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They scraped Mumsnet again.

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ArabellaSaurus · 08/11/2025 17:26

archive.ph/e0u3Z

https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-3/7/

Another data scrape. I'd say it's also defamatory against Mumsnet.

I've archived.

Article is a load of tedious wank, as you'd expect.

'In this study, however, we excavate what it means to write like a GC by analyzing how GC forum users rely on reactionary language and deploy storytelling practices in ways that calcify their anti-trans ideologies as personal and natural while rendering transgender people as anti-feminist, dangerous, and monstrous. To identify how GC groups perform political mythmaking and construct extremist identities, we undertook a computationally assisted discursive analysis of two popular GC forums: Ovarit and Mumsnet’s “Feminism: Sex & Gender” board (abbreviated to “FSG”). Through comparative platform discourse analysis, we analyzed over 80k posts and comments scraped from Ovarit and over 60k posts and comments scraped from Mumsnet (Burgess and Matamoros-Fernández 2016; Lewis and Marwick 2017)'

The only mildly amusing thing about it is the name of the Journal.

BATS.

“I Took a Deep Breath and Came Out as GC”: Gender Critical Storytelling, Radicalization, and Discursive Practice on Ovarit and Mumsnet

Following the closure of the anti-trans subreddit r/GenderCritical, gender critical (GC) internet users have migrated to more obscure, invite-only spaces. A side-effect of this GC dispersal is that activity in online anti-trans spaces has become increa...

https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-3/7/

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Jollyjoy · 08/11/2025 17:47

‘Tedious wank’ should be the abstract!

moto748e · 08/11/2025 17:45

So is this legal?

Toseland · 08/11/2025 17:44

I guess if they learn the lingo they can infiltrate terfdom and AI better.

FlirtsWithRhinos · 08/11/2025 17:42

The tragedy is that MN as a whole is an amazing resource of autobiographical content and discussion from real women about what they experience and what they care about unmediated by the need to accomodate the usual male audience's sensitivities.

If only they'd bother to scrape IABU and Relationships, they might finally start to fucking understand what living as a woman really means.

But I guess that would force them to recognise the real reason feminists are rejecting trans women's projected ideas of "womanhood", and that's the last thing they want to do.

Much better to keep repeating their own "storytelling" of feminist women inexplicably being radicalised to transphobic hatred.

LittleGreenDuck · 08/11/2025 17:38

It's Actually Romantic.

ArabellaSaurus · 08/11/2025 17:38

'Data Collection

This study relied on a computationally-assisted discourse analysis of data collected from FSG and Ovarit using Python notebooks developed by one of the authors. Data from each platform was collected and analyzed separately, using the means below.
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Mumsnet

Mumsnet posts within the FSG board are organized in a single feed. While Ovarit has forum subcategories (circles), FSG is a subforum itself, and does not have subcategories. Given that the discussion on FSG regularly involves trans- and gender-related subjects, it was likewise important to grab a wide sample. We scraped the most recent 3,767 threads and an accompanying 57,791 comments.5 In each case, the text, username, datetime, post type, and thread URL were collected. Data was collected in April of 2024.'

“I Took a Deep Breath and Came Out as GC”: Gender Critical Storytelling, Radicalization, and Discursive Practice on Ovarit and Mumsnet

Following the closure of the anti-trans subreddit r/GenderCritical, gender critical (GC) internet users have migrated to more obscure, invite-only spaces. A side-effect of this GC dispersal is that activity in online anti-trans spaces has become increa...

https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-3/7/#fn5

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DialSquare · 08/11/2025 17:37

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Mean Girls Stalker GIF
ArabellaSaurus · 08/11/2025 17:36

Honestly, lads, why don't you fuck off and do something useful with your lives, instead of creeping on women online?

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ArabellaSaurus · 08/11/2025 17:36

The other chap writes a lot about video games.

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BlueEyedBogWitch · 08/11/2025 17:36

ArabellaSaurus · 08/11/2025 17:35

PB Berge also has studied transphobia in Dungeons and Dragons. Bless him.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15554120231204145

Nnnnawwww.

He’ll be on Only Connect soon.

ArabellaSaurus · 08/11/2025 17:35

PB Berge also has studied transphobia in Dungeons and Dragons. Bless him.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15554120231204145

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BlueEyedBogWitch · 08/11/2025 17:35

It’s flattering, really.

<twirls>

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