparison of the Race for Life with apartheid-era South Africa suggests that there is no way in which he really believes himself to be a woman. One of the startling things about this is that he doesn't even pretend convincingly, yet so many people in the Labour Party seem to be utterly taken in by him.

One of the things I'm really looking forward to is when the party's Muslim supporters get wind of what's happening. Watch that previously solid vote fly right out of the window.

AstraiaLiberty · 17/02/2018 12:16

TheGoldenBough I really wish they would. It's as if otherwise perfectly reasonable people are afraid to criticise Lily at all, just in case they're labelled transphobic. So much of what Lily posts really is beyond parody and I'm still not 100% convinced he isn't an MRA troll, but it's as if critical thinking flew out the window long ago.

TheGoldenBough · 17/02/2018 12:05

AstraiaLiberty someone important really needs to be looking at comments like that and evaluating them critically...

TheGoldenBough · 17/02/2018 12:04

"Willy Madagain" Grin

Terftastic · 17/02/2018 11:53

Whoever is running the Enfield North twitter account has had to leave because their head has exploded from trying to virtue signal 'respect' whilst also implying that an actual transsexual is transphobic.

Grin Grin Grin Miranda Yardley is awesome.

Ereshkigal · 17/02/2018 11:50

Lily feels sad whenever she see an all cis-women panel in politics. But is not bothered about all cis-men panels? Says it all doesn't it.

Yes. It really does.

hackmum · 17/02/2018 11:48

CapnHaddock: "The Labour Party do fuck all due diligence do they?"

They really don't. What's wrong with them? Are they monumentally stupid, or lazy, or both?

Same with the Guardian, of course, giving house room to narcissists like Paris Lees. Utterly effing clueless.

Thisusernamethingistricky · 17/02/2018 11:43

Lily/Liam runs an anti-women's facebook group. Down with Cis [ie normal] women. Like a Black Rights officer running a down-with
-the-blacks facebook group.

Yes, exactly. It's crazy!

Lily feels sad whenever she see an all cis-women panel in politics. But is not bothered about all cis-men panels? Says it all doesn't it.

Thisusernamethingistricky · 17/02/2018 11:39

This guy looks like he is right in the middle of peak transing!

Seriously though, why did they choose that photo? Everyone looks so bored!

Miranda Yardley being her usual awesome self on that thread. Whoever is running the Enfield North twitter account has had to leave because their head has exploded from trying to virtue signal 'respect' whilst also implying that an actual transsexual is transphobic.

This woman is all of us.
Sparkyduchess · 17/02/2018 11:37

That picture is so funny, they could not look less engaged. Lily. Is a petulant young man with a very specific agenda -women’s issues are WAY down at the bottom of his list. I keep thinking it’s some massive joke, but apparently not.

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