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Jess Bradley - a government advisor on women's rights suspended by NUS over indecent blog. Part iii

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MipMipMip · 03/08/2018 13:54

There doesnt seem to be another part 3 coming up si here goes.

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OlennasWimple · 04/08/2018 19:40

heresy - Ada Cable features repeatedly on this GenderTrender blog about the Hyde Park Corner assault.

AC advocates treatment with home made oestrogen derived from the urine from pregnant women Hmm

AC also tweeted ""It's ok to kill those who are trying to kill you" is kinda commonly accepted"

AC is at Goldsmiths, where our favourite women's officer is shortly to be starting a politics course

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 04/08/2018 19:45

Ada Cable is genuinely quite a scary individual imo.

I'm finding it fascinating what a small world it seems to be, with a small group of people with their fingers in multiple pies.

heresyandwitchcraft · 04/08/2018 19:45

Here is JB recommending AC's tweets about the Hyde Park court case:

twitter.com/JBPersonalBrand/status/984828889200582667

Screenshot of the first statement, and then how AC finishes the thread, which is like this:

Resisting terfs at every stage and in every space is essential. Mostly that's not about confronting them, but about challenging their racist, carceral and queerphobic ideology, and building better without them. But when we have to confront them, we can show no mercy.

Jess Bradley - a government advisor on women's rights suspended by NUS over indecent blog. Part iii
Jess Bradley - a government advisor on women's rights suspended by NUS over indecent blog. Part iii
Mamaryllis · 04/08/2018 19:45

I don’t know if I missed it somewhere in the second thread - is Greta the ‘wife’ referred to? Was the relationship established? ‘Wife’ as in an informal shack-up rather than legal term, I assume?

Mamaryllis · 04/08/2018 19:47
ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 04/08/2018 19:47

I suppose when you have Carter Ruck biting at your heels the likelihood will be to step back.

But if a helpful internet forum can join all the sits with verifiable information from public sources....

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 04/08/2018 19:47

Join all the sits?! WTF. Join all the dots.

Ereshkigal · 04/08/2018 19:50

Apparently Ada got kicked out of Goldsmiths due to unspecified "harassment by transphobes"

And now comes the part where, were this normal academia, I'd turn to my institution and ask them for some travel funding. But, I can't, because I'm currently homeless, was harassed out of academia by transphobes, and so I don't have a current institution.

uk.gofundme.com/be-the-university

HawkeyeInConfusion · 04/08/2018 19:52

I've had a theory for a while that it's the porn industry providing the funding behind the activists. And that demonising feminists is actually an aim rather than a byproduct as powerful feminists are the biggest threat to the porn industry.

placemats · 04/08/2018 19:54

The dots might well be cast in iron but it will need a lot of backing for the release of one story - granted the story is big.

Jane Fae is a well known apologist for porn.

placemats · 04/08/2018 19:55

No need for the foil hat Hawkeye It's a well known fact.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 04/08/2018 19:56

This has all been very suspiciously quiet and there had not been a peep out of any of the usual journos. I'm hoping they are working on something big, of which Bradley is just a small part.

placemats · 04/08/2018 19:57

I'm going to put this link here as well. It's an article about denialism. Why people reject the truth.

www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truth

TimeLady · 04/08/2018 19:57

Ada Cable's blog

performativenuance.com/

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 04/08/2018 20:00

puts on tin foil hat

That does sound a bit tin-foil-hattery but:

The UK porn industry is estimated to be now worth about £1 billion, compared to £20 billion worldwide

And

The UK has a markedly different tradition of pornography regulation from that found in most other Western countries, which legalised hardcore pornography during the 1960s and 1970s. By contrast the UK was almost the only liberal democracy not to do so. Britain's obscenity laws, such as the Obscene Publications Act 1959, are strict by European standards[1]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_United_Kingdom

There is a lot of money involved, I had no idea how much until I googled. What's the (verifiable) link between porn and TRAs though

birdbandit · 04/08/2018 20:01

Not sure if this has been covered, it's definitely worth highlighting.

Our favourite misogynist Dr Christian sharing an article by the group Jess Bradley founded, about how it's wrong to be anti sharing toilets:

Jess Bradley - a government advisor on women's rights suspended by NUS over indecent blog. Part iii
Jess Bradley - a government advisor on women's rights suspended by NUS over indecent blog. Part iii
Ereshkigal · 04/08/2018 20:04

Cloudy with a chance of broken trans womenn^

Here’s a metaphor: Abuse debates are, down to a tee, about warring angels in heaven.

This one is interesting.

From Ada's blog. I wonder what Ada is referring to?

Weapons are being forged, of receipts and testimony, designed to take the most pure holy beings and return them to earth, to live out the rest of their days in the dirt. Battle plans are being drawn up, in secret, and it’s debated whether it’s safer to make the first move, to accuse, or whether this will become it’s own weakness.

The point is not which side will win- maybe one side has a legitimate grievance, maybe both do, maybe neither. It’s largely irrelevant to the war, and has little to no bearing on who will stand victorious. What matters is who can mass the greater army, fashion the same materials, chat logs and rumors, into greater weapons. What matters is who will fall, because in falling they allow the victor to rise.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 04/08/2018 20:05

Interesting: www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/12/transgender-porn-is-super-popular-in-russia-and-with-over-65s/

However, despite the discrimination against the community the “transgender” porn category has continued to grow in popularity around the world, with searches for the porn category increasing by 36 percent.

And totally unrelated but WTF Weirdly enough, among 18 – 24-year-olds the newest and one of the top rated searches was for fidget spinner porn I am not going to Google but am Shock Confused Hmm

Ereshkigal · 04/08/2018 20:06

Ignore the link, it doesn't seem to work. Go to the blog link Timelady posted and scroll down to March.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 04/08/2018 20:07

I wonder what Ada is referring to?

Reminds me a bit of the whistleblower on Twitter. To me it sounds like TRA infighting than a war against feminists.

Ereshkigal · 04/08/2018 20:09

Agree they're definitely talking about inter TRA fighting.

heresyandwitchcraft · 04/08/2018 20:10

Pure speculation again, but I do also wonder what role the internal politics of the NUS plays in all of this and whether this will affect how they will be handling the investigation of Jess Bradley.

Shakira Martin, when she was being accused of bullying, flatly denied the allegations - which seemed to be coming from a couple of persons. She is apparently known for being more of a centrist than a leftist - which allegedly has put her in conflict with other NUS officers.

"Unfortunately within the movement and the walls of NUS the values we hold so dear and even cover our walls with are not upheld.”

“I have a duty and a responsibility to the membership to create a vision and shape a political environment that is free of petty tit for tat or personal attacks for political gain."

www.varsity.co.uk/news/14605

R0wantrees · 04/08/2018 20:10

Our favourite misogynist Dr Christian sharing an article by the group Jess Bradley founded, about how it's wrong to be anti sharing toilets:

co-founded with Tara Hewitt who is also co-author of the blog above!

Ereshkigal · 04/08/2018 20:11

Ada wouldn't say feminists "maybe have a legitimate grievance" like Ada does here.

birdbandit · 04/08/2018 20:20

Is Ada referring to the Somme, or a major humanitarian crisis/war? Or is she talking about a row in student politics. It is VERY dramatic prose.