Shout out to Mumsnet from Posie P

Adding my hat-tip my hat of appreciation to everyone who has taken the time to write in. I have learned so much; even from first-time posters who asked a basic question.

It's been a bleak year, politically, so thank you for restoring my faith in reasoned debate. :-)

I do too. I hope she is ok. That woman singlehandedly brought me to feminism.

Absolutely

Yes the GRA should be repealed.

Every one of us has something to bring to the party, and together we are stronger 💪

PP, thank you for your lucid explanations and your good humoured activism on behalf of women.

‘Very flattered to be in the same sentence as Dittany blush.’

Datun you should be in the same sentence as Dittany. You are always calm and explain things in a way that get to the heart of an issue. It makes it easy for people to understand things that can become very heated and complex.

I’ve always thought Posie had a touch of the Cod about her. Her live streams are sometimes on a par with COD’s typing 😂

I can confirm Datun and Posie are not the same person 😂 I owe a lot to Dittany, she's one of the posters I remember best when I first joined Mumsnet. I was still in school then, but I LOVED the articulate, fast moving debate. I often think about Dittany and wonder what happened to her, she was ruthless and I got my arse handed to me time and time again, but god did I learn.

So much love and respect for all the mumsnetters who've been slogging away for YEARS now. Wine for all!

So many great and insightful posters in FWR. Many have gone, perhaps banned or namechanged. Some are still here. Cheers to all sisters.

And also Datun and SwearyGodmother great to hear you get a well- deserved shout out. Another one here reading your posts/about your actions and cheering you on

Youtube is doing the ad thing with most videos - they’re trying to annoy people into paying for the premium YouTube subscription is my take.

Yes, have to say, Datun is the poster that pointed me in the direction of this shitshow, so thank you.

Wow, Dittany! I remember her, she posted a very long time ago and were unapologetically mega feminist. I wonder what she is doing these days?

Posie is amazing. I wish I had her brain! She’s so clear in her thoughts. Brilliant and brave AF.
Anyway GRA wasn’t the first time in English law you could lie though- Legal fictions are all over the place. And sometimes have been much needed for social protection, particularly of women and children- think about birth certificates and legal assumptions about fatherhood, by virtue of man being married to the mother. Those protected women and illegitimate children.

But that only goes to support Posie’s incisive and truly illuminating point which is that a genuinely tolerant society would have no need of legal fictions.
Absolutely right.

Well said by Posie. This is why I support her, she understands that many women are out there doing work on this even if we're not using our real names on twitter or writing books. Everyone's contribution matters.

StillNotAGirl
YouTube demonetised her videos a long time ago, so she makes nothing from advertising. However, YouTube clearly understands how popular she is so they insert ads to make money off her back. Also to irritate viewers I suspect, given the frequency on some videos.

Lets all raise a glass with Posie, to absent friends who wouldn’t shut up about safeguarding, and fell for the MN ban hammer.

I couldn't agree more with all of this. I am a woman in my early 30s, feeling increasingly suffocated by the uncritical, cultish views of millennial wokesters at work. I only became aware of how bad things were thanks to JKR and her tweets in June, at which point I ended up on FWR.

I have learnt so much from all of you here, and I remember even during my first few visits, before I recognised any names, it so often turned out that the posts I copied and saved due to their insight and clarity were written by @Datun. Sometimes now (when I don't have time to linger but want to get to the crux of an issue) I will do a quick scroll of the page for contributions by Datun, as they are so to-the-point, and always spot on.

Thank you so much to everyone else on here too for all you have done, and are still doing, to protect our rights, often at great personal cost. I feel like I'm losing my sanity trying to keep myself from screaming out loud (virtually) about the incoherence, inconsistency, and misogyny of the propaganda my colleagues keep sharing. I need to be a bit careful, but I don't know how much longer I can hold out. In the meantime I've taken to very carefully questioning some of the company policies and "opinions" that seem problematic, though the responses I've had so far suggest to me that those in charge of them really don't have a clue. I hope that at some point soon I will feel able to speak out properly, but until then I will do my best to at least make others aware of the seriousness of the situation, and donate wherever I can.

I wish I knew women like you in real life! (Maybe I do, but they're also afraid to speak out in public?) You really have opened my eyes, and I have so much admiration for you all.

Posie is a legend, as is everyone else she mentioned in the video.

First Posie video I've watched, by the time she got onto talking about impact of Lockdown it had been interrupted 3 times by random ads. Is that normal for her videos? (I gave up at that point)

❤️
I am very very impressed by someone who doesn’t find it scary to put themselves out there (in fact actually enjoys the attention) understanding that it is terrifying to many other people.

@queenofknives Yes, I thought that was very thoughtful and generous of her too. I'm really sorry to hear about your career.