Memories of the last few years of madness

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Venice Allan is still active and on Twitter

I wonder what happened to Venice Allan, Helen Steel (of McLibel fame), and Lisa Muggeridge? They were so key to waking me up back in 2018.

Obvs, don't actually tell me because they might be staying quiet for their safety. But they went quiet and I hope they are all OK.

Ooh thank you! I remember reading at the time and thinking it was an excellent description of the utter madness and disregard for women. I wonder if she's done an updated version. I know we're not out of the woods yet but it feels as if some sanity is returning.

And talking of Houses of Parliament events, there was the breathtakingly ironic, clanging and tone deaf launch of the Kinder, Gentler Politics report there featuring as panel member none other than Lily Madigan, who was not happy to see our group, to put it mildly!

It was Venice Allan’s “We Need to Talk”, it was held at the HoP in the end thanks to the intervention of MP David TC Davies. He was later investigated after TRA complaints by Parliamentary Standards or similar but I think they found no case to answer.

Mumsnet was dubbed “More Balls Than Millwall” after that because they were prepared to face down TRAs, unlike the football club with a reputation for being tough.

Thank you everyone for this. I have just emailed Milli Hill to express my support to her. I read her book when I was pregnant and found it really good, and had no idea how she'd been treated for her GC views.

Talking of dogs, Stonewall’s head of inclusion at the Allison Bailey tribunal who could only give evidence with his mum and emotional support dog in attendance.

Chloe looked in horror in the mirror at her growing breasts.

In fairness, I feel like that about my tits and I'm 40 plus spare change. Hating these fatty lumps that turn up unbidden and are catnip to pervy men is probably the standard autistic female experience.

Obviously he's never heard of Black Patriarchy.

in a happier memory, the Miller vs College of Policing court case was good. And live-streamed as I remember from the Court of Appeal?

That is indeed a happy memory. But instructive to a cynic like me. The College of Policing was told to scrap NCHI. Did they? Did they heck. Still going on despite Harry's expensive win. Is that what is going to happen with the recent SC clarification?

The NHS, Police, Government-- have they said ANYTHING about complying with SC finding? Or have they doubled down by sending out notices to staff reinforcing their support for their T staff?

"Move along, nothing to see here..."

‘Karen White’. He should have peaked the nation and was way earlier than Isla Bryson.

I'm afraid I feel the same. Seen too many posts on social media frothing with generalised outrage, yet not specifying exactly what is so awful because they haven't actually read and understood the judgement and are just assuming it's tantamount to sentencing trans people to some dreadful unjust fate obviously everyone agrees "it's awful" so no need to explain

When Millwall cancelled a ‘Let Women Speak’ event (or maybe Women’s Place) because of security issues.

This one?

https://janeclarejones.com/2018/11/13/the-annals-of-the-terf-wars/

Was it Dawn Butler who posted a Twitter poll along the lines of ‘who would you trust most’ and got convincingly trounced? It was one of the female Labour MPs but I can’t remember if it was definitely her.

And I think she also said babies are born without a sex, and 90% of giraffes are gay.

in a happier memory, the Miller vs College of Policing court case was good. And live-streamed as I remember from the Court of Appeal?

You've reminded me, I saw an ad with that slogan on the side bar of MN just yesterday. I stared at it in disbelief for a moment and it refreshed onto something else before I could record it. A picture of a dark-haired girl or young woman in red with that slogan. No idea who or what it was advertising. I've been looking at site stuff but no reports and I've not seen it again. Possibly a zombie ad. from a tin-earred campaign? Anyway, apologies, enough of the derail.

Asda and their "love has no age" oops we didn't read the detail campaign.

Have we had ‘Veronica Ivy’ (or whichever name she used at the time) telling a presenter, I think on the today programme, that she wasn’t ’born a man’ because men were adults and clearly therefore she could not have been born a man?

And if the mumsnet servers ever go up in a puff of smoke I'm sure Aston University scraped a decent amount in order for the PhD student to do her PhD in the alleged terrible transphobia in Mumsnet!

Another low point - this one generated Tshirts!!

( https://grimut-gerbils.teemill.com/ )

The Scottish Government appointing a man (Jason Grant) as their first Period Dignity Officer.

That was a really low point for me.

There were a lot of people, mainly men, that assumed she had in fact flashed her actual minge!!

@Boiledbeetle I'd never heard of that but it's fucking brilliant! How many wouldn't have realised it was a merkin 😂

Lizzie Potts accused of misgendering a dog.

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-and-the-tribunal/