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A pleasant surprise

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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.

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SophoclesTheFox · 04/06/2019 19:59

oh i know what it is, curious, just not what it’s doing in that stream of insults!

SophoclesTheFox · 04/06/2019 19:57

*verbs don’t

CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/06/2019 19:57

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

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 04/06/2019 19:56

Bless!!!

Bless’ll do it!!

Try bless

CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/06/2019 19:56

Sorry that was to Lang

ZebrasAreBras · 04/06/2019 19:56

Has zoe gone?

I wanted to ask zoe's opinion on a transwomen telling a political opponent to "suck my formaldehyde soaked balls" ?

CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/06/2019 19:55

Oh! Did I miss it? Maybe I was too engrossed in PMing. Along with a mental sound track to life, that gets me into trouble, I love my postmodern sneaks. All that hyperconscious intertextuality - see, I can word salad too!

Exquisite corpses sounds much more grown up and I am very sorry I didn't see it!

SophoclesTheFox · 04/06/2019 19:55

where did felch come from, though? 😂 so random! verbs doesn’t belong in a list of insulting nouns. i do note that zo’sbeen careful to cover cocks AND twats, in case we though she wasn’t being inclusive enough, so that’s all good.

LangCleg · 04/06/2019 19:55

That might work

She could yawn?!

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 04/06/2019 19:55

Try a personal attack...or lots of them

That might work

LangCleg · 04/06/2019 19:52

TERF NAZI CUNT COCK FUCK FELCH TWAT RUDE RUDE RUDE

Zoe, lovey, you don't get banned for swearing on Mumsnet. It's positively encouraged. This is, you know, a bit of a giveaway that you think it might.

Justhadathought · 04/06/2019 19:51

Feminist Theory is in the same family, all types of literary theory contain that word. It just means potential lens through which to interpret a text

At least feminist theory is coming from women themselves. It's not atop down thing. There is a long, long history of feminist texts - going back to Mary Wollstonecraft and even before. Simone De Beauvoir. Andrea Dworkin. Sheila Jeffreys.There is a huge library of feminist text and thought - and of quite different approaches too.

For many feminists, the feminine power lies in the body. In the female body. In the female bodily functions and all that stems from them. Feminism has everything to do with the body.

LangCleg · 04/06/2019 19:50

I thought the double hit of We Are Pack was quite good, no... it was fucking amazing. I never thought I'd get 7of9 and Phyllis into the same quote

All the LOLs! I had a little personal game of exquisite corpses but y'know - yours wins all the prizes.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/06/2019 19:48

We can plea for clemency, can't we. Or simply just not report it!

Please can we keep it?

We needs it!

If we can I promise to stop with the postmodern referencing. I know once you see it it gets annoying, but I luffs it! So a promise to stop really means something Grin

[actually I am not sure I can stop, before someone takes me seriously)

SophoclesTheFox · 04/06/2019 19:48

RUDE RUDE RUDE.

I’m so ashamed. Truly, i’ve grown as a person here today.

SpartacusAutisticusAHF · 04/06/2019 19:47

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JackyHolyoake · 04/06/2019 19:47

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HumberElla · 04/06/2019 19:46

Quick, just one fact before you go poof Zoe? Mic drop moment! Lay a statistic on me!

misscockerspaniel · 04/06/2019 19:45

Zeocb

You alright hun?

SophoclesTheFox · 04/06/2019 19:45

wow. it’ll get zapped quicker than a snowball in June, but just for posterity zoe’s flounce is to call us all the names you’d expect and then tell us we’re RUDE RUDE RUDE 😂

Oh zoe. you need to do that three times before you get banned. I can’t stop laughing 😂

CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/06/2019 19:45

Most certainly.

But Our Zoe won't know what you mean. Cos Our Zoe is informed, edumified doncha know!

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 04/06/2019 19:45

When does people debating turn into argumentative mob

Is it when they don’t agree?

OvaHere · 04/06/2019 19:44

TERF NAZI CUNT COCK FUCK FELCH TWAT RUDE RUDE RUDE

Grin

I'm beginning to think you identify as schoolboy.

I suppose we could report you but I'm not sure anyone cares enough.

JackyHolyoake · 04/06/2019 19:43

Argumentative mobs do have a pack mentality, yes. Very deliberate choice of word.

Ooh! Such a giveaway here ... "argumentative mobs" ...

have you ever heard women describe each other as an "argumentative mob"?

8th Rule of Misogyny expressed here, I think, don't you sisters?

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 04/06/2019 19:43

Fucking hell

You can fucking swear on here???

Shit!

Why did no fucker tell me

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