This is what Helen from Mermaids writes about MN feminist posters

I reckon M&S paid him to do that just so’s that pink dress stopped being the most offensive thing anybody had ever seen in their store.

That last sentence was sponsored by the Overuse of Punctuation Foundation.

‘stay at home mum’. These are bored middle-class women putting their privileged Uni-educated thoughts to oppressing a small, vulnerable, oppressed sector of society

The fact she thinks being a SAHM is an insult shows you just how much value she places on women and women's work. Not that this is a surprise to anyone since she is leading a charge against women's rights and in particular mother's rights to parent their children responsibly.

We could trade insults, I guess, since I'm not convinced of her sanity - but what's the point?

And still there will be 'transYdeficient' infiltrators.

As someone said upthread, we'll end up with a category in the paralympics - the "deficient in a Y chromosome" class.

And in fact, there will be very few female Olympians at all.

Thing is, then everyone else will discover it too.

And then nearly every single medal will be won by a biological male.

Women will only win medals again, in sports like dressage and golf, where physical differences don't matter.

I'm sure they will...

I'm surprised Russia haven't cottoned on to it yet, tbh...

I think most people are amazed that if you want to get around the doping rules all you have to do is claim to be transgender.

Wow. She's tweeted in support of the transw teen wrestler who obviously beat all the girls. She really, really doesn't get any of it. I feel so sorry for her actually.”

That one is ironic af as well. That’s a trans boy who wants to fight boys. He’s on testosterone and thus beats girls. The achievement would be beating boys like he wants to.

If you're a mum and on Mumsnet you are more likely to:

1. Have children who need to know things like how babies are made and what periods are and why gender stereotypes are a load of bollocks.
2. Your body is likely to have done things that only female bodies can do like carry another human being.
3. It is likely that you will have taken contraception because you know that as a female you may become pregnant after sex with a man.
4. You may have undergone fertility treatment or adopted because your female reproductive system is not working correctly, and you will know about your female body in intense, excruciating detail.
5. You might be seeking information on subjects that women aren't supposed to discuss in polite company like heavy, painful periods and the menopause.
6. Whatever your working situation, you are probably at a stage in your life where you can't ignore the work penalty that most women end up paying once they have children.

In short, while you may have no female 'identity' whatsoever, if you are a mum on Mumsnet it's pretty difficult to ignore the consequences of having a female body and I suspect that is why there is such anger at people who think that being female is something to do with - I don't know - shoes?

*between 12 and 14 anyway

Ouchbirthhurted (great nick)

" @dullandold

How old was the child? Were any lobbying orgs involved,"

AFAIK about 14, and I don't know about any lobbying orgs. It is a family I am just acquainted with rather than being friends that I could ask about stuff...

Did I wifey well?

I just made a chicken last 3 days.

It's wasn't from Asda tho.

(Sorry Asda, sainsbos is nearer.)

"We decided to follow the money and draw attention to the company's connection with a website that had such hateful content on it. This is very serious issue, but they just failed to engage with us."

LUSH can afford to buy in to all this but ASDA and M&S etc can't they know who their consumers are and do their very best to court the MN demographic.

Because they know women do the majority of shopping, food prep, and clean up. Because of our lady brains obv.

a! So if you're a woman who has had a child, you will not have met the same people that others meet. Hilarious opinion of women! Poor, stupid, impressionable women with no critical reasoning... luckily a trans woman has noticed our sad cause

Do they think women who have given birth are a small percentage of the population? You can tell she's hanging around too many women with with penises.

If you’re a Mum and on mn that often to have time to engage with ‘feminist’ forums, you’re more likely to be a ‘stay at home mum’. These are bored middle-class women putting their privileged Uni-educated thoughts to oppressing a small, vulnerable, oppressed sector of society"

I am a stay at home mum. I can't afford to work, it's not unheard of. So privileged. So middle class. It's too bad I wasn't encouraged in to a STEM career making enough money to make it worth my while. I wonder why that could be?

MN wasn't what made me "peak trans" though. I've been on MN for years but it wasn't being discussed on here at that point. It was other feminist groups that had been taken over by men trans activists. They were telling women to stop talking about "female reproduction" and abortion as they aren't women's issues.

For obvious reasons MN was mostly populated by women so we weren't getting silenced and it wasn't discussed very often.

Ok thanks terf, now in my head I have a really bad Meghan Trainor parody running on loop ‘all about that penis’.

Isn't it a bit adolescent to try to set fire to ones own backside gas emissions?

Well, every mum knows the standard advice to ignore a tantrum, whether it's your own child who wants a kinder egg, a stroppy Disney dad setting his knickers on fire, or a precious parent who's trying too hard to justify their dodgy parenting decisions

This is very serious issue, but they just failed to engage with us.

Hilarious

I did the same yesterday when my toddler hit me with a tonka truck because I wouldnt give him a kinder egg. Just sayin...