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Man says sorry

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Lovelyview · 19/04/2025 12:13

https://archive.ph/FN89Q

Mark Smith of The Herald says sorry to women. To be honest it sounds like his arc from be kind to gender critical is similar to my own (although I didn't pay much attention rather than supporting self id) so I'm not sure he's got a huge amount to be sorry for. It's nice to hear though.

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lcakethereforeIam · 19/04/2025 12:46

That men will no longer be able to get naked in women's changing rooms? That rapists won't be locked in women's jails. That raped women can access support without a larping man in the room? That vulnerable or disabled women won't have to worry that their intimate care will be provided by a man in a cheap wig? That the Police won't sanction their officers, who claim to have lady brains, forcing women to undress and let them search their naked bodies?

All good causes. The best 😠

Annascaul · 19/04/2025 12:37

Pluvia · 19/04/2025 12:19

Wow. The author John Boyne is the only other man I know who has apologised — though in his case he's apologised to Graham Linehan for criticisms about Linehan's defence of women's rights. So he hasn't actually apologised to women. All I'm seeing, from women as well as men, is defiance and what I can only describe as hysteria: my FB (which I check in on a couple of times a month) is full of left-wing lesbians having nervous breakdowns over the assertion of women's right to single-sex spaces and female biology, and copious apologies to transpeople for the terrible harm being done to them. One of my neighbours who works for the NHS is beside herself with grief and trying to raise an army of people to go to a local pro-trans demo this afternoon.

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What on earth is a “pro trans” demo? What are they actually protesting about?

EmilyMarcel · 19/04/2025 12:35

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Pluvia · 19/04/2025 12:19

Wow. The author John Boyne is the only other man I know who has apologised — though in his case he's apologised to Graham Linehan for criticisms about Linehan's defence of women's rights. So he hasn't actually apologised to women. All I'm seeing, from women as well as men, is defiance and what I can only describe as hysteria: my FB (which I check in on a couple of times a month) is full of left-wing lesbians having nervous breakdowns over the assertion of women's right to single-sex spaces and female biology, and copious apologies to transpeople for the terrible harm being done to them. One of my neighbours who works for the NHS is beside herself with grief and trying to raise an army of people to go to a local pro-trans demo this afternoon.