Have a look at the Mermaids thread in the link - it’s what’s happened over there (only they have the double threat of an internal EDI Vampire and an external safeguarding investigation happening at the same time. We’d all assumed it was the massive, egregious safeguarding fails that pushed Susie Green out of the CEO role but it now looks like it was actually the EDI Vampire that killed her transing kiddies career).
The thread starts with Mermaids (it’s a fascinating case study) but goes into some other examples too.
Obvs I don’t give a shiny shit if Mermaids are hoisted by their own intersectional petard (in fact, it seems like a fitting end for them) but it would be upsetting to witness similar taking hold at Filia.
Usually, when someone complains about Filia on here it’s only because we are lazily shortcutting and we are really referring to that specific WPUK session at Filia that was like a Red Guard Struggle Session with Kara Dansky forced to wear the pointy hat. Not something women were expecting to witness in Wales!
The whole sorry saga is thrashed out on the link someone else posted up thread.
The WPUK session also gave us gems such as (paraphrasing!) ‘Only right wing women have the money to support crowdfunders’.
Which as you can imagine, pissed off scores of disabled women, single mothers, women on stat mat pay, women in low waged professions such as caring & older women on state pensions who have helped one £5 or £10 donation at a time. The very women that WPUK claims to care about!
(Not that there is anything intrinsically wrong with being a conservative or right leaning centrist anyway so using ‘right wing’ as a pejorative pissed off those women too!)
Up until now though, here on MN we’d been categorising that particular debacle as a WPUK thing, not a Filia thing… but it looks like it may have spread?