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I believe The Spectator is in danger of folding.

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Battleax · 23/05/2018 14:14

Perhaps we could show some support for them and their commitment to free and balanced journalism?

They have an excellent 12 issues for £12 offer at the moment.

www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/transgender-activists-and-the-real-war-on-women/

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SlothSlothSloth · 23/05/2018 15:29

TERF - I don’t really know what I’m looking at in your post but it seems like creepy men who identify as trans talking about their weird period fetish online. It’s gross but does it directly affect your life? What policy would you propose to prevent people talking about gross fetishistic things you don’t like online?

The “I would vote for anyone who’s anti-trans” position is a supremely privileged one. The conservatives have ruthlessly stripped back funding for women’s refuges and have implemented a punitive system of universal credit which will hit vulnerable women hardest and trap countless women in abusive relationships. These things will affect women more acutely than self-ID ever will. If you would vote for that because creepy men on the internet offend you, you don’t care about women.

For clarity, I am opposed to the suggested changes to the GRA and I disagree with what trans theory has to say about the way gender works. But come on, people. Priorities.

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 23/05/2018 15:28

So the new statesman is the left version of the spectator

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 23/05/2018 15:28

You all?

Who all?

UpstartCrow · 23/05/2018 15:24

Trans is a right wing agenda. Stop pretending its not.

SlothSlothSloth · 23/05/2018 15:20

The Spectator’s senior staff includes famous feminists such as Toby Young.

TERFragetteCity · 23/05/2018 15:19

The Spectator is right wing and is not feminist except in the sense that it publishes occasional articles by writers who oppose self-ID. I wish you would all stop promoting right-wing nonsense because you’re so blinded by your focus on trans issues. Right-wing policies are, overwhelmingly, bad for women.

I'd vote for anyone doing something to avoid against this - no matter what the other policies.

I believe The Spectator is in danger of folding.
I believe The Spectator is in danger of folding.
I believe The Spectator is in danger of folding.
SlothSlothSloth · 23/05/2018 15:16

The Spectator is right wing and is not feminist except in the sense that it publishes occasional articles by writers who oppose self-ID. I wish you would all stop promoting right-wing nonsense because you’re so blinded by your focus on trans issues. Right-wing policies are, overwhelmingly, bad for women.

fmsfms · 23/05/2018 14:30

"What is the spectator?"

The conservative version of The New Statesman

Battleax · 23/05/2018 14:25

Yes a bit like that.

I think they say “Politics, Culture and Current Affairs”.

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Rufustheyawningreindeer · 23/05/2018 14:20

What is the spectator?

Is it a general magazine? So a bit like a less economy version of the economist

Oh god i wish my words worked

Battleax · 23/05/2018 14:15

www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/transgender-activists-and-the-real-war-on-women/

Hopefully that one’s clicky.

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