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Prominent New Zealand lawyer calls GC women 'anti trans whores'.

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Tipmeover · 26/01/2019 11:19

I have never started a thread on mumsnet but I am so angry I have had to as I can't see it mentioned in other threads and it is my (small) stand.

Earlier today Steph Dyhrberg, a prominent lawyer in NZ , a self proclaimed 'stroppy feminist' and the 2018 WELLINGTONIAN OF THE YEAR, in a now deleted tweet, called GC women 'anti trans whores'. She subsequently apologised for the word, saying 'it was demeaning to sex workers'.

I am so disappointed? enraged? consumed by this - a woman calls another woman a whore because she believes sex is a definable biological category. It is utterly awful.

I still feel a sense of shock I guess that we have ended up here.

twitter.com/msbedlam_caz/status/1088970084616351745

twitter.com/StephDyhrberg/status/1088974661507985410

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TowelNumber42 · 26/01/2019 12:34

What was she even reacting to in the first place?

Popchyk · 26/01/2019 12:33

No, because women who don't bow to the transgender cult are not worthy of an apology. Clearly.

Those remarks are just staggeringly unprofessional, apart from everything else.

Speakup4WomenNZ could consider legal action against Steph of course.

Oxytocindeficient · 26/01/2019 12:33

TornFromTheInside exactly

TornFromTheInside · 26/01/2019 12:31

And what of gender critical men?
Why single out women for vitriol?
Because her anger isn't at gender criticism, it's at some other women.

ChewyLouie · 26/01/2019 12:21

Spit on Angry, her slavish trans devotion triggered a rant against biological women and in that moment her worst insult was whore. No critique of the GC stance but the word whore to silence people of her own biological class.
She may use the term sex workers but clearly this employment lawyer regards them with contempt.

Racecardriver · 26/01/2019 12:21

Can’t be a very good lawyer can she? Can you imagine her in a court room? ‘I don’t agree with what you think so you’re a whore! If you allow the claim to proceed then you will also be a whore your honour!’

Datun · 26/01/2019 12:20

Gender critical women are whores (and should take up um knitting). But that's demeaning to sex workers. Why? Does she think sex workers are 'whores'?

I think she wins the prize for managing to insult most women, all at once.

Oxytocindeficient · 26/01/2019 12:20

Also interested in whether or not she’s broken any professional standards and if she can be reported for this disgusting abusive behaviour.

BrylcreamBeret · 26/01/2019 12:18

popchyk Not really an apology to the intended targets of her vile comment is it?

Oxytocindeficient · 26/01/2019 12:18

fuck off Steph. Go listen to some Whina Cooper. When men told her she couldn’t speak, in her words and in front of thousands at a hui:
‘ I lifted my skirts and reminded them where they all came from’

Fuck you Steph and your woman hating views, from an indigenous woman of Aotearoa.

ReflectentMonatomism · 26/01/2019 12:15

Being a prominent lawyer in NZ isn’t even like being big in Birmingham. The West Midlands has a million more people and London down the road. It’s hardly yer teemin’ metropolitan intellectual melting pot.

AngryAttackKittens · 26/01/2019 12:10

Also, if you consider yourself a "sex positive" sort of person who thinks "sex work is work" etc why would you use "whore" as an insult? If it's just a job like any other job, why would you throw it at someone who you're angry with? Methinks that our friend gave away more about her true attitude than she intended to there.

ChewyLouie · 26/01/2019 12:06

A female employment lawyer using the word ‘whore’ to insult biological women who don’t submit to the fallacy of XY=XX. Numpty.
If ‘whores’ are sexual ‘workers’ then I take it NZ pimps ensure their workers have full employment rights. Sick leave, maternity pay, annual leave etc. No? She’s got some work to do there.
Maybe she is an employment lawyer specialising in the support of misogynists only, females are advised to take their cases elsewhere? Who on earth would engage someone with such contempt for biological women!

AngryAttackKittens · 26/01/2019 12:01

That "demeaning to sex workers" comment was just childish. Apparently she's the Kevin the Teenager of the legal system.

TornFromTheInside · 26/01/2019 11:47

Not only the use of that word, but she subsequently then claims it's demeaning to sex workers, which implies she thinks even less of GC women.
Disgusting for anybody to use that term, but unsurprising.
For a lawyer to use it, in public, is utterly idiotic. Who would want to be represented by such a bigot, let alone such a stupid one?

Tipmeover · 26/01/2019 11:46

Yes exactly AAK! She is a lawyer for christ's sake - how on earth did she think she could say this on a public forum?

How could she believe she is a feminist and yet her first instinct is to call women who disagree with her 'whores'

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LangCleg · 26/01/2019 11:39

Good goddess.

AngryAttackKittens · 26/01/2019 11:38

Chapter One -Why We Don't Use Misogynistic Insults When Women Say Things We Don't Like

Trinity1976 · 26/01/2019 11:37

Steph has announced she is taking a break from Twitter to read a book entitled "Growing up feminist in Aotearoa".

Let us all hope she learns something.

SimplySteve · 26/01/2019 11:35

Isn't Steph wonderful... Hmm

These twats need to stop labelling people. They are people ffs, not pawns to be used to fight a war. Recent history crystallises this.

Act like a twat, get treated like one.

Popchyk · 26/01/2019 11:35

Steph has apologised.

"I apologise for the word because it was demeaning to sex workers".

twitter.com/StephDyhrberg/status/1088974661507985410

AngryAttackKittens · 26/01/2019 11:35

I'd think even the most politically apathetic person might wonder why a supposed feminist is calling other women whores.

Knicknackpaddyflak · 26/01/2019 11:33

LOL

wheels on fire, rolling down the road...…

Crack on Steph. We couldn't ask for better evidence of extremist batshit likely to make any normal person think wtf are these people on?

Cwenthryth · 26/01/2019 11:32

Steph’s twitter bio says they’re a partner so I guess employ themselves. They might be in breach of professional codes of conduct though I’m guessing.

Steph might identify as a feminist, but that statement is not in any way a feminist thing to say.

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Prominent New Zealand lawyer calls GC women 'anti trans whores'.
BettyDuMonde · 26/01/2019 11:30

I’m guessing the ‘now deleted’ means actual feminists served her her own twitter arse on a twitter plate?

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