Wednesday's register

[LangCleg]

Morning all!

LangCleg - all present and correct.

Got a rush job on so may or may not be about depending on how work-dedicated I can force myself to be!

Rowan: one must report. Mumsnet will have staffed and prepared for much more reporting than usual. There will be so many reports from non feminist troublemakers that they won't have time to trawl for material that isnt reported. You snooze you lose! I don't like reporting either. I'm a mother of adult(ish) children and it is ludicrous to me to be 'telling on people'. Ludicrous. However, one must, because dirty tricks.

JuzzaL got the boot for talking back to Kate the mod.
Spont is unable to sign on after not having signed off.

Wtaf?

Luck of the draw with the mods last night.

This is becoming ever more Kafka-esque.

Pratchet
THank you for your thread this morning, I wholeheartedly agree:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3290772-Reality-check?

(extracts)
"It's shit but I think we have to be pragmatic. And disclaimer: the below does not refer to all trans people or all transadvocates.

Imagine how many pairs of TRA eyes are trawling every single post on Mumsnet about trans issues. There are the resources, the legal support and the tech experience there to build a civil case, or find the one post that tips over into breaching IPSO and Ofcom guidelines, that can lead to sanction, compensation or worse for MN....

And who will they complain to? They will be complaining to people who have had 'trans awareness training' and bodies which have extremely active awareness networks, looking for offensive material. Going back years, through the media, including the BBC and ITV at the highest levels, police, monitoring organisations, government, the civil service, about how vulnerable trans people are, about how oppressed trans people are. What are Mumsnet's chances of coming out the other side and being able to allow this conversation to go on?

We all know this, but it's actually real. It's not theoretical.

Don't do the TRAs' job for them. Please don't jump. Please don't throw yourselves in front of the train. This is David and Goliath, we are amateurs all, new to the field, up against an army of well-prepared professionals. But we can do this."

Spontaneous is banned. They didn't send an message till the next day so she spent a great deal of time trying to find out WTF.

She was told: "It seems to us, certainly from your tone, that you're not happy with Mumsnet and never will be - and so, we wish you all the best, but we think it's time to consider that Mumsnet may not be the place for you."
It looks like the claim that they were suspending people was not true.
They have banned three women in one day but Damn2 is still ranting about how everyone who does not submit is transphobic and they want to destroy Mumsnet entirely.
All n the interest of "continuing the conversation" of course.

thebewilderness wow.

Be nice. We have terribly vulnerable transwomen who are threatening to destroy MN unless you comply with their wishes, and as they are so terribly vulnerable, and not all because they are aggressive narcissists, we are going to side with them.
This really isn't the place for women who have a problem with that.