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Manchester ReSisters protest at Five Clouds Bar and Tap

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DJLippy · 13/01/2019 13:31

Read all about the protest staged in Macclesfield bar after they banned a member for her “transphobic” T-shirt
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Women stand up!

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Bienchen · 13/01/2019 14:23

Well done, ReSisters! Hats off and t-shirts/hoodies on :)

StarsAndWater · 13/01/2019 14:18

Ha ha to 're-appropriated'. That makes it sound like she's redefining it instead of just putting up the exact dictionary definition as it's been for decades and letting misogynists tie themselves in knots to explain why women being female is transphobic.

Purplewithgreenspots · 13/01/2019 14:15

Reappropriate is quite a telling term. Admits that they were trying to take from us a noun that they had no right to.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 13/01/2019 14:11

In the hilarious Sky interview, a seemingly oblivious Harrap accuses Posie of having appropriated the word woman. Maybe he's the critic they're thinking of.

GrinitchSpinach · 13/01/2019 14:02

Well done, ReSisters! Brave, brave women putting your faces and and bodies out there for visibility. Courage calls to courage everywhere, I hope.

userschmoozer · 13/01/2019 14:01

''re-appropriated''.
''In sociology and cultural studies, reappropriation or reclamation is the cultural process by which a group reclaims terms or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group''

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Bardolino · 13/01/2019 13:44

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"They were assisted in their endeavours by controversial campaigner Posie Parker – the woman who designed the T shirts and runs the organization Standing up for Women. Critics accuse her of transphobia and say she has re-appropriated the dictionary definition of woman to exclude transwomen."
How? How did that definition ever include transwomen?!