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Men violently preventing women from congregating, communicating and networking, is what the Taliban do. Why is it happening in the UK?

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SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 10/10/2025 12:27

The FiLiA Women's Liberation Conference was targeted overnight, the attackers even live tweeted the violence.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25532194.live-brighton-centre-vandalised-feminist-conference-begins/

Local politicians are so far silent.

This is literally terrorism, using fear and violence to shut down legitimate peaceful discussions.

Video of the incident: https://x.com/TransBashBack/status/1976555969439223934

Live: Venue vandalised and protesters demonstrate at feminist conference

The Brighton Centre has been vandalised as a feminist conference begins there today.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25532194.live-brighton-centre-vandalised-feminist-conference-begins/

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spannasaurus · 12/10/2025 11:55

Imagine admitting that you're intimidated by that lot. How embarrassing.

Yes, how silly of women to be intimidated by aggressive men screaming violent threats at them

Theeyeballsinthesky · 12/10/2025 12:43

spannasaurus · 12/10/2025 11:55

Imagine admitting that you're intimidated by that lot. How embarrassing.

Yes, how silly of women to be intimidated by aggressive men screaming violent threats at them

Yes imagine being intimidated by a man screaming witch in your face

x.com/leokearse/status/1501885221888835587?s=46

LooseCanyon · 12/10/2025 13:05

Theeyeballsinthesky · 12/10/2025 12:43

Yes imagine being intimidated by a man screaming witch in your face

x.com/leokearse/status/1501885221888835587?s=46

To paraphrase a famous saying:

Men are afraid women will call them men
Women are afraid men will kill them

ArabellaSaurus · 12/10/2025 14:56

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 09:37

Mate, they will do something awful if they aren’t stopped. They have punched women in the face multiple times. They absolutely think they are justified. So did the man who shot Charlie Kirk.

Feminists have spent years warning people about the risks and dangers of self ID, genderism, etc. We've been proved right many times. Yet warnings about a group of men - yes, a small group of men, yes, many of them look a bit daft from the comfort of one's armchair, yes, they are idiots - are being ignored by police and ridiculed on here.

These are aggressive, misogynist men whose behaviour is openly escalating. The website is explicit that they have chosen to target people who they feel are deserving of their rage. They have already injured and attacked women; this isn't even going into the numbers of women intimidated and terrified by their screaming abuse, banging on windows, holding signs calling for decapitation or killing of women, pictures of nooses, signs that call for 'death before detransition' and 'arm the dolls', etc. Or those who just try to drown out women's voices with loud noises.

This is a dangerous situation, and it needs to be taken seriously. Alternatively, we can suggest that women should not meet in public or express views that men find upsetting.

SinnerBoy · 12/10/2025 16:03

Kimura · Today 08:57

They have less public support, less resources and they started on the back foot. They are absolutely the minority in this scenario.

They have loads of support from powerful people and institutions; the BBC, Guardian, Independent, most of showbiz, judges, the Police, MPs - including the local one, who went to bat for them by trying to have the event cancelled.

You have steadfastly minimised the actions of the trans extremist zealots, saying that it's just a bit of paint and broken glass. You say that you wouldn't have been intimidated, well bully for you. Most of the attendees were, as intended by the Traniban mob.

You don't seem bothered that the mob of men initially blocked the entrance and public footpath, as the cops stood and watched. They eventually made them stand aside, but the men shouted and screamed abuse and threats, including through megaphones.

Another nothing burger, as far as you see it.

You minimised Sophie Molly's online threats, saying it looked amateurish; it did, but a threat's a threat, nonetheless.

You initially said that you'd not heard of women being assaulted at LWS and similar events. Even though you know that women have been assaulted and manhandled, you are still trying to minimise it.

These men make threats and carry them out, in order to try to force women to allow them into female single sex spaces. The use of violence, threats and intimidation to force the compliance of a population, or part thereof, to obey most certainly does fall under the definition of terrorism.

It would be bad enough as a one off, but it happens constantly, at any and every women's event.

dropoutin · 12/10/2025 16:14

This is literally terrorism

No it isn't (not that I'm condoning it, of course).

Terrorism is violence against non-combattant individuals, to spread fear for their personal safety. There's a difference between that and the destruction of or damage to property only.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 16:23

Damage to property is literally covered under the Terrorism Act 2000, rightly or wrongly. So in the UK this could be considered a terrorist act.

SinnerBoy · 12/10/2025 16:26

It's not simply the vandalism, it's the threats and violence employed, to try and force women to acquiesce to their stated, illegal aims.

Namelessnelly · 12/10/2025 16:29

dropoutin · 12/10/2025 16:14

This is literally terrorism

No it isn't (not that I'm condoning it, of course).

Terrorism is violence against non-combattant individuals, to spread fear for their personal safety. There's a difference between that and the destruction of or damage to property only.

So if the IRA blew up a car with no one in it, it wasn’t terrorism? Really? Do you know how daft that sounds?

Namelessnelly · 12/10/2025 16:30

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 16:23

Damage to property is literally covered under the Terrorism Act 2000, rightly or wrongly. So in the UK this could be considered a terrorist act.

Hold on, weren’t freedom for Palestine or whatever convicted of terriridm and callled a terririst group even though no one was hurt?

Bigpinksweater · 12/10/2025 16:45

Namelessnelly · 12/10/2025 16:30

Hold on, weren’t freedom for Palestine or whatever convicted of terriridm and callled a terririst group even though no one was hurt?

They attacked a police officer with an axe, IIRC

Namelessnelly · 12/10/2025 16:49

Bigpinksweater · 12/10/2025 16:45

They attacked a police officer with an axe, IIRC

Not when they were damaging the planes. So if they are terrorists, so must this group be.

ArabellaSaurus · 12/10/2025 17:10

SinnerBoy · 12/10/2025 16:26

It's not simply the vandalism, it's the threats and violence employed, to try and force women to acquiesce to their stated, illegal aims.

Absolutely this. It's a violent act, intended to terrorise and strike fear into the women about to attend the building. That's very obvious.

SinnerBoy · 12/10/2025 17:14

Agreed, I find it difficult to comprehend the obtuseness of some people.

LooseCanyon · 12/10/2025 17:22

SinnerBoy · 12/10/2025 17:14

Agreed, I find it difficult to comprehend the obtuseness of some people.

They're not obtuse. They know what they're saying.

spannasaurus · 12/10/2025 17:47

It's also being used to intimidate venue owners to not hire their venues to womens groups

Artmumcreative · 12/10/2025 17:49

dudsville · 10/10/2025 17:26

It's such a powerful behavioural display. I'm easily shaken. I've not been around much violence. I'd really enjoy a feminist conference but violent acts like these frighten me and keep me away. It is a powerful form of control.

Yes! This is exactly it! I'd love to attend a feminist conference but I now don't feel I can because a protester might harm me. FWIW I have one closer friend who's a transwoman so I never saw them as a potential threat until I realised I can't go to conferences like FILIA, as a woman, safely.

lcakethereforeIam · 12/10/2025 17:53

They probably film the attendees too. Dox them to their employers if they can id them.

SinnerBoy · 12/10/2025 17:56

LooseCanyon · 12/10/2025 17:22

They're not obtuse. They know what they're saying.

You may well be right, sadly.

ArabellaSaurus · 12/10/2025 18:19

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 16:23

Damage to property is literally covered under the Terrorism Act 2000, rightly or wrongly. So in the UK this could be considered a terrorist act.

'In this Act “terrorism” means the use or threat of action where

(a)the action falls within subsection (2),

(b)the use or threat is designed to influence the government [F1or an international governmental organisation] or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and

(c)the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious [F2, racial] or ideological cause.'

(2)Action falls within this subsection if it—

(a)involves serious violence against a person,

(b)involves serious damage to property,

(c)endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action,

(d)creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public, or

(e)is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.'

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/1

(My bold).

Terrorism Act 2000

An Act to make provision about terrorism; and to make temporary provision for Northern Ireland about the prosecution and punishment of certain offences, the preservation of peace and the maintenance of order.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/1

ArabellaSaurus · 12/10/2025 18:19

lcakethereforeIam · 12/10/2025 17:53

They probably film the attendees too. Dox them to their employers if they can id them.

Yes, there's footage of them filming women attending.

ArabellaSaurus · 12/10/2025 18:22

By the by:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13581155/boy-12-is-referred-to-counter-extremist-prevent-officers-by-his-own-school-after-declaring-there-are-only-two-genders-and-im-gay-not-queer.html

'A 12-year-old schoolboy has been investigated by counter-extremism officers after he declared there 'are only two genders'.
The child made a video, posted online, in which he also stated: 'There's no such thing as non-binary'.
And in response to school bullies who mistakenly believed he supported transgender ideology, he said: '[I'm] gay not queer.'
...
But the school told the boy's mother they would refer him to Prevent'

Prevent investigates boy, 12, for saying there 'are only two genders'

A 12-year-old schoolboy has been investigated by counter-extremism officers after he declared there 'are only two genders' and 'there's no such thing as non-binary'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13581155/boy-12-is-referred-to-counter-extremist-prevent-officers-by-his-own-school-after-declaring-there-are-only-two-genders-and-im-gay-not-queer.html

Onlytruthfulhere · 12/10/2025 18:24

miraxxx · 11/10/2025 10:02

The incel to trans pipeline is obvious to me. Nerds, neuro-divergent types with poor social skills and deep into their internet wormholes with porn addiction bringing up the rear. Many are gamer types. The internet also allows them to find their kind and affirm one another in their lunacy.

Yes spot on

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/10/2025 19:04

Your link goes to MI5 for me 😂

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