Venice Allan (Dr Radfem) resigns from Labour

If I ate a man I was having sex with, it would hardly be a valid defence to note that spiders and praying mantises do it all the time

An apocryphal quote:

"My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?"
--Letter from Galileo Galilei to Johannes Kepler

i think at the moment I would be much happier in a feminist collective of badgers than any political party.... someone point me in the right direction....

This is ridiculous. Poor Venice.

If only the Pope has said to Galileo- 'You saying the earth revolved round the Sun HURTS MY FEELINGS and is offensive!'- the whole Renaissance could have been avoided.

I only read the first sentence - that was enough.
Lily and Munroe both regularly post racist shit, and they both make no secret of hating women.

BUT THATS OK COS THEY ARE MEN

FUCK YOU LABOUR

As an Aspie, what I found particularly hard to deal with is it wasn't about TRUTH- it was all about some men's objective interpretation and hurt FEELZ.

If only the Pope has said to Galileo- 'You saying the earth revolved round the Sun HURTS MY FEELINGS and is offensive!'- the whole Renaissance could have been avoided.

"Is feminism a notion that exists in the animal kingdom?"

I hardly know what to say about this. Unless I've been missing out on all those collectives of feminist badgers?? And how is the question even relevant? We don't look to the animal kingdom to get pointers for social life or our legal system: If I ate a man I was having sex with, it would hardly be a valid defence to note that spiders and praying mantises do it all the time...

Oh and the hypocrisy is alarming.

It's all okay for Bergdorf to post past tweets and then say they have moved on. Or Madigan for that matter too.

Heaven help you if you are a woman who dares to speak her mind.

And having just rejoined the Labour Party, I'm getting strange emails. I will be contacting the police on this, because I suspect fraud of some kind. I have alerted the email senders to my actions. I'm always suspicious of coincidences.

Chilling. Truly chilling.

I’ve been a lifelong labour voter, even through leaders I found abhorrent (Blair) because I thought their core beliefs reflected fairness and social justice.
I can no longer vote for them. This is like something out of an Orwellian nightmare. What on Earth happened to the moderate left?

I also don’t want to vote Tory, due to their scything away of the welfare state and a million other things. I’m now a voter without a party. It’s not just that they don’t speak for me, it’s that they are trying to annihilate me.

I know someone who stood for election last time who openly doesn't approve of gay marriage. Labour as well.

He's male though, so got away with it.

That excerpt from the transcript is ridiculous. How utterly depressing.

As for South Islington, I can assure you that none of the men I was swimming around and changing with thought I was male. Labour has lost all common sense.

That reads like the Galileo trial transcript

That's a very apt comparison!

I think her brilliant reply of " Feminism, obviously no. As far as I know is not a belief system amongst animals other than humans." was positively dripping in OH JUST FUCK OFF Jessica.

That whole interview is all about "You have hurt menz feelings and must be punished" when I've seen people say some pretty horrific things about Venice herself and AFAIK nobody has been held to account for them.

Thought crime. Orwell, thou shouldst be living at this hour.

That reads like the Galileo trial transcript

That's utterly Orwellian

Fuck

This would be less terrifying if it wasn't being implemented by a potential future government

If you believe something that hurts a man they don't give a shit about women feeling offended

You are quite right. That sneery line about 'is there feminism in the animal kingdom'! How she did not reply 'OH JUST FUCK OFF', I do not know

It's not funny Assigned but some biting satire would really highlight how ridiculous it is.

You're right Ova

Except it's not funny!

I despair. I really do.

Are we bringing back witch hunting too?

Venice should hire some good comedic actors to recreate the interview for YouTube Monty Python style!

Oh holy crap. That's just sinister stuff.

I do hope the DM picks this up. Labour deserve it for this shit.

Well I just hope dr Rad fem reads that out on her utube channel as its too much work to read. I may come back to it. Totally Orwellian. Its an all out attack on feminists, labour trans can be as abusive as they like- free pass. Sick.