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Manchester pride usual 8 plus 3 extra

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Bespin · 24/08/2019 17:36

Looks like the usual people turned up for a photo op at Manchester pride, though to be fare there were 11 not 8 as usual.

Carry on protesting because its a good reminder of the actual numbers if that is all the people that can protest the second biggest pride in the UK.

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Ereshkigal · 24/08/2019 21:47

Yes. But woman centred. Like MN, really.

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Bespin · 24/08/2019 21:46

Ereshkigal

so it's a place for everyone then.

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Ereshkigal · 24/08/2019 21:42

not according to its creators its not

Yes it is. Pay attention. It's not exclusive to women. But is indeed woman centred as Spartacus said, and was designed to be.

Datun · 24/08/2019 21:41

Oops, lesbians as Pride?? Fuck that for a game of soldiers, what are they thinking? Pride isn't about homosexuality, is it bespin?

This is pride.

Justhadathought · 24/08/2019 21:36

If the LGB community does not draw its own boundaries around what is acceptable and appropriate at public Pride events - they will find that the movement is damaged and set back. Increasing intransigence and in your face flaunting will just create a huge backlash. With rights and increasing acceptance comes social responsibility.

Moominfan · 24/08/2019 21:34

They really are the brave ones

DuMondeB · 24/08/2019 21:31

The relevance of your sexual kink in relation to the bravery of a group of women standing up to both TRA nonsense and lesbian erasure is what exactly? Curious...

Amazing. Hamster has officially been Mumsnet radicalised 🤗

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Bespin · 24/08/2019 21:29

SpartacusAutisticus

Spinster is woman-centred so not really the place for everyone.

not according to its creators its not. but I'm guessing some are wanting to change that from them.

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Bespin · 24/08/2019 21:27

Ereshkigal

sorry no not even an incognito one. that much hate and suspicion is not for me.

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Justhadathought · 24/08/2019 21:18

The whole trans and fetish 'thing' is turning many people off.......and simply reinforcing ideas about the LGB community that many have long sought to escape from. Many 'Prides' have become host to an increasingly aggressive display of deviant and perverted sexuality: it is no longer about love and acceptance.

Justhadathought · 24/08/2019 21:09

Carry on protesting because its a good reminder of the actual numbers if that is all the people that can protest the second biggest pride in the UK

Many others now just stay away......and those numbers are not insignificant. Thank goodness some did turn out to protest. I hate the smug assumptions of those that think that they are above and beyond criticism or question.

Cascade220 · 24/08/2019 21:03

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Michelleoftheresistance · 24/08/2019 20:58

If women actually did call themselves female gynephiles it would be less than two minutes before the label was adopted and colonised by people born male.

Women having anything that means a place, even in language, where males can't go, threatens validation. And nothing and no one else matters in that wholly selfish crusade.

Ereshkigal · 24/08/2019 20:56

Say it ain't so, Bespin!

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 24/08/2019 20:54

lang

Bet you’re relieved

MrsTerryPratchett · 24/08/2019 20:54

Unless they are LITERAL clowns

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Bespin · 24/08/2019 20:54

LangCleg

I think that is true, but I don't like spinster so will not be switching to it.

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SophoclesTheFox · 24/08/2019 20:36

Jesus Christ bespin, were you not hugged enough as a child or something? What creates this desperate need for attention and validation?

As you would say- lol. Hope you got the back pats you wanted from the monitors, and it was worth it, because from where I’m sitting, your own goal was back of the net 😂

Melroses · 24/08/2019 20:35

Yes something like that.

When we were given them, we hadn't a clue what they were - looked like fancy pork pies. Some have egg yolk in the middle.

Miss them now.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 24/08/2019 20:33

Unless they are LITERAL clowns

And i mean literally in the correct dictionary sense...not in the made up bollocks sense

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 24/08/2019 20:33

lord

Yeah they really need to get their stories straight

Either 11 women are laughable...or terrifying

They can’t be both...

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 24/08/2019 20:31

Ive heard of those

Aren’t they are festive type of thing...like mince pies at Christmas

Lordamighty · 24/08/2019 20:31

God how pathetic are some of those people. 11 lesbians holding a banner at Manchester Pride & they need to report to the police about feeling unsafe.

Melroses · 24/08/2019 20:30

We used to get mooncakes from a Chinese company. They are something else. In the sense of being the strangest cakes I have had.

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