'I trust their condemnation' - protester at book launch of 'Sex and Gender'

Why were attendees being forced to walk through them at all. Why didn’t security just keep a clear walkway with the barriers and tell the (small number of) protesters to sit and whinge either side of it?

For all the shouting about stuff, it’s clear that the protesters and ucu aren’t very representative of the UoE community. It looks like a very small minority who are good at seeking attention.

Johnny makes a great poster boy for that. He’s got some borrowed rhetoric he’s never really looked in to (and doesn’t understand!). Yet he’s determined to position himself as the spokesman for the protest!

Great, I came looking for The Times article, thanks for posting it, @IcakethereforeIam.

Dr Jonny claims trans activists were being kicked by the nasty wimmin, The Times say the TRAs were grabbing legs. Hmm. I think I see a connection there.

Either Dr Jonny doesn't know that women's legs were being grabbed (doesn't care) or he hasn't bothered to find out, thus displaying his very incurious mind.

Or maybe he thinks women should just put up with what ever is dished out to them.

Well I haven't read the book either, but since (I understand that) it's a book about WOMEN and is written by a WOMAN, then surely that should actually appeal to Dr Jonny's mindset.

But only if he considers the opinions of an educated woman worth reading.

Ah, I think I see the flaw in the logic there.

The Times have an article with a different take from Jonny's. The disgusting creeps were grabbing at the legs of the women attending 😬

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-rights-crowd-assaulted-guests-at-gender-book-launch-ggn9qdtf7

https://archive.ph/0xQj8 (archive link to the article)

Compare and contrast to an LGBTQ+ event happening nearby which went ahead with no obstruction and no demonstrations.

I used to work in a university and was a member of UCU. I left because I felt my subs were being used in large part to fund political campaigns, e.g. boycott Israel, instead of what I wanted, which was skilled and effective representation and negotiation with employers over pay, pensions, working conditions and the like. I had little confidence that if I'd got into any difficulty I could have got much real help from UCU.

Imagine being a woman working in the Biological Sciences or Chemistry departments of U of E and needing help from your union. Your local rep is Dr Jonny Dennis. Would you expect non-judgemental, constructive support?

Probably hoping for a political career. If his name should turn up on a shortlist in a year or two, I hope the screenshots from today will be deployed.

Seems this charmer is a UCU branch anti-casualisation officer.

One wonders how it has come to pass that a union rep - a union rep! - can make such liberal use of a misogynistic slur word.

Oh dear. 😂

I think his field of interest is potentially world changing and it is disappointing but unsurprising that the same rigour is not applied throughout his life.

Thank you for your flawed thinking reference @ArabellaScott . Sometimes we narrow our focus too much.

Ha!

2023 has given us an abundance of riches, from Isla Bryson to Austin Killips to Dylan Mulvaney to Mika Minio to Sarah Jane Baker to the little person attempting to sabotage Kath Stock to this fellow, who has realised he's messed up so monumentally that he's cancelled himself before the day is done.

LetThemSpeak...I say...KeepThemComing

"When someone tells you who they are, believe them".

This fellow as close to a textbook example as you could get.

You’d hope someone at the UoE has been in touch - not least because he’s made it clear that he only attended the protest about something he knows nothing about because he had a grudge against one of his colleagues who’d attended it. There’s an issue for HR to discuss.

Although I’m not sure I’d be willing to put much faith in UoE HR.

Deleted it now. I wonder if he's belatedly realising he's made an utter fool of himself in the last 24 hours. I also wonder if it's possible that someone at the U of E has been in touch.

I’m sure he’s outsourced his opinions on JKR too.

In an attempt to get more attention, the wee narcissist has tagged JKR on Twitter and demanded she comment.

If I write to Edinburgh university and complain about the very obvious online harassment of a female (protected characteristic), Gender Critic (protected characteristic) by a member of their staff would they be compelled to investigate one wonders.

Men like him are gloriously outing themselves as right wing conspiracy theorists.
Science denying flat earthers, hate women, zero intellectual arguments - just Trumpian allegations about bad women people. It's actually very sad to see and such a waste of what presumably used to be a good intellect.

Next time UCU send out a directive to picket a GC event, I assume!