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Still attacking M Berns....

167 replies

DinosaursDontTwit · 11/10/2020 07:17

I am usually a lurker on this board, and have read a bit here about Magdalen Berns. I found this and it made me feel ill it is so vicious and cruel. mobile.twitter.com/sineadactually/status/1314985057937956864

No wonder so many feminists are too scared to speak out, if this is the resulting hate, even after death....

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DeliciouslyFemale · 11/10/2020 23:50

I’ve no idea why you’re bringing race into this. It’s not very nice to use another minority group to score points. That’s actually rather offensive and racist, it itself.

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 11/10/2020 23:50

... one sweary tweet that was rude but NOT threatening

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 11/10/2020 23:50

Quaagars, you are complaining over and over again about one sweary tweet that was rude but threatening or damaging in any way. On and on and on and on.

Yes it was rude. No it wasn't in any way harmful. I have read your repetitive comments. I have heard you. You are being validated. Now could you please change the record?

Quaagars · 11/10/2020 23:47

If you find the female anatomy threatening or offensive, you need to look at why that is

Did you actually read my comment?!
I said Of course that's not abuse
I'm reminded of the racism thread running.
Read my post again.
People just flat out refuse to see, or won't see, I just don't get it.

DeliciouslyFemale · 11/10/2020 23:45

@Quaagars

How is talking about the wonder of how a female body develops, abuse? Seriously? If I discuss periods, child birth, FGM, rape, 2-3 women being murdered a week, by men, is that abuse? Or is it only when I talk about how amazing a female body is, that it’s considered abuse?

Sorry, not sure if you're being purposefully obtuse?
Of course that's not abuse.
That wasn't the context that it was just used in though, come onnnnn.

If you find the female anatomy threatening or offensive, you need to look at why that is. Don’t try to push your issues into me.
Quaagars · 11/10/2020 23:43

How is talking about the wonder of how a female body develops, abuse? Seriously? If I discuss periods, child birth, FGM, rape, 2-3 women being murdered a week, by men, is that abuse? Or is it only when I talk about how amazing a female body is, that it’s considered abuse?

Sorry, not sure if you're being purposefully obtuse?
Of course that's not abuse.
That wasn't the context that it was just used in though, come onnnnn.

DeliciouslyFemale · 11/10/2020 23:42

@Quaagars

Tits, that’s something women develop, as they grow from girls into women, just in case you’re wondering. Isn’t female anatomy amazing?

WTAF.
People really don't see this as abuse towards a minority group?
Just.... OK.

How is talking about the wonder of how a female body develops, abuse? Seriously? If I discuss periods, child birth, FGM, rape, 2-3 women being murdered a week, by men, is that abuse? Or is it only when I talk about how amazing a female body is, that it’s considered abuse? Is there a list of female topics that I’m not permitted to discuss on a predominantly female site? Could you let me see it?
Quaagars · 11/10/2020 23:38

Tits, that’s something women develop, as they grow from girls into women, just in case you’re wondering. Isn’t female anatomy amazing?

WTAF.
People really don't see this as abuse towards a minority group?
Just.... OK.

DeliciouslyFemale · 11/10/2020 23:37

Well, I thought she was smart, intuitive and brave.

DidoLamenting · 11/10/2020 23:35

The current attacks on Twitter are horrible and indefensible.

I personally found Berns' videos strident, hectoring and patronising. She does not deserve the abuse she is getting but personally she made feel the "gender critical" side was not a side I wanted to be on.

DeliciouslyFemale · 11/10/2020 23:32

[quote VanGoghsDog]twitter.com/sineadactually/status/1315409749706498053?s=19[/quote]
Aww bless. They really are getting a wee thrill out of mocking a dead woman, aren’t they. Imagine being so threatened by the legacy left behind by a female, that they can’t get her out of their minds.

I suppose, now that the public is becoming more aware of the underhand tactics used by the TRAs/MRAs, their hatred towards women/females, not to mention the evidence coming out on how children are being harmed by them, they need something to sooth them. Poor bitter little souls. Make the most of it ‘folk’, because it’s all going tits up for you. Tits, that’s something women develop, as they grow from girls into women, just in case you’re wondering. Isn’t female anatomy amazing?

Quaagars · 11/10/2020 23:31

You might as well follow “So do I” with a “but”

Do not put words in my mouth.
There was no but after it.
It is actually possible to be disgusted at both lots of abuse, you know.

DoctorTwo · 11/10/2020 23:16

My favourite soundbite from Magdalen is "I'd rather be rude than a fucking liar". Sums me up too, ask my ex-wife and our children. :o

She was a bright star who shone brilliantly but was snuffed out too soon.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/10/2020 23:08

I really would try not to make sweeping statements like "nobody, anywhere has said that's ok". Of course they do.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/10/2020 23:06

I've never once denied that there will no doubt be some people who send threats or abuse.
Also not once have I ever said that's an OK thing to do.

You specifically said, minutes ago "Nobody, anywhere, has said any of that is OK." Referring to women being "fair game for the most despicable of abuse to be rained down on them, even when they are dead"

So on the point, you were wrong.

Quaagars · 11/10/2020 23:03

So now you do acknowledge that some people do absolutely think it's ok "for the most despicable of abuse to be rained down on them, even when they are dead" That's something

I've never once denied that there will no doubt be some people who send threats or abuse.
Also not once have I ever said that's an OK thing to do.

KnightsofColumbusThatHurt · 11/10/2020 23:03

If you watch Magdalen's videos she's very clear that she is fine with blokes presenting as they wish, she just knows they can't become women. She's extremely logical and reasonable.

Exactly. In her Alex Drummond video, she makes it clear that she has no problem with men wearing dresses and 'feminine' clothing, but that that doesn't make them women. She questions why a man wearing a dress (or a boiler suit....remember Alex cleverly educates us about how 'women can fix cars too Hmm) then becomes a woman, and why Alex isn't widening the bandwidth of male, and why men should be able to wear dresses without getting shit from other men for it.

DeliciouslyFemale · 11/10/2020 23:02

@Quaagars

I do think it's disgusting that people are mocking a young woman having died

So do I.

You might as well follow “So do I” with a “but”, because you’re more concerned about the hurt feelings of trans people than you are about the disgusting comments that are being made about a young lesbian’s death.
Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/10/2020 23:01

^I don't even know why I'm bothering biting, but.... I was talking about the tweet.
And I think you know that.^

I don't know why I'm bothering to reply to you, so that makes two of us. Easy way to rectify that I guess!

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/10/2020 22:58

So do I.

So now you do acknowledge that some people do absolutely think it's ok "for the most despicable of abuse to be rained down on them, even when they are dead"

That's something.

KnightsofColumbusThatHurt · 11/10/2020 22:58

As I said, Magdalen Berns believed that men cannot become women, believed that men dressing as women is often a fetish (do you believe that autogynephilia doesn't exist or what then?), believed that womanhood and women's oppression is being appropriated by males and that its not a costume that someone can put on.

She expressed these beliefs in an angry tweet. She had been relentlessly abused on Twitter and lost her shit back at them. If she had the level of hatred that you say she had, there would be loads of these tweets for them to reference, why is it only ever this one that we see?

Quaagars · 11/10/2020 22:58

She doesn't believe males are women, or lesbians, and she's very angry about being gaslighted that they are. That's the "transphobia"

I don't even know why I'm bothering biting, but.... I was talking about the tweet.
And I think you know that.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/10/2020 22:55

The fact you can't see the transphobia

She doesn't believe males are women, or lesbians, and she's very angry about being gaslighted that they are. That's the "transphobia".

Quaagars · 11/10/2020 22:54

I do think it's disgusting that people are mocking a young woman having died

So do I.