Lily Madigan's feminist mission

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Alicethroughtheblackmirror · 07/09/2018 22:41

Sorry, I mentioned this on another post today, but it stayed with me because I find it very disturbing.

Trawling through the posts of our favourite women's officer earlier (to find a comment or apology on Karen White-surprise! There was none) I found this thread offering to retweet anyone asking for financial support for surgery or other financial assistance.

<a class="break-all" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/madigan_lily/status/1034745464254619648mobile.twitter.com/madigan_lily/status/1034745464254619648" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mobile.twitter.com/madigan_lily/status/1034745464254619648mobile.twitter.com/madigan_lily/status/1034745464254619648

Aside from the fact that most of these were in the US and therefore a little removed from the vicinity of Rochester (which might, arguably, be Lily's first concern), many of these people were very young, some had been abused and some had clear mental health concerns.

Lily wasn't asking for better MH provision or shelters for abused teens as any decent person would. Lily was asking for people to scan the smiley photos and desperate begging letters of very vulnerable people and offer them cash - presumably for solely altruistic reasons.

Lilly, apparently, thinks this is a "feminist issue" . I do too, but not for the same reasons.

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FloralBunting · 07/09/2018 23:09

I really, really don't understand this. There are some very clearly vulnerable people in that thread. I think the euphemisms are what probably make my flesh creep. All the young women who want 'top surgery', and especially the slightly petulant one who has parents who could 'definitely help me if they wanted' but are so anti-trans. On the one hand it is clearly an emotionally troubled young person at least, and on the other it's basically someone from a background of privilege having a tantrum because they haven't got their own way.

But seriously? What kind of aspiring politician posts a thread for people to beg for surgery cash? One who also posts begging for people to give them clothes, I suppose.

Not for the first time, I find myself feeling very sorry for Lily, and I kind of understand why the handmaidens flock to soothe Lily. LM does exude a kind of naïve, childish rebellious air which betrays their lack of any useful incisive political skill and makes them come across as much younger than they are. Sort of like a fragile, brittle doll with a mean streak.

newtlover · 07/09/2018 22:55

bizarre
this is just begging

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Alicethroughtheblackmirror · 07/09/2018 22:44

I'm rubbish at this

mobile.twitter.com/madigan_lily/status/1034745464254619648

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ABitCrapper · 07/09/2018 22:44

I get "page doesn't exist"

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