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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Polycule falls apart

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RoyalCorgi · 31/07/2026 08:54

I expect people remember that Heather Herbert (charged in relation to social media comments he made after Ann Widdecombe's death) is in a polycule with Sophie Molly (aka Sparkles, aka Euan Weddell) and someone called Poppybear.

Molly, I believe, is a witness for Jolyon Maugham in Sarah Phillimore's libel case against Maugham.

Poppybear has been posting some very indiscreet posts on BlueSky about both Molly and Herbert, and it looks, tragically, as if the polycule has fallen apart.

According to Poppybear, Herbert's comments about Widdecombe "painted a bullseye on all of us", and led to the police coming in and "invading" all their devices (whatever that means).

Also according to Poppybear, living with Sophie Molly is "like being permanently slapped around the face by pathological laziness unless it's something that grooms her ego."

Oh dear.

https://x.com/DogLoverOfPI/status/2082944747862188490

In a separate development, apparently Herbert has had his toxic kidney removed by the NHS so the money donated to the fundraiser is going to be used for something else:

https://x.com/WillyWoofter/status/2082494111555190875

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SidewaysOtter · 23/08/2026 22:15

to the estate of right-wing perv Max Mosley

I mean, Mosley had some interesting proclivities, but 'right wing' shouldn't be used as a slur - I know the original story featured accusations that his tastes were nazi-based but that wasn't actually true. He did get tarred by his parents' brush, unfairly so IMO.

SidewaysOtter · 23/08/2026 22:16

BezMark · 23/08/2026 14:56

It's a bit like Friends. All the lads think they're Joey but they're really more like Ross or Chandler.

Imagine a house share episode with season 1 Rimmer, Dwyane Dibley, David Ross as Kryten and a raging insane monster that is 50% Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodle.

Please don't besmirch my beloved Friends. Could Pot Noodle, Sparkles and Kidney Boy BE any less like Chandler?!

Lalgarh · 23/08/2026 22:37

It's more like Richie and Eddie in Bottom, I think the other thread on Herbert established. Or the flat in Withnail and I

No Angel Delight for Poppy this birthday

https://nitter.net/stueymaco/status/2091427405034410439#m

AnAutumnCrow · 23/08/2026 22:40

SidewaysOtter · 23/08/2026 22:15

to the estate of right-wing perv Max Mosley

I mean, Mosley had some interesting proclivities, but 'right wing' shouldn't be used as a slur - I know the original story featured accusations that his tastes were nazi-based but that wasn't actually true. He did get tarred by his parents' brush, unfairly so IMO.

He knew that his father Oswald’s money (which he, Max, inherited) had originated with actual Nazis. It’s a deeply upsetting story and probably derailing to this thread. Suffice to say, I’m not a Mosley fan.

Shedmistress · 23/08/2026 22:54

SidewaysOtter · 23/08/2026 22:16

Please don't besmirch my beloved Friends. Could Pot Noodle, Sparkles and Kidney Boy BE any less like Chandler?!

No but any of them could be Chandlers dad, right?

SabrinaThwaite · 23/08/2026 23:10

Shedmistress · 23/08/2026 22:54

No but any of them could be Chandlers dad, right?

Charles Bing aka Helena Handbasket - who was played by Kathleen Turner, so a woman playing a man pretending to be a woman.

Make it make sense.

Lalgarh · 23/08/2026 23:22

That was seen as progressive then, as was Julie Hesmondhalgh as Hayley in Coronation Street and Felicity Huffman in Transamerica. It was a suspension of disbelief thing at the time. these casting decisions are seen as horrific now obvs bc TWAW but w are not tw

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/05/04/celebrity-traitors-julie-hesmondhalgh-hayley-cropper-trans/

Celebrity Traitors' Julie Hesmondhalgh 'proud' of trans role

From 1998 to 2014, the cisgender star played Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street – the first permanent transgender character in a soap

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/05/04/celebrity-traitors-julie-hesmondhalgh-hayley-cropper-trans/

SabrinaThwaite · 23/08/2026 23:54

Lalgarh · 23/08/2026 23:22

That was seen as progressive then, as was Julie Hesmondhalgh as Hayley in Coronation Street and Felicity Huffman in Transamerica. It was a suspension of disbelief thing at the time. these casting decisions are seen as horrific now obvs bc TWAW but w are not tw

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/05/04/celebrity-traitors-julie-hesmondhalgh-hayley-cropper-trans/

Interesting that Julie Hesmondhalgh, as a woman playing a TW, didn’t get the pile on that Eddie Redmayne got as a man playing a TW.

Lalgarh · 24/08/2026 00:07

It was early in the 90s and before self id was as much of a thing.

SabrinaThwaite · 24/08/2026 00:26

I think this thread is useful when considering the Hayley Cropper character in the light of trans activism:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4678987-julie-hesmondhalgh-who-played-hayley-cropper-on-coronation-street-wouldnt-take-the-role-today-as-shes-cis-gender

DizzyWhoreEighteenHundredAndFour · 24/08/2026 10:40

Igmum · 23/08/2026 18:45

This has 4 likes which leads me to conclude firstly WTF???? and secondly that either YouTube don’t allow you to retract a vote or that Poopy hasn’t tried yet.

It sounds like Brian Molko doused in itching powder then put through an industrial mincer

Lalgarh · 24/08/2026 14:45

His voice has definitely deteriorated from before. I'm assuming hormones are involved. He sounds like one of the turns the late Steve Wright used to have on his show who'd sing stuff in a faint warbling west country accent

Lalgarh · 24/08/2026 22:05

I don't think Hackett is a qualified electrician ⚡🔌😱

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murasaki · 24/08/2026 22:12

Nor am I, but even I can tell something has short circuited upstairs with him.

TrainedByWitches · 24/08/2026 23:24

Wonder when Herbert’s new court date will be. Timing of that surgery was awfully convenient

Lalgarh · 25/08/2026 13:12

1st reference to his saviour in a while

Him and Herbert have actually been retweet Bluesky posting other topics though. mainly the greens and also some academic who points to a study in Utah that sex isn't binary, plus the Lancet on how sex is irrelevant to genitalia

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Lalgarh · 26/08/2026 16:36

Hackett has changed his Bluesky header, and has made some more observations on the Previous Situationship

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DizzyWhoreEighteenHundredAndFour · 26/08/2026 17:06

Lalgarh · 26/08/2026 16:36

Hackett has changed his Bluesky header, and has made some more observations on the Previous Situationship

Good Christ I need Google translate to read that

ThisFunSheep · 26/08/2026 17:24

For those not aware or who pop in and out like me, Good Law Project essentially said they were moving to Jersey because the only way to have this sort of legal structure in the UK is to be a charity. They now seem to be complaining that the Daily Mail has reported on… what they actually said.

From that right wing rag The Daily Mail, the Law Society Gazette:

“Jolyon has been replaced as owner of Good Law Project by a Jersey ‘purpose’ trust… It has been set up in Jersey because the UK’s legal system has no such thing as ‘purpose’ trusts, except for charities…”

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/obiter/good-law-goes-offshore/5126745.article

The point isn’t that organisations like Good Law Project or For Woman Scotland should be charities. It’s that they’ve gone offshore to get a legal structure that isn’t available to them in the UK, while getting some of the benefits of operating like a charity board without the responsibility. Aka have your cake and eat it.

For Women Scotland is a UK-registered not-for-profit company.

murasaki · 26/08/2026 17:55

I find myself feeling a bit sorry for Poppy, given the others are so very awful to him. This makes me feel grubby and I don't like it. But he's clearly not well mentally (nor are they, but not in the same way, he's clearly more vulnerable) and I do feel they took advantage.

Shoot me now.

FlirtsWithRhinos · 26/08/2026 18:03

murasaki · 26/08/2026 17:55

I find myself feeling a bit sorry for Poppy, given the others are so very awful to him. This makes me feel grubby and I don't like it. But he's clearly not well mentally (nor are they, but not in the same way, he's clearly more vulnerable) and I do feel they took advantage.

Shoot me now.

I feel generally uncomfortable with this thread. I think it's important that this group of men who have been actively working to demonise and undermine women who have different beliefs about gender than them are exposed and their dysfunctional thinking demonstrated, but beyond that it's getting close to laughing at the afflicted.

This does not mean I feel sorry for Poppy BTW. Damaged people can believe themselves very justified in inflicting damage against those they cast as their "enemies" - personal or cultural.

Lalgarh · 26/08/2026 18:13

Yeah. Hackett seems to be making the right decision getting tf away from the rest of them though

Pot noodle, meanwhile, is just throwing out ideas for protest and rebellion. Quite telling in light of what poppy bear/Hackett said. Am drama

Back to retweeting Jolyon with Defund the press.

"My reality is realler than yours"

https://bsky.app/profile/sophiemolly.co.uk/post/3mty2omg7nc2r

And apparently Andy Burnham is the most transphobic Prime minister ever

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SlackJawedDisbeliefXY · 26/08/2026 19:27

DizzyWhoreEighteenHundredAndFour · 26/08/2026 17:06

Good Christ I need Google translate to read that

Trying to find a meaning ..... is it one of those GCHQ Christmas puzzles come early?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 26/08/2026 21:07

It is the ramblings of a mind deranged.

(And if anyone can find me where that quote comes from I will be very grateful.)

murasaki · 26/08/2026 21:15

FlirtsWithRhinos · 26/08/2026 18:03

I feel generally uncomfortable with this thread. I think it's important that this group of men who have been actively working to demonise and undermine women who have different beliefs about gender than them are exposed and their dysfunctional thinking demonstrated, but beyond that it's getting close to laughing at the afflicted.

This does not mean I feel sorry for Poppy BTW. Damaged people can believe themselves very justified in inflicting damage against those they cast as their "enemies" - personal or cultural.

I'm perfectly happy with laughing at Pot Noodle while he continues his mad crusade, and to a certain extent Herbert. They need laughing at, being shown how ridiculous they are. I think Poppy is genuinely unwell, those two are just caught in the delusion and won't back down. So fair game.

I do think the mysterious Tabitha is pulling the strings still.

But Poppy gets a temporary pass from me as I feel uncomfortable in a way I don't with the others.

This may not make sense to others but hey ho, none of this shitshow makes sense.

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