Is this really a feminist board?

[GaspingShark]

I am a crap feminist. I haven't read a single book on the subject. Not De Beauvoir, not Greer, not Butler. The reasons for that are to do with a disability that I'd rather not go into, but I am a woman with a brain, and the Republic of Ireland is having a referendum on repealing the 8th this week. There it is, look, thirty threads down. And this "Feminism and Women's Rights" board's primary concern seems to be "What it will really take the peak trans the world?"

So I'm asking you, because I genuinely, honestly, cross my heart and hope to die, believe you are all better read and/or have more experience and/or more knowledge of being a woman than I do.

Doesn't that bother you? Doesn't it bother you that, four days away from the repeal vote, there's one thread on that in the bottom third of a fifty-thread page, and two or three dozen trans-related threads covering everything from Amnesty International to Jordan Peterson to exactly what Munroe Bergdorf told Venice Allan? Does it give you any pause for thought?

Post about the suffering globally of wine and girls due to restrictions on reproductive healthcare is dismissed as "blah blah"

I think that says it all, really. Fucking hell. Who the fuck thinks it's ok to do that on a feminist board. On a thread around the vote in Ireland.?

Yes max mra these people don't give a toss about women/ girls it's just right there for all to see.

My comment was deleted when I told a certain poster exactly what I thought of them. MN may police my words here but they can't police my thoughts.

Wine = women obvs!

Women moaning about woman stuff, blah blah, why would anyone care about that?

I can't believe my fucking eyes.

These people get their kicks from interacting with women on a women's feminism board. Mad dad will double post if they are ignored first post. IMO they are best ignored. You can see they become stronger MRA with each post.

Nothing surprises me at this point. There'll be a "gosh, why can you all just be nice, we'll be forced to delete the thread if you can't bring yourselves to serve tea and biscuits to the person screaming MRA talking points at you" message by morning.

So if the midnight misogynist says he's trans all of a sudden, his threads will stay up, will they?

Presumably.

These people get their kicks from interacting with women on a women's feminism board. Mad dad will double post if they are ignored first post. IMO they are best ignored. You can see they become stronger MRA with each post.

Agree.

Only 5% of all transgender people in the UK have sought any medical treatment. That includes therapy, not just hormones and surgery.

This. Important to bear in mind.

Thanks Juzza, I did not know it was quite that high.

These people get their kicks from interacting with women on a women's feminism board.

They really do. It's yet another form of validation.

Lot of men get a kick out of hanging around in women's online spaces. It's only if they say they're trans that the women aren't allowed to tell them to get lost.

Of course, there are male posters - men and transwomen - who are perfectly welcome and accepted on MN boards, some even on FWR. It's nothing to do with whether they have dicks or not, it's whether they are dicks.

Funny that, isn't it?

The useful thing about people being dicks is that there are so many more women reading these threads now.

Women are learning about DARVO, gaslighting, and projection at a rate of knots just silently watching dicks be dicks.

There's a grim irony watching people fondly imagine they are promoting their cause, instead of what they are really doing, which is exposing it.

Every day's a school day here on "As The TRA Turns".

It's a rather sad irony that those who are early in their transition (and therefore least likely to "pass") are also the ones who are most easily hurt by misgendering.

It takes years of practice to become expert at suspending your disbelief for extended periods of time.

I found it a threatening remark, tbh.
Of course it was a threat. That poster views threatening women as a joke. So if you feel threatened instead of amused by being threatened you are clearly the problem cuz you can't take a joke.

See how that works?

Or was it planned as a propaganda stunt:

Yes it was. The transgender advocates organized the harassment of the women in advance.
1st they convinced the venue to cancel so the women had to make a new plan.
2nd they went to Speakers Corner to harass the women. That is when the assault occurred.
3rd they followed the women to the venue and stood outside chanting "burn it down" until the neighbors were terrorized and called the police.
4th they stood outside the venue taking pictures of the women who attended for later identification and abuse.

Mad, STOP private messaging me. Anything you need to say can be said on here.

Best to report the harassment to MN.

I think there's a way to block people from DMing you?

Yes - go to My Mumsnet, Inbox, settings