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A pleasant surprise

538 replies

APleasantSurprise · 01/06/2019 11:15

NC for this as very outing.

I came across a number of Tweets from a user whose profile described him as a serving officer with the Met. This is the complaint I sent yesterday:

Jon Killen, a emergency response officer in the MPS and LGBT+ officer, is issuing Tweets that I consider misogynist. His Twitter account (@LDNResponseCop) clearly identifies him professionally, so he cannot argue that he's only offering personal opinions. I cannot think his social media presence is doing anything good for the Met. It seems highly unprofessional. Certainly I would have less confidence were I involved in an incident and had to deal with Jon Killen than I would in a generic officer. Please look at what he's saying - and the response from many LGBT Twitter users who find his Tweets offensive. The police must be seen to be impartial.

I got a call from an inspector this morning. He'd gone through the officer's Tweets and agreed with me. He said it wasn't a disciplinary matter as there were no personally offensive Tweets but that the Tweets definitely overstepped the bounds of what a serving police officer should be saying on social media. A conversation was in order and he would be talking to the officer soon.

Only a small step, but I was pleased the Met seems to have taken it seriously.

OP posts:
birdsdestiny · 04/06/2019 21:08

Femalesnet, but but but weren't we just told that using the word female was wrong and bad. I must admit to being a little confused. I am rolling my eyes a lot though so am feeling very womanly.

ZebrasAreBras · 04/06/2019 21:06

Just to comment on zoe's -ahem- outburst up there:

Incredible how TRAs cannot help but show who they are - and it rarely takes v long.

Just a few hours on a chat thread with a number of women who will not bow down to them - and it all explodes out. The abuse, calling women "nazis" (I call Godwin) and sexually explicit language.

So far, so MRA.

FloralBunting · 04/06/2019 21:03

I've just been eating copious amounts of celebratory pizza this evening and missed the delightfully amateur sweary post build up. But I'm vicariously enjoying the meltdown through your replies.

I almost feel a mystical connection with your dear women.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 04/06/2019 20:30

Thats what ive heard gassy Grin

GassyAss · 04/06/2019 20:29

Rufus cheap! (Yes I really should read back before posting Grin)

Treefloof · 04/06/2019 20:24

Yeah rufus, same as anyone, but a bit more sweary maybe, just to show we can be one o the lads? I dunno.

Treefloof · 04/06/2019 20:16

Surely it’s a board for mums or it would be called femalesnet?
Umm so what's 4chan for, 4s or chans? And kiwi farms? Kiwis or farms?

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 04/06/2019 20:16

I wondered tree

I thought maybe I’d missed something

How does one talk to a transwomen....i though you’d talk to them the same way you’d talk to anyone else

Treefloof · 04/06/2019 20:15

Btw I’m not a transwoman so I dunno why you’re talking to me like I am
Uhh, your reading that into it, I am assuming you are in fact a cunty female. I don't see the rest of us assuming otherwise

Justhadathought · 04/06/2019 20:13

I'm always astounded that those preaching 'Inter-sectional feminism' think they are the first to ever have realised that people are oppressed in various different ways, on account of their social class, race, religion etc. That realisation is nothing new. and wasn't even new in the 1980's either.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 04/06/2019 20:13

gassy

Errr
£12.50

GassyAss · 04/06/2019 20:11

6 times our dear friend Zoe was asked to prove these allegations that feminists are literally physically attacking transwomen. 6 times she’s ignores the requests. I can only deduce that the claims are complete lies. Zoe, can you price me wrong?

ZebrasAreBras · 04/06/2019 20:10

Oh I know, they post it themselves and then screenshot it (on at least 2 occasions I can think of).

I would expect something from the LibDems about how Mumsnet is a hate site real soon though.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/06/2019 20:07

Sometimes I don't think that matters. Zebra. They take whatever is said and cut it up to mean what they want anyway. Any sensible person following her breadcurmbs will see the whole thing, the silliness included.

Anyone who is already TRA or ally won't need any further proof of our transphobia!

MadamBatty · 04/06/2019 20:06

Feck, arse GIRLS

CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/06/2019 20:05

PoorZoe. We seem to have packed her bags for her Smile

ZebrasAreBras · 04/06/2019 20:05

zoe's not some young blue haired just out of uni innocent. zoe is a TRA and has no doubt mined this thread for evidence of all the women who are hate criminals, perpetrating actual violence by not accepting that human beings can change sex.

ZebrasAreBras · 04/06/2019 20:02

Oh sorry I was faffing around. We're not being serious anymore Grin

CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/06/2019 20:02

you'd think a TRA would have all that evidence straight to hand, Or anyone with an in with in depth, real feminist internet spaces.

Justhadathought · 04/06/2019 20:01

Here comes the self-ban attempt cos someone needs to cut me off

Honest to goodness. You are really indulging yourself now. Are you aware of how little it takes for women to get banned for just speaking their mind in many places - without recourse to foul language and terms of abuse.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/06/2019 20:01

Erm... [backs away, not as brave as she pretended to be]

ZebrasAreBras · 04/06/2019 20:00

I'd really like to see any evidence of feminist women being charged with assault too.

Shame - you'd think a TRA would have all that evidence straight to hand, I mean, it would be all over twitter wouldn't it? Evidence of those nasty violent transphobic feminists.

Although - some would interpret zoe's posts into zoe thinking that the mere existence of lesbian women who don't think that men can be lesbians is actual literal violence. But of course, that's nonsense.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 04/06/2019 19:59

Sophocles for the love of all you hold dear DO NOT GOOGLE FELCH!!!

What are you doing!!!!

Quite obviously you SHOULD google felch curious

SpartacusAutisticusAHF · 04/06/2019 19:59

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/06/2019 19:59

Oh! I see. I am impressed, I think, if you didn't have to google it Grin