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Women's Place meeting, Oxford - 25th April

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TerfyMcTerface · 15/03/2018 21:23

Just spotted on Twitter that Women's Place are holding a meeting in Oxford next month. I don't think the tickets are on sale yet.

Is anyone on here going to go?

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Ineedacupofteadesperately · 25/04/2018 21:28

Police had to walk myself and a mother in as they had threatened her and her child How disgusting. and how frightening for the child. What kind of person does that?

womanhuman · 25/04/2018 21:33

Refused biscuits?

Anlaf · 25/04/2018 21:34

all but one refused a biscuit.

That one - they'll eat that biscuit and just have a look at this hate-site, before they know it they'll be lurking and then they'll reg because they just can't resist commenting...

and then they'll be a mumsnetter

Glad you are all getting out ok

hackmum · 25/04/2018 21:37

Oxford has more than 20,000 students if you include the postgrads, so only a very tiny proportion were protesting.

CircleSquareCircleSquare · 25/04/2018 21:57

I'm in! Police had to walk myself and a mother in as they had threatened her and her child

Shock I am utterly shocked. This goes against everything Oxford was about when I was there and I graduated in the noughties, so not that long ago.

FlorenceLyons · 25/04/2018 22:02

What a brilliant evening! Sorry I didn't get to talk to many people - the teenager wasn't up for the pub afterwards. I thought all four speakers were fantastic, and the sense of camaraderie in the room was amazing. I'll be wearing my WPUK badge with pride.

Oxfordterferama · 25/04/2018 22:13

I was there too and it was great. Respectful, sensible and sane. I couldn’t hear the protestors at all until we left. The poor woman with the baby and some others had to leave through the back. Awful!

Theinconstantgardener · 25/04/2018 22:19

I'll be wearing my WPUK badge with pride
They have badges?! I want one!

ReluctantCamper · 25/04/2018 22:33

I did manage to get some takers for my biscuits at the start of the meeting. Interesting (and respectful) chat with a young man who chided me for being on the same side as Jacob Rees-mogg but was baffled when I pointed out that 80% of the Iranian women's football team are trans.

ReluctantCamper · 25/04/2018 22:36

As we left they were chanting 'bigotry is so annoying '. Isn't it though?

Invited them to the pub but no one came Sad

ReluctantCamper · 25/04/2018 22:40

Great speakers. Really interesting woman from the Dominican Republic. Abortion not legal there and yet she says they are being pressured by America to introduce gender recognition. Sees it as colonialism.

AskBasil · 25/04/2018 22:42

They're really mindless aren't they? They don't know what they're protesting. The Iranian women's football team is really well known to anyone interested in this issue so the fact that they guy knew nothing about it, says a lot about the rent-a-gob / bored student up for a protest aspect of it.

They're all terfs. None of them believe a person with a penis is a woman.

Thanksforthatamazingpost · 25/04/2018 22:54

The protestors sound so posh southern to me!

ReluctantCamper · 25/04/2018 22:55

The protesters were chanting 'Transwomen are women'.

Debbie Heyton and Kristina Harrison saying 'no we're not! No we're not!'. But they had their invisibility cloaks on so the protesters couldn't engage with them Sad

Datun · 25/04/2018 23:04

It's shocking that he didn't know about the Iranian football team. And was no doubt rather nonplussed with actual transwomen saying they're men.

I'm sure you're right AskBasil.

They are unpacked terfs. They swallow all the bullshit fed to them by transactivists.

And then when they hear feminists say transwomen are men, it reinforces what they think. Without hearing the argument from the start, they don't get the full picture.

Wanderabout · 25/04/2018 23:06

Thank you so much to all the wonderful women who organised and went to this. So much positive energy, thoughtfulness, respect and critical thinking in the room.

Just women talking about women's rights and surreptitiously munching on biscuits.

AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth · 25/04/2018 23:09

"As we left they were chanting 'bigotry is so annoying' "

Inspired.

LightofaSilveryMoon · 25/04/2018 23:15

So glad so many of you had a positive experience, despite the protest outside.

I was at the Cardiff WPUK, and loved the feeling of warmth and solidarity in that hall, that evening!

Flowers to all of you!

ErrolTheDragon · 25/04/2018 23:21

You'd have thought oxford students might know what 'bigotry' means (according to the oxford dictionary): 'Intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself.'

Cuntysnark · 25/04/2018 23:28

SwearyGodPervert Thank you for the pub meet up. Lovely to meet so many of you. I got separated whilst watching the protestors, who will be mightily hoarse in the morning, just hope they know we couldn’t hear them here we were.

I’m slightly star struck-managed to not only meet Sweary and others but I sat by Heather Brunskill-Evans, talked to Debbie Reynolds & got several hugs from Stephanie Davies-Arai. Will keep an eye out for future meetings near me. Cornwall just too far but hope Posie speaks at meetings in the Midlands.

Wanderabout · 25/04/2018 23:35

You'd have thought oxford students might know what 'bigotry' means (according to the oxford dictionary): 'Intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself.'

Lol

WomaninGreen · 25/04/2018 23:59

I don't know anything about the Iranian football team either
I'm watching these event threads but I don't know the other people named
If I go to a meeting is it all going to be a bit pointless without in depth knowledge?

LightofaSilveryMoon · 26/04/2018 00:02

@WomaninGreen
It depends.
What would you, personally, hope to get from it? I think that would be a good starting point!

ReluctantCamper · 26/04/2018 00:03

I was sat next to a young man who I suspect may identify as trans and from his body language was critical of the meeting. However, he listened and took notes. The only way it could have been better would be if he'd participated in the Q&A at the end. So I think there are young trans people out there thinking for themselves.

They're just out numbered and out shouted by the social justice warriors at the moment,

WomaninGreen · 26/04/2018 00:05

Light, mostly I wanted to show support for WPUK.

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