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Hyde Park 29th May 12pm

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OhDearWhyAmIFatterly · 28/05/2022 19:23

Anyone coming to Hyde Park tomorrow?

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OhDearWhyAmIFatterly · 30/05/2022 11:43

@StormyWaterCloud was it your first meeting? I felt so good when I got home!

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SpindleSheWrote · 30/05/2022 11:08

Oh is that a nappy? I thought it was some baggy underpants. I think my career in semiotics is doomed.

RosehipSyrupForDinner · 30/05/2022 11:03

Mammary Mafia

Interesting that when they're being derogatory, it's all about the female organs. How very uninclusive of them.

Foilball · 30/05/2022 10:57

"SamphirethePogoingStickerist · Today 10:48

Yeah well, it is satire. Humour.

Which are you most annoyed about?

Women having a sense of humour in the face of physical threats
Him for disrupting a women's event
Him for appearing in apparent blackface

Because I won't apologise for satire, and doubt anyone else will either."

Did he disrupt a women's event? It looked from the brief clip I have seen that he was part of the 'show'.

SamphirethePogoingStickerist · 30/05/2022 10:49

ScreamingMeMe · 30/05/2022 10:48

I think it was someone taking the piss, not an actual TRA.

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I did look again and yes, the nappy gives it away Smile

SamphirethePogoingStickerist · 30/05/2022 10:48

Yeah well, it is satire. Humour.

Which are you most annoyed about?


  • Women having a sense of humour in the face of physical threats

  • Him for disrupting a women's event

  • Him for appearing in apparent blackface


Because I won't apologise for satire, and doubt anyone else will either.

ScreamingMeMe · 30/05/2022 10:48

SamphirethePogoingStickerist · 30/05/2022 10:29

Well, he made a point. Possibly not the one he intended.

Will Posie be accused of staging him, do you think?

I think it was someone taking the piss, not an actual TRA.

ScreamingMeMe · 30/05/2022 10:47

The name was coined after the last meeting to describe the TRAs who turned up masked and all in black and behaved like little brats. Nice try though.

And that's a morph suit, not blackface.

Foilball · 30/05/2022 10:42

To my mind, calling him a 'black pamper', alluding to a group which was created by Black Americans to fight against oppression whilst he is dressed in what could be (and has been) interpreted as black face Is questionable to put it mildly.

SamphirethePogoingStickerist · 30/05/2022 10:29

Well, he made a point. Possibly not the one he intended.

Will Posie be accused of staging him, do you think?

StormyWaterCloud · 30/05/2022 10:24

He was a "black pamper" a nickname given to the TRAs who dressed all in black and intimidated and assaulted women at the Manchester meet last month. It's not blackface. It's a black morph suit.

Dakkare · 30/05/2022 09:05

Could anyone give me the context for this?

Why was someone in blackface at the event? Is it to show the comparison with womanface?

Hyde Park 29th May 12pm
Foilball · 30/05/2022 08:27

Could anyone give me the context for this?

StormyWaterCloud · 30/05/2022 00:22

I went too! It was AWESOME

NancyDrawed · 29/05/2022 21:01

I haven't ventured onto twitter yet, but if I do I'll let you know!

See you next month...

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OhDearWhyAmIFatterly · 29/05/2022 20:55

Yes definitely @NancyDrawed @MagnoliaTaint I have set up a twitter account too today so I can keep abreast! If you're on Twitter pm and I'll give you a follow!

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MagnoliaTaint · 29/05/2022 20:27

Woohoo!

NancyDrawed · 29/05/2022 20:19

Hooray! I'm so pleased you had a good day.

If you go next month I'll see you there!

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OhDearWhyAmIFatterly · 29/05/2022 20:09

@NancyDrawed I've just got home and I'm BUZZING it was absolutely brilliant! It was like my brain, my thoughts and my words were all being spoken. I have found my people!

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NancyDrawed · 29/05/2022 09:16

Dear thread monitors, on here, on twitter, on any social media - IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU

There are two things that I would like to ask the masked disruptors:

  1. If you are so proud of what you are doing, why are you afraid to show your face?

  2. If the women speaking about the reality of how this ideology affects them are so wrong, why try to prevent them speaking? Surely it would be a better strategy to let everyone hear them for themselves, so that they can be sure that their own view is correct? Why are you so afraid of people hearing women speak?

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Unfortunately, you are trying to apply logic and common sense to people who appear to fervently resist both. They only care about their worldview being reinforced, and to them disagreement equals hatred.
It's incredible immature and reductive. I do hope many of them will grow out of it in years to come, and may look back on their petulant behaviour with shame, but maybe not.

NancyDrawed · 29/05/2022 19:01

@OhDearWhyAmIFatterly

Did you go in the end? How was it?

And as for the KJK video from 2018, yes it is a bit depressing that not much has changed, but at least more people are aware of the issue now, who wouldn't have been back then. I tried talking to my sister about it a year or two back and she said I sounded like I was part of some weird conspiracy theory type cult because she hadn't seen anything in mainstream media! I'm biding my time before I try again.

EmpressaurusWitchDoesntBurn · 29/05/2022 18:19

I’ve seen police stop off there in the past. They usually have a brief friendly chat with Kellie-Jay & move on.

Its reminiscent of times when I’ve been involved in pro-lesbian protests outside Stonewall events. Stonewall would call the police, the police would duly arrive, have a chat with the organisers & tell Stonewall that we were perfectly within our rights.

NotTerfNorCis · 29/05/2022 13:40

A creepy and probably illegal attempt to get the meeting shut down.

twitter.com/Aja02537920/status/1530881200352632832?t=l4zFMbQDaLC6oL_aV8fWRw&s=19

MagnoliaTaint · 29/05/2022 13:36

There’s a description of Mumsnet as the Mammary Mafia

Crikey.

T-shirt, anyone?

EmpressaurusWitchDoesntBurn · 29/05/2022 11:08

I’ve heard that it’s 1pm today because of the lighter evenings.