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Zuby

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GeordieTerf · 27/02/2020 23:01

Zuby (the bloke who identified as a woman whilst lifting weights to take the women's deadlifting record) has been suspended from Twitter. This was because he said "ok dude" to an Antifa activist...

Anyway, this has caused a bit of a backlash towards Twitter. This may be a good thing for GC feminists as they're always getting banned for far less.

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Cwenthryth · 27/02/2020 23:39

Are they claiming ‘dude’ as misgendering then?

In my part of the world ‘dude’ and ‘mate’ are pretty gender neutral terms.

theflushedzebra · 27/02/2020 23:39

This?

Zuby
theflushedzebra · 27/02/2020 23:37

Oh I remember Emily Gorceski, and the threats to Mumsnet.

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GeordieTerf · 27/02/2020 23:32

I think he's currently on the "naughty step", I.e. he can't log in and Tweet for a set period of time.

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Fantasisa · 27/02/2020 23:28

I can see his account so he isn't banned now

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/02/2020 23:26

Was the antifa person also a TW?

Yes. Emily Gorcenski. We've had threads about this person before as they vowed to take down MN at one point.

CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost · 27/02/2020 23:24

Sorry, i just don't get it.

theflushedzebra · 27/02/2020 23:22

Mmm seems so - but they haven't managed to get rid of glinner yet, despite seriously trying.

CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost · 27/02/2020 23:22

Aren't they normally somewhat protected?

Only if you align with twitters views and politics, otherwise you are treated as bad as anyone else.

CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost · 27/02/2020 23:20

What's this stupid obsession with everyone either being an ally or not?

theflushedzebra · 27/02/2020 23:19

Zuby is a mega - I don't know - conservative? Right winger?

So he has a strong feeling of what a woman is, and what a man is - but it comes from the conservative viewpoint, not the feminist viewpoint.

He has posted stuff like, "women, if you want to keep a man, be sweet, learn to cook etc etc". I think that was him. He is anti-abortion. Classic RW man - more in alignment with Ben Shapiro than with feminism.

He didn't deserve to be banned from twitter for any of ^ those views, or for saying "ok dude". I can't believe he has been! He was verified, wasn't he? Aren't they normally somewhat protected?

Cwenthryth · 27/02/2020 23:15

Even if he is a plonker with misogynistic ideas about how women should behave ‘to get a man’, I think it was, he still doesn’t deserve to be banned from Twitter for saying ‘ok dude’. I’ve had way worse said to me in the last few days and ‘no violations found’.

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GeordieTerf · 27/02/2020 23:09

Oh, I don't think he's much of an ally at all. He's more of a useful idiot. But he's spot on with his views on transitioning.

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Binterested · 27/02/2020 23:09

Zuby is a bit of a plonker. He happened to be right about women’s sport but he’s still a plonker.

What’s the OK dude thing ? Is it some sort of hidden insult ? Was the antifa person also a TW? Exhausting trying to follow all these allies and not allies and coded insults and crap.

Doyoumind · 27/02/2020 23:06

He came up with some pretty misogynistic stuff last week and has some other dodgy views, so turned out not to be such a great ally.

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