Bluestocking lock in!

[QuentinSummers]

Posted a whole thing on the last thread and it was locked!

Last thread here
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3062013-The-Bluestocking-is-open-for-business
Here's my post replying to Moth
Thats an interesting article moth. Best not on the board or MRAs would be all over it!
I was wondering today, hopefully, if the news about darts getting rid of the girls means the overton window is shifting and maybe p0rn will become less acceptable?
If not all this hooha about F1 girls and the presidents club is just tinkering on the edges.

On chat right now - teen boy in womens changerooms - mother claims he's a she, OP getting a hard time.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3163982-Oh-my-lord-it-has-actually-happened-to-me

Stiff gin please!

There is tag-team mansplaining going on elsewhere on the boards, plus a couple of handmaidens who have decided that because smear tests involve a speculum rather than fingers they can't see what the fuss is about re. wanting a female HCP to do them.

May have to go on a thread-hiding frenzy.

Fortunately there's a lovely BODMAS thread going on, so I can take refuge in reminiscing about my lovely old reverse Polish notation calculator. Oh how I miss it.

(Feels pleasant wave of nostalgia for old tech... Remembers she occasionally still has to program in FORTRAN. Feels less nostalgic, but more antediluvian).

Just listened to Ben Shapiro on the Sports Illustrated thing. I don't often agree with him , but ffs, what the fuck is empowering about that shit

MRAs are plopping around the boards recently, it seems.

Well it's very busy round here at the moment - I can't keep up.
There's a lot of light being shed on some very unpleasant issues at the moment and it's getting quite a reaction.

Takes a moment to breathe deeply and consume without choking ...

Yes Sarahjconnor! Brilliant idea. I listened to the Nick Robinson interview with Paris Lees - total self absorption . The rest of the world, needs / rights / laws seen solely through their own narrow experiences and wishes.

There is tag-team mansplaining going on elsewhere on the boards, plus a couple of handmaidens who have decided that because smear tests involve a speculum rather than fingers they can't see what the fuss is about re. wanting a female HCP to do them

Gawd. I haven't seen that one. In the thread I mention above people are saying that a 14 year old boy in the womens changerooms is 'just a child' and that since the OP can't be 100% sure he was a boy that it shows that gender isn't rigid and that we could have undressed in front of 100s of men before, etc. etc.

I note that two gender critical writers have been hounded off Twitter by MRAs.

One of whom publicly documented her mental health issues this year...it's really shitty that people who's demands are centred around their risk of suicide targets someone who has shared mental health issues.

Who lonely?

Someone should definitely do that Sarah!

But if Ross Kemp were to feel feminine when he put on a dress, surely Stonewall would have to admit him under the trans umbrella...

Mind if I join you? It's bloody mental out there! I've been a serious lurker on the boards for years, but #peaktrans has radicalized my feminism and driven me to my feet in rage... here seems the place to pull up a chair and take a moment to breathe / swig gin

Yeh! Always good to meet another GC woman! Welcome Standing

What peaked you?

I can't even remember now which particular event was the straw that broke the camel's back. My concern has been steadily growing for maybe a year or so, but it was a few weeks ago when I fell head first down the rabbit hole and learnt about TRAs, ladydicks, the cotton ceiling, truscum etc etc etc

It seems activity on the FWR board recently spiked due to #peaktrans? Is it like your favourite pub suddenly becoming trendy, or more like a party that suddenly kicks off after midnight?!

The board does seem to have gone a tad loopy since the labour women's shortlists!!

And there seems to be a particularly high quantity of MRAs here this weekend too? Or is that just me?

Definitely a few MRAs, but it seems they're sparking some cracking debate though

I like a busy pub

MRAs always come in flocks*. I wouldn't say it's particularly out of the norm for a visitation. A bit more transplopping maybe?

*whats the collective noun for mras anyway?

Hello! Had to pop in to let you all know about this corker from my MIL today.

There seems to be a lot more abuse going on these days, maybe women are becoming more annoying.

all the emojis! Had to change the subject and let her off because FIL died this week.

...staggers in.....

Please can I have a (very large) Dark & Stormy, with a Bushmills chaser.

I've finally gotten round to filling in the Scottish Consultation on the GRA and it has

a) taken all day due to how much I had to say

b) given me the absolute radge, I had no idea there would be any consideration of the fucking complete and utter bs that is non-binary.

Seriously in what universe could a government even begin to think about considering any kind of legislation regarding that nonsense???

I can't even...

@leghairdontcare

She said WHAT?

I'm amazed you didn't say "yes, some people are getting more annoying" and then follow it up with a slap to make your point!

terry 🍹

I tried to come up with some sort of response to your post but I can't even either