FWR being trolled by a user called AidaP

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Hi MNHQ can you please address the issue of a certain poster called AidaP who is not participating in debate he is just trolling.

to be clear this person is a trans woman who has been convicted of violence and is posting promotion of acts of violence against women elsewhere.

in particular there is one elsewhere about using a roughly hewn rolling pin to rape women.

you realy need to look in to him it is just so not on that he is being allowed to bother us here.

@BeckyAMumsnet Why can’t we at least be given the option to hide certain posters ourselves? I want to use FWR, but I want to be able to do so without being forced to read comments by posters like AidaP.

So let's get this straight.

A TRA posts that women who disagree that TWAW should be "fucked with a splintery rolling pin".

Women disagree and say that's basically a rape threat. A rhetorical raoe threat perhaps, but still a rapre threat with all the misogyny that entails.

You from this conclude that the TRAs are less dangerous than the women.

Right. Sure you did.

Do you think 2 women a week are murdered by their male partners because they just don't understand they could fight back?

Of course you do 🤣

It's such an unoriginal take too...we've had posters say similar many many times (and years) before now. I didn't believe them and I don't believe this either. Not least as the premise is demonstrably untrue!

Exactly. I tried really really hard to fight back against my rapist. I was simply not strong enough.

It is worth remembering that there exists a type of man who does think that, by virtue of being born male, he is automatically more logical and rational and dispassionate than women. There is of course a massive irony in this being a totally illogical belief, and this irony hits the stratosphere when said man also claims that a woman is an unknowable concept.

They often take on a rather imperious tone to suggest they have been totally fair and rational, but women have not and as such have punished themselves by driving away all the critical, careful thinkers with their silliness and dishonesty.

And then they tell you women aren't vulnerable and can have knobs.

There are many inconsistencies and incoherencies in some of the posts we are seeing.

I believe so.

The argument really is like those academics who declare that female athletes don't need segregated sports, they just need to train harder and maybe have different equipment.

This is part of that same falsely premised 'strict equality' perspective.

(Note: as if female people having access to performance enhancing equipment that is not also available to male athletes isn't direct discrimination and would be considered as illegitimate in terms of policies around performance enhancement???).

It’s not a bloody colloquialism. I have never ever heard it from anyone other than this aggressive TRA. If anyone used this so called colloquialism in my workplace they would be sacked immediately. Idiotic argument.

Just so you all know, if I come back to more than 10 notifications (bear in mind I only get one when quoted), i press mark as read and ignore them all. I just came back to 20

Isn't that like being ratioed on X?

@GlovedhandsCecilia oh thanks for letting us all know this.

No problem, I'm sure it's a lot to take on.

The arguments against your posts remain pertinent and are worth making in their own right whether you reply or not, so please don't feel obliged.

I don't. Just explaining why you won't get a response unless they are repeated to me at a time where I am not spammed by notifications.

Tell us you've run out of arguments without telling us you've run out of arguments!

Not arguments. I just hate how the notifications work here so there is no way I am replying to 20 of them. They should remain highlighted unless you address them, not disappear because you've replied to one on that thread.

Whatever we disagree on, we can definitely all agree MN's notifications and search tools are less than optimal!

That's literally why I'm just not doing it. It's way too clunky.

I just delete the emails and read the thread from where I left off.

Yeah I may do that when I have time. It depends how many pages have happened since.

You can stop the e mails in your account button

I was just about to say this. I’ve done this.

Same - makes things so much easier and doesn't clog my inbox.