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Misogyny from Cosmo UK

66 replies

Doyoumind · 20/09/2019 15:03

Saw this on Twitter.

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/relationships/a28935330/terf-meaning

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LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 21/09/2019 08:49

In what way? Women who do not believe that a male can become a woman and therefore should not have access to woman only spaces, shortlists etc. Plus you know it’s thrown around as an insult and attracts violence/threats from some.

Why should women be forced to call a male bodied person a woman?

MmmBlowholes · 21/09/2019 08:46

*transwomen

MmmBlowholes · 21/09/2019 08:46

What was incorrect in the article though? TERFs ARE anti-trans activists - they're like broken records and never talk about anything BUT transwoman not being women.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 21/09/2019 08:38

Oh just seen a tweet that one of the feature editors parent is trans.

Mcleaver · 21/09/2019 08:33

Many of us can't see any responses to the Cosmo tweet because we are "deboosted".

SunsetBeetch · 20/09/2019 22:32

There are Twitter shenanigans afoot:

Twitter has blocked access to all the critical comments & added a load of fake Likes. After 8 hours this tweet had 14 likes. Now it's suddenly up at 1.4k 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They are so transparent

t.co/bOFMhxVEbr

The RT tweet about transwomen destroying women's sports has 4.6k likes & 600 comments all agreeing. It all loads! Obviously it is the account that is doing this. Cosmo have blocked everyone & bought likes & retweets.
That's pretty pitiful

It happened in space of an hour too I think. I remember noticing someone comment on ratio with specific reference to likes at maybe 6pm or thereabouts and it was looking grim. Amazing comeback for Cosmo. 😆

We need to include that in the complaints because they are faking support & blocking readers' ability to respond.

Check the engagement on their other tweets. Single and double figures. It's not even remotely convincing 😄 Need to remember and screenshot next time, we know these shenanigans always happen.

twitter.com/serialsockthief/status/1175157112508493825?s=19

Voice0fReason · 20/09/2019 21:54

wow, what an appallingly badly written piece of drivel!
No attempt at balance, facts or rational argument, just unadulterated drivel.

Cracklycaramel · 20/09/2019 21:25

Country living and good housekeeping subscribers in the family. Really useful link to know what to cancel...

nellodee · 20/09/2019 21:21

Best comment on the Twitter thread:

What has this got to to with make up, clothes and pleasing men sexually? Oh...hang on a minute...

SirVixofVixHall · 20/09/2019 20:54

I skim read. I agree with the pp who said it reads as though written by an angry 15 year old.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 20/09/2019 20:28

Ahahaha. Hard hitting journalism. Indeed.

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LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 20/09/2019 19:24

Journalist? More like ‘up ones own one trick pony backside blogger’.

FairfaxAikman · 20/09/2019 19:23

"Aspiring journalist" - she won't last five minutes unless she starts including some balance (not to mention facts).

OrchidInTheSun · 20/09/2019 19:06

Oh no, Grace Walsh is a woman. She's just trying desperately hard to get herself a byline and is too young and stupid to realise that slagging off women isn't a great way to start a long career in journalism or anything else.

grace-walsh.com/about/

I'm just aching with embarrassment for her

ScrimshawTheSecond · 20/09/2019 18:47

Not just how many of us buy the mags: How many of us here book advertising in Hearst magazines?

Bezalelle · 20/09/2019 18:29

I've filed an official complaint.

Bezalelle · 20/09/2019 18:24

Do young women really want to read articles that sound like they were written by angry 15 year olds?

This made me laugh out loud! So apt.

ImGenderfree · 20/09/2019 18:07

Interesting how articles like these state that terfs are a minority.

And then the twitter feed shows something different

NotTerfNorCis · 20/09/2019 17:35

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/relationships/a28644191/straight-people-gay-bars-lgbtq/

It sounds like the author is a (female) lesbian.

Propertyofhood · 20/09/2019 17:33

Does anyone even read Cosmo anymore?

The comments under the tweet are heartening.

NotTerfNorCis · 20/09/2019 17:26

Why do they always drag in 'trans women of colour' as though race is somehow relevant to gender critical feminism?

OhHolyJesus · 20/09/2019 17:12

God I've had enough of this, been busy with a long list of GC admin in my spare time now I have to send another complaint

www.hearst.co.uk/hearst-magazines-uk-complaints-procedure

We cannot let this pass without comment.

FairfaxAikman · 20/09/2019 17:04

Its rather interesting that for someone who cites Twitter in their opening sentence "Grace Walsh" appears to have no (at least official) Twitter presence (as I would expect a real, live professional writer to have).
Nor does the byline link work to take you through to other articles by the same author, as is usual for media websites.

I question whether "Grace Walsh" is even real.

VictoriaSpongeAndTea · 20/09/2019 16:57

Reported and blocked, shame about their other titles I rather like and (used to) buy some of those. I won't be now