Women's rights general conversations - Thread 10

One of the reasons I have no wish to go back there. Always annoying, little twerp.

I'd forgotten about him, dreadful man. Has anyone ever met him?

Ha, yes, I was following that. He threw a bit of tantrum as he flounced.

Dr Who is still being made?

They should have put it on ice years ago and then rebooted it after a good 15+ years rest (or however long it takes for the BBC to focus on good characters and stories again).

Apparently, Billie Piper is going to be the next Dr Who! Well done her on landing the role. Firstly admit I started losing interest with Capaldi and gave up completely with Whittaker. However, AIBU to find this direction potentially a little creepy, character wise. Iirc the Doctor and Rose were romantically entangled. Rose was gifted a Doctor-dupe as a consolation prize when she left. Now the Doctor is literally putting on her skin. Fortunately he's a time lord doctor not a GP.

You've just made me quite sad that hatters isn't still posting on That Thread @bignosebignose ! A bunch of us had quite a fight with him about a month ago and he hasn't been back. He did say when I offered him a reading list that he wouldn't read anything I recommended, whilst moaning about the lack of reliable sources of information on our side. You really couldn't make it up.

One for the old-timers, reminds me of the other place.

https://imgur.com/a/6gfMQD2

Wow, that's an easy one to sign to make yourself feel good without exercising a single brain cell 🙄

So presumably they are going to be fighting to keep trans-identified females out of women's spaces because they are men and, as they rightly say, 98% of perpetrators of sexual offences are men? No, of course they aren't... because they know exactly who the biological men and women are.

This petition is part of the ongoing attempt to queer feminism in order to allow a subsection of men to overcome women's boundaries and safeguarding instincts.

More fool them, then.

Women are signing this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/not-in-our-name-women-in-support-of-the-trans-community

https://theconversation.com/we-are-all-lumped-under-one-umbrella-of-hate-when-social-attitudes-change-what-is-life-like-for-people-who-dont-agree-253464?

"Our interviewees believe their positions are frequently mis-characterised and conflated" say the authors of an article that repeatedly mischaracterises and conflates them.

WRN response to the WH series on the SC judgement.

https://www.womensrights.network/post/what-we-learned-from-woman-s-hour?

Doesn't say much you won't have already spotted if you had the energy to listen to all of them, but a handy summary for those of us who lost the will half way through and might be wondering whether to bother with the rest.

Yeah, it's ugly, isn't it? But it told me some stuff I didn't know, and chimed in with other things I'd read in the past.

Thank you for sharing that. I think.

I knew about quite a few of those individual things already, but seeing them all brought together is extra depressing.

Looking at it, I can absolutely see why people abandoned TwiX en masse for places like Mastodon and Bluesky that promised to be nice, gentle groups of lovely people where you could leave the nastiness behind. But they never are, are they?

Just read this bleak book review in the NS. I was pretty unenthusiastic about AI before I read it... But anyway, I thought it was of (grim) interest.

www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/05/misogyny-in-the-metaverse

Also, how ABSOLUTELY AMAZING that Mrs Foxbotherer had happen to her EXACTLY what Mr Foxbotherer predicted would happen. It's almost like he made it up!

https://x.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1925192724807827498

Makes me think of Rimmer from Red Dwarf -

HOLLY: “BSc, SSc?” What’s that?LISTER: Bronze Swimming certificate and Silver Swimming certificate. He’s a total lunatic.

I've just discovered this blog https://labourpainsblog.com which is delightfully sarky about various characters on TRSOH. Mostly the fox-botherer at the moment, but there's also a reference to "Professor Stephn Whitle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Cycling Proficiency Grade 2" which made me laugh.

I stumbled across this on YouTube, no need to watch it. It's just an example

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZuE5Y-SjaTw?si=6edC4GN6T1gJRpfE

A bloke got a huge crowd of people to come out in NY to watch him eat a jar of cheese balls. They looked colourful, noisy and seemed to be having a high old time. Just in case anyone is worried by the number of people who have turned up for the recent anti-woman marches. Some folx's lives are so devoid they'll come out to anything. A minority of true believers and the rest, perhaps, could be best described as rabble 😃 Out for the colour, the noise and to try to have a high old time. Gets them out of the house.

Probably sensible. Although you would also have missed the sing off between ChaChaCha and Rim Tim Tagi Dim, which was fun.

Ah I'm entirely wrong. It's Unexplainable, and can be found on YouTube.

It was the interval act rather than an entry, so a little harder to find details. It might be called 'I'm a woman in my dreams'. But that's a guess from the lines I remember - song.titles aren't always obvious from the lyrics, so it could well have been called something else entirely.