Parliamentary committee Joanna Cherry SNP MP & QC challenge to Twitter representative about abuse of women / 'terf' / why sex is not protected characteristic

Ironic that the Twitter rep is getting a taste of what it feels like to be thrown under the boss by men.

Psuedo I agree that the SNP are all over the place with this. I noticed another SMP is liking and retweeting her Tweets, so it clearly isn’t just Joanna.

blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/at-last-an-mp-brave-enough-to-say-twitter-hates-women/

She is my local MP. I have never voted for her based on her and the SNPs position on independence. I was however so pleased and massively impressed with her performance on this and taking a stand, that I have sent a letter of thanks. SNP is all over the place with this...Joanna and Joan certainly standing against the party view which is unheard of. Sturgeon appears to have drink the koolaid.

Well that's upset the angry children on twitter.

It has. Don’t know how long this’ll last, but I reported all the gun pointing picks on the Helen Lewis thread. Took a while, but this was the result. Done similar today on Joanna’s thread.

Totally brave and f*cking stunning!

Thank you Joanna for using your position to expose the outrageous hypocrisy and instigate the changes that will hopefully see an end to it. Big respect and adoration.

They're just proving her point over and over.

Wildly irrational, furious and unhinged.

Omg, that tweet ahag posted. 😂

Twitter woman wasn’t useless. She did exactly what she was paid to do. 😡🤬

Joanna Cherry ❤️

Joanna Cherry was awesome. 'Puzzled' up the bloody wazoo over twitters rank and blatant misogyny.

She even invoked a head tilt !

And that twitter tweenie kept answering the 'what about sex' question with well we have gender and gender identity. Which is entirely different and not a protected characteristic, ffs.

I can't work out if she knew and was fudging or just ignorant.

And yes - it's telling how relieved one is over basic, really bloody basic, pro female support.

Well that's upset the angry children on twitter.

Thank you Joanna.

twitter.com/joannaccherry/status/1123658197749858304

That was amazing.
I see BBC have covered this and completely missed the point of Joanna's fantastic questioning
BBC News - Facebook and Twitter grilled over abuse faced by MPs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48118566

Joanna Cherry was amazing. How refreshing to hear an MP standing up for actual females, instead of shouting TWAW. The female sex has been bullied and harassed for too long and finally an MP is pointing out that only those with the Y chromosome can belong to the female SEX. Transwomen who self identify as the belonging to the stereotypical gender of women should be protected, but not at the expense of those females who are of the sex known as women.

Ah that was fantastic. Thank you Joanna!

What a pathetic performance from that woman from twitter. I would ask how on earth someone of such limited capability has got a job at a level where she's the one put before MPs, but actually, I think it just further demonstrates how poor twitter are on misogyny, they obviously don't place any importance on it at all.

Seems to me the Twitter rep was a lamb sent to the slaughter by her (no doubt male) bosses. She had no idea and at times I felt sorry for her. Plus, I think she believes sex and gender are the same thing. Joanna Cherry was brilliant.

The Twitter rep did say she was meeting Caroline and the Journalist-sorry can’t remember her name. That meeting should be very interesting.

Was interesting the Twitter rep said they were communicating with women's groups about the misogyny on there. Tbh unless the women's groups are GC that's unlikely to help. Any chance FPFW or similar can insist on being consulted?

Joanna was excellent. I'm so glad this is getting the airing it deserves.

The twitter rep response was woeful, they know exactly why this is a problem with their platform, why they have done nothing about it and why sex was excluded as a protected characteristic.

I remember them launching the consultation about their hateful conduct policy, I and many other women filled it out explaining that sex must be protected and why it would become a big issue if it wasn't.

They chose to ignore this - I suspect because it clashes with gender/gender identity which they favour above sex as a company and as a platform.

It's rough seeing the abuse retweeted, but in the long run, it will help. This is what a woman is subjected to if she dares question misogyny on Twitter. It's clear as day. Nicely illustrating the use of 'terf' in context, also.

Joanna Cherry was outstanding - the rep from Twitter was completely out of her depth. Hurray for women like Joanna, and Joan McAlpine.

Joanna Cherry is retweeting some of the ''feedback'' she is getting on twitter

Excellent work, Joanna!

The woman from Twitter was woefully inadequate.

I’ve just looked and Joanna’s twitter and it’s awful.

I think the person representing Twitter was purposefully unhelpful.

They know the option is there to “look into that and write to you”, so it makes sense to say as little as possible at these committees. They can then go back to the office and get the lawyers to write the woolly, worded letters.