...to be baffled, sad and angry that Paris Lees is speaking at the Women's March tomorrow?

[ArcheryAnnie]

So, Paris Lees has been invited to address the "Time's Up" rally opposite Downing Street tomorrow, organised by the Women's March London. The "Time's Up" initiative "provides advice and support to women across all industries who have experienced sexual harassment or abuse at work."

But wait! Paris Lees is in favour of street harrassment of women, and writes articles in places like Vice, making sure lots of men know that catcalls are cool and sexy, and making sure lots of women know they have been "infantilised", and aren't nearly as brave as cool, sexy Paris, if they don't like it.

www.vice.com/sv/article/zn7b79/enjoying-catcalls-paris-lees-column

AIBU to be absolutely baffled, as well as sad and angry, that Paris Lees has been asked to speak for women at an event opposing sexual harrassment?

Unfortunately, this is the brave new world we'll have to get used to if (probably when) the Gender Recognition Act gets passed. Lovely, isn't it?

Will she get booed off?

I'm cringing at that article, she writes like a twat.

I agree she's not the best choice at all.

YABU. You ought to be sodding livid

YANBU this is fucking ridiculous.

Transwomen aren't just women.

Transwomen are better women.

Don't forget it.

YANBU at all, given her previous opinions.

A transwoman who supports sexual harassment of women - who'd have thought it?

CaoNiMa I've got no intention of "getting used to it". They can fuck off!
We need to fight this nonsense.

That is ridiculous.

I don't think she's trans is she?

That's even worse if so.

This makes me depressed and angry in equal measures. Hypocrisy has replaced reason. Paris Lees does not speak for the good of women and they certainly don't speak for me.

Cheeky bastard IS trans

YANBU. París Lees is a nasty piece of work.

Trans is not the issue for me here, that article is.

Thing is, I'd be baffled and sad and angry if anyone who'd said all this sexist bullshit had been invited on as a speaker. Anyone at all. But I cannot think of any woman who would say all this bullshit, and still be a contender to be invited.

I like being eye-fucked on the escalator and wondering if I’ve just made him spring a boner.

Jesus.

Doesn’t surprise me. According to “New Vogue” editor Edward Enniful she’s one of the “new suffragettes”.

(That’s what happens when you put a man in charge of one of a women’s magazine and one of the few high profile editorships that’s usually reserved for women).

We live in a crazy world.

Hanging indeed. There's an argument to be had on that, certainly, but it's not the glaring "person who supports and encourages street harrassment of women is invited to speak at an event opposing harrassment of women" ridiculousness that we already have right here.

What the actual fuck is going on. :( I mean seriously. But I am pleased that mumsnetters have brought my attention to all this craziness. I had no idea about any of this until recently.

Who is this person and what qualifies them to speak on behalf of women?

Oh ffs. Does anyone want to go and boo?

He/she can fuck off to the far side of fuck off and then fuck off again