Thread 1 - Lifeboat Muster Point for TalkExiles

[Kucinghitam]

Gather here all ye refugees from the foundering ship of JTT, if ye be in need of "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

Or just to chat randomly.

Where is the new thread please Kuc?

And @IReallyLikeCrows that is fascinating and really rings true. They can't believe people could leave and find a happier place elsewhere. I must confess I am curious to see how this schism plays out.

Okay I've found the new thread and posted on it.

When this thread hits 1,000 are we going to have another Lifeboat thread? Do we need another or is this it now? We're onboarded and can now go swim in the rest of the waters!?

I'd like it if we kept some sort of muster point going.

So would I!

Me too.

I can start a successor thread in a bit.

Been there, felt the hurt, rolled my eyes.

Sorry you went through that.

It's current though. I have have faith that reality will win out

Hope so, but at what cost until then? It’s shocking that as you say it is unsafe to talk about it, and I am guessing you don’t mean trans activist unsafe (someone thinking thoughts I don’t like) but physically unsafe, or with unbearable economic or social consequences. I’m dumbfounded that this is taking place in 2022. Would never have expected it in my lifetime.

I'd like that as well.

Another vote for the muster point here.

Yes, to maintaining the muster point here.

<Heads off to find new theead>

Defo a yes to another muster point, I like it here. I like it here more widely too, though I’m only watching a handful of threads so far.

I'm watching the prepper and world cup threads 😊

I've made a bit of a faux pas on the Women's Rights thread (because I happened to know stuff rather than just pontificating about it) so I'm off

Enjoy!

Don't leave here Tass, just leave that thread.

Agree. Nurse your bruises, but stay. Politically I’m with your opponents on this one, but I still think there is value in men being candid about their opinions and experiences, but know your audience…. There are plenty of other threads here, and despite disagreeing with you on this I’d be sorry to see you go because of it.

I agrée with @Winterborne74, it was never going to go down well but there is value in sharing different views and experiences. I hope you’ll stick around on this thread, I’d be sad to see you go.

Yeah, I also feel strongly enough about the issue to say I absolutely disagree with your stance Tass but I also think it's good to tease these things out. In the last few months I've had two separate women in work come to me and ask advice regarding revenge porn, one of which I spoke of back in the other place and got some good advice to pass on. The second one was last week, a young woman of 23 who tried to pass it off laughing at a silly mistake she'd made doing a drunken dare at a party that was filmed. It was clear though that she was desperate for my opinion on whether or not she was still "a good person" and in the conversation. she also disclosed she'd done some Only Fans work as well. Very little as it happens but nevetheless it put her on the fringes of having done "sex work" and it was obvious to me it was something she was struggling with psychologically.

This is a talented professional nurse, bringing so much value into this world, her self esteem ought to be through the roof, and if she had the slightest inkling of who she was as a human being it would be.

Breaks my heart.

I hope both women are in a better place now @Dotellhimpike. I’m in my 30s and I think probably younger than most (all?) on this thread, but I’m very glad my rather naive teenage and early adulthood years were lived during a time when this wasn’t such a thing. I wouldn’t want to be a young adult now for all the money in the world. So much to contend with, especially for young women.

@TassLeHoff I agree with the others. I’m absolutely on the opposite side to you on that issue. But people demanding purity of views and souls is the kind of thing that got us in trouble in the first place. Just leave that thread but stick around. NC if you want to leave the baggage behind.

I've been told off in no uncertain terms, by posters not a million miles from here, and I took my lumps. Learning opportunities, not always great fun.

I think there are some very interesting discussions to be had about some of the points raised in that discussion - such as the interaction between the importance of amplifying women's testimony and the problems of testimony given in framed and by trauma - but I might wait until feeling have cooled a bit.

I can't find the new thread...

*Dotellhimpike8 · Yesterday 14:33

What terrifies people on the so called left is having to admit they have got it wrong and people on the right have got it right, on this issue.

I don't think the RW nuts have got it right, they're simply using it as an excuse to pick on transexuals and gays, because they hate them.

On the other hand, women and some men interested in respecting women and their single sex places, as well as fair play, are agitating for those things because it's the right thing to do.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4692698-womens-rights-general-conversations?page=7&reply=122089650 @SinnerBoy