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So, hands up if you have been blocked by LM on Twitter?

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Stormwhale · 20/02/2018 22:10

Due to the fact that I have never actually had any contact with LM, and had only liked (or did the heart thing - I'm a bit Twitter illiterate) 2 comments on a Twitter feed (1 - very politely pointed out that LM has not actually spoken about a single women's issue since being in the role and 2 - pointed out, again politely, that LM seems to be more interested in trans issues than women's issues).. I'm going to assume it doesn't take much to be blocked by LM.

I have never posted anything derogatory or even commented on anything to do with LM On Twitter.

Have I managed to be no platformed without actually saying a word? Hmm

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drspouse · 22/02/2018 22:13

I'm not blocked despite following a lot of gender critical Tweeps and engaging with them regularly and positively.
How very disappointing.

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 22:10

Do you think I should be expected to have a TIM do my smear test, or be my rape counsellor? By law?

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 22:09

Do you think I should have to be uncomfortable and nervous in vulnerable intimate spaces? All to pander to male feelings?

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 22:07

I'm a rape survivor, and a DV survivor. Do you think I should not be allowed a male free space, DietCoke?

thebewilderness · 22/02/2018 22:06

We're stupid, naive, desperate for male attention, handmaidens, traitors, fools...
Are we supposed to pretend that you are not?
Can you mandate belief?
Can you codify into law the idea that some people can mind over matter themselves out of material reality and into the opposite sex, and must be treated accordingly?
It is like transubstantiation. A belief that no one actually believes.
Will you allow people to drug and mutilate children based on this belief that no one believes?

DietCokeGirrrrrl · 22/02/2018 22:06

Sure. I could find some choice epithets for you in return I'm sure, but since I'm not a bitch I'll say goodnight instead...

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 22:05

You throw other women under the bus for men, what kind of a response do you expect?

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 22:04

Cap fits Grin

DietCokeGirrrrrl · 22/02/2018 22:03

Male pleasers Hmm always the same bullsh*t. We're stupid, naive, desperate for male attention, handmaidens, traitors, fools...

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 21:59

Madigan is no sister to any woman. Even misguided male pleasers. Madigan does not give a fuck. You'll see.

DietCokeGirrrrrl · 22/02/2018 21:57

I literally have no idea what that means.

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 21:57

I'm sure you are. You're all right, Jackie, aren't you?

DietCokeGirrrrrl · 22/02/2018 21:55

Well, as I said - perhaps next time you'll manage to get a candidate you prefer elected. In the meantime I'm very happy with the situation as it stands, and I personally have no qualms (as a cis woman) about LM's ability to represent me and my sisters (trans, cis or otherwise).

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 21:54

This.

thebewilderness · 22/02/2018 21:54

At the moment history is bending toward authoritarian male dominance. We intend to redirect it toward justice.

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 21:53

I suspect you would struggle though, on the basis that the arc of history is (albeit slowly) bending towards justice,

You're funny Grin

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 21:52

To be honest I doubt, as an obvious troll, Madigan gives a fuck about much at all apart from feeding that narcissistic supply.

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 21:51

Madigan doesn't give a single fuck about actual women.

DietCokeGirrrrrl · 22/02/2018 21:50

In your opinion. Not in mine. Not in the eyes of those who elected her. That's democracy in action - you're welcome to try and get a candidate who you consider more suitable elected next time. That would also be democracy. I suspect you would struggle though, on the basis that the arc of history is (albeit slowly) bending towards justice, and trans rights are increasingly enshrined in law and recognised in society. Perhaps I'll be proved wrong though - I would certainly never be complacent about it.

TERFousBreakdown · 22/02/2018 21:49

LM was elected to the position she holds on a mandate of, among other things, promoting the rights of transwomen. She is therefore fulfilling the role she was elected to do. (Emphasis mine)

Not if LM is ignoring said 'other things'.

Please provide evidence that LM has routinely promoted the rights of actual women - or rights that affect women and feminine-identifying individuals to equal degrees.

thebewilderness · 22/02/2018 21:49

Material reality has a well know transphobic bias.

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 21:48

It's not an opinion that Madigan is male any more than it's an opinion that the Holocaust never happened. Do you see what I did there?

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 21:46

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DietCokeGirrrrrl · 22/02/2018 21:43

@ereshikal the issue here is that you're behaving as though your belief that trans issues aren't women's issues is a fact, rather than simply being your opinion. Others hold a different opinion, and the fact is LM was elected to the position she holds on a mandate of, among other things, promoting the rights of transwomen. She is therefore fulfilling the role she was elected to do.

Ereshkigal · 22/02/2018 21:40

For example, many Jewish activists will not debate with holocaust deniers.

Interesting loaded comparison. Totally in good faith, I'm sure.

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