'Transwomen' (though not 'transmen' welcome at Ann Summers parties. Love balls.

I say again, you have no idea what is going on inside anyone's head at an event like this. You are making assumptions based on:
Male or transwoman: Potential festishist Woman: Person who would never dream of having sexual thoughts about anyone else

Exactly
Assumptions everywhere
Also can feel an attack of the vapours coming on at women having sexy thoughts here lol

• You said you invite friends and family to the parties. Which you do, yes. The poster was just pointing out anyone going to these parties could be indulging in their fetishes/fantasies, so so what if someone is trans? When biological women would be doing the exact same thing? There is a 1950s attitude to some of these posts, assuming the women there get easily embarrassed, aren't indulging fantasies etcThink that's what the poster meant anyway, that's how I read it*

Thank you quaggers

Aspiring there is nothing derisive about any tone, it’s laughing at ourselves stuck in this situation.

Even if there was, hurt feelings does not equal our very lives being at risk in so many very harmful ways once legal rights protections are gone. Keep it in perspective because you’re a spit away from ‘let’s just be kind’ by the sounds of it.

Sorry, for clarity my last post was in reference to this comment

Most 'sexy' underwear is designed not to turn a woman on but to cater to men's porn fantasies

LA

Yeah, so im still not talking about fetish

Other posters have referred to it but I haven’t

Im just talking about SOME women who MIGHT be embarrassed if they THINK a man is in the room...not about fetish

(Loads of my friends have been to ann summers parties...i dont think any of them thought it was a fetish 😀)

Again, it’s a tongue in cheek joke. Take offence at a joke by all means, but we have very serious real life stuff to be offended at.

And never once have I proclaimed to be a feminist. I tend to stick to saying I am pro women’s liberation, because people misuse words so badly these days a ‘feminist’ is whatever the fuck they say it is.

Also wondering how wearing sexy underwear is for the men, to indulge their fetishes?!
Can we not wear it for US, because it makes us feel good?!
Admittedly, I'm more Bridget Jones type ones now lol but still

Humpty, thank you, and thank god! 👍🏻

I’m saying that generally only men have a fetish which involves making others feel uncomfortable. I’ve seen and read about plenty of examples. Always male perpetrators.

Or only males who get caught ...

I say again, you have no idea what is going on inside anyone's head at an event like this. You are making assumptions based on:

Male or transwoman: Potential festishist
Woman: Person who would never dream of having sexual thoughts about anyone else.

Sexy underwear is for a fetish?

What is the fetish in that situation then?

Your point about wit could have been made without dragging in the ridiculous stereotypes. I assume you as a proclaimed feminist dismiss stereotypes but yet you are happy to promote and defend this stereotype.

I have a fetish about being treated as a real person instead of an object for men to wank at or over. This is a fetish that is rarely catered for.

I am nominating this for post of the day.

It’s the changing of a female space to a mixed space without being clear about which is the problem.

That’s not because people are generally stuck in the 1950s though, but because fetishes can be extremely niche

I have a fetish about being treated as a real person instead of an object for men to wank at or over. This is a fetish that is rarely catered for.

Was actually replying to your other post aspiring but it answers your next question also.

Yes tw eroding women only anywhere is the problem. They are more than welcome at anything that isn’t woman only, but they can’t change the meaning of our words even in seemingly irrelevant and unimportant areas like Ann summers mlms.

‘Trotting along’ because they see femininity as props to become a woman, so wear heels. It’s tongue in cheek, but again that doesn’t seem to translate well.

Sexy underwear, for a start. Costumes. Pink furry handcuffs

Oh dear.

Most 'sexy' underwear is designed not to turn a woman on but to cater to men's porn fantasies.

Pink furry handcuffs are surely a joke that turns no one on.

Most people have a very narrow view of fetish though, including Anne Summers the company.

That’s not because people are generally stuck in the 1950s though, but because fetishes can be extremely niche (shrinking fetish? Balloon fetish? Squashing live bugs fetish? Gym sock and jockstrap fetish?) Anne Summers caters for none of them.
Bigots!

Aspiring I think you need to check out the info on apg.

I’d have zero issue sitting at such a party-if I’d ever go to one as an adult not a student...- with the likes of Yardley, although I doubt he’d (he says he not she, respecting that) go- but I’d feel very very differently about one that included Janiv or Danielle Muscato or similar.

There’s a huge huge difference between the reasons behind why people trans and the apg one is a very different thing, a predatory threatening thing in plenty cases.

But we can’t see from the outside who has which reasons, the same way you can’t see my gentle, respectful husband would never pose you any harm, so we need a clear line. And that line is sex. Women means women and we need that protected in any and all areas. Even ones we’d baulk at the idea of attending.

I had to get chips on the walk home i was that stressed

You are so full of excuses today!