Vice: how an online forum for moms became a toxic hotbed of transphobia

And the unimpressed little girl! She looks like me reading this article.

Empress , so liberating your manhood is no longer considered expressing your womanhood??? Someone tell those poor flashers freezing their balls in this cold weather 😂Honestly how has this twaddle managed to get so far, will make for a really interesting study one day.

The range of experience of members is amazing—journalism, PR, law, government and business leadership

Remarkably, the journalist left out the STEM scientists who are also on here, regularly calling bullshit on the 'sex is a spectrum' trope. Would have been too much to acknowledge for their cognitive dissonance, I guess.

Haven't read the article yet, but that picture of Nick Clegg ("Behold! I am your Messiah!") and the bored-looking women is gold.

Hipster

You naughty coder, you

The range of experience of members is amazing—journalism, PR, law, government and business leadership

OK, what is amazing about that? That people work in those 5 occupational types? Five is not really an amazing range? Its a tiny sample of occupations.

That piece is either cut and pastes of stuff that's been said elsewhere over and over, or pathetic drivel like this "amazing range".

Do I have to keep reading? Weak rubbish. It's Trans PR.

Films of the 90s

A reminder of the nature of NUS liberation officers/politics including Jess Bradley first NUS Trans Officer (2016-18), founding member of Action For Trans Health & TELI currently suspended pending investigation for alleged 'flashing' at work and in public places.

Jess Bradley was certainly liberating something. Just not women.

A reminder of the nature of NUS liberation officers/politics including Jess Bradley first NUS Trans Officer (2016-18), founding member of Action For Trans Health & TELI currently suspended pending investigation for alleged 'flashing' at work and in public places.

Jess Bradley's manifesto

Rose of Dawn (transwoman) analyses:
'What Does Co-Opting The Trans Movement Look Like?
Radical far-left activists often co-opt unrelated movements to enforce their ideology on others. Here, I take a look at this phenomenon taking place in the trans community.'

threads:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3325623-Jess-Bradley-a-government-advisor-on-womens-rights-suspended-by-NUS-over-indecent-blog-Part-iii

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3320513-Jess-Bradley-first-transgender-student-officer-suspended-after-flashing-photos

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3321764-Jess-Bradley-suspended-Part-II

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3323623-Who-is-really-funding-Jess-Bradleys-defence

From the previous link:

"We’ve seen a dedicated campaign against culturally appropriative costumes"

But womanface is fine apparently.

Someone said they were curious as to how Eve had been intimidated. Is that something that she wrote about in her article?

I think it was about recipe chat and coded s.

an especially narrow vision of woman hood - that specifically excludes trans women “

It doesn't "specifically exclude" TW. Any more than it "specifically excludes" Boris Johnson or Kanye West.

They just aren't included, by virtue of the fact that they are adult human males, not adult human females.

As littlebrowndog pointed out the sentence by Livingston is absurd but along with The Tranish Inquistion has made me laugh out loud this week. Comedy gold.

She needs to take her own advice:

Allies should be wary of how much space they are taking up in conversation about liberation activism, and in who they might be speaking over when they choose to talk. You should also try to educate yourself instead of demanding the time and energy of those affected to educate you – often oppressed people are expected to take on this labour, another burden caused by their oppression. Many people from oppressed groups have written clearly and comprehensively about these issues, and the vast majority of these resources are available freely online.

evelivingston.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/liberation-activism-101-toolkit.pdf

As someone said upthread, she's being well and truly played.

Some good Twitter responses from @marstrina

twitter.com/marstrina/status/1070996564146044928?s=20

And glosswitch

twitter.com/glosswitch/status/1071002183792017408?s=20

NB You need to scroll down to SD’s recipe. It’s the one with the condensed milk.

You'll notice that Eve's liberation activism never includes anything that could possibly challenge extant oppressive power structures. It's all about bad taste fancy dress costumes. God forbid Eve should ever attempt to challenge actual power in any way.

The vast majority of silent transpeople need to start doing something like contacting their MPs sharpish. Policies are been made for the 'vocal few'.

This ^^

Pretty broad definition of womanhood I'd say: "being an adult human female"

Female is the least diverse of all the sexes.

I've been wondering who are the TRA's with media contacts who have generated/encouraged this recent flurry of 'anti-mumsnet' articles.

There's often a 'parent of a trans child' (may of course likely be a number of parents wanting to comment on their experience) but can't help wondering if one set of parents are especially well-connected.

Remaining anonymous of course makes it impossible for journalists etc to know how frequently an individual might be quoted.

Why, the ur-recipe for flapjacks is to be learned from this very place!

SoupDragon be praised!

*Does anyone have a good recipe for flapjacks? A far better use of porridge oars in my opinion"

I just mix up anything I can find in the cupboard. Sometimes it's fabulous. (Often not, don't use shreddies)

The vast majority of silent transpeople need to start doing something like contacting their MPs sharpish. Policies are been made for the 'vocal few'.

an especially narrow vision of woman hood - that specifically excludes trans women

Pretty broad definition of womanhood I'd say: "being an adult human female". Includes all kinds of personalities, all kind of tastes, all kinds of behaviours. Why the fuck anyone thinks it's narrow and sexist to say "my reproductive system makes me female" but groundbreaking and inclusive to say "my inherently passive and empathising brain and taste for dresses and fluffy things makes me female" beats me.

Anyway must dash, I'm a mom now so I need to stop doing all this thinking and coo harmlessly over some Sudocrem.

“ an especially narrow vision of woman hood - that specifically excludes trans women “ - writes Livingston

That's what womanhood is, you plank.

Interesting that nowhere does Eve define what Eve thinks woman and womanhood actually are.

Seems to be a remarkable oversight.

Lol you fucker!