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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Anti-trans vandals are plastering vile ‘women don’t have penises’ stickers around London

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drradfem · 09/08/2018 20:12

www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/08/09/anti-trans-women-penises-stickers-london-stonewall/

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AnchorMum · 10/08/2018 20:12

I've printed out the stickers - keeping to the incisive 'women don't have penises.'

Hubby will cut them to size Wink

We're both going to sticker and will try to place them at adult height.

CholloDeNombre · 10/08/2018 20:20

Yes, as far as I'm concerned children should be taught the truth, and not the propagandist fantasy that's peddled by the likes of Mermaids and Stonewall.

Iamoutragedetc · 10/08/2018 20:22

it just makes the women look bitter and a bit sad

The bitter sad ones are the bepenised ones who long to be what they can never be which is what we are. No law, no operation, no campaign will make them what we are. And that's why they hate us.

PencilsInSpace · 10/08/2018 20:22

It's a cartoon of a willy. Children will have seen them before.

How many women have just spent their Friday drawing willies? Grin

IAmInsignificunt · 10/08/2018 20:24

I don’t think there is anything about the image that can be misconstrued as offensive to children.

thebewilderness · 10/08/2018 20:31

May I just say that after 72 years of witnessing the systemic abuse of women and girls in every culture on the planet I feel very strongly that I am entitled to be not only sad but also bitter?

CesiraAndEnrico · 10/08/2018 20:32

This is a rough first go of a willy aimed at reduction of maternal stress and hassle.

I looked at an image they use sex ed in early primary in schools as a guide.

Any good before I go work it up into something better ? The balls are a little wonky and I feel it needs eyebrows.

Anti-trans vandals are plastering vile ‘women don’t have penises’ stickers around London
SwearyG · 10/08/2018 20:34

Uh-oh we’re all being reported for flyposting. Better lawyer up!

JillyArmeeen · 10/08/2018 20:35

I need some stickers.
I have sharpies.
Bit low on funds at the minute, might have to draw them myself.

TheMostBeautifulDogInTheWorld · 10/08/2018 20:36

Yes I can't see that any child would ask more "difficult" questions about the stickers than they would (say) about a tampon dispenser, or a lot of newspaper headlines. A parent might find it was a conversation they didn't want to have right there and then, but there's nothing offensive about them.

Can I reitierate the plea that people don't vary the message by mentioning "trans" at all? I feel diffident asking as I'm relatively new here but it seems to me that the "originators" of this have gone out of their way not to; and I sort of think that's important, because it means that when Penis News get all arsey, they simply look mad (to most people) because who mentioned trans anyway? Think of it like this: the stickers didn't say "A lot of TWs have penises". BUT PENIS NEWS DID SAY THAT, indirectly. I think that's sort of important.

I'm not saying no one should vary anything at all (am rather taken with the No Such Thing As A Woman's Willy direction, in a school playground sort of way!). Just that, it seems to me that the sort of hard hitting "branding" of the original stickers should be respected in this one respect.

TheMostBeautifulDogInTheWorld · 10/08/2018 20:38

Sorry, if I can just waffle just a tiny bit more: of course we want to have converations with loads of people about the stickers and how it relates to transactivism etc; I just think, not actually mention ON the stickers.

Bowlofbabelfish · 10/08/2018 20:41

we’re all being reported for flyposting. Better lawyer up!

I’m sure M15 will be delighted to take this on. Or maybe not. Grin

Maybe we should have one of those holdable signs that they employ people to stand on street corners with to circumvent this - (why are they always ‘golf sale —>’ by the way? Is this some secret code for something?)

Or those end of the world is nigh billboards? A cheery willy (without eyebrows for me thanks...) is surely better than apocalyptic proclamations?

thenightsky · 10/08/2018 20:47

If anyone has managed to produce these, please PM me. I'm a ready market Grin

IAmInsignificunt · 10/08/2018 20:52

Uh-oh we’re all being reported for flyposting. Better lawyer up!

I’m tempted to paint it on the side of my house.

CesiraAndEnrico · 10/08/2018 20:54

Better lawyer up!

Fly tipping ?

I've been libelled !
I ALWAYS take my rubbish to the tip.

Grin

I'll just sit back and wait until they notice the fatal flaw in their cunning plan to extradite me.

Bowlofbabelfish · 10/08/2018 20:55

We actually do have some pavement chalks... I’m sure one couldn’t get into any kind of bother with a cheerful willy on ones own driveway? Ours angles down and make an excellent canvas... Grin

TimeLady · 10/08/2018 20:55

Fly-posting is displaying adverts and other promotional materials without permission, on buildings, posts, poles, litter bins and elsewhere in public.

The stickers aren't promotional material. They're stating a biological fact.

thebewilderness · 10/08/2018 20:58

I’m tempted to paint it on the side of my house.

You are the adorable one!

littlbrowndog · 10/08/2018 21:04

Waves at girl from mars 😎😎👟

Women don’t have penises

ChattyLion · 10/08/2018 21:12

I’m tempted to paint it on the side of my house. Grin
Love it

CholloDeNombre · 10/08/2018 21:13

That twitter thread is adorable. Likes and shares not even in the double digits, and there's already talk of starting a campaign against mumsnet advertisers. Bless.

stillathing · 10/08/2018 21:14

Fly posting = bad
Adverts, that I don't ask to see but are inescapably everywhere in my city and routinely objectify women (teenagers usually) and encourage people to buy things they don't need and cannot afford = good I presume?

ChattyLion · 10/08/2018 21:20

The balls are a little wonky and I feel it needs eyebrows

Grin Grin Grin This thread is cheering me right up.

CesiraAndEnrico · 10/08/2018 21:35

without eyebrows for me thanks

womensvoicesmatter · 10/08/2018 21:54

Does anyone know a printer who'll print them?

If so, please could you PM me the details (PM, given the TRAs are lurking.)

(I know we can do DIY but I'm short of time!)

I asked one commercial printer today if they'd do it, and they said no. (They were nice about it, but said big pink penises are against their T&Cs!) I can call around but does anyone know one already?

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