Aimee Challenor's resignation

In fact I'm starting a thread - his silence is shameful

Just want to say that Green Party Co leader merrily continued to post right up until yesterday evening, jolly little tweets about eco get together replete with exclamation marks etc. No mention of the case, no tweeting of the Green party statement, no respectful 'this has happening, thoughts with victim, party will be issuing statements etc.'. He is getting off scott free. Absolute no acknowledgment that a green party HQ was a paedophile torture chamber.

I know KataraJean. You’d think the party that wants to improve the environment would want women on their side (all the non-men according to them). After all natal women are more than half the global population, they tend to make the household purchasing decisions and some of them even have jobs now where they can influence things /s

Good to see the GP are doing so well with their aims that they can afford to piss off more than half the population.

The trans activism agenda does not make sense as an environmental policy, regardless of anything else. We know hormones in the water system are affecting wildlife; we know plastic in the oceans are killing fish; we know consumerism is bad for the environment- and the trans agenda seems about consumerism of things which we want to be cutting down on, not increasing use of.

"How can someone with such a deeply troubled background have been allowed to run for deputy leader of a major political party, at 20"

Not just their background. Their behaviour as a party member like trying to get court injunctions against another Green Party member who wanted to speak against self ID, that should have been a disciplinary offence. Like being the LGBT rep but showing such contempt for lesbians, should have shown they were unfit for office. Like creating the terfblocker list, anti-woman and anti-democratic.

Where are the Green Party's standards ? They are dazzled by the TRAs and all sense goes out of the window.

Because of brave and stunning innit.

Whereas Mhairi Black has been called a cunt many, many times for her efforts.

Now who have I just seen use that word...?

Also Mhairi Black wasn't thrust into positions of power, she WON election in her own right, whereas Aimee has just been given jobs on the basis of nothing.

calpop this story is many layers of troubling, and life-changingly horrendous for the victim. But even without the crimes of her father, there was surely already enough for the GP to steer Aimee towards pastoral care. If she is 20 now, how old was Aimee when she started advising Stonewall?

It is not comparable with Mhairi Black who was studying a Politics degree and already very active in the party she stood for (and I don’t know much about her, but she seems capable for the job even at a young age).

It is Radical when my beliefs are really quite basic and ordinary - now heading into Orwell territory!

I know! The Overton window is badly skewed.

Thank you. I have never seen that term before. Possibly because the ‘rationale’ behind it is really stretching credulity? There are more fuckwits out there than I thought.

My position on feminism is fast evolving. I’ve always believed in equality, like many people wasn’t crazy about the baggage that went with the word feminism, but now I fit the definition of a radical feminist.

It is Radical when my beliefs are really quite basic and ordinary - now heading into Orwell territory!

Will be interesting to see their take on all this.

SWERF is a derogatory term used by proponents of the rape trade (predominantly people who either use or profit from it) to discredit women who support the Nordic model or who think that prostituted women and girls should be offered support to exit the trade.

It's misogynist propaganda often used by the same people who call women TERFs

Uncreative

RF's see women in the "sex industry" as mostly victims of male dominance and control. Absolutely no RF's blame women for being in that position but, in an attempt to paint us as "exclusionary", the "sex pozzies" have attempted to paint us as such - hence SWERF. Yet another slur against us in our fight for the liberation of all women.

Truth is, no sex workers are excluded.

It's cognitive dissonance at its finest.

Isn't it though? And we even have to comply with it here otherwise.... banhammer !!
None of it makes any proper sense to a rational human being...

What does SWERF even mean?

Thanks for explaining the acronym but I still don’t get it. In what way are sex workers excluded?

How can someone with such a deeply troubled background have been allowed to run for deputy leader of a major political party, at 20? It astounds me. The court proceedings from the social services involvement, which are in the public domain and there for anyone to read, never mind the GP, make it clear that AC was fostered and adopted as a child due to parental neglect and that both parents were accused of Muchaushens Syndrome by proxy and made up medical issues for all the children, taking them to multiple unecessary medical appointments. The court questioned whether this would have an effect on the mental health of the children, including AC, and suggested they may suffer from PTSD as a result.

A few short years later AC is "a woman trapped in a man's body" whose father has been jailed for extreme abuse and paedophilia. None of this is AC's fault of course but, christ, I'd expect a 20y old who'd been through all that to be having some serious counseling, not running for leadership of a political party and being allowed to influence policy on what is nornal and acceptable around sexual identity. Astounding.

I'm the same with the female pronouns. It's messing with my head when faced with someone who looks like a bloke, talks like a bloke, behaves like a bloke but says they're a woman and you have to call them by a female name and use a female pronoun or else you're discriminating against them.

It's cognitive dissonance at its finest.

SWERF = sex worker exclusionary RF

From daily mail below quoting
Aimee Challenor, 20, named her father, David, as her agent when she ran for Parliament in last year’s General Election and in council elections in May.

By then she knew the 50-year-old had been charged with abusing a ten-year-old girl held captive and forced to perform sex acts in the attic of the family home he shared with the aspiring politician.

What is a ‘SWERF’ please?

FucksGiven Aimee had her father as Agent AFTER knowing the allegations. And presumably being aware of the previous convictions. And returned home to live with father and complicit (or at least aware) mother after allegations were made.

And the Green Party allowed it all to happen. No due diligence at all.