To be shocked that this is happening in Britain in 2018?

[Spending2muchtimeonMN]

Masked men try to prevent women from attending a lawful, public meeting to discuss the impact of proposed changes to the law on women's rights:

www.facebook.com/julie.bindel/videos/pcb.10160135970780316/10160135907955316

No need to be patronising. I don't believe having a particular kind of personality is what determines whether a person is male or female. That comes from anatomy.

Being consistently condescending would be a perfect example of a trait that occurs in both sexes.

That's the truth though re Bindel article. Why deny reality, when reality stares hard at you in the face?

@AngryAttackKitten

"Being consistently condescending would be a perfect example of a trait that occurs in both sexes."

But we have mansplaining?

sentmai

You are a tory loving mother of two and yet you are complaining about the use of mansplaining?

Seriously.

Please stop hijacking the thread.

Scary. These masked people free to intimidate someone in this way. Free to violate this person's freedom of movement and freedom to choose where she wanted to go just because they disagree with the content of the meeting. Aggressive and oppressive. I'm pro freedom of speech, freedom to peacefully protest, freedom to disagree but not freedom to intimidate, freedom to restrict someone's access to an event they were invited to or freedom to violate someone's right to feel safe. Awful, chilling behavior. I'm seeing more and more of this oppressive behavior every passing year and I wonder how far it's all going to get.

"Tory loving" is your opinion. Anyway, I'll leave you to it.

Good luck fighting those violent terrorists!

Ah, an anti-feminist then? Indeed, mansplaining is its own specific behavior, but women are also capable of unwarranted smugness and a rather laughable confidence in the rightness of their every opinion.

mammasmitten

It is oppressive and chilling and we need to do something about it.

@AngryAttackKittens

An unusual equivalence. Feminists love a bit of cause misandry.

Anyway, I'll leave you to it. The intelligent replies / posters seem to have left.

Good luck against the terrorists. Let me know what MI5 say.

Sentmai, is online trolling a hobby for you? Seriously, get a new hobby. Try something useful.

sentmai

You have clearly forgotten what you have written five pages back when you described yourself as tory, white and middle class to upper if we are to consider your husband's title. How awful that you forgot your own post.

Maybe your a left leaning lesbian now with several children, either way it is entirely irrelevant.

The good news WE won't be fighting the violent thugs, the legal system will be, as now we truly know what we are dealing with then we will be much more insistent on a police presence.

Mother of two

Can't say that I'm all that concerned about the options of the kind of person who thinks "misandry" is a thing that society ought to be concerned about.

Toddle off back under the bridge, eh? I'm sure there are still a few goats left.

Anyway, I'll leave you to it. The intelligent replies / posters seem to have left

Nah, we're still here.

Summerinthecountry, you are right about that. We have to do something about it. This is happening across the world. People have to unite against oppression.

I'm here, just waiting for the boring, derailing droneathon to end.

All I can do is repeat myself. I don't like TERFs. I wouldn't have liked to be in the situation that the women attending the meeting were in. I don't agree with the protesters' actions although vaguely agree with the sentiment

I am on the Terf blocker list.
I am also transsexual.

How does that work? Should I not be listening to myself and blocking myself on Twitter?

@summerinthecountry

"Tory leaning". The only party I've ever actively campaigned for is Blair's.

Don't let the truth get in the way of your posts though.

I also predicted the outcome of this thread and @Kittens "toddle off" shows how correct I am.

That is the issue with so many TERF discussions. They aren't discussions. It's a few angry keyboard warriors (or old women who want to rant in private in an upstairs function room in Bristol) but have no intention of a discussion, just intelligent snide comments.

Good luck.

Has the tedious men’s rights activist finally gone? Or was it a pretend flounce where she/he/they is actually refreshing the page every few minutes to see what people are saying post pretendy flounce?

Old women who want to rant

You're a charmer.

TERF- a specious label used as an insult and applied to people that the labellers don't understand and to arguments and discussions they haven't listened to.

Pretend flounce. Is anyone actually surprised?

@AsAProfessionalFekko

Have you seen the speaker?

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I find it hard to leave as I find the new replies so gratifying. I said that these threads always end up with anyone not toeing the line being called a man, troll, MRA etc and it's all happened at once.

I guess my ego likes to be stroked.

Why are they wearing masks?