Thank You from the Lurkers

Another thank you from me. Most of my old friends embrace the wokery without question, and I am so glad I found this corner of MN to reassure me that I'm not losing my sanity! Merry Christmas to you all x

Me as well - saying thank-you to all for the light shining, informed articulation, and the lovely sense of shared-team-got-your-back-ness.

And from me too. Spend far too much time lurking on this site and occasionally posting. I've learnt so much.

It's truly lovely to see all the lurkers! I lurked for such a long time and was taken with the clear headed intelligence of the posters - the evidence, links and knowledge.

This is such an important space. Merry Christmas to all

How lovely to see so many lurkers! Come out and play, this space is for everyone and the more voices we have the better.

Thanks to everyone who posts on FWR. It's a fabulous resource, and yes, an incredibly valuable space for discussion, debate and analysis.

Thanks to the ploppers, the TRAs, those who disagree and those who challenge. The more views we have the more chance we have of coming to workable solutions that protect the rights of women and girls. This space is where 'no debate' ends.

Thanks too to the mods, and MNHQ, who do a difficult job for very little thanks.

And nods to all those who have been banned, who have flounced, drifted away or left. There will always be more women to take up the torch.

Happy Christmas, all.

We should have another Christmas thread with panto villains and goodies... I have a whole list i could write down!
Keep up the excellent, good humoured, intelligent posts it's so good to be part of this with such wonderful women.

Thank you and Merry Christmas from another lurker

Yes, another one here. Thank you all so much. I stumbled across this board about 18 months ago after googling Eddie Izzard, having been such a fan and then thinking "WTAF?" more recently. I am forever grateful for the wisdom and camaraderie that I find here, even though I almost never post.

Another thank you from me.

I have learnt so much, and continue to learn every time I come here. And I am incredibly grateful to you very clever women.

Another lurker, delurking to say thanks for all the information and links to help me understand the subject better. I'm getting braver at talking and questioning things in real life. As a teacher in a secondary school I am particularly concerned about safeguarding.

It's really helpful to have links to data and research that has been done, it's helped with a couple of situations when trying to explain the GC point of view. I'm not totally out to everyone I know, partly due to my job and also my interest in hearing what friends who are TRA's have to say. I know several would just block me if they knew what I felt. I've always kept an open mind but have yet to find any evidence or argument to make me return to my "be kind" state of mind.

Thank you from me too.

I don’t post often, but I have signed up to Sex Matters and sent a few emails to different organisations.

The great thing is that when i manage to drop the subject into conversations, I nearly always get a positive response. People often want to know more and I can share some of what I’ve learnt from this board.

Long-time lurker - I do post but rarely.

A big thank you to those who do post. Based on your wise advice, I've sent letters, dug gardens and been a wee bit braver to speak out loud in real life.

Merry Christmas FWR

Isn't this lovely?

Another big thank you. You have given me the information and courage to take action in real life. When it's been awful, it's been a huge relief to come back here and hear you talking utter sense.

Delurking to add my thanks.

Delurking to add to the numbers. Thank you so much for your knowledge, bravery and patience. Merry Christmas!

Oh - and thank you to all the others who said "thank you", too. I wish you all the best for the new year.

How lovely of you to say that, @TofuDelights! All the best.

Adding my thanks and huge appreciation of all the brave, intelligent women here.

Another lurker who has learnt so much, thank you all!!

Lurker since 2018; this is my first post. Found here after wondering why sexist stereotypes seemed to be such a feature, how Caitlin Jenner could possibly be Woman of the Year, and wondering what on earth the "cotton ceiling" was.

A wholehearted "Thank you" from me to everyone on this board; you have all helped me to educate myself.

A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Wow, it's heartening to learn some of you have done full 180s

Cheers vipers!

Hear hear.

Another (mainly) lurker here too, saying thank you to all who contribute so much. I've learned a lot from so many brave and knowledgeable women. And I've also seen and learned from the posters who suddenly appear and try to stand up for the trans rights activists only to run away or attempt to derail when challenged with simple questions, facts and statistics.

Thank you from a regular name changing, occasional poster. The sheer amount of information on these boards is astounding, and so important.

I do always appreciate the alternative view as well as a PP, but for me they always highlight the lack of substance in the argument (to put it politely). If we could read the same robust information from TRAs.....

I donate to Sex Matters thanks to this board and am becoming braver in public discourse. I did also have a nice moment from my DH last night - he has a group of friends who live local to the man who sexually abused a dog. They shared the news report on their WhatsApp group and my DH commented 'the Mrs will be up in arms that this is being recorded as a female crime....'. I was so pleased that a) he got it before I had to explain and b) shared that with a group of men who it probably wouldn't have occurred too. As PPs, I too have spoken probably not to eloquently about this at times, as my opinions were forming, so it's good to know I'm getting the important messages out there!

Yup, lurked on FWR since the incident with Maria M at speaker's corner - was that late 2017? Have gradually raised questions at my work (education) over the years - and made people think more carefully about the safeguarding nuances in this area, thanks to you guys.