What really matters

[Kimonolady]

I’ve been a poster for a while, but have only ever lurked on the feminism chat threads.

I’m so, so angry at how fucked up society is. How violence towards women is so widely tolerated, and seen as the norm by many. Reading about Theodore Johnson in the news yesterday and John Warboys today has made me feel so angry and like nothing is changing.

I hate though that when I come on the feminism threads, the issue of violence against women is barely discussed. All I see, again and again, is this obsession with trans issues.

Look at the top threads in this section right now: complaints that a trans woman is on the cover of Vogue, trans women and the Hampstead Heath Ponds, lesbians having sex with trans women, GRA, Lilly M, Jamie the Musical, Mermaids. Why the fixation?

Im so mad about what’s happening in the world that I want to scream.

As Sonic said, there are frequently posters demanding that trans discussion be banned from the main boards and kept restricted to the feminist section.

The irony of someone who doesn't post in thi feminism section popping along here and asking us to please shut up about it here too, is not lost on me.

BarrackerBarmer
Get with it: it's #nodebate innit

I suspect that lots of people on this thread did also post on Johnson and Worboys threads. I know I posted on these two:

Johnson

Worboys

The Johnson one was on FWR and the Worboys one on AIBU. There are other threads that discuss it also. The threads tend to start just as soon as information is released in the media.

If you look at all of the threads about Johnson and Worboys, what is it that you think other people should be saying that hasn't already been said, OP? What would you like to say?

I also tend to lurk rather than post on FWR but I am enormously grateful for all the trans threads, and to Mumsnet for hosting them. It's no wonder the topic proliferates on here as this is just about the only forum I know of where discussion is allowed.