Trans woman in Riot Women! WTF?

[OneBadKitty]

I usually love anything by Sally Wainwright, but what was she thinking by have a trans-woman in a band called Riot Women that is supposed to be full of menopausal women singing about HRT and other female related issues?

Has SW actually said that though? It is apparently not mentioned in any blurb and it seems that only PPs on here have decided that because he looks so obviously male, it would be a massive stretch to pretend anyone thought he was female.

But you don’t seem to see the issue with women losing their words generally so you might have overlooked the significance.

Seriously?? PP was berating me for apparently not caring about women’s abortion rights in the US.

You are getting g rather desperate

My response was due to the fact that you blamed the Democrats for removing 'women's rights and words'. There is now a Republican President and Republican majorities in the House and in the Senate. While most feminists agree that the Republicans are an utter disaster for women's rights and reproductive freedoms, some women don't care about that as long as the government is anti-trans. I assumed that you were one of those women.

Yes, and then you somehow shoehorned in trans people as being responsible for that massive, very tangible and actually life threatening loss to the rights of millions of women in a vast nation.

You’re trying to position a transwoman actor in the UK as responsible for serious actual harm done to women’s rights.

Just because another poster introduced the topic of loss of abortion right is not justification for you to put that at the door of this actor.

See, you say "TRA wankers"which we all know means "everyone with a different opinion to the board's group think" - because brains on their don't compute that women can disagree. No, they have to be lumped as a "TRA" activist/man to fit the narrative.
"Plus "unable to take on strong women" - again, you're talking to others who are as well right now in here! 🙄
To the insults and smears shows a lot about you.

'FWR regulars. So very intelligent, incisive, factual and logical'

Very true yes, well done.

'See, you say "TRA wankers"which we all know means "everyone with a different opinion to the board's group think"

No, I mean TRA wankers, the 'fuck terfs' variety. I can cope with their opinions and happy to correct them.

It's time to drag this ludicrous 'discussion' off to the Costa. Anyone got a thing to say about Les in Benidorm? School us please.

It is sad that you don’t understand why trans men aren’t seen as potentially a threat. Hint: it is because they are women.

If it is true that he wore a t-shirt with that message then this ‘show’ should be banned and the BBC charged with an offence.

We're having a book burning tomorrow afternoon. Care to join us?

It wasn’t in the show - it was on one social post, worn by the transwoman actor.

At least try to RTFT before weighing in with hyped up opinions.

Can’t make it. I’m too busy reading up on the poor behaviour of some trans activists.

life is too short and precious.

If you’re going to respond to my posts at least do me the courtesy of not making up things I haven’t said. I didn’t hold up the current US government as a bastion of women’s rights.

I criticised the Democrats for removing women’s rights and words. That was in response to being accused of not caring about women’s abortion rights in America.

I am bemused as to why you are now suddenly interested in US politics on a thread about a UK fictional drama. I have only been responding to comments since a PP randomly accused me of not caring about women’s abortion rights in the US.

Yet I’M the one being accused of deflection and shoehorning issues ? It’s quite laughable really.

It’s impressive how determined some people are to berate women for having the temerity to state an opinion on the inclusion of a man representing a woman in a drama supposedly about women.

#bekind at its best 🤣

Lol - I didn't bring up US politics. Another poster did which you responded to, blaming the Democrats. I just disagreed with your points. Between the Democrats and Republicans, I know which are the lesser of the two evils where women's rights are concerned, and it certainly isn't the Republicans. Some women will agree with any far right charlatan just because 'at least they know what a woman is'. Donald Trump was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a department store dressing room, but apparently trans women are more dangerous to other women than he is.

The idea that words are more likely to strip women of their rights than actual actions is so ludicrous I have no words.

And the UK right is in the pocket of the US right, so what happens over there matters.

I've watched the first few episodes and enjoyed it but the presence of the trans character irritated me, just in that way that there always,has to be a bloody trans character in everything. (I'm looking at you, the makers of 'A man called Otto' who just had to change a gay character from the book to a trans character)

In some ways I liked the fact the character was just a minor one and they weren't all talking about him /the story wasn't about him. But I did think it was a bit unlikely that a women who is freaking out and in denial about her daughter being bisexual is so fine with her son(?) being trans-identified that she just calls him Miranda and carries on seemingly oblivious.

She's not freaking out about her daughter being bisexual is she? I thought it was that she didn't like the particular woman she was with?

Wait till 'they' start putting a transperson in 'every advert'. How will you cope with that? Rather better than recent commenters have managed with the handful of mixed race casts discussed elsewhere, hopefully.

It was.