Entitled male refused access to female changing area (despite wearing skirt)

Or like this?

Skid. Leaving a mark!

Wielding a truncheon yelling “Respect my authoritah”?

(For any South Park fans.)

To me, these actions suggest a very deliberate long term campaign with milestones and tactics. It begins with small transgressions and when no push back is experienced, escalation. All of this is done with a cloak (disguise) of ever so humble reasonableness and harmlessness which both disarms objectors and provides some plausible deniability. The confusion over the law and DEI provide cover. This is not a delusion. People like this exhibit dark triad personality traits. They need a firm "no" in response.

To be fair you could sort of imagine a situation where someone interested in swimming typed “breast” and then “ stroke” into a search engine and accidentally found themselves on a site about breastfeeding and masturbation.

No?

My guess is very slowly 🐌

I'm trying to imagine Anne and wondering how she got from one end of the changing room to the other 🤔Tiptoe? Glide? March? Skip? So many possibilities

Wandering through is a bit over-euphemistic though, it suggests absent-minded, accidental presence. It was clearly quite deliberate walking through a place Anne did not need to walk through for some clear motive of Anne's own.

Any decent man wouldn’t entertain walking through a changing room being used by women and girls.

I'm going to have to take issue with Datun saying swan in and swan out.

It's an insult to swans.

It's almost ironic how unfair it must feel when the subtleties of a minor language tweak are used in a way that works against you.

😆

Yes, lol. It's the description of the man walking into the teenage changing room that's the problem 🤣

😁

I can't wait to hear that Anne being on the, er, 'milf milking masturbation' is just them demonstrating an interest in the benefits of dairy products.

Yes, it's certainly an interesting fight to pick.
To be fair to Robin, wandering around does have different connotations. However, the headline referred to "wandering through". And yes, the newspaper talked about stopping officials (of any sex) walking through. However the paper also went on to say that no separate facility was needed because Anne wasn't getting changed. By implication this means that Anne would have needed to be separated from the girls if that were the case.

Either way, Robin is picking an odd fight around the semantics of words. The net effect will simply be to perpetuate the story for longer and raise its profile higher.

It's almost ironic how unfair it must feel when the subtleties of a minor language tweak are used in a way that works against you.

In women's football, if a player is under-18 she has a different changing room to the rest of the team (most of whom will be in their 20s), because of safeguarding. If the manager is male, he won't be allowed into the changing rooms to do his team talk. It does beggar belief that this person felt it was appropriate to walk through a changing room of girls getting changed for swimming. Just so horrible. But of course, that's part of the fun, isn't it?

Sews lips shut.

RMW grasping at straws if all RMW can complain about is the use of the word 'wandering'. If only women's worries were as insignificant as Robin's.

I do wonder if usually the content AC puts on line either only gets positive comments from within the community, or gets ignored (there were a lot of tweets with no traction at all). Therefore maybe that equates in some people's minds to people not actively disagreeing with AC 's behaviour being equal to a green light to carry on.

Its like no one commenting on someone being trans, because it doesn’t need commenting on, and people assuming that it means they have passed.

Maybe Merlin and pals are all on jolly holidays together and can’t access the internet 😂

Sits on hands.

Yes, I'm not sure that's what Anne would call it 😆. but would still be thoroughly enjoying the entire judgement free 'safe space'.

That's until, of course, they got on their high bloody horse and acted outraged because they couldn't swan in and out of the teen girls' changing room.

it really does highlight the entitlement. How arrogant do you have to be to think that anyone would find that the slightest bit acceptable!!

I honestly think that some of these people's brains have literally been addled.

no normal thinking person would imagine that this is acceptable behaviour.

https://twitter.com/moira_robin/status/1685744318198501376

What is White like? Having an argument over the use of wandering around versus cut through.

Delicious, isn't it?

Those grenades this bullying, misogynisitc movement keeps lobbing at women and girls are finally starting to go off in the faces of the throwers instead.

Makes a change from the past decade of hitting precisely their intended targets.

Not ashamed in the slightest to be revelling in schadenfraude.

From further down in that tweet...

I'm a newbie to Twitter (as of this morning) so I have no idea if I'm mistaken or what I could do about it if I'm not... But there is a glaringly obvious omission here: why isn't someone linking in Sharron Davies?

She had already commented on the hotel story before this news broke. I'm sure she'd have plenty to say on the British Swimming Championships/Reading Swim Club changing room issue.

#supportMyra