Guerilla postcards from the edge - Lily Maynard blog post

Its great isn't it Empress you step out from the gas lighting into reality and its like sunlight on your face.

Exactly!

Homosexual noun person who is sexually attracted to a person of the same biological sex

Sex noun either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.

I like this game

Imagine, for a moment, being a transperson and seeing these symbols of hatred displayed in public spaces. Lovely.

Symbols of hatred? A postcard with the dictionary definition of woman....

Dr Adrian Harrop attempted to assert similar in September 2018.
Interviewed Sky News with Posie Parker:

Its great isn't it Empress you step out from the gas lighting into reality and its like sunlight on your face.

"I wonder what the legal situation is in relation to leaving these?"

'Littering at the worst, surely?'

A hate crime, I would have thought.

Postcards which state the dictionary definition:

               ' <strong>Woman</strong> <span class="italic">noun</span> adult human female '  ? <img loading="lazy" class="inline-flex mumsnet-emoji" alt="Hmm" src="https://www.mumsnet.com/build/assets/hmm-PR4o6B1t.png">

There are other definition postcards/stickers/T Shirts etc:

              ' <strong>Mother</strong> <span class="italic">noun</span> adult parent '
              ' <strong>Lesbian</strong> <span class="italic">noun</span> female homosexual  '
              ' <strong>Man</strong> <span class="italic">noun</span> adult human male  '

Love this.

In a Shoreditch pub toilet a couple of months ago, I saw an Adult Human Female sticker. It made me very happy.

Now now ladies, no need to get hysterical 'Woman' doesn't mean shit, we all need to sit down, shut up and let Robin here teach us about fascism.

A hate crime, I would have thought

Those who wish to criminalise the dictionary definition of words reveal the Orwellian nature of 'hate crime' as a category. Justice Knowles cited Professor Stock and referred to 'hate speech' accusations as a tactic to silence debate. There needs to be a rigorous examination of 'hate crime' in the wake of Harry Miller's case.

That’s a double Godwinning there with the slightly opaque swastika reference Two posts, two snide little insinuations that feminists are the same as Nazis. Efficient.

You know that even people who have no skin in this game, if they have experience in online debates, would read your references to Nazis and immediately assume that you’re losing because of that, right, Robin? It’s that much of a cliché.

Go on then, I’ll bite, though. What crime has been committed here, and what is the aggravating factor that bumps it up to being a hate crime? Stop lobbing silly little grenades and give us your A-game.

Krakensplainer

Maybe to an atheist who was extremely upset by the Jesus/Buddha postcards

Anyone know if the museums ended up selling some of these postcards?

It’s unfortunate that a statement of biological truth has become so loaded, but only because there are many who would like to distort it until it’s meaningless. The truth can sometimes hurt, but that doesn’t mean it should be replaced with a lie.

These women aren’t doing this to persecute or trigger anyone, but to quietly counter the #nodebate by provoking thought about the meaning of a word we’ve accepted at face value for hundreds of years. A word used in society and law to define and protect those who can’t identify out of their oppression.

So stating what I am has become a Nazi hate crime

8th rule of misogyny: Men are whatever men say they are and women are whatever men say they are

Too right.

You'd think a barrister could just look it up under marketing and advertising regulations instead of chanting feminazi wouldn't you?

I wonder what the legal situation is in relation to leaving these?

Unleash the krakensplainer!

SonEtLumiere

"Godwin's law is an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"

I think we need to formulate a misogynist rule regarding the appearance of a male in a Feminist discussion directly correlating to the likelyhood of Feminists being called nazis.

Brave those women.

🤣 at responding to the definition of woman with "But what about meeee?" and not quite realizing exactly how much it underlines the poster is not a member of that specific group...

⚽️🥅⬅️I think this one is at your end of the pitch...

The truly terrifying thing is that stating who you are is being called a hate crime.

I am a woman, an adult human being. It’s not a fantasy. It’s not a feeling. It’s not a choice. It’s not an expression of hate for someone else, although a narcissist will obviously think everything is about him. I have no other option, because I have no fantasy alternative identity. So I am being denied an identity.

Excellent work by those women.

Go on then @RobinMoiraWhite. What is your definition of woman?

Robin, your post was given the exact amount of consideration it deserved.

Women's bodies and women's speech are a constant problem for women haters.

I think it was LangCleg who explained how it is actually girls bodies are the problem, in another context. Girls had been told to change their school clothes into something less revealing, for fear they would distract the teachers and the boys.

Intellectual courage... oh the irony.

And no, this board is about female people thinking about things from female perspectives, so whinging about them telling you your fortune for being so incredibly, offensively crass, and framing that as merely them failing to wallow in sufficient compassion males when females state boundaries, cuts no ice.

You do your cause no good whatever with this nonsense.

I’ll accept that I don’t know what it’s like to be trans when you accept that you don’t know what it’s like to be a woman, Robin.