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Jane Face, Aimee Challenor and Dr Harrop joking about women smelling of fish.

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DJLippy · 15/10/2018 13:29

Anyone been following the latest with Sticker woman in Manchester? Last weekend she was busy flyering in the gay village and caused quite an uproar the next day. You can catch up what happened here. It ended up with GMP tweeting in support of 'No Terfs on our Turf.'

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3387573-Greater-Manchester-Police-Pride-Network-supports-No-T-on-our-turf

Yesterday it seemed sticker woman hit back with a couple of strongly worded posters.

Now the TRA types are playing dumb confused about the 'women smell of fish' slur.' I will leave this tweet here because it's unbelievable to me that prominent members of the trans rights movement would be crass enough to make light of this. Women smelling of fish is woman hate 101. It's probably not a good idea to make a load of fish based puns in response is it?

To me this really underlines how these people are not women. Every woman has been made to feel ashamed of her own body and her own odours. This is not funny it just makes them look like misogynistic men.

twitter.com/JaneFae/status/1051586631441022982

Jane Face, Aimee Challenor and Dr Harrop joking about women smelling of fish.
Jane Face, Aimee Challenor and Dr Harrop joking about women smelling of fish.
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Sashkin · 15/10/2018 15:49

I’ve only every heard it from gay men, aimed at women as a class. Never heard it from straight men, never heard it directed at anybody specific. Just dismissal of all women as disgusting sub-humans with revolting vulvas.

Obviously NAGMALT/misogynists, but an unpleasantly high number of the ones who are vocal on Twitter seem to be. I seem to remember Stephen Fry tweeting something similar during one of his off periods.

LangCleg · 15/10/2018 15:38

Colour me shocked to see bog standard misogyny. They can't even manage a bit of originality, can they?

Elephantinacravat · 15/10/2018 15:29

Gosh, fish, fishy fanny, fish supper, fishy fingers: all totally mainstream insults against girls and women that I have heard from years ago. I don't know if it is a specific insult from gay men towards lesbians as well, but certainly used by teenage boys about their female peers, and by straight blokes I know as well. Is it something specific that sticker woman is referring to? Either way, Fae's faux innocence about the insult and the subsequent puns are pretty grim in any context.

I have to say, I read that first poster and almost cheered out loud!

hackmum · 15/10/2018 15:14

Surely noone believes that bollocks?

They don't believe it for one moment. The one thing that's become apparent about TRAs is that lying comes to them as naturally as breathing.

On the other hand, great to see little AImee Challenor has bounced back from the trauma of having a convicted paedophile for a father.

breastfeedingclownfish · 15/10/2018 15:13

And they want us to believe that Jane Fae and Aimee Challenor are women?

The contempt for women from all three is palpable. Disgusting individuals.

FermatsTheorem · 15/10/2018 15:04

He’s got a stethoscope and everything.

Yes, much as I would like to believe that he bought a toy stethoscope from "Instagram Props R Us", he is (unfortunately for his female patients) a fully qualified doctor.

Having said that he won't be the first raving misogynist to go into medicine - I've met some doozies in my time (and the GP who dealt with students from my all-female college was positively creepy as well as misogynistic... his go-to diagnosis for everything was pregnancy.)

PersonWithAVulva · 15/10/2018 15:04

Also the pretending they don't know that fish has been used as an insult against women since..well forever is just ridiculous. I could ask my stepsons class, year 7 about that and they would know for gods sake! The faux innocence whilst being misogynistic pricks is just ridiculous.

PersonWithAVulva · 15/10/2018 15:02

funded by right wing anti abortion groups..yeah right. Surely noone believes that bollocks? Hmm I mean, its fairly easy to search for crowd funders by FPFW and see that most of the donations are in small amounts, fivers, tenners, a few fiftys and that. So do these anti abortion groups sit and create thousands of accounts on gofund me so they can donate little amounts until FPFW meet their goal!?

Shiklah · 15/10/2018 15:01

I am sure that media appointment fees and coveting a spot on TV has nothing to do with Harrops interest in supporting trans women.......... It seems likely he is planning to open a costly advisory service to 'support' schools, hospitals, prisons etc with the changes he he trying to push thru doesn't it?

hipsterfun · 15/10/2018 14:54

He’s got a stethoscope and everything.

gendercritter · 15/10/2018 14:52

*is

gendercritter · 15/10/2018 14:52

He absolutely in a medical doctor, unfortunately

hipsterfun · 15/10/2018 14:33

Microflora of the penile skin-lined neovagina of transsexual women

Our study is the first to describe the microflora of the penile skin-lined neovagina of transsexual women. It reveals a mixed microflora of aerobe and anaerobe species usually found either on the skin, in the intestinal microflora or in a BV microflora.

So, right back atcha, really Grin

I’m quite happy with my lower female genital tract and its commensal microflora that primarily consists of lactobacilli which confer antimicrobial protection to the vagina... [and] the vaginal epithelium and its associated mucous layers [which] help to regulate and support the intrinsic bacterial and mucosal defense system.

HollowTalk · 15/10/2018 14:32

He can't be a medical doctor! Wouldn't he have to follow rules regarding social media?

Shiklah · 15/10/2018 14:29

I assumed "Dr Harrop" was a PhD Dr but he's a medical Dr? A GP on the NHS payroll telling women to 'get fucked'? WTF???!

HamiltonCork · 15/10/2018 14:12

That must be so reassuring for any women who has to visit Dr Harrop. He really is completely unsuited to his profession.

DJLippy · 15/10/2018 14:09

Or having sex with a fish.

hahhahhaaahaaa True dat

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VickyEadie · 15/10/2018 14:05

A medically qualified doctor joins in and also adds the 'they can go f* themselves'.

The NHS should be proud...

AspieAndProud · 15/10/2018 14:05

He knew so little about women’s bodies, even though he wanted to become a woman, that he didn’t realise that we don’t smell of fish, and his odour was presumably either due to poor hygiene, or some kind of infection.

Or having sex with a fish.

AspieAndProud · 15/10/2018 14:03

The tweets should be reported. How is this any different from making monkey puns about black people and pretending that you were ignorant of the history of that kind of abuse?

LemonJello · 15/10/2018 14:00

Jane is clearly desperate to say what they really think about women. They believe this is an acceptable way they can do that.

Floisme · 15/10/2018 13:56

It kind of make me hope one of them will be on Woman's Hour tomorrow....

SlowlyShrinking · 15/10/2018 13:55

I can’t remember where I saw it, but there was a man who’d just started taking oestrogen who said he was really pleased that he was becoming more like a woman because his penis had started to smell of fish 🤮 He knew so little about women’s bodies, even though he wanted to become a woman, that he didn’t realise that we don’t smell of fish, and his odour was presumably either due to poor hygiene, or some kind of infection.

littlbrowndog · 15/10/2018 13:54

Well you know we are the one thing that they cut bits off their bodies and take hormones to be and dress like they think we dress
How strange.
You would think they would be our allies instead of using guy insults
Strange that

OvaHere · 15/10/2018 13:52

Honestly she should sue for all this funded by the US right wing. I would totally support a crowdfunding for that.

They can't bear that ordinary UK women came together in support sparing what small amounts of money they could.

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