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Look what happened when Alison Moyet refused to be called a cis woman **title amended at request of OP**

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LaSqrrl · 11/07/2018 09:48

"You can identify as anything you want these days, except as a woman. Consider what happened to British singer Alison Moyet. Last week, on Twitter, she said she didn’t want to be known as a cs-woman, just as a woman. ‘I defend everyone’s right to have the pronoun that they choose and will honour it’, she diplomatically said. And ‘I do not choose Cs for mine’, she continued. ‘It took women like me long enough to own the title “woman” in the first place. It’s a long enough word for me.’ The response to this calm, clear, polite act of self-definition? Fury. And insult. And abuse. On such a voluble level that Moyet eventually recanted her linguistic heresy, deleted her tweet, and left Twitter."
Read rest of the article here.

Moyet's response to being 'forcibly assigned' the c*s label was quite polite and restrained (far more so than I can ever muster). Yet she was relentlessly told by the twitterverse to 'stfu woman' with a pile of 'hate tweets' - that she should accept it, like it or not.

Moyet has several follow up tweets, including this one where she says:
"I will name you as you identify. Must you afford me less?"

Apparently the answer is "no". And more reasons to stfu and accept it. Hmm

'Woman' is not terra nullius, we are 52%. We will not be hoodwinked into giving up our names, only for males to claim them (that is what the c-prefix is all about). Our answer is "no" and is not the start of a 'negotiation'.

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imwideawake · 11/07/2018 14:17

It's definitely out and out bullying of women who have the temerity to speak their own minds.

Throughout history, men have tried to silence women and prevent them from speaking out and having an opinion.
Nothing has changed.

imwideawake · 11/07/2018 14:16

I see you've done it.

imwideawake · 11/07/2018 14:14

How about Alison Moyet.

She's much loved. I'm sure lots of people would click on it for the name alone. Out of curiosity.

Melamin · 11/07/2018 14:04

I love singing along to her Raggle Taggle Gypsies O Grin

I saw that bullying unfold on Twitter the other day Shock and the piece written above is good.

LaSqrrl · 11/07/2018 13:53

I have put in a request to have it changed

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LaSqrrl · 11/07/2018 13:50

When Alison Moyet refused to call herself a cis woman?

Wrong emphasis. Her objection was that it was forcibly thrust upon her (probably in the name of 'good allyship').

OK, so I will ask if they will change it.

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UpstartCrow · 11/07/2018 13:40

Is anyone else starting to see the Scapegoat/Golden Child dynamic in all of this?

noeffingidea · 11/07/2018 13:40

Thats a terrific article, says what it needs to very clearly. I wonder if there will be a backlash.
Personally I think attacking Alison Moyet was a bad tactic. She's still very popular and just seems so, well, nice. It does come across as bullying a nice decent person.

arranfan · 11/07/2018 13:25

'Woman' is not terra nullius"

Has anyone else had the passing thought that that would make an interesting T-shirt? And then wondered whether it would fall under Theme Park/other venue's dress codes for "inflammatory or offensive statements" and thus be deemed "inappropriate"?

FusionChefGeoff · 11/07/2018 13:20

I think you can use 'cis' when discussing its general use. You just can't say to a poster that they are a cis-woman

arranfan · 11/07/2018 13:15

LaSqrrl - Maybe ask MNHQ is it OK for use elsewhere as the language guidance seems to be implemented on FWR more than elsewhere?

When Alison Moyet refused to call herself a cis woman?

LaSqrrl · 11/07/2018 13:12

OP any chance you could get a title change? Include the words Alison Moyet.

What do you suggest?

"Look what happened when Alison Moyet refused to be called a cis woman"?

It had the banned word, so I was too afraid to use it in the title.

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bigKiteFlying · 11/07/2018 11:58

"I will name you as you identify. Must you afford me less?"

It does seem to be all one way.

It does feel like I’m being told it wrong to be worried about my own children’s' actual safety while at same time I’m not worried enough about adult strangers fears over safety.

imwideawake · 11/07/2018 11:54

OP any chance you could get a title change? Include the words Alison Moyet.
It would stay in trending for longer and catch the eye of the main posters.
The more people who read about this the better.

Either that or keep bumping.

ShotsFired · 11/07/2018 11:52

I really like some of the clarity of articulation in that article, e.g.

the bizarre insistence that she and the rest of us define ourselves in relation to the tiny, strange world of trans-activism. Against the expectation that we should constantly declare the fact that we are not trans by saying instead that we are cis

and

it might just be a smidgen misogynistic to suggest that womanhood is such a slight and flimsy thing that it can be achieved by a mere act of self-declaration

imwideawake · 11/07/2018 11:52

I've always loved Alison Moyet!

Bump

TellsEveryoneRealFacts · 11/07/2018 11:51

I'd probably rephrase the title to 'the only people allowed to identify as wemen these days, are men'.

Soubriquet · 11/07/2018 11:50

Funny isn't it

We are being told we MUST accept trans women are women. To not do so, is akin to murdering puppies

Yet if we turn round and say I refuse to be known as a cis woman, you may as well just admit to skinning puppies alive

AnyFucker · 11/07/2018 11:47

Excellent article by MrO'Neill there

LittleLebowski · 11/07/2018 11:43

Here’s a tip for male-to-female trans-people and their lefty male allies: if you find yourself insulting a woman because she describes herself as a woman, you’ve lost the plot, and you’ve lost the right to call yourself a progressive person.

Yeah Owen Jones and the rest of the brocialist society.

LaSqrrl · 11/07/2018 11:39

you fucking useless woke versions of the religious police
Grin

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LaSqrrl · 11/07/2018 11:38

Lots of women are seeing the hostile takeover of 'woman', here

"But until you understand that the word ‘woman’ has a meaning already, and it belongs to people like me and that we need it; until you understand that by appropriating that name, you are breaking down the ideas, the representation, the spaces and the services women have fought for for years; until you understand that women are not men, that it is because of men and only because of men that women need distinct ideas, spaces and services, I will be campaigning against your stance."

Loads of women everywhere are waking up, and are saying "no! hell no!"

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arranfan · 11/07/2018 11:11

Linehan: useless woke versions of the religious police

I was thinking about this (albeit slightly different terms) this morning. How the extremists on a continuum (or in hierarchy) will attract all of the publicity as representative of their faith/ideology while others in that space are left thinking, "Not in my name. But, I shouldn't have to state that".

As ever, it's very probably not the majority that people have difficulty with but the extreme viewpoints that garner publicity. But when it's extreme viewpoints that drive a political agenda that raises especial concerns.

IrianOfW · 11/07/2018 11:02

'trans activism looks increasingly like misogyny in drag'

Quite!

TheBiologicalWoman · 11/07/2018 10:57

Alison's spelling is being attacked on Twitter today. Is that all they've got?