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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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JaquelineHide · 10/10/2025 16:33

Kimura · 10/10/2025 16:31

Again, nobody in this thread has suggested that Filia should listen to them.

You said they were the 'people not listening', so you absolutely did.

Boomer55 · 10/10/2025 16:35

Sounds more trans activists than right wing. 🤷‍♀️

JaquelineHide · 10/10/2025 16:35

Hmmm

Men violently preventing women from congregating, communicating and networking, is what the Taliban do. Why is it happening in the UK?
Apocketfilledwithposies · 10/10/2025 16:37

Absolutely disgusting.

These violent men need the full force of the law throwing at them. 🤬

socialdilemmawhattodo · 10/10/2025 16:41

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 10/10/2025 14:50

No other coverage but the local press here - https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/10/10/218101/

Very poor article. No comments from local MPs.

Noodledog · 10/10/2025 16:45

@Kimura To be clear - Angry people break stuff when they're not being listened to. The people this particular bunch are angry about popped up in their back yard, so they went and broke their stuff. It's not that deep.

Violent people often get violent when they are angry, yes. Which is why society has such things as police, courts and prisons.

HorrorAndHaagenDazs · 10/10/2025 16:46

Its the special men doing their special men thing again.
Predictable, violent, and yet again proving their claims that they're all perfectly sane and safe to be around women and girls.

Mistyglade · 10/10/2025 16:47

Brainstorm23 · 10/10/2025 13:57

My irony meter is about to explode at the contradiction in this quote:-

They added: “Speakers at FiLiA claim to advocate for ‘protecting women’s spaces’ and ‘sex-based rights’ but routinely advocate for the erasure of women’s bodily autonomy and self-determination.

Er..you what now?

Siri, show me a load of gobbledygook!

lcakethereforeIam · 10/10/2025 16:48

JaquelineHide · 10/10/2025 16:32

Which protesters throughout history have attacked a rights organisation's meeting venue simply for meeting, please?

Well, there's those men who attacked the women for attending university and the men who attacked the women meeting and marching for women's suffrage.

I think there's a common thread. If I could just put my finger on it.

alondonerabroad · 10/10/2025 16:50

ILikeDungs · 10/10/2025 12:49

Still not mentioned on BBC news website. There is:

Stuck dog rescued from garden fence after chasing ball

Priorities.

It won’t be. The bbc have got form for enabling the trans ideology. Anything that is now posted will be slanted. Men literally can’t stand the idea that they have been excluded from access to women.

Jewelledslice · 10/10/2025 16:51

Interesting that trans activists don't attack courts who have said the exact same thing. Because there are men there?

Kimura · 10/10/2025 16:52

JaquelineHide · 10/10/2025 16:32

Which protesters throughout history have attacked a rights organisation's meeting venue simply for meeting, please?

I didn't say that, did I? I said people - including women - have historically smashed things when they're angry.

Not sure why such a basic fact is so controversial.

Newbutoldfather · 10/10/2025 16:53

Though it is a disgusting thing to do, YABVU to compare it to what all women are suffering under the Taliban.

miraxxx · 10/10/2025 16:56

Kimura · 10/10/2025 16:16

Proper action was taken by the police, immediately.

People are aghast that some smashed windows in Brighton weren't breaking news on the BBC.

Imagine threats received every single time a group of muslims want to have a meeting and protestors hissing at them with the police needed to keep the peace. Nothing in the news over years, only sympathy for the harassers of the muslims. Imagine then, pork thrown at the mosque in the middle of the night before yet another meeting.No one hurt. Not even a window broken. Justifiable protest against a group who again failed to listen to the harassers and had the gall to turn up in the protestors backyard. Kimura and friends turning up at Mumsnet to spin the events. What we call such people ?

SirBasil · 10/10/2025 16:56

Wordsmithery · 10/10/2025 13:35

Violence and vandalism are unacceptable and of course illegal but describing this as terrorism is a stretch. And this is nothing like life under the Taliban, where rape and violence against women in their own homes is considered perfectly acceptable. Let's keep things in perspective.

Come On Eye Roll GIF

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miraxxx · 10/10/2025 16:58

Kimura · 10/10/2025 16:52

I didn't say that, did I? I said people - including women - have historically smashed things when they're angry.

Not sure why such a basic fact is so controversial.

Name one incident where GC women have smashed things here in the UK. One.

SixtyTwoPercent · 10/10/2025 17:00

Hopefully the wanton destruction is simply because they are RAGING that, finally, the world is slowly admitting that the emperor was always an emperor despite wearing jangly bracelets and a short skirt and, no, he's not welcome to help himself to our resources.

The police are captured, the media is captured.

But the one positive of social media is that we now get to see this kind of juvenile, destructive moob jiggling twattery, which damages their claims of being so weak, docile and crippled by 'cramps' that they can hardly function... as does the voting public.

Anyway, a happier takeaway - I absolutely love the phrase 'hooping about' and will absolutely be hooping this weekend.

Kimura · 10/10/2025 17:05

miraxxx · 10/10/2025 16:56

Imagine threats received every single time a group of muslims want to have a meeting and protestors hissing at them with the police needed to keep the peace. Nothing in the news over years, only sympathy for the harassers of the muslims. Imagine then, pork thrown at the mosque in the middle of the night before yet another meeting.No one hurt. Not even a window broken. Justifiable protest against a group who again failed to listen to the harassers and had the gall to turn up in the protestors backyard. Kimura and friends turning up at Mumsnet to spin the events. What we call such people ?

I love the fact that you think I'm here to spin anything 😅

The only point I've made on this thread is that I think it's daft that's people are crying because a few smashed windows in perhaps the most predictable bit of vandalism of the year wasn't on the front page of every newspaper.

Some people are so pathetically tribal that anything less than nodding along must mean that they're 'the enemy'.

Have a guess if I think trans women are women or not.

SirBasil · 10/10/2025 17:06

#OperationLetThrmSpeak.

Also they were angry that the town put out bunting g in suffragette colours! The FUCKING AUDACITY when Brighton does nothing for the lgbtqia+

Kimura · 10/10/2025 17:06

miraxxx · 10/10/2025 16:58

Name one incident where GC women have smashed things here in the UK. One.

Show me where I said GC women have smashed things here in the UK.

childofthe607080s · 10/10/2025 17:07

So violence and threats against women should be ignored because it’s predictable? Normal? And you don’t see why you are part of the problem ?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 10/10/2025 17:10

SixtyTwoPercent · 10/10/2025 17:00

Hopefully the wanton destruction is simply because they are RAGING that, finally, the world is slowly admitting that the emperor was always an emperor despite wearing jangly bracelets and a short skirt and, no, he's not welcome to help himself to our resources.

The police are captured, the media is captured.

But the one positive of social media is that we now get to see this kind of juvenile, destructive moob jiggling twattery, which damages their claims of being so weak, docile and crippled by 'cramps' that they can hardly function... as does the voting public.

Anyway, a happier takeaway - I absolutely love the phrase 'hooping about' and will absolutely be hooping this weekend.

YY.

Llamasarellovely · 10/10/2025 17:13

miraxxx · 10/10/2025 15:59

Ah we see the standards at which Kimura feels proper attention is warranted : women were not blown up, why the fuck are you bitches whining.

If they had been blown up, they'd probably have asked for it.

Llamasarellovely · 10/10/2025 17:15

Kimura · 10/10/2025 17:05

I love the fact that you think I'm here to spin anything 😅

The only point I've made on this thread is that I think it's daft that's people are crying because a few smashed windows in perhaps the most predictable bit of vandalism of the year wasn't on the front page of every newspaper.

Some people are so pathetically tribal that anything less than nodding along must mean that they're 'the enemy'.

Have a guess if I think trans women are women or not.

Well you can't possibly believe that, because no one really does. On account of no one really thinking men can be women.

socialdilemmawhattodo · 10/10/2025 17:15

hydriotaphia · 10/10/2025 16:20

No, spray-painting and smashing windows isn't terrorism. No more than vandalising aeroplanes is. It is criminal damage, absolutely fair enough to prosecute as such, but it is not terrorism. I don't agree with the current government approach of characterising protest as terrorism.

Sorry i dont agree with you on this. Terrorism is about causing fear and (hopefully) harm in the name of a cause. Protest is objecting to something that you disagree with. Protest does not have to be violent, particularly in a democracy. This action last night against the venue was deliberate, illegal and clearly designed to be intimidating. If not then why were masks necessary? It fits a domestic terrorism brief perfectly.

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