For those who don’t hang out on FWR much, it’s my opinion that yeah, they are under siege at the mo.
We are seeing an awful lot of posters engaging in deliberate goading and derailing.
The current charming tactic is to equate sensitive issues with being a transwoman, so last week we had two or three posters insist that female infertility is just exactly the same thing as being a transwoman. Obviously women struggling with infertility find that goady. It’s like telling someone who’s been bereaved that it’s just like when your goldfish died.
This week we’ve had a specific and unpleasant way of treating a gynaecological cancer and it’s physical after effects appropriated as something that’s exactly akin to what transwomen suffer.
The posters in question have managed to post these opinions directly in response to women who have suffered these issues - and then report them when they get told it’s offensive. Seems targeted to me.
Language is being policed, there are now things you cannot say or you’ll be deleted and banned - for example you cannot use any mention of the natal sex of a transperson.
Women are having to tie themselves in knots linguistically to express concepts and discuss. That’s not great.
FWR has always been a robust place to discuss and I’d say there’s a fair amount of humour there actually - the humourless feminist trope is a tired one, but one pushed relentlessly by the media. Because it’s inportant to demonise women who speak out about issues that affect all women - if you can present them as fringe loons you can dismiss them.
However when those women are raising objections to the removal of women’s rights and child safeguarding - people might want to listen, because those rights and safeguarding rules are important.