DrRadfem aka Venice Allan has been blocked from Twitter

I think it is sex worker exclusionary rad fem - meaning we oppose porn and prostitution, which is bad in a 'sex positive!!' climate.

They also continually spread lies that those against porn and prostitution hate the actresses and prostitutes pretty much as they spread the lie that if you’re critical in any way of gender politics then you hate transfolk.

Right so now do we get this in the press?
Who would cover this? This is outright silencing of women.

Twatter that made me lol

Oh - and thank you to all who replied. It was just that I saw the post by Assigned first.

@DrRadFem Its great to see you here!
you can't follow or block people, or like posts.
you can send a message using the link to the right of their name as in the image

I would also vote for Amy Desir, should she be interested.

Thanks for the clarification of SWERF, AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth.

You can't really follow people.

The site is easier to navigate if you use the mobile site, rather than the desktop site. Go to the bottom of whatever page you're on and flip it to mobile site.

The search button in the bottom right-hand corner will let you search for a particular poster.

DMing is done by going to a comment and looking at the three dots in the bottom right. Clicking on that will take you to the DM function for that particular poster.

Protocol for answering specific people is to hover on their name so you can copy and paste it into your post. A star either side makes it bold. If you put an @ in front of it (no stars), it bolds it and automatically sent them an email to say they have been tagged, if they have subscribed to that function.

The three dots next to particular post itself is useful for book marking. Next time you open that thread it will automatically take you to the post you have bookmarked.

The 'I'm on' button at the bottom of your screen will automatically show you all the current threads that you have posted on.

Lastly, on the desktop version, go to the top of the page with the drop-down arrow and go to customise. You can colour in your posts, and that of the opening poster, to make navigating easier.

Does anyone have any web skills? Maybe we could create our own version of Twitter?

TWATTER - social media for vagina feminists.

I haven't blocked many TRAs although they have blocked me. My feelings are that they expose themselves as they become increasingly angry up against calm facts. Twitter has suspended my account twice but only because they spotted suspicious activity on it. Password change and off we go again.
Sometimes it's disheartening seeing the sheer stupidity and endless dog piles in but they are disturbed by our voices which I take as a good sign.

Venice I'm sorry they got to you.

Thank you Mumsnet towers! It's heartening to read all these responses. Still don't know how to use this - how do you follow people and how do you send/receive DMs?! 😬

So much love for you all 💕💕💕💕

Sorry, forgot to say that the person who made the threat was not censored in any way, despite the fact he’d threatened others in exactly the same way in the past.

I’m shocked by Twitter’s bias against us. A man who likes baby clothes and ballet threatened to get me into trouble through my professional body. Twitter’s response was that

“we take a number of factors into consideration when evaluating whether a Tweet or account violates our policies. This includes the context of the Tweet,”

That says to me that anyone they view as gender critical will not be protected, whatever is done to them. This despite the fact that their e-mail includes this statement:

In order to ensure that people feel safe expressing diverse opinions and beliefs, we do not tolerate behavior that crosses the line into abuse, including behavior that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another user’s voice.

Good god. Are all these men autogynephiles? Every last one?

Whilst I agree that Twitter is a law unto its own and not necessarily reflective of real life, it IS a massive platform for information sharing.

Fortunately, there are more and more gender critical women (and men) picking up the fight.

Venice - I'm aghast at the way you personally are targetted. But take solace from the fact that it's because you must be silenced.

Holding a mirror up to this issue is guaranteed to implode the ideology. Whether now, or eventually.

You're not alone.

SWERF = Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist

Being 'Pro Sex work' means choosing prositution as a career is as 'valid' as any other career

Funny how these TRAs are pro sex work and pro porn. You'd almost think there was a link between it all.

And regulators

THese issues are too complex for tweets

One benefit of continuing the fight on social media is that as TRAs get more power, they abuse it more. In the same way that they believe other people, ie women, shouldn't have boundaries, they don't seem to have any themselves in what they're willing to say and do.

There will come a point when their behaviour will be so far outside the norm that it will come to the attention of the non-special people, who will be appalled.

I believe that energy and time is better spent lobbying MPs and journalists

Have a look TerfsUp

www.feministcurrent.com/2015/11/04/shit-liberal-feminists-say-swerf/

I think its sex worker

I think it is sex worker exclusionary rad fem - meaning we oppose porn and prostitution, which is bad in a 'sex positive!!' climate.

rollseyes

Ummm. DrTrueFem? It's "separate" not "seperate".

Oh - and someone tell me what a SWERF is, please. Is it a Straight White Exclusionary Radical Feminist?

Thanks!

And he has alll those pics dressed in primary school uniform and bunches and teddies. Wish I had seen this before.

So all that is just ok but you can't post a gif which already exists all over the internet. You know maybe it is time to abandon Twitter and leave it to these people. As OvaHere says this battle needs to be fought away from social media where the TRAs seem to hold a lot of the cards.