This is extremely serious and I am asking all the brilliant women of MN FWR not to keep handing power to someone by giving them the attention that is fuelling their behaviour
I don’t disagree, floral, and you’re absolutely right that we should try not to inflame the situation, but...
The persecution is happening in Hayden’s head. The “transphobia” exists in Hayden’s head. The outrage is totally manufactured by Hayden and Harrow, so to a large extent it doesn’t matter a whit if there was one post complaining about it here, or thousands, because to Hayden, the effect is the same. The injury is the same. Because it’s not about what we do here, it’s that we exist. Hayden was barred from here for violating the talk guidelines, but insists that it was “transphobia”, because that is Hayden’s perception of what happened.
Harassment and abuse is enabled by silence, by not wanting to be seen to be making a fuss, and one of the reasons I think they go for Caroline so much is that she just won’t be silenced like a good little girl, she won’t slink away embarrassed by what they’re doing. And why should she? She’s playing a rigged game where one side won’t play by the rules, so she’s right to not just roll over.