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Leeds WPUK cancelled

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LiverpoolReSisters · 28/09/2018 16:54

IMPORTANT NOTICE - It is with regret that we have to announce that our meeting in Leeds cannot go ahead due to late and unreasonable cancellation. We will be emailing attendees shortly with more information. We condemn this act of silencing women. More to follow.

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2Rebecca · 08/09/2019 09:20

Agree the tshirt looks silly on a man. It looks as though he is self IDing as a female and claiming to be trans. A good example of why self ID is nonsense. People will look at the tshirt and just roll their eyes

Ereshkigal · 08/09/2019 08:39

Gosh, there’s a lot of words on that t-shirt. I’m sure it would have been cheaper just to have dictionary definition of men printed instead.

I don't get it, he's not trans is he? So surely all he is doing is proving how ridiculous self ID is, if any obvious bloke can wear that t shirt?

MockersthefeMANist · 08/09/2019 08:34

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19:

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20 (1):

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

Kilbranan · 08/09/2019 08:30

If I said what I really think about that person I’d be banned. What a creep though, and a bully.

KatvonHostileExtremist · 08/09/2019 08:29

I don't think he's huge. I think (based on photos of someone I believe to be him screaming at a group of women) he's quite short.

Huge widthways? I'll give you that.

SlowasaSnail · 08/09/2019 07:53

Gosh, there’s a lot of words on that t-shirt. I’m sure it would have been cheaper just to have dictionary definition of men printed instead.

JessicaWakefieldSV · 08/09/2019 07:12

I’m also puzzled... am I the only one that picked up RJFirths disgusting and intentional rewrite of pombear to pornbear

God they just reveal so much about who they are don’t they?

JessicaWakefieldSV · 08/09/2019 07:10

They seriously wear t shirts thst day transwomen are adult human females? Well that’s doing our job for us! The ordinary person on the street would laugh at that

NonnyMouse1337 · 08/09/2019 00:42

Yeah it's great peak trans fodder. 'Female' penises and men who are 'lesbian' will make any member of the general public go 'huh?!' Grin

Burnernamechange · 08/09/2019 00:22

In the long run, I have to believe they're an asset, though. Because when normal people who aren't aware of the issue see it, the first reaction is usually 'you fucking WHAT?'

zebrasdontwearbras · 07/09/2019 23:59

When men protest lesbians, when men chant "I'd rather be a pervert than a terf" (well of course you would! We know your sort! and you hate feminists Hmm ) when men claim to be lesbians, when men claim women can have penises, when men claim feminism should include them - then you know something had gone badly wrong.

AnyOldPrion · 07/09/2019 23:47

It’s intimidation when huge blokes like that come out to protest against women’s right to gather peacefully.

Fallingirl · 07/09/2019 23:07

That we should live to see the day, when men protest lesbians under thebanner of wokeness.

littlbrowndog · 07/09/2019 23:03

Cripes

Campervan69 · 07/09/2019 22:58

There were a lot of males out today in Leeds protesting against lesbians having their own march

Here is one from @TheGreenParty

This lesbophobia and misogynistic behaviour should have no place in the party

#LesbianStrengthMarch

Leeds WPUK cancelled
pombear · 08/10/2018 22:55

Oh Richard.

See what I said further down the thread, about how many of us are mums and recognise patterns of behaviour?

Like I said before,

  • your publicly available spat over Leeds WPUK LCC fiasco
  • your 'he said/she said' changing stories,
  • your they did it, it wasn't me, they staged it all probably'
  • and now your 'we'd already won, that's why we didn't go'
is sooo reminiscent of handling younger children when they're trying to backtrack to drawing on the wall, pooing in the garden, or pulling someone's hair.

Your latest post sounds like someone in Bristol has had a bit of a 'parent to child' chat with you, and you're now at the stage of it wasn't me at all, I was just standing on the sidelines, accidentally slipped and fell with my fist out.

I'm less interested in your 'beef' with WPUK - more interested in your 'beef' against women and girls rights vs trans demands for privileges that trample over those women's and girl's rights.

If transwomen are 'women' and therefore just, well, women, you seem extremely quiet on your campaiging for women.

Just passionate about transwomen.

Who we should all accept are apparently women. So shouldn't need additional campaigning for over and above women's campaigns, because they are, just, women.

Or maybe they're not?

KatVonGulag · 08/10/2018 22:33

Oh hiya Richard
Well done for highlighting this issue to a much wider audience. That's what you get for attempting to shut down free speech.
Star

littlbrowndog · 08/10/2018 22:32

What about the salty terf tears we saw you gloating about
Jeez

KatVonGulag · 08/10/2018 22:32

stroppy
They really did the conga? Around a small group of women?
That's utterly ludicrous behaviour.

RJFirth · 08/10/2018 22:23

Sorry I was down in Bristol for conference and only got back this afternoon.

pornbear
Getting the meeting shut down was never my intent; I just planned to protest it. I didn't even know there was an organised protest until the week before.
I was a bit surprised when the venue turned out to be Civic Hall. I'd narrowed it down to a few pubs and ironically the Victoria Hotel was in my top 3 likely places. I was the quickest to social media, dropped the location details to our group and Jess Lennox happened to see it and sent e-mails and the rest is history.

My beef with WPUK is that in the past they have given a platform to speakers who have made anti-trans comments.

WichBitchHarpyTerfThatsMe · 06/10/2018 14:19

High 5 Stroppy!

StroppyWoman · 05/10/2018 14:26

WichBitchHarpy It was really noticeable, wasn't it, the change in the TRA behaviour as we left? So little self-awareness.

After we'd done the protest and taken some photos PLUS secured another venue, we took down the banners and ribbons and packed them away. We were halfway through doing that then they started chanting "Terfs, go home" and cheering as if it were a victory.
Like, dudes, we ARE going. You're literally watching us pack up. Yelling GO HOME to people in the process of going home is like yelling "And stay out" to someone who left.

We left in small groups via different routes to the pub. Once they had more than double our numbers, they suddenly got all bold, and started doing the conga around us. Big, brave TRAs, getting close to the middle aged women once most had left. It was so juvenile.

I've done plenty of protesting in my time, and it was pitiful display.

D- Could Try Harder.

homoseXXualmum · 05/10/2018 12:06

theculturevulture.co.uk/conversations/debate-leeds-city-council-censor-strikes-again/ Has anyone read this one?

WichBitchHarpyTerfThatsMe · 05/10/2018 00:03

The irony and ignorance of Leeds CC is beyond words.

MipMipMip · 04/10/2018 23:17

Just saw on the news about the Leeds celebration of light and their suffragette parade. Angry