Has there been an influx of TRAs to Mumsnet recently?

Yes, I've noticed a bunch of unfamiliar usernames (new to me at any rate, I don't remember everyone of course), posting nonsense over and over on otherwise interesting threads. I don't know if they are genuinely confused or, more likely, have come over here from BlueHair or Reddit with the intention of derailing so they can say, "Oh look, I wasted a lot of TERF time today."

Or an encounter with a splintery rolling

Lovely chaps, so calm, so reasonable, so stunning and brave. No threat to women at all

I dont know if it is any worse. It does seem to go in waves.

And there are a few determined individuals who just cant help themselves, or are collecting material for a book or ...

But it has to be said many come back because it is as likely that a whole thread will be high jacked because some of us on FWR just cant help responding to the bait!

So for them, that in itself is a satisfaction. Trapping a woman or women into giving up their time to acknowledging them as worthwhile communicating with!

And also makes many threads become pointless, because their responses are pretty much the same on every thread, so then every thread just becomes a repetition of other threads.

Not always of course! But so many just become a sort of ground hog day "discussion"!

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Don't forget the OTT attempts at shaming us and at being overly emotional to try making us feel guilty for defending ourselves against attacks on our rights and spaces. These types bring a lot of drama but not much else because when they realise FWR isn't going to fall for it they quickly turn aggressive, sarcastic and bitter. They often hang around for a few months, sniping at regular posters on various threads.

Professional Rent-A-Cause Types.

Harry Styles and Co (Inc his Mum) learnt the hard way you can't just trust charities. You should do due diligence too and if something doesn't smell quite right don't assume everyone is as nice as they appear as they might just take advantage of your good nature.

(Reference to the BBC documentary Mother of All Cons which will have you all going wtf. All about a mother who seems to have used her daughter via Munchausen by Proxy.... An enlightening watch for MNetters this one. Recommend).

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Yeah, especially when anyone can name change like I did for this thread. Because of creepy behaviour of dudes that follow me around like that.

I have reclaimed it!

It's really creepy when someone looks the OP up to try and make an argument instead of just taking in the actual argument. It means they don't have a leg to stand on

"Sex realist" is apparently an insult round these parts.

I see from Search that you have only commented on posts about this issue; perhaps that explains why you have seen so many opinions different from yours.

It seems to ebb and flow over the years. We might be having a bit of a ‘peak’ because things are going very badly for the MRA-TRAs. I certainly know more of my London-based ‘gay and queer’ (as was) friends are withdrawing from the ‘T+’. And they don’t like the appropriation of their ‘Q-ness’ at all: I think the penny has dropped.

Additionally there seems to be a new model of PR in operation in cuckoo land generally, that eschews sensible crisis management and veers immaturely toward more of a ‘narcissistic desperation floundering’.

See also: David & Victoria Beckham; Mermaids-supporting Prince Harry, & Meghan; various ‘celeb’ politicians and former politicians, without or without daughters, dinosaurs and select committee places.

Yes, I should have made clear that I meant the contraries were not just on this board. AIBU, Relationships, Chat - everywhere.

f they could spell and had better grammar I'd have thought we'd been stealth recruited as an AI training ground!

I suspect that particular thing may be because it's known people do come here hoping to be able to screenshot things they can take back to Reddit or wherever as "proof" that "Mumsnet" is transphobic/ far right etc etc. And one way to try to get evidence that will play into such an agenda is to fish for it with questions, or polls.

So if you are polling in good faith, you need to be aware that people have already had reason to become suspicious. Not of you personally, but of why people are asking questions.

After uni exams probably. Unis have become factories for unhinged Green Party type ideas and have just churned out the latest batch. Very sad really.

Oh, I think I know the one you mean - the hypothetical sci-fi angle wasn't well received!

That doesn't seem to be confined to this board, though. AIBU has a lot of posters like that.

A lot of them have the reasoning ability of a three year old, it makes me worry a bit about the education they've received.

Where?

I agree about the contrary posters - and a lot of bubbling anger about "feminists"

Incels gonna incel.