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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

This is what Helen from Mermaids writes about MN feminist posters

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AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth · 25/02/2018 12:05

"If you’re a Mum and on mn that often to have time to engage with ‘feminist’ forums, you’re more likely to be a ‘stay at home mum’. These are bored middle-class women putting their privileged Uni-educated thoughts to oppressing a small, vulnerable, oppressed sector of society"

Nice bit of sexism going on there

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merrymouse · 01/03/2018 16:08

If you're a mum and on Mumsnet you are more likely to:

  1. Have children who need to know things like how babies are made and what periods are and why gender stereotypes are a load of bollocks.
  2. Your body is likely to have done things that only female bodies can do like carry another human being.
  3. It is likely that you will have taken contraception because you know that as a female you may become pregnant after sex with a man.
  4. You may have undergone fertility treatment or adopted because your female reproductive system is not working correctly, and you will know about your female body in intense, excruciating detail.
  5. You might be seeking information on subjects that women aren't supposed to discuss in polite company like heavy, painful periods and the menopause.
  6. Whatever your working situation, you are probably at a stage in your life where you can't ignore the work penalty that most women end up paying once they have children.

In short, while you may have no female 'identity' whatsoever, if you are a mum on Mumsnet it's pretty difficult to ignore the consequences of having a female body and I suspect that is why there is such anger at people who think that being female is something to do with - I don't know - shoes?

MrGHardy · 01/03/2018 16:40

Wow. She's tweeted in support of the transw teen wrestler who obviously beat all the girls. She really, really doesn't get any of it. I feel so sorry for her actually.”

That one is ironic af as well. That’s a trans boy who wants to fight boys. He’s on testosterone and thus beats girls. The achievement would be beating boys like he wants to.

thebewilderness · 01/03/2018 16:47

I think most people are amazed that if you want to get around the doping rules all you have to do is claim to be transgender.

BeyondDeadlySiren · 01/03/2018 18:59

I'm surprised Russia haven't cottoned on to it yet, tbh...

AskBasil · 02/03/2018 14:33

I'm sure they will...

morningrunner · 02/03/2018 14:36

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AskBasil · 02/03/2018 14:44

Thing is, then everyone else will discover it too.

And then nearly every single medal will be won by a biological male.

Women will only win medals again, in sports like dressage and golf, where physical differences don't matter.

AskBasil · 02/03/2018 14:45

And in fact, there will be very few female Olympians at all.

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HairyBallTheorem · 02/03/2018 14:47

As someone said upthread, we'll end up with a category in the paralympics - the "deficient in a Y chromosome" class.

BetsyM00 · 02/03/2018 15:59

And still there will be 'transYdeficient' infiltrators. Sad

MadamMinacious · 02/03/2018 16:43

‘stay at home mum’. These are bored middle-class women putting their privileged Uni-educated thoughts to oppressing a small, vulnerable, oppressed sector of society

The fact she thinks being a SAHM is an insult shows you just how much value she places on women and women's work. Not that this is a surprise to anyone since she is leading a charge against women's rights and in particular mother's rights to parent their children responsibly.

We could trade insults, I guess, since I'm not convinced of her sanity - but what's the point?

MadamMinacious · 02/03/2018 16:44

That last sentence was sponsored by the Overuse of Punctuation Foundation.

DickTERFin · 02/03/2018 17:26

I reckon M&S paid him to do that just so’s that pink dress stopped being the most offensive thing anybody had ever seen in their store.

Ofmen · 10/03/2018 12:47

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