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Polanski is a buffoon

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Bertiebiscuit · 07/02/2026 18:28

How anyone can take the Green party leader Zac Polanski seriously is completely beyond me. He has zero grasp of economics, beyond conning women out of ££££s by pretending he could hypnotise them to increase their bust measurements. He is the worst representative of gay men who worship the men pretending to be women, with no regard for womens and girls' right to privacy, dignity and safety. The man is a 24 carat buffoon.

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ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:07

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 18:34

You do have an issue with being wrong don't you. Where do you get the impression I care about these issues. It is a huge distraction that impacts many people, it is a distraction from economic growth, the huge disparity between the rich and poor, the environment, the housing crisis. Poverty, for example, has a much greater impact on women's lives but I suppose that is a bit pedestrian for you. You sound like a massive sexist yourself calling a woman that doesn't agree with your argument, 'hysterical'. I mean of all the things to name call a woman that sounds like man speak!

Where do you get the impression I care about these issues.

Oh, we KNOW you don't care about womens issues. We know that. You've said it often enough. You think womens rights are a 'distraction' from the meaty mens issues of economics. If women cannot participate in society, the economy will tank. But you have no critical thinking to understand that. Because, as you said, you don't care about womens issues. There is always something 'more important' than the rights of women to you.

Mishmosher · 09/02/2026 14:09

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:02

We are not saying we are going to vote for Farage. And if people are being pushed to vote for Farage, um, maybe, have a think what it is about the policies you support that are alienating women. It would never dawn on you would it, to do a bit of introspection? To wonder what you/the party/ies you support are doing wrong? Your thought process is puddle depth. There is no critical thinking there. None at all. Women don't go from voting Greens/Labour overnight to voting Farage.

Have a think about it. If you dare have the intellectual curiousity.

This is 100% why we have Trump in power in America. The Democrats and their pro-trans stance just came across as mindless, hectoring, morally warped, pious idiots. If I was in America I would have voted Democrat every time, except for last time when I just wouldn’t have voted. The Greens, Lib Dem’s and SNP are digging themselves exactly the same hole.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:09

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 18:52

You are wrong and I assume that is why you are so angry about it all.

You are right, I apologise, you didn't post that I was, 'hysterical' you posted that I was 'unhinged'. What because you don't like being told your arguments are poor!

You are the one that is wrong. You have no arguments at all to counter what people on here are saying. You refuse to engage with the arguments. And why? Why is that? Because your Ideology is a house of cards built on quicksand. And we all know it, including you.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:14

ForCyanGuide · 08/02/2026 19:05

The fact that this thread very quickly descended into terfs trying to out terf each other, just shows how ignorant people are of actual politics, policies and economics.

the world is literally crumbling around this. Ukraine is at war, Palestine is rubble, a facist is running the “free world” and almost invaded an ally a few weeks ago. But sure, let’s argue about whether Bob wants to Barbara. Even though it has no fucking effect on your life whatsoever.

Rape survivors like me having to share a change room with a fully intact male. Dare say to my face it has 'no effect on me'?

Males demanding women be sacked for saying no to them.

Male crimes being recorded as female crimes, thus skewing statistics and rendering them unreliable.

Males taking females sports places and medals.

The 'wHaT eFfeCt DoEs It hAve oN YoU?' line has been proven worthless and without foundation years ago. Do catch up. Further effects:

Polanski is a buffoon
ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:16

Mishmosher · 09/02/2026 14:09

This is 100% why we have Trump in power in America. The Democrats and their pro-trans stance just came across as mindless, hectoring, morally warped, pious idiots. If I was in America I would have voted Democrat every time, except for last time when I just wouldn’t have voted. The Greens, Lib Dem’s and SNP are digging themselves exactly the same hole.

Absolutely. Dems own private internal polling company, BluePrint2024, showed that Trans Ideology/womens rights was the third major reason women voted for Trump. There is a reason Trump ran the 'Kamala is for They/Them' ad 10 times more in swing states than other ads.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:18

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 19:14

Well you seem to only want people to post that agree with you, it's really quite arrogant.

You go around saying people who disagree with you are "wrong". How is that not arrogant?

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:21

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 19:22

No, that's not my view. I'm not really interested, my concern is that this shouldn't dominate public debate, it's a cultural problem and it distracts from the debates we should be having over policy and public administration. I think it is 'wrong' to do that, I think it is morally wrong to do that.

Womens rights is a human rights issue, it is not a 'cultural' problem. Womens rights are MORE than economy policy and public administration. I think it is morally wrong to want women to self-exclude from participating in society, to not enter the workforce, and to return to the Urinary Leash era. You are morally wrong to want women to go backwards, to self-exclude from society and to leave the workforce to men only.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:24

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 19:25

Gender ideology doesn't feature as a debating issue or a concern for most people in any form, it literally is a zero % concern for most regular folk.

That's another place where you are wrong and in your Mens Rights echo chamber. Polls don't list womens rights as an option. But when they do, poll after poll after poll show that the overwhelming majority of women believe womens single sex spaces should remain, and remain female only. And, further, YouGov poll shows that the majority of people, basically two thirds, agree with the SC ruling.

You, are in an ever decreasing and diminishing fringe minority.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:27

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 19:28

It's morally wrong to deflect and distract away from the rise of many issues that really do impact people's lives like poverty, homelessness, the rise of fascism. No one cares about gender ideology in the real world.

Ah yes, there is ALWAYS 'a more important issue' than womens rights. We'll get to rape survivors and dv survivors having female only spaces to change, ONLY when we solve the economy, global warming, homelessness, and EVERYTHING ELSE.

Which means womens rights will NEVER get a look in.

It is morally wrong to use the 'economy' to deflect from womens basic human rights to safety, privacy and dignity. Your views are heartless, abhorrent and morally repugnant.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:29

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ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:31

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 19:43

But people don't care about this issue, it doesn't impact their lives the way that the economy, taxes, poverty or even the climate change does.

Economy, taxes and poverty does not impact the lives of a RAPE SURVIVOR more than being safe and having privacy and dignity when venturing outside the home. Literally NOTHING is more important.

You remind me of the Mens Rights activists during the suffragette era who said women gaining the right to vote was 'not more important' than the economy and taxes. There was always something 'more important' than women gaining the right to vote. Always. In reality, they were saying womens would never get the right to vote because 'something was always more important'. I have zero doubt that if you were alive back then, you'd be throwing eggs and tomatoes at the suffragettes for 'distracting from more important issues'.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:36

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 19:45

ECHR's removal would have way more impact on women's rights. It is ridiculous to say that gender ideology impacts women's rights in this way when it just doesn't.

What has ECHR ever done for women.

When girls are missing school when on a period, when women are getting UTIs for not drinking fluids so they don't have to use work/public toilets, when women are leaving the workforce and excluding from activities like swimming because fully intact males are changing in the ladies change room, when women are self-excluding from participating in society and returning to the Urinary Leash, it impacts us for more than some 'economic policy' does or EVER will do!

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:38

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 19:46

What you disagree that people care more about gender ideology than the economy, than unemployment, than housing?

What, you disagree that women care more about their safety, privacy and dignity than economy, unemployment and housing? Because if you don't have safety when participating in the workforce or society, you have NOTHING. NOTHING at all!

Ablushingcrow · 09/02/2026 14:39

I despise the stupid tit whisperer. Anyone that can bang on about TWAW and open borders and Palestine is more important than this country, is clearly barking mad.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:39

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 19:50

You may do but most of the public don't care about gender ideology.

Polls to the contrary!

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:44

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 20:21

How old are you as to not being impacted by housing or the economy or the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest seems to be a position of someone who benefitted from the windfall of yesteryear. I really don't think politicians should prioritise this issue over the above, these are the policy issues that people care about.

How old are you that you are not impacted by womens rights and VAWG? It seems to me you are a teenager or in your 20s who has absolutely no understanding whatsoever of how hard feminists fought to achieve our rights that you take for granted, and have no lived experience of how having safety, privacy and dignity is so VITAL to womens participation in society and in the workforce.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:46

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 20:24

When did I state it was- it my opinion and yours is very much the balloon of delusion that needs popping if you think that a majority of the voting public care about gender ideology.

If you think the majority of women don't care about womens rights, yours is very much the balloon of delusion that needs popping. You live in a completely different world of privilege and delusion wrapped up in a bubbled echo chamber.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:48

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 20:29

You think people with mortgages and jobs care about gender ideology with the same level of interest as growth in the economy, unemployment levels and interest rates. I think you must be one of the lucky windfall generation that can indulge themselves with this politics.

Yes I think women with mortgages and jobs care about their rights to safety, privacy and dignity when at work and in public. Several women have quit the workforce over this issue, and women not participating in the workforce hurts the economy. But you think surface level deep and don't have critical thinking capacity.

Mishmosher · 09/02/2026 14:49

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:44

How old are you that you are not impacted by womens rights and VAWG? It seems to me you are a teenager or in your 20s who has absolutely no understanding whatsoever of how hard feminists fought to achieve our rights that you take for granted, and have no lived experience of how having safety, privacy and dignity is so VITAL to womens participation in society and in the workforce.

Or a bloke. So many men have absolutely no idea that nearly a million women are sexually assaulted each year in the UK. They are clueless as to why women could see men as a threat.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:50

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 20:31

Women's safety and women's rights is not wholly about gender ideology. It is so ridiculous to suggest some regular men no gender issues are not a risk to women are not the biggest risk to women. How's that helpful to any women.

ANY male is a risk to woman. And Gender Ideology is entirely about dismantling every sex-based right and protection women FOUGHT DECADES to build up. How is making women self-exclude from society and return to the Urinary Leash times helpful to women?

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:50

Mishmosher · 09/02/2026 14:49

Or a bloke. So many men have absolutely no idea that nearly a million women are sexually assaulted each year in the UK. They are clueless as to why women could see men as a threat.

I am beginning to suspect that poster is a bloke. No one could really be this clueless of how VAWG affects us.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:52

Goldenbear · 08/02/2026 20:39

Where did I say I didn't care about women's rights. Your obsession and culture wars over gender ideology are a massive deflection from the issues that really impact women's rights and pushing women away from voting from mainstream parties is dangerous and stupid. Getting rid of the EHCR is not going to help a majority of women. A lack of opportunities for women due to a lack of economic growth is damaging to women as no financial independence, this has been accelerated by the years of economic decline caused by Brexit, caused by that bloke Farage, the party you with your gender ideology focus are pushing women towards to vote against their own interests!

Well yes many of us have mortgages and jobs and are not so selfish as to only vote for parties that suit our narcissistic whims, preferences and familial concerns.

If you think women don't deserve our hard won rights to single sex spaces for safety, dignity and privacy, you DON'T care about womens rights, and you are a Mens Rights activist. Your obsession with calling womens safety, privacy and dignity 'culture wars' says you're a Mens Rights Activist.

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:55

sleepwouldbenice · 08/02/2026 20:40

I agree golden bear.
I am biding my time over the green party. Climate change is the most important issue in my mind. Hand down. And I can put up with the populist approach, its not my bag but its getting attention. And I think they should of course have policies other than about the environment. They are moving further left though, some of them may be red lines for me, given trumps antics. But I will wait and see. Anything but reform basically
But I am sick to death about the comments about boobs. And knowing what a woman is.
The left went too far there by oushibg this issue. I dont care if its one of their policies it won't happen again. Lid is shut. But its nothing compared to what could happen to women's rights under right leaning parties. I can't believe US supporters seem to care more about stopping trans rights than women's abortion rights. Its ridiculous what they did. So ridiculous
Its what happens when you focus on a single issue (trans, immigration) and dont look around
. Madness

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I can't believe US supporters seem to care more about stopping trans rights than women's abortion rights.

See this just goes to show that you have not paid ANY attention at all to this. It's not about stopping 'trans rights'. It's about RESTORING WOMENS RIGHTS.

And yes, the right of rape survivors like me to have safety, privacy and dignity when out in public in a womens toilet or change room IS a single issue for me.

LifeInTheWind · 09/02/2026 14:56

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:21

Womens rights is a human rights issue, it is not a 'cultural' problem. Womens rights are MORE than economy policy and public administration. I think it is morally wrong to want women to self-exclude from participating in society, to not enter the workforce, and to return to the Urinary Leash era. You are morally wrong to want women to go backwards, to self-exclude from society and to leave the workforce to men only.

I have had a conversation similar to this with my Labour MP (for whom I have voted in the past, before I started rethinking my position).

He proffered the ‘culture wars’ script, and I pointed out that if he was seriously suggesting that women’s human rights and children’s human rights to safeguarding were a matter of ‘cultural interest’, then he wasn’t the man I thought he was. (I’ve known him a long time.)

I do however want to keep Reform out. But I want my MP to listen. Oh and he’s wishy-washy on abortion too, though I think he’ll do what he’s told by the whips on that.

Goldenbear · 09/02/2026 14:56

ThatBlackCat · 09/02/2026 14:31

Economy, taxes and poverty does not impact the lives of a RAPE SURVIVOR more than being safe and having privacy and dignity when venturing outside the home. Literally NOTHING is more important.

You remind me of the Mens Rights activists during the suffragette era who said women gaining the right to vote was 'not more important' than the economy and taxes. There was always something 'more important' than women gaining the right to vote. Always. In reality, they were saying womens would never get the right to vote because 'something was always more important'. I have zero doubt that if you were alive back then, you'd be throwing eggs and tomatoes at the suffragettes for 'distracting from more important issues'.

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Have you finished with your stream of invective- 'male activist' is this a double bluff? Is anyone that disagrees with you a man. Your position on all mainstream left wing, liberal and centre left parties is pushing women towards voting against their own interests, towards the calvacade of right wing tub thumpers but I expect you know that.

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