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Batten down the hatches.....

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Gingernaut · 30/06/2020 20:19

Now r/GenderCritical has gone, Helen from Mermaids wants to know which is the most transphobic

Not sure who's going to be targetted next, but MN is winning.

Batten down the hatches.....
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justanotherneighinparadise · 01/07/2020 12:50

*tech

justanotherneighinparadise · 01/07/2020 12:50

These people are very real savvy so one would assume it will be a burner SIM attached to a shill WhatsApp account but who knows.

OldCrone · 01/07/2020 12:46

Is there any way, at all, of tracing that person?

Whose phone number is on that screenshot?

justanotherneighinparadise · 01/07/2020 12:45

Can I ask why you don’t think they target the Farms? I looked at the site yesterday and can see they give shit to everyone and take no shit. I assume they leave them alone because they’re predominantly men and will have their arses handed back to them?

WanderinWomb · 01/07/2020 12:43

@ScrimpshawTheSecond

Also, agreed 're signing up to premium. Will do that later. Please try and make sure your staff/interns aren't going to dox us, MN?
I'm too concerned about privacy to sub, especially after the casual reaction to intern-gate. Definitely not comfortable with my financial information being linked that closely to MN. Maybe they need to give much much much more reassurance.

I'd happily contribute one off payment via a donate button though. I'd do it with a message supporting FWR.

ScrimpshawTheSecond · 01/07/2020 12:36

Also, agreed 're signing up to premium. Will do that later. Please try and make sure your staff/interns aren't going to dox us, MN?

ScrimpshawTheSecond · 01/07/2020 12:35

Well, the person who sent Posy that ridiculous message has no idea of the consequences of their actions, it seems.

You've been a bit of a silly billy, haven't you, dear?

WanderinWomb · 01/07/2020 12:33

We need to be prepared for onslaught after onslaught.

They have been gunning for FWR for years. Strangely not Data Lounge , Lipstick Alley or the Farms.
It's easy to misrepresent us as 'white feminists ' 'middle class wine moms' or now 'Karens' and therefore demand radical youth silence and ignore us.

The mobbing and mass reporting will get worse now as many used to focus all their hate all day long on gendercritical and Glinner. A lot of time on their hands now. I think we need to stand strong while still being very careful.

Hope the moderators are ready and prepared Flowers

Michelleoftheresistance · 01/07/2020 12:24

And again, just for lurkers and new MNetters to this debate: the general position here:

GC women to activist political lobby: you are fine, we see your needs, we respect your needs, can we please find ways to meet them that do not in the process harm female humans, who do need sex classification, and do not harm safeguarding for women and children? Can we please look for solutions that equally respect and work for everyone's choice of identity, need, dignity, privacy, safety?

Political lobby: death threats, rape threats, doxxing, closing down any groups of females trying to say this, no there is no other possible end but exactly what we demand to meet are own needs, and those who will be harmed in the name of achieving this agenda are just justifiable collateral damage.

Please don't take my word for it: go and check these facts for yourself. And then decide which political position here is one more in keeping with an inclusive, equal and civilised society.

MsMarvellous · 01/07/2020 12:23

I am firmly down the twitter rabbit hole now. I have gone from zero to 175 followers in a few days just by jointing the conversation. We can and will resist. It's seems to me there is a snowball effect happening, more and more people peaking and starting to talk. Trans people, men, and many many many women. I

ChattyLion · 01/07/2020 12:21

What Michelle said. x1000

Datun · 01/07/2020 12:19

@Lamahaha

This is a message Posie Parker received recently. Just in case anyone was wondering.
Dear God in heaven.

I've read some things in my time, but that is the worst by far.

That is the sort of person who will take a gun to a school.

Poor Posie. I'm sure she has seen some shit, but knowing there is a mind like that out there who can access her bloody phone?

Is there any way, at all, of tracing that person?

Michelleoftheresistance · 01/07/2020 12:18

That message to Posie demonstrates, yet again, how many of those involved in this movement are seriously mentally unwell and are finding the movement nothing more than a useful means to enable and normalise and excuse appalling behaviour and attitudes towards others. Rather like the MRAs, the incels, the misogynists and others who like the veneer of 'this is appropriate and ok so long as you only do it to x group - who we helpfully dehumanise to enable it'.

Until humans figure out that it is not ok to behave like this towards anyone, at all, ever, regardless of whether or not you like or agree with them, we've learned nothing from WW2 or colonialism, or slavery, or any other humanitarian disasters. And it proves that you will always find people who would love to unleash their inner chimp given half an excuse, and this is why laws, boundaries and protections on other people's rights are necessary.

justanotherneighinparadise · 01/07/2020 12:18

I can imagine the dossier Posie Parker has on the TRAs must be fucking huge. All it does is fuel her. So they have Satan on their side do they? What a massive non surprise lol.

Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel · 01/07/2020 12:09

@OldCrone omg that's awful!

ToesAndFingersCrossed · 01/07/2020 12:04

@Lamahaha

^ and in the underground we are gathering strength, gathering recruits by people who can't speak out. One group admin said yesterday that they gained 2000 new members since the JK fiasco. Others say the same. Just because you can't see us doesn't mean we aren't there, Helen.
And for every woman who has found the secret groups there are others too scared to even go looking. I could loose my job if I got “found out” and my colleagues are vicious. One recently posted a series of TWAW Instagram stories for pride and then posted that “several people” had unfollowed her straight after, but that she knew who they were and she was taking notes and will remember. They didn’t even say anything, just unfollowed. It’s sinister.
MarieIVanArkleStinks · 01/07/2020 12:03

Mumsnet is more than a discussion forum. It's a pressure group. It's been seen to exert influence in the past, more recently through its moderate success in challenging the sacrificing of women's loos to mixed sex spaces in various locations. That makes it a threat to anyone who would like to silence all but one side of this debate.

It's therefore predicable that this site would be the next target. It's only surprising that they've waited this long. The tide is already turning; it would never do to reveal the existence of any form of counter-argument. A cogent counter-argument no less, rather than the deafening, repetitive chant of slogans.

The message to Posie Parker was utterly sickening. The abuse directed at JKR was also sickening, in particular the attempt by Lloyd Russell-Moyle to silence victims of sexual and domestic abuse.

We see you.

Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel · 01/07/2020 12:01

BTW a suggestion made today on one of those groups: instead of saying Transwomen are not Women, we should say, Seahorses are not Horses. Over and over. Everyone will know what we mean, eventually, but you can't exactly argue against it

I love that! Thank you.

GCGayDad · 01/07/2020 11:56

@justanotherneighinparadise

I actually got a wide eyed look and an eye brow raise from DP today after he was taking the piss out of me caring about this and I showed him the dice from Proud Trust. He couldn’t believe his fucking eyes!! He was always on my side but now he really really gets it.

What's this dice? Have you got a screen shot or link? Thanks

Beenandgoneandbackagain · 01/07/2020 11:36

I would love to meet that woman (not H, the other one), look her in the eye and say ‘ I know what you did to your child’

I feel physically sick when I think of that ‘charity’.

BoreOfWhabylon · 01/07/2020 11:28

As we batten the hatches, can I just remind people to report suspect posters. I do it all the the time. MNHQ are pretty good at joining the dots if someone is being goady/disingenuous/quote mining even if individual posts stay within the rules. A lot of the time it turns out that 'new' posters have been banned in previous incarnations.

Also, if it's overnight, let www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_night_watch know, they can hide posts/threads until MNHQ can have a look.

BigBadVoodooHat · 01/07/2020 11:23

@Lamahaha

This is a message Posie Parker received recently. Just in case anyone was wondering.
Fucking hell! Did she report that to the police? That's horrifying.
Lamahaha · 01/07/2020 11:03

This is a message Posie Parker received recently. Just in case anyone was wondering.

Batten down the hatches.....
Batten down the hatches.....
Lamahaha · 01/07/2020 10:36

^ and in the underground we are gathering strength, gathering recruits by people who can't speak out. One group admin said yesterday that they gained 2000 new members since the JK fiasco. Others say the same.
Just because you can't see us doesn't mean we aren't there, Helen.

Lamahaha · 01/07/2020 10:23

Don't be so cocky about Facebook, TRAs.

Facebook has many I mean, A LOT of GC groups that are private or even secret. I hobnob on these groups on a daily basis with the likes of Posie Parker yes, they could ban PP but she is still there under her real name Julie Birchhill, Venice Allen, Julia Long, Meghan Murphy, and a host of other very well known names. TRAs can't access these sites -- the gatekeeping is strict and we talk. We can say what we like.

The movement has merely been pushed of sight and that is always dangerous. It hasn't been erased. We are still here, not only on Mumsnet; it's just that MN is public, which is good, as newcomers have easier access.

But we have gone underground. Like the French Resistance. They tried to kill that off , too, and look what happened. It's what happens when you try to kill off truth. It never works.

BTW a suggestion made today on one of those groups: instead of saying Transwomen are not Women, we should say, Seahorses are not Horses. Over and over. Everyone will know what we mean, eventually, but you can't exactly argue against it.

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