Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Feminism: chat

Original poster

Reading Pride

185 replies

JellySlice · 31/08/2018 12:18

Looks like I'm going with my 15yo and her friends to Pride tomorrow. They are naive rainbow-swallowing trans-allies, and I am a gender-critical liberal (small-L). I am not going to spoil their fun or embarrass dd, I am simply there as their discreet chaperone.

But...

Should I, still discreet, do something...more?

Suggestions...?

OP posts:
HavingALittleBabyToolshed · 31/08/2018 15:26

Stay safe OP.

Original poster
JellySlice · 31/08/2018 15:25

I have no intention of doing anything big. Discreet, as I said. I will not upset, embarrass or endanger dd or her friends.

I have involvement with transitioners of various sorts and degrees and I 100% support their rights to self-expression, safety and autonomy. However I also 100% support the rights of females to self-expression, safety and autonomy.

I do not support one group's forceful imposition of their ideology upon another group.

OP posts:
littlbrowndog · 31/08/2018 15:20

👀👀

Sheesh seeing transphobia everywhere

HavingALittleBabyToolshed · 31/08/2018 15:18

Lesbians are always welcome

As long as they suck dick, apparently.

HavingALittleBabyToolshed · 31/08/2018 15:18

I don't. And neither does any lesbian I know. And neither do trans activists. The big obsession with penises is here on FWR.

An yet I and lots of my friends who are L and B have been told we must include T in our dating circles or be labelled bigots.

HavingALittleBabyToolshed · 31/08/2018 15:15

I don’t see transphobia in the OP. She wants to protest, as I see it, an agenda unrelated to sexuality over taking a pride event, to the detriment of a founding group of the movement. I think that is fair enough, I do however think it is a bad idea to do this solo and pre-publicise it.

jasminemaya · 31/08/2018 15:14

The OP.

littlbrowndog · 31/08/2018 15:11

Oi oi jasmine.

Who is the transphobe?

NameChangedAgain18 · 31/08/2018 15:10

Its doesn't seem to be up to intelligent women (or the Oxford English Dictionary for that matter) to define what a women is either.

Heaven forbid. There are people better qualified than us to to that. People with penises.

LadybirdsAreBirds · 31/08/2018 15:09

bingo!

jasminemaya · 31/08/2018 15:08

ColePorter teenage lesbians in the real world know the only people obsessed with ladydicks are here on FWR.

LadybirdsAreBirds · 31/08/2018 15:07

Its doesn't seem to be up to intelligent women (or the Oxford English Dictionary for that matter) to define what a women is either.

ColePorter · 31/08/2018 15:05

jasmine I doubt you'll change any minds on this thread, especially if you're addressing mothers of lesbian teens - young adults who have been brave enough to come out to their families, expressing a same sex preference. Mothers, such as myself, will want to defend my child's burgeoning sexuality and maturity from potential harm.

If she says she likes girls, then my 15 year old does not mean ladydicks.

littlbrowndog · 31/08/2018 15:04

Who is the transphobe then ?

littlbrowndog · 31/08/2018 15:03

Same out insult trotted out again and again

jasminemaya · 31/08/2018 15:03

Lol it's not up to transphobes to define transphobia!

littlbrowndog · 31/08/2018 15:02

Blah blah blah transphobic

We hear it so many times here. It’s kinda lost it’s insult cos I never seen a transphobic thing here

AbsintheFriends · 31/08/2018 15:01

Lesbians are always welcome

As long as they have pert silicone boobs and stay quiet?

jasminemaya · 31/08/2018 14:58

Pride isn't the place for transphobia.

Lesbians are always welcome.

AbsintheFriends · 31/08/2018 14:58

I'd be tempted to take some small stickers (freezer labels would do) stating solidarity with lesbians to put discreetly in the women's loos. I imagine there will be a few lesbians there who'll feel sidelined and vulnerable.

ColePorter · 31/08/2018 14:57

As mum of a lesbian teen, I would go along to support my DD.

But she won't have me go with her because a) I'm Mum so by definition I am embarrassing and b) she thinks I'm a TERF because I agree with scientific fact.

We're at an impasse in this household Hmm

DD had planned to go to Reading Pride, but her friends are busy and thankfully it's likely that she won't be going any more.

Go along to support your DD, but if it were me, I would keep quiet to preserve my relationship with DD. Sad but true.

littlbrowndog · 31/08/2018 14:56

Lesbians don’t like them either in unexpected areas

littlbrowndog · 31/08/2018 14:55

I like penises of an evening

But not in unexpected places

Original poster
JellySlice · 31/08/2018 14:54

No, clearly Pride is not the place for lesbians Sad

OP posts:
jasminemaya · 31/08/2018 14:53

It's all about context thatdamnwoman and Pride isn't the place.

As another poster pointed out it's not a good look.

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

Join Mumsnet Log In

This thread is closed and is no longer accepting replies. Click here to start a new thread.