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what's happening in Rosie Duffield's office?

141 replies

CarolJenkyns · 14/10/2020 16:30

www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/14/rosie-duffield-mp-labour-transphobia-row-staffer-quits-resignation-canterbury/

Not sure what to make of this to be honest.

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TalkingtoLangClegintheDark · 15/10/2020 16:20

@thereplycamefromanchorage

Fuck off GMB.
Hear, hear
TalkingtoLangClegintheDark · 15/10/2020 16:20

@BovaryX

It could mean absolutely anything

Quite so. Because as well as everything else, this is a deliberate attack on the language used to describe external reality. It is an attempt to permanently sever words from their meanings and to create a linguistic landscape in which words are not used to aid communication, but they are minefields used to blow people up. Or render people silent.

Beautifully put.
Kit19 · 15/10/2020 16:17

Keith starmer is going to have to get a grip of this....it’s not going away!

thereplycamefromanchorage · 15/10/2020 16:16

Fuck off GMB.

Cocothefirst · 15/10/2020 15:58

Oh FFS.

FairFriday · 15/10/2020 15:58

Yuk. Yuk. Bleugh.

Caroncanta · 15/10/2020 15:57

Ahh, the attempted witch burning by men, because a woman dared say sex was real and it matters. They're not even bothering to hide the misogyny now.

Iamanaubergine · 15/10/2020 15:53

From the GMB Members Staff Twitter today:

Our Branch has unanimously passed a motion to condemn the actions of Rosie Duffield MP, and express solidarity with our member who resigned.

We’ll be writing to
@labourwhips
and
@UKLabour
to request a formal investigation, & call for Rosie to resign as Chair of Women’s PLP.

mobile.twitter.com/GMB_MPs_Staff

highame · 15/10/2020 14:36

Nicely put Bovary

BovaryX · 15/10/2020 13:46

It could mean absolutely anything

Quite so. Because as well as everything else, this is a deliberate attack on the language used to describe external reality. It is an attempt to permanently sever words from their meanings and to create a linguistic landscape in which words are not used to aid communication, but they are minefields used to blow people up. Or render people silent.

Datun · 15/10/2020 13:24

I want to know how they know she's a lesbian. Given that could be a male individual attracted to other other male individuals, or a male individual who is attracted to female individuals.

Being cis doesn't help, either, unfortunately. India Willoughby is a cis woman, apparently.

It could mean absolutely anything.

GCAcademic · 15/10/2020 12:21

I see my post was deleted. It’s a shame the moderators aren’t as assiduous in spotting disruptors as they are about deleting those of us able to spot their behaviour.

FairFriday · 15/10/2020 11:56

“I exercise every day, I eat barely anything - live on lettuce, I only drink water, I never eat junk food or touch alcohol... but (wait for it, wait for it) I just seem to pile on the weight...”

Yeah. Maybe you sleepwalk to the chippy every night...

TalkingtoLangClegintheDark · 15/10/2020 11:44

@FairFriday

When training to be a therapist, the expression went - it’s all bullshit before the ‘but’
Oh that is interesting. Thank you for sharing that!
TalkingtoLangClegintheDark · 15/10/2020 11:43

@EmpressJKRowlingSpartacus

It does somewhat remind me of the new posters who say “I’m as GC as they come, but...” or “I’m a big fan of Posie, but...”
Yes indeed!
PurpleHoodie · 15/10/2020 11:25

Kantastic

I've heard the PN crew are desperate for traffic and I really wouldn't put it past them to start threads on here to boost it

Practically the only people who bother with them are GC feminists diligently correcting their lies

So here's an archive for anyone who cares about whatever this person is talking about:archive.is/Bc8lN

Yes. Always best NEVER to click their links. It's how they make their money.

One person can send to archive and we can go from there.

FairFriday · 15/10/2020 11:12

When training to be a therapist, the expression went - it’s all bullshit before the ‘but’

EmpressJKRowlingSpartacus · 15/10/2020 09:33

It does somewhat remind me of the new posters who say “I’m as GC as they come, but...” or “I’m a big fan of Posie, but...”

Cocothefirst · 15/10/2020 09:29

@GCAcademic

Oh look, another new poster has signed up to link Prick News and ask a question with breathless innocence. How unprecedented.
Gosh, what a startling coincidence.
BovaryX · 15/10/2020 09:23

@Harmarsuperstar

Her "belief" that only women have cervixes? It's not so much a belief, as a cold hard verifiable fact.
One of the things about woke is its belief 'feelings' transcend everything else. Including external reality. So if someone's 'feelings' are offended by external reality and if they are looking at the advancement of their career in the woke landscape, resignation is a smart move. They can claim moral outrage and moral righteousness while clearly identifying with what they consider the dominant view in Labour circles.
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ValancyRedfern · 15/10/2020 06:58

I have a young lesbian friend who is the strongest woke trans ally I know. Constantly sends me Pink News articles and Mermaids puff pieces. She has swallowed the whole thing whole. She would never sleep with someone with a penis but the penny hasn't dropped. So this seems perfectly believable to me.

Cwenthryth · 15/10/2020 06:16

It’s just occurred to me that would these staffers be the ones that would read and filter her emails?

So they must be aware of the hate and threats she is very likely receiving, as well as the emails of support from us?

EmpressJKRowlingSpartacus · 15/10/2020 04:52

I posted my thank you card to Rosie Duffield yesterday. I hope she gets a lot of them.