"We" can always tell

I've not even seen or been aware of this thread. Where is it?

I dont think all conversations need to be shut down, I think MN need to rethink what it allows to stand and what users it allows to stay.

I have to go to work now. I'll be back this afternoon.

That is a wild accusation. You should be reported but I'm letting it stand to show just how far gone you are. You have lost all proportion on this subject.

MN has always been very thorough in its moderation and years ago many people were banned. This was before the concept of free speech and a right to hold certain views was affirmed in law, though posts are still frequently removed when they really do infringe the rules.

An Open Forum that anyone can join?

But they DIDN'T ALLOW IT TO STAND?

Right? Because it was deleted?

In summary your thoughts are;

"Note the weasel words of the thread don't actually apologise for allowing terrible people to decide the victim wasn't female because she wasn't sufficiently meeting a stereotypical view of how women should look in their bigoted opinions. The fault for behaving in a bigoted fashion is only that of the bigots and no-one else."

About a situation on X, which was corrected and apologised for.

You then claim that because there was a thread on MN, the family suffered harassment.

When it is pointed out that MN have nothing to do with that behaviour, you switch to saying MN should be more responsible.

You say you have engaged and haven't seen a response.

It turns out that the thread on MN had very little engagement and was also removed.

So what is your reason for starting this thread?

This is not a club that people can join, as such. It has long been the main, often only, place where people could discuss a subject that is deeply important to them. That is why there is a general consensus on key issues related to it. Beyond that - it is a free and open forum and I, for example, are not responsibile for what other people post - only for my own content.

Or they have no idea of what is and isn’t acceptable.

How do you know they were ‘GC’? Are you just presuming?

Luckily that’s not what happened here. I’m amazed you’re positing on such a den of vipers; forum!

We know full well people start threads on here for spurious reasons, and as it was deleted possibly nobody knows who started it let alone why.

The concept of free speech and the right to hold view was affirmed in law a long, long time before MN was even set up.

wow, some social media stories are not posted here quick enough, others are posted too quickly. It’s hard to keep up. What would be the correct time frame? Clarity would be appreciated, not just nagging and complaining.

Woudl you concur that it is entirely possible that

a) the original "transinvestigation" was started by TRAs on X

b) any harassment was stoked up by TRAs on X towards the family.

c) the MN post this poster is talking about was actually posted by the lovely OP of this thread.

Well that’s projection.

I saw the post, you didn’t.

Let me summarise: it's all women's fault, most particularly the women who post on FWR. And it's always women's fault, and JK Rowling made us all do it?

I saw it. It was someone who had posted before. Yes, I looked because it seemed goady. Not a particularly familiar name, but no reason to think it was a TRA. Just a dickhead. All groups have them.

This should go without saying, but given the people out there and indeed on this thread who take utter delight in finding any way to narrate events to malign gebder critical feminists:

The people who harassed the victim's family because they thought the victim was trans were behaving like shits. The fact in this case the victim wasn't trans isn't the reason it's shitty behaviour, it was shitty behaviour all along.

It wasn’t allowed to stand, so the system works.

Indeedaroonie.

Omg Ive just gone onto the counting dead women twitter account to try to work out what this thread is about, I dont think im easily shocked, but I was aghast at the number of women being murdered by men. I have read the statistics before and I am aware of what femicide means, but reading each account is simply something else.
The repetition , the constant presence of hatred of women often by men who are apparently close intimate partners. The sheer level of violence, Im not a religious person really but that twitter feed to me seems to be evidence of actual evil. This thread is focused on the wrong point about this issue.

No, not at least one. It was only one. I saw it when it was first posted and the first post was a regular on this board saying it was a horrible thread and should be taken down. I personally didn’t recognise the OP as a regular so can’t comment on their motivation.
So why are you making accusations based on the OP rather than the first reply?

One thing that might come out of this ridiculous situation is that this X account might get some more traction.

I didn't know about it before; I know about it now, and I will tell others about it in the future.

Thanks OP :)

Oh please, please tell me you told HQ that allowing women to talk here is like someone shooting up heroin.