Please or to access all these features

Feminism: Sex and gender discussions
Thread gallery
14
BigThelma · 09/06/2026 07:55

‘I’m a laydeee!’ <twirls>

MrsOvertonsWindow · 09/06/2026 07:52

God I miss the laugh emoji.

But transparently's posts above very successfully showcase the delusional conspiracy theory / regressive Victorian tendencies of those determined to wedge men into women's spaces .

It's no good mate - Michael Foran's legal credentials are too well established to be smeared by internet randoms. But always worth a try I suppose and thanks for the entertainment

BigThelma · 09/06/2026 07:49

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 09/06/2026 07:42

Anyone doubting this should look at Adrian Vermeule's The New Digest.

He works closely with the guy.

Don't side with misogynists, ladies. It ends badly for us.

‘Ladies’??!

Deary me, how terribly retrograde.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 09/06/2026 07:45

On and on you go beclowning yourself

you do our work for us

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 09/06/2026 07:42

Anyone doubting this should look at Adrian Vermeule's The New Digest.

He works closely with the guy.

Don't side with misogynists, ladies. It ends badly for us.

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 09/06/2026 07:38

He's funded by Christian nationalists want to control women's bodies. And plenty of right-wing women support that movement.

I'd urge everyone not to be fooled, and take a look at his background, mentor and funding.

Then maybe read the poem again.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 09/06/2026 07:29

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 09/06/2026 07:26

There were barely more attendees than protesters - and I hope you're aware of the funding behind this guy. He's a protege of people with incredibly regressive views about women and gay people.

Those (very polite!) protesters did women everywhere a favour. Misogynists should not be platformed in our universities.

Michael Foran is gay you absolute fucking wombat

is there no end to the ways you embarrass yourself here??

alliumursinum · 09/06/2026 07:29

We’re all picturing the same shy, hesitant womanly smile breaking out across his face when he penned that paragraph aren’t we? I will spend most of the day giggling about friends and allies, lovers and exes…

is this a suggested blueprint for all protests in civic life now and is there a sliding scale - if I want to appeal a parking ticket is one ex sufficient?

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 09/06/2026 07:26

impossibletoday · 07/06/2026 12:31

due to bullying and harassment of those students wanting to attend.

https://x.com/i/status/2063577885928013833

There were barely more attendees than protesters - and I hope you're aware of the funding behind this guy. He's a protege of people with incredibly regressive views about women and gay people.

Those (very polite!) protesters did women everywhere a favour. Misogynists should not be platformed in our universities.

Cailin66 · 09/06/2026 04:32

Mmmnotsure · 08/06/2026 21:14

This is the activists' validation reel.

Worth watching to the end, if you can bear it, for their rallying cry of DIY hormones and euphoria. Also, we are introduced to the concept of intersexism.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZUJ_ZeteEq/?igsh=MWF0OHo0MjIyOHM2Mw%3D%3D

I’m a bit confused. Is the blond haired girl with green dyed hair trans ?

The man in red, was that his normal voice? It’s very odd. Is the Sesame Street Character, green puppet in the bin, meant to represent someone else who doesn’t want their face shown? Or is that again the man in red.

DrBlackbird · 08/06/2026 23:36

"is local, community-based, intimate. It is in the networks of friends, allies, lovers and exes, in the mutual aid and the DIY hormones and the day-to-day euphoria that we make."

Fgs. This sort of inane 2nd hand GenAI teenage rubbish is what fuels genuinely frightening people to argue that the left should be denied a democratic voice because they’re so crazy. A spiral of left craziness followed by right repression. Regular people caught in the middle.

Edited to say thank you to @BridgetPhillipsonIsACowardlyJobsworth for signposting this interesting thread.

BigThelma · 08/06/2026 23:10

TwoLoonsAndASprout · 08/06/2026 14:12

You’re not wrong there with the commodification of the university experience. I was one of the old-school academics who thought I had been hired to progress the field in my area of research, and teach engaged and interested students. By the time I left 10 years ago the rot had already begun to creep in - I was told by my “line manager” (a colleague, who was given the title but not any management training, when the uni suddenly decided that they needed such things as line managers) that I needed to learn how to “play the game” better. I am simultaneously glad that I am out, and saddened that the whole of academia appears to now be a farce.

Similar tale here with me, @TwoLoonsAndASprout. There's not a day goes by without my missing it, but I'm aware that the university I feel a profound nostalgia for doesn't exist any more.

KnottyAuty · 08/06/2026 22:50

Mmmnotsure · 08/06/2026 22:45

They are probably unable to be coherent, being too taken up with their resistance, which,

"is local, community-based, intimate. It is in the networks of friends, allies, lovers and exes, in the mutual aid and the DIY hormones and the day-to-day euphoria that we make."

Interesting use of language to resist a lecture by an academic lawyer: intimate, lovers, exes, euphoria.

And the final call to arms - "Don’t get afraid, get angry." - sounds rather, er, violent.

Well exactly! Cake and eat it sprang to mind.

The whole lovers, exes bit had me cringing I must say. That chap is no MartinLuther King is he? It probably sounded good in his head

Mmmnotsure · 08/06/2026 22:45

KnottyAuty · 08/06/2026 22:38

Oh dear. The protest was bad enough but why put more weird whining up for the world to see. Im mean really? Is this the best cogent argument that Oxford students can manage? According to them Michael Foran says horrible violent words and is a horrid bigot who should be cancelled and de-platformed so he can’t talk about the law. Ie words are violence. But the students who disrupted the talk and made some horrendous accusations - using words - were not being violent or threatening. Really? Get a grip - if your disruption was relatively speaking more “violent” than the giving of a law lecture (considered to be hateful by the students themselves), then they must accept they were relatively speaking threatening and violent themselves. If not the Michael isnt either. They can’t have it both ways - honestly i used to think Oxford students were clever. This lot seem to be utterly incoherent

Edited

They are probably unable to be coherent, being too taken up with their resistance, which,

"is local, community-based, intimate. It is in the networks of friends, allies, lovers and exes, in the mutual aid and the DIY hormones and the day-to-day euphoria that we make."

Interesting use of language to resist a lecture by an academic lawyer: intimate, lovers, exes, euphoria.

And the final call to arms - "Don’t get afraid, get angry." - sounds rather, er, violent.

KnottyAuty · 08/06/2026 22:38

Mmmnotsure · 08/06/2026 21:14

This is the activists' validation reel.

Worth watching to the end, if you can bear it, for their rallying cry of DIY hormones and euphoria. Also, we are introduced to the concept of intersexism.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZUJ_ZeteEq/?igsh=MWF0OHo0MjIyOHM2Mw%3D%3D

Oh dear. The protest was bad enough but why put more weird whining up for the world to see. Im mean really? Is this the best cogent argument that Oxford students can manage? According to them Michael Foran says horrible violent words and is a horrid bigot who should be cancelled and de-platformed so he can’t talk about the law. Ie words are violence. But the students who disrupted the talk and made some horrendous accusations - using words - were not being violent or threatening. Really? Get a grip - if your disruption was relatively speaking more “violent” than the giving of a law lecture (considered to be hateful by the students themselves), then they must accept they were relatively speaking threatening and violent themselves. If not the Michael isnt either. They can’t have it both ways - honestly i used to think Oxford students were clever. This lot seem to be utterly incoherent

SexRealistic · 08/06/2026 21:48

Lord they’re an ill thought out bunch.

IwantToRetire · 08/06/2026 21:18

I bet the Oxford trans brigade haven’t read their cancelled professor’s book

If student protesters were forced to describe the texts they are so adamantly against, the response would be paper-thin

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/08/michael-foran-oxford-gender-lecture/
also at https://archive.is/Ka8Ky

BigThelma · 08/06/2026 18:56

I've written to William Hague the Chancellor via email to inquire if he is aware of this debacle and what he now intends to do. He has responsibilities to the University and Professor Foran; he is more than a figurehead. What will happen on his watch in the face of this threat to freedom of speech?

I will report back.

IwantToRetire · 08/06/2026 18:51

Dr Foran added: “It is unfortunate that these protesters have chosen disruption over genuine intellectual engagement grounded in academic charity and rigour. In attempting to shame students into de-platforming these lectures, they manifest the antithesis of what a university stands for.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/07/oxford-professor-cancel-lectures-trans-protesters
and https://archive.is/tDbKb

Does this mean that throughout the student community students are experiencing bullying. If so this is really worrying and something the Universities should do something about.

If it is just public posturing like this, and in fact other students heckle them, why give them the power.

If just doesn't make sense.

IwantToRetire · 08/06/2026 18:45

I think the issue is how some (and it certainly isn't the majority) think the way to promote their view of the world is to stop everyone else from being able to discuss anything.

Foran himself said he didn't want the bullying of students to go on.

But what this means is that 2 complete nincompoops who are doing nothing more that masturbating the egos in public for no other reason than to virtue signal, are denying the majority from attending a talk.

And their complete arrogance of assuming they should be listened to and obeyed.

I think every time a student/s attempts this type of disruption they get issued with a warning by whichever university and their parents written to and told we dont believe you told your children they could behave like this, so just to let you know if they do it 2 more times they will be expelled.

This isn't anything to do with being student, it is about have they grown up enough to now how to behave as a member of society.

If it is too "traumatising" to hear or even been aware that other people dont think like them, then obviously they shouldn't be putting themselves at risk by attending university.

Maybe students should be made to sign a contract before being admitted that says they agree that they will not be disruptive.

Obviously if outside of lectures students are being bullied by other students then some action by the University authorities need to provide support and again censor those who are doing the bullying.

There must be some of this going on as I cant believe these two idiots standing up and make complete fools of themselves are that charismatic that all other students are over come and submit.

Michael Foran has had to cancel the remaining lectures on Sex, GI and the law.....
rebax · 08/06/2026 18:02

According to a story in the Times, the University explicitly gave permission for the protests, despite attendees at the first lecture complaining.