Morning.
Reading the BFI petition comments, www.ipetitions.com/petition/open-letter-to-the-bfi I am confused once again about the TRA pressure that is being forced on Mumsnet. Of all places. It’s not justifiably because MNers are so offensive, it has to be only because we are females gathering and talking. Our very being and doing is taken as a threat. It’s madness.
The discussion on here is generally very thoughtful and nuanced. We are not trying to offend anyone (though the goalposts for giving offence are being changed all the time!), we just are trying to debate, air our concerns, share information. Just trying to listen to each other and to be heard, amongst other women who get it. We have all posted in support the concerns and well-being of women, children, LGB people and transexuals and anyone else who doesn't gender conform but who also doesn’t believe in the literal sex changing fantasy.
We are often people who are silenced in our everyday lives so we really need this anonymous space.
Yet out there in the real world... ‘members of the reality based community’, (a brilliant coining by a FWR poster, sorry I have lost the thread it was on but I love your phrase!)
... people are telling it like they see it FAR more freely and angrily than we do on here.
Here, we do not take this forum for granted and we value it highly. we know we are being watched by TRAs desperately trying to gather evidence of transphobia so they can shut us down from speaking.
It’s so obvious that outside of MN, the reality-based majority know what they are seeing, the TRAs’ crass appropriation of victimhood, their authoritarian misogyny, their policing of nonbelievers’ language and their implicit and explicit threats of violence for all heretics. MN is being targeted and encroached on because the TRA cult both hates women and thinks women are soft targets.
It’s horrible to see such woman-hatred in action. You can’t unsee it. But as much as I think we are all in for a very rough ride over the next few years, I also think that the reality based community is not as stupid and biddable as TRAs think we are, (or they think women in general are). Truth will out. I feel as PP have said in the long run this particular flavour of misogyny will have to run out of steam, because it’s just hateful bollocks based on gaslighting.