You'll love this guy

[MsMcWoodle]

Now ladies, I want you all to put down your knitting and try to concentrate:

This is an elected politician?

Really?

What a dick.

Who is it?

Ha ha ha ha.

Funnily enough as a middle aged woman whose first job out of university was in the civil service as part of a team drafting legislation to go before parliament, I have in fact done exactly this in my time. I would imagine Mumsnet (which includes lawyers, civil servants, politicians, political aides, professional advisors to NGOs) has many other women who can say this.

I'm also not bad at knitting and have even on one occasion made jam.

So politicians don't listen to people unless they have legislative qualifications?

TheDukes they don't tell you who they are - just an anonymous Lib Dem twat.

Nope, no lawyers on Mumsnet. No civil servants. Nobody in politics. Just a lot of us silly mummies, baking cakes and wiping bottoms and getting ideas above our station.

It's not an elected politician. It's the LGBT group affiliated by the libdems - run, I understand, by Sarah Brown, transwoman (amongst others).

What a knob. A completely identifiable knob too, as presumably not that many smug libdem blokes added to the Bill.

what an idiot. Addressing a web forum with, I believe, hundreds of thousands of diverse members, as if its a single entity. Idiot.

"Lib Dem membership total is 103,300"
Mumsnet 12,000,000. Enough said I think.

They really hate and underestimate women. I've advised cross-party groups and briefed politicians. I'm also clever enough not to piss off half the electorate ... but let me find a cake to bake or MNHQ will revoke my posting privileges.

Goodness me. Interestingly enough, a friend of mine has just been nominated as candidate for the Lib dems and my sister is seeking candidacy. They are both from immensely privileged backgrounds. Not just middle-class, one of them's only worth a few million. I posited to them both that there's a problem in the party...

I am waiting for an answer.

Shit, I haven't baked anything so far this year. Does this mean that I'm allowed to have an opinion, but not allowed to post it on mumsnet on account of not womaning correctly?

I dunno that I'd be as keen as our smug friend here to admit to being part of shaping a piece of legislation that's created as much pushback as the GRA.

I mean no disrespect but I, personally, have been a woman for 48 years so may know more about the implications than some politician.

I have also been able to distinguish between men and women for most of that time. And make a judgement call as to who belongs where.

The name Mumsnet really is a stumbling block for some people, isn't it?

Flomper

Yep. Revealing. Very revealing

There is at least one government lawyer who advises on drafting contributing on this site...

(NC)

12 million women?

Wow.

And not a one of us knows anything about anything.

Also wow.

And none of those women are qualified to question any of these moves that seek to redefine what a woman is.

Mega wow.

Super double mega patriarchy in action.

"I have access to the instruments of power, and therefore I know best about what they should do".

Of course women have always been denied access to the instruments of power, and this has been entirely intentional.

The more you look at that tweet the worse it gets.

Good grief. The absolute scorn for 12 million voters. The electorate at the last election was about 48 million voters. That's 25% of the electorate LGBT Lib Dems see fit to dismiss.

Good politicking there, my friend, good politicking.

25% of the electorate who really just need to sit down and not worry our pretty little heads about politics, clearly. Politics is something proper people do! We're just women.

I'm terribly sorry @AngryAttackKittens, but you're going to have to cancel your membership to Mumsnet.

You're obviously not 'living as a mum', otherwise you'd be baking every single day without fail, whilst running the house and looking after the dear ones.

You've really let us all down by not doing these things and daring to have an opinion, on politics, of all things!

If you're going to appoint someone as your Twitter person, you'd better think about what they say as they represent you.

I'd imagine this is Sara Brown explaining to the many women on here how much better they are at the law...