Glinner

I'm not a particularly well educated woman (didn't go to uni), live in a very quiet part of the UK..don't read newspapers much, and keep myself to myself...BUT..I want to thank MN for bringing to my attention something that I was completely unaware of! It started when I read about the changes in the law in Scotland regarding the (re?)classification of 'women' completely open mouthed..I read about JKRs battle on twitter agog..I have started doing what she has done and educating myself..I used the link and posted my support to her.
I have started talking to friends and my family about this issue and so many of them were unaware also..In my own small way I am spreading the word..
If I have made mistakes in this post I apologise but I am learning..
What else can I read? How can I find out more? It seems I was ignorant for so long and don't really know where to start..I'm not very computer savvy but I'm learning that too!
Thank you to all you fellow MNers for opening my eyes to this issue..
As one of you said..The world has gone mad when men can claim to be women but women can't! (something like that?)

It's the Streisand effect. The more publicity we get to the madness of these people the more ordinary people are talking about it. We get a lot more publicity from them behaving like this than if we bored our friends going on about women's rights and they didn't understand that they were under attack. When people see people like Graham Linehan being banned from Twitter suddenly they realise that freedom of speech is under threat and they come on side. Was at outside drinks last night and everybody was talking about JK Rowling. Suddenly everyone felt free to say how disgusted they were that this was being pushed on children in schools.

Am I the only one that finds it odd that when a man gets kicked off twitter for hate speech he runs to a woman's only space to have a cry about it? I though he was an advocate of people finding their own spaces?

Open. Your. Eyes.

haha Cooked and Bombed! There's a blast from the past.

Thank you Glinner.

Its a shame that Mumsnet edited the original post - it would have been better to lock it and leave the pile on comments to stand. @glinner - solidarity.

Expand on that please.

Thank you Glinner

Thank you @Glinner.

Just wanted to add my thanks to glinner for all you've done.

There's a forum called Cooked and Bombed where they are openly talking about piling on these threads. They are totally gleeful.

Thank you glinner

Thanks Graham. Your work and voice in this campaign is vital - thank you for your support.

Thanks glinner

Thank you @MichaelMumsnet.

So someone at twitter is not allowing tweeters to use the word groomer, how illuminating. I think this highlights exactly what certain men are determined to do-groom children, in plain sight, yet stop people talking about it.

This. Censoring language so you can’t state exactly what it is happening in plain sight.

Glinner - you’re a champ. Thank you!

Yes, thanks @MichaelMumsnet.

youre not allowed to be funny on twitter- thats the rules.

the tra's take policing jokes very very seriously because they are the worlds most vulnerable group ever.

Hi Graham
Hope you are reading this and/or taking a break from social media for the good of your health.
Just to say THANK YOU on behalf of myself, my daughters and also my son. One day we will look back at this crazy times and all the crazy little Abigail Williams will be exposed for the trouble they have caused and you will be vindicated as a John Proctor: intelligent, flawed and not afraid to speak the truth.
I’m just sorry that many of your other high profile, intelligent and articulate blue ticks aren’t standing by your side.
Where is Dara O Brian, Caitlin Moran, et al?
Keep well and keep standing up for the truth.

PS Father Ted is a work of genius, but you don’t need me to tell you that.

Bakingberry, I hope you appreciate just how thoroughly decent the responses to your post have been in here, what you wrote was read carefully, understood and refuting your point was politely couched and fair. If only the people reporting Glinner and attacking him on Twitter behaved in the same way. I hope you take something away from this and have a good think about what that actually means.

Thanks, @michaelmumsnet!

Glinner you're here.

I'm so fed up on your behalf.

Isn't it funny, though, the idea that you can't poke fun at these porn-addled young men? There are plenty of trans people on there who don't want to be associated with these grifters, with one hand down their pants and the other out for donations.