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IW compares MN to the National Front and Nuremberg Rally

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 24/04/2018 17:52

www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/04/24/india-willoughby-transphobia-opinion-worried-for-my-life-mumsnet/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

This was an interesting read. It seems IW has taken to channeling Katie Hopkins. I'm not going to try and pull it apart as there is so so much wrong with it...

"I’m sure most people who use the site are decent folk. They want nothing to do with the rabid mouth-frothing going on by so-called “feminists.”"

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Beyond11cisRetinol · 25/04/2018 09:33

Ah yes Annandale, my very first post was about the 2ww. I bet India has worried about that one a lot...

DH was more interested in finding the right pram. As he planned on pushing it, but couldn't find one designed for pushing by people who are 6'2.

Ereshkigal · 25/04/2018 08:58

India experiences this unavoidable exclusion as narcissistic injury. Hence the rage.

Exactly this.

LangCleg · 25/04/2018 08:36

I know it's only mumsnet. But that experience of real women saying real things to each other has kept me coming back for over fourteen years.

It's not only Mumsnet. Mumsnet is great. Women speak here - about whatever they want - without male supervision. And because they are women, many of the real things they speak about are exclusionary of India as they are rooted in the real lives women live and trans people do not. India experiences this unavoidable exclusion as narcissistic injury. Hence the rage.

Onemorning · 25/04/2018 07:06

Feminists being called nazis is neither new nor original. Gah.

womanformallyknownaswoman · 25/04/2018 06:53

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user1497863568 · 25/04/2018 06:49

My family fought the Nazi's in WW2. Thousands of us died. Slick bastards. To see them doing it all over again re oil grabs etc is really distressing... and the amount of collaboration at the top :(

Pratchet · 25/04/2018 06:43

Transactivists have been comparing their suffering to tjsgnif the Jews for s long time and IW is trying to get some friends back after his car crash BB, surely. TRA will appropriate anything, terrorism, racism, homophobia, abortion, to claim victimhood. For Pink News and IW to do it is desperate.

MrsUnderwood · 25/04/2018 06:33

over in America there are actual Nazi rallies happening, complete with burning swastikas. India needs to pull their head out of their arse and get some fucking perspective.

Trumpdump · 25/04/2018 00:59

I wonder if mn could take legal action over this? It's slander!

annandale · 24/04/2018 23:50

Prams?

I just...

Biscuit

I remember my first thread. About breastfeeding. While i was still bleeding from giving birth and still had stitches holding together the third degree tear in my vagina. I posted because the thing I was supposed to be able to do with my sexed body to feed a human didn't work. Women replied to help me at all hours of the day and night.

Prams. This isn't a fucking consumer magazine. Or a daytime TV programme. I know it's only mumsnet. But that experience of real women saying real things to each other has kept me coming back for over fourteen years. How dare you, India.

AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth · 24/04/2018 23:32

The fuckers will appropriate anything. I would ask 'what next' but it's hard to work out what could be going on in their heads

We will be likened to Boko Haram next or something.

SirVixofVixHall · 24/04/2018 23:28

@RefuseToDenounceBiology Not whiskey, meths...

SirVixofVixHall · 24/04/2018 23:25

@OlennasWimple Yes, exactly. I hadn’t read your post when I posted or I would have name checked you then as well as teacup. It is startlingly offensive to appropriate the holocaust in this way.

LangCleg · 24/04/2018 22:53

I also think it is very easy to decry India without being obnoxious about looks. After all, India is intent on giving us plenty of appearance-unrelated material to work with. It's not as though we'll run out of critique any time soon!

AssassinatedBeauty · 24/04/2018 22:49

They go low we go high, surely?

It doesn't matter what anyone looks like, or how feminine or not they are. What should be being discussed here is content of what was written in the article. Which is clearly a load of sexist nonsense.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/04/2018 22:48

Owners aren't usually editors.

Can we not do the looks thing?

Yes, I was thinking that. Whether someone passes or looks old or young should be irrelevant, IMO. Content of character is what matters, not appearance.

LastGirlOnTheLeft · 24/04/2018 22:45

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AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth · 24/04/2018 22:41

Can we not do the looks thing?

PencilsInSpace · 24/04/2018 22:40

The owners of prick news appear to be Jewish (no, I don't understand either).

Ereshkigal · 24/04/2018 22:38

Yes but India has changed appearance considerably and had surgery etc, not just grown older bit by bit without noticing until the mirror shock. As pp said it must be quite frustrating to not look like your idealised picture of yourself even when you completely change your looks.

Pratchet · 24/04/2018 22:36

It's extremely anti Semitic to do this. Repellant.

thebewilderness · 24/04/2018 22:34

I think IW genuinely sees themself as a young woman
Don't we all? Except when our joints remind us or we catch a glimpse of that old person in the mirror.

busyboysmum · 24/04/2018 22:33

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ijustwannadance · 24/04/2018 22:25

It's always made me laugh with IW that you would change yourself into a middle aged woman and expect men to be falling at your feet. Big mistake there. I see a lot of bitterness in IWs behaviour TBH

This was made obvious with the behaviour shown on CBB. You can have as much surgery and identify as you want but you cannot change your biology or your age.

I think IW genuinely sees themself as a young woman.