Linda Bellos arrested **Title edited by MNHQ to make clear that she was in fact 'interviewed under caution'**

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So it would appear that Linda has been arrested and interviewed for saying she would protect herself if the tra's attacked.... What the actual fuck?? This is getting ridiculous we need to act!

if saying you support Linda Bellos in twitter is a hate crime then how meaningful are the stats going to be?

this question is relevant to the forthcoming debate in parliament:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3237973-Commons-debate

and the recent Home Affairs Committee Hate Crime Enquiry
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3233421-Home-Affairs-Committee-Hate-crime-enquiry-Newspaper-editors-interviewed

for you Linda. We've got your back.

“Women and trans people alike are targets of male violence. To make radical feminists the villains is to blame men’s violence on women’s though"

amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/06/feminist-linda-bellos-women-trans-male-violence?__twitter_impression=true

Women's thoughts

@LindaBello99 You are incredibly brave, thank you!
@OnTheList

Angry another crime correlation is arson and rape. Looking at crime stats of rapists you will often find arson in their history. Guess this mentality is being fully displayed for us with the nature of the threats we are seeing from them (die in a fire/fu with lady peen, etc).

And now there's this...
www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=447760068977730&id=100012312227714

(sorry, I tried to attach an image too, but my iPads gone wonky)

@lindabello99 thank you for all that you do.

For what it’s worth, you have my full support ❤️

Arse

Unusual to post something like that without a link, I would say.

Is it? We all have google.

#peakterf does sound like a premium product from Homebase though...

Oddly enough, that was the same transactivist who I had the 'argument' with about transkids

I watched the video in which Anne Ruszylo (sp?) and @lindabello99 spoke. They were both clear, cogent and had arguments with evidence.

And Ms Bellos did NOT threaten violence against transwomen. She simply said that she had been raised to defend herself, as sadly as a young black girl & woman this was necessary. And that if she were attacked she would know how to defend herself.

Completely within the law.

How safe is ANYONE from vexatious reporting if police use heavily edited footage as “evidence”?

And @lindabello99 thank you for all you’ve done and continue to do. I’m half a generation younger, but old enough to recognise what lesbian feminists have done for the rest of us, and also how internalised lesbophobia is, even within the women’s movement.

It’s taken all this transactivist bollox for me to examine my own internalised lesbophobia even as a feminist. You stood up for all of women; I hope the rest of us can return the favour.

I’m just popping in to say that tomorrow’s #ManFriday action will be about this. We’ll be using the hashtags #ManFriday and #Istandwithlindabellos as well as having a thread on the #ManFriday Twitter account (@ManFRIDAY_).

I’m just popping in to say that tomorrow’s #ManFriday action will be about this.

Excellent, I'm almost tempted to join twitter.

Me too

Julia H-B discussed free speech on her show this morning at about 25 mins into the segment.
Feminists including Linda Bellos are highlighted.
talkradio.co.uk/radio/listen-again/1525325400#

Being a person threatened with stomping is a protected characteristic tho... pigeon. Unless you think ‘terfs ‘ are not human?

It was about 25 minutes into the 3rd segment. Enjoyed the show though

Sorry, I presumed the link would be for that third segment!

Actually, it is worth skimming through the whole programme if you have time, as it pops up several times with more than one interviewee.

Happy #ManFriday everyone. Following the disturbing events over the past couple of weeks, including Linda’s ‘interview’, we decided to focus on the torrent of violence and threats against women asking questions around self-ID. Here’s our blog: manfridayuk.org/2018/05/04/manfriday-the-11th-our-very-own-art-exhibition/

Here’s the Twitter thread where we will be posting our own artwork: mobile.twitter.com/ManFRIDAY_/status/992299883603214338

And here’s the petition again: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/214118

Warning: the blog does not make for nice reading.

#Istandwithlindabellos

That makes for powerful and upsetting reading.
When you see it all together like that you can really see how some men hate us.

The Women's and Equalities Committee must surely be asked to consider the impact of misogyny as a matter of urgency?
www.parliament.uk/womenandequalities

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/29/violent-misogyny-not-confined-to-internet-incels

Woman's Hour
'The Manosphere'
This week Alek Minassian was arrested and accused of killing 10 people in Toronto when he drove his van into them. Just before the attack, he posted praise on social media for the 'incel rebellion' - an online community of men united by their inability to convince women to have sex with them. The incel rebellion is just one of a number of men's rights groups that have been accused of vulgar sexism, under the umbrella collective of the 'manosphere'. We hear from Mike Wendling an assistant editor at BBC Trending, and Ruby Lott-Lavigna an online journalist who's spent time undercover exploring the manosphere and the people behind it.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zt3qq

When you see it all together like that you can really see how some men hate us.

YY.

Wow.
That is a shocking and very serious collection of abuse and threats.
Thank you Amy (again) that must have been horrible to wade through.

I think that the Women and Equalities Committee should consider carefully whether the women-hating extremist element in the UK may have been given extra heat in their ‘campaigning’ (misogynist thuggery) by the fact that the WEC’s report looked like it had spurred the government into bringing forward legislation on legal gender self identification.

Then govt (maybe, what else can we assume but this?) seems to have realised that this action could have dangerous consequences for women, children and trans people. So they seem to have backed off very quickly away from this issue and kicked it very far into the long grass.

However maybe the net effect of that is in the UK, right now, perhaps this raised hope and uncertainty may have helped to raise the political temperature among ‘activists’ to an even more dangerous level for women?

Now we are seeing grandmother-punching at Speakers corner, women being harrassed online, peaceful women’s meetings being threatened (burn it down!) peaceful gatherings of women (and trans people) to talk about the issues of legal gender self ID being picketed, blocking women and trans people from entering peaceful discussion venues.

Misogynist thugs (Male and female, and often masked to conceal their identities) at multiple locations are being as physically intimidating as possible and insinuating violent reprisal just because women are having the temerity to gather and talk together-inclusively with trans people- about the issues that affect them.

Or perhaps (given the track record of WEC in this specific area) and given that this ‘activism’ brings in threats to various other human rights, maybe this issue should be thoroughly explored by MPs and Peers together in a joint committee on human rights inquiry? www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/joint-select/human-rights-committee/inquiries/