Women are still not allowed to gather and speak

They were outraged that the crowd outside was trying to drown out the voice of a woman talking about FGM and its impact on women and girls. And that women in 2022 in the UK cannot meet to discuss women's rights without an aggressive crowd outside trying to stop them talking.

DH, who's heard me discuss this whole debate way too much, wasn't the one who brought it up though. The more these extremists behave in this manner, the louder they shout, the more people notice. And like those men at the meeting, many who see and hear this are disgusted at their actions.

Well a disastrous night for the TRA's/incels. For the Manchester Evening News though it could n't have got worse.

Maidment has now associated himself, the newspaper and its editor, Darren Thwaites, with support for FGM. That's a stain that the MEN is going to struggle to shake-off.

Just how on earth is the newspaper and its editor going to dig itself out of this hole?

The plot thickens. No wonder she's locked her Twitter account.

Honestly these hateful, misogynistic cowards make me so angry. If we are making them this scared and angry by applying our legal and democratic rights as females to meet and discuss our issues, we must be doing something right.

Which would be a terminological inexactitude. The responses I saw were robust but not abusive.

I'm not surprised Annette Wright has protected her Tweets. When I saw the exchange I screenshotted and posted upthread, the ratio was something to behold. Local council elections in a few weeks. I wonder what her majority is.

@DomesticatedZombie thank you. I already get the Sex Matters emails, but I'm just writing an email resigning from the Labour Party (been meaning to do this for weeks) and will redirect my subs to Sex Matters. Also working out if I can get to the Filia conference, and will move on to emailing councillors and MP next.

I want to go to more meetings now. Got a grassroot meeting next week. Going to Reformers Tree for picnic in the park with Posie end of June.

Is there an agenda yet for the Filia event on October, can't see anything on their web and early bird tickets end on 31 March, but don't know which days to go to.

On a slightly frivolous note FWR were planning to send snacks to support a meeting because we so strongly support everyone's right to talk even if they were denouncing us in what sounded like a 60minute hate/denunciation/misinterpretation.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3419981-Event-in-Bath-Transphobia-in-the-UK-confronting-anti-trans-fear-mongering?

the game has gone too far.

Yes, this is my feeling now.

I have a very low opinion of the police. I think there is too much evidence of racism and misogyny both currently and stretching back decades. Not just the attitudes of individual coppers but built into the structure of the organisation and the tactics used. Obviously Sarah Everard and child Q, but also see the racism around the Brixton riots in the 80s and see the undercover cops impregnating the women they were spying on.

(Of course not all cops are bastards. Not all men are like that. And not all males with trans identities are like males who are like that etc)

But crowds like this, intimidating women from gathering, speaking and sharing ideas - intimidating all women, including women further disadvantaged by being abuse survivors and refugees - do they think they are offering a better alternative to the police? At least in theory we can attempt to hold the police accountable for their racist misogynist bias. These activists answer only to their own religion of gender ideology and quite frankly, like zealots of any religion, they terrify me.

[quote Theeyeballsinthefuckingsky]This guy from Manchester university is outside in the crowd & thinks men yelling at women is just brilliant

twitter.com/pdkmitchell/status/1507091047301758986?s=21[/quote]
What a gobshite.

Priapic to have a 'legitimate reason' to stand in the street shouting and intimidating women. 🤮

Highlight of the night was when it went quiet for a moment inside and we heard a male voice shout through a megaphone “the gender binary is a colonial construct!” And everyone inside hooted with laughter #WPUKManchester

twitter.com/boodleoops/status/1507110750590017537?s=20&t=0w2MuMmBgJvCG8z5tw_5Jg

It like they can join the dots but would lose a few manly man points if they did, so they skirt around the edges pretending they can't join the dots.

Like when you put two magnets of the same polarity together and one shoots off in the other direction, whereas if one was just slightly moved around a tiny bit, they would hurtle towards each other.

This is wilful, not accidental.