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#ManFriday group closing

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YesItsADebate · 28/06/2018 13:30

It gives me great sadness to write this post but we have been attacked this week, on our Facebook organising group by someone who claims to be a feminist and an ally to our cause. They chose to leak some screenshots to a Twitter troll (outing our members) and make a ridiculous allegation against us and Dr Nic in a thread on here and has slipped through our clean-up of our online group.

They are now threatening police action against high profile members of our group unless we prostrate ourselves to her bullying. @Sweary has a great response to that: the ever eloquent G F* Y! (starred to prevent deletion! ahem).

As we don't know who they are and don't know how to stop them the only option we have is to burn the group. This loses us so many allies, who have supported our actions wholeheartedly since that first day meeting wiht my local swimming pool and it breaks my heart. As we met on MN FWR I hope that most of you are still here and see this. We really didn't want to lose you - and you were as important as those of us out there getting on with the activism.

That this has happened in the run up to the consultation being launched, a time when we really should have our attentions and activities focussed elsewhere is ridiculous. This person has chosen to pursue a personal vendetta at a time when we should be pulling together and building on the success #ManFriday has had so far.

#ManFriday will keep fighting for the rights, safety, privacy and dignity of women and girls. We aren't going away but for the security of our members, we have to use alternative platforms to the Facebook group for organising our activism. Our website, Twitter feed etc. will still be up and running (come & get a t-shirt Wink)

Please keep up with the #randomactsofmanliness and keep taking up space on Fridays. Or any day come to that.

Amy, Sweary and the #ManFriday admin team x (unMumsnetty but )

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Thisisouting · 30/06/2018 14:05

GrinHmm

Weezol · 30/06/2018 13:47

On behalf of Brentford Triangle members (Penge Affiliate Member), I hereby protest the cultural approproriation of the now legendary Sprouts of Wrath.

ToeToToe · 30/06/2018 13:21

Sprout acts like a diseased scrotum too.

Sandy, and MF - you're Star s.

LastGirlOnTheLeft · 30/06/2018 13:10

Sprout looks like a diseased scrotum.

R0wantrees · 30/06/2018 13:06

Sandy Draws Badly
twitter.com/SandyDrawsBadly/status/1013023211318054912

"Soooo, I’ve been doxxed as being a member of man Friday. I’m sure that my belonging to a group that I’ve drawn lots of cartoons for will come as a massive shock to all of my followers. I do have a few thoughts about sad, bitter little vegetables though."

#ManFriday group closing
Ereshkigal · 30/06/2018 12:57

Eh, you’re a horribly transphobic campaign scaremongering about minorities so... I won’t be missing you.

They're not going anywhere so you can carry on your pearl clutching and hyperbole.

OlennasWimple · 30/06/2018 12:54

Can the thread title please be changed to reflect that it's only hte FB group which has close,d not the whole campaign?

BeyondRaggydoll · 30/06/2018 12:38

Place - 170 women

LastGirlOnTheLeft · 30/06/2018 12:35

I second Ro - would like to do something to show support.

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 30/06/2018 12:35

You haven't RTWT, have you? This is about the FB group, not ManFriday as a whole, dinosaur.

dinosaursandtea · 30/06/2018 12:31

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

placemats · 30/06/2018 12:28

The police is already overwhelmed with 'evidence from social media' as it is and to add to this to try and look through almost 100 mostly innocuous facebook profiles seems an ask too far.

MissMoneyPlant · 30/06/2018 12:25

Datun They've also said they have plenty of evidence for the police themselves. Should the police be in the slightest bit interested.

I quite like the idea of the police being interested, and random cops having to trawl through various threads. (No idea if that's actually how it would work!)

Convince the upholders of the law from the inside out, as it were...

R0wantrees · 30/06/2018 12:17

What could we do by way of support?

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 30/06/2018 12:04

Sorry if I misunderstood you.

MillyTheKid · 30/06/2018 11:31

That's quite a leap to make. Querying why some posts with a different point of view have been deleted is suggesting that the original discussion shouldn't take place?? I don't think so.

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 30/06/2018 11:27

Because you said:

Why have those posts been deleted when ManFriday have been able to put forward their version of events?

Which suggests you don't think it's fair.

MillyTheKid · 30/06/2018 11:23

You seem to be suggesting women from ManFriday shouldn't be able to talk about their perfectly legitimate political campaign on the FWR board. Why is that?

How on earth does asking about some posts being deleted suggest that?

MillyTheKid · 30/06/2018 11:21

Aha, thanks

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 30/06/2018 11:18

Milly, the understanding is that those posts have been deleted because they were made by a PBP. So, a troll. A GF.

You seem to be suggesting women from ManFriday shouldn't be able to talk about their perfectly legitimate political campaign on the FWR board. Why is that?

BeyondRaggydoll · 30/06/2018 11:14

Previously banned poster

BeyondRaggydoll · 30/06/2018 11:14

The person accused is already a PBP, so any time they post about anything, they will be deleted as a PBP.

No conspiracy.

MillyTheKid · 30/06/2018 11:13

PBPs?

Cascade220 · 30/06/2018 11:11

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

MillyTheKid · 30/06/2018 11:07

I'm a bit confused. There seems to be various posts doing the rounds on social media which are supposedly from the person being accused of causing the trouble and which have supposedly been deleted from this thread by the mods. Why have those posts been deleted when ManFriday have been able to put forward their version of events?