Julie Bindel & venue for MVAW talk in Nottingham

You are so dishonest.

Interesting. Nottingham Council’s EDI Strategy makes no mention of the sexual assault risks facing women and girls in Nottingham.

It does talk about high profile events in the USA, though. So perhaps the Council prefers to take a more international view of equality issues, rather than a locally focused approach.

She said she would.

A building where you can sit and read Mein Kampf but not listen to a talk from a feminist.

find a venue that agrees with your values

God, not only am I never going to get a reply to 'how does a sex match a gender' but now I have to ask if a building matches an opinion?

Two of them told me I was Julie Burchill, and that they had come to protest her.

I've heard there was a Sue Libraries there too - she's notorious.

Andrew Doyle:

"Would you mind clarifying how Julie Bindel's appearance would be in violation of the EDI strategy? The statement does not make this clear.

I'll be covering this on GB News tonight. Would you like to appear as a guest?"

twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com/status/1540735519491080192?t=QksCPsflTwuFatxsG9Q43A&s=19

Does Westminster council allowing speakers corner in Hyde Park also imply support for the views aired there? No. It implies that we are free to air our our views in public. It is not against the law to discuss women's rights. Not yet, anyway.

The library is publicly funded and hence subject to equality legislation so (fortunately) it isn't your or the councilors personal fiefdom to grant access at their whim. They have broken the law and I hope they apologise and offer the venue at a future date. Or get sued (and lose).

This Nottingham

www.nottinghampost.com/news/scared-worried-not-surprised-shocking-6071543

I didn't have a ticket but was able to go with my daughter. Daughter excited to get Julie's book signed.not a huge protest but as poetry was being read about harm to women the transactivists turned music on in one of their vehicles.
Julie was not going to mention trans ideology at all but we could hardly ignore them particularly when they started offering us suncream!
The talk was great and I've met more local women to add to the small local group I'm in. In fact we've doubled our numbers!

I then went on to a meeting in Nottingham hosted by Nordic Model Now.

find a venue that agrees with your values? I would not try to run a pro-choice ralley in a Catholic church either.

Or councils and venues could read the Equality Act, learn that there's more than 1 protected characteristic, read what the actual law says instead of the fantasy version they've paid thousands for, and understand that shouting ''trans rights'' doesn't give you the right to discriminate against others.

So the library should be allowed to discriminate

and other organisations i assume

im not really keen on discrimination so not something I would support

find a venue that agrees with your values? I would not try to run a pro-choice ralley in a Catholic church either.

So Nottingham Libraries think men should be allowed to abuse women. Quite a value to have in the 21st Century!

Incapable of reading or following links? Do you require everything to be spoon fed to you or is it just on here?

that should have been “the women’s group”, obvs.

You mean that the woman’s group holding a talk about reducing male violence against women should have realised that reducing male violence against women runs counter to Nottingham Council’s values, and should have avoided booking a Nottingham Council venue?

I guess female residents in Nottingham have now got a much clearer insight into the values of the individuals running the organisation which they pay their council tax to fund.

Oh, so discussing MVAW is against the values of the Council and this library then?

Interesting...

The talk was about the problem of male violence against women and girls. Are you saying that women and girls attending an event like this, hearing from a world-class expert on the subject, is against the values of Nottingham council and its library service?

Libraries are supposed to be apolitical, neutral spaces. Paid for by everyone, open to all.

Not a mens rights supporting organisation, paid for by men, for men.

It wasn't the library that made the decision.

And the rape crisis centre you allude to is a blight on us all. I'm miles away and still get their actions thrown at me - by people who think their actions were disgusting.

‘find a venue that agrees with your values? I would not try to run a pro-choice ralley in a Catholic church either.’

Catholic churches don’t generally rent out the church for all and sundry to run events in, do they? If they did rent out the church, they would (I expect) enjoy a degree of protection for their religious beliefs, so they would be justified in (for example) refusing to rent out their venue to people who didn’t share their values.

Libraries are public. They are paid for by taxation. They are accountable under the Equality Act, and are not allowed to indulge in belief discrimination.

Libraries don't have to agree with my values. Or yours. That's kind of the point of them?

Is it wrong that I chuckled at "well endowed rape crisis centre"
You've got to laugh sometimes or you'd cry...

Logic is not the strong point of TRAs is it?

You needn't be concerned over diverting funds from library. Suing one library will prevent lots of other libraries from being sued for discrimination, were they thinking of breaching the equality act with impunity.

Julie would actually be saving councils money in the long run.

She'd be doing them a favour. And us. Win/win really.

find a venue that agrees with your values? I would not try to run a pro-choice ralley in a Catholic church either.