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

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

The Cerne Abbas giant gets used in all sorts of promo stuff. They painted him as Homer to advertise the Simpsons film.
The best one was a picture in the village pub where Durex had a hot air balloon shaped like a condom and landed it on his willy.

He’s free to get to and if you time it right you could get there without anyone really noticing. I think there is a fence around him now, but there wasn’t when I was a kid.

Actually I've changed my mind. I think I will print the ancient man and change the speech bubble to "I am a woman!" As the ancient man has fearsome overtones what with the baton and all.

The Long Man of Wilmington needs a big banner saying "Not a woman"

The long man is not the one with a giant penis! Lovely place to visit but he's a long way from the Cern Abba Giant, who does have a penis.

I'd hate for a bunch of scurrilous GC feminists to go visit Wilmington, only to find out they were 140 miles east of the be-penised giant!

The Cerne Abbas Giant is in Dorset.

I think the Long Man of Wilmington might say 'a man without a penis is still a man.'

The Long man of Wilmington is only a man by assumption.

No actual evidence to say it's not a woman, only assumptions about sex roles.

There's no room for doubt about the sex of the Cerne Abbas Giant though!

I'm sure there's a good meme to be made comparing the two - anyone feeling inspired?!!

No one really knows what the sticks are on the Long Man. (Someone suggested to me they might be the edges of a door to another world, I love that idea! If anyone's interested, here's some local folklore about them being sticks of a "windsmith")

The Cerne Abbas Giant on the other hand is much less ambiguous - that's definitely a bloody great big club and a bloody great big penis!

I identify as a woman. This stick is to ensure compliance.

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What on earth have I started!

It would be pretty easy to paint a speech bubble on a bed sheet. Tent pegs or rocks to hold it down. Quiet tip off to a local news station for photos.

I can't afford to buy anyone a pub but I'd certainly throw some money at, say, Glasgow Rape Crisis or similar, if that's any incentive...

Ahem

Long Man's TV sex change angers pagans

For disclosure, I can't actually afford to buy a pub either 😂

Lying down in white would work, fabulously...

If a stunt happens, every woman lying down should hold an example of abuse from TRAs.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6049855/Moral-mobs-shame-social-media-LIKELY-solicit-sympathy-targeted.html

I identify as a woman. This stick is to ensure compliance

Is it the club from the San Francisco library anti woman exhibition?

I think the Long Man of Wilmington might say 'a man without a penis is still a man

I love this idea If a stunt happens, every woman lying down should hold an example of abuse from TRAs

Some things to consider.

The Cerne Abbas Giant is friggin massive!

Here are a bunch of women doing a publicity stunt for Trinny and Suzannah on the Long Man, from KimCheesePickle's link above. (LM is 72 meters tall - CAG is 55m according to a quick Google).

To get this effect, they needed 100 women.

Also, well worth bearing in mind that these chalk drawings are ancient sites that are vulnerable to damage.

Even when Trinny and Suzannah had permission to do their stunt, and were guided by the archeological society on how to do it, the story run in the media was how the pagans were pissed off by it.

An ITV spokeswoman said the channel had gained full permission for the temporary transformation, and insisted the views of protestors were reflected in the programme

"The utmost care was taken to protect this historical site and representatives from the Archeological Society oversaw the filming. The figure itself was not permanently changed or affected in any way," she said.

Also, when Greenpeace did a stunt involving writing on the sand at the Nazca lines, they were quite rightly condemned.

Not saying these things as I think it shouldn't be done, I think it's a fantastic idea.

Just that it's good to be sensitive to this stuff.

Apparently the simple factual statement, not aimed at anyone specific: "women don't have penises" is "hate speech". These people. They really don't understand what a bubble they are in.

twitter.com/proudTgurl/status/1028256655060938752?s=20

(Can't believe Greenpeace did that, what a stupid idea. They damaged a world heritage site. Not a good look!)

Is the pentagon around the edge of the giant in this picture, the perimeter fence?

What if we got loads of women in white, to stand round the perimeter fence, each holding up a sign as suggested above, and had a web page with the words from each sign listed, so the public could read them, with a link to the GRA consultation.

It'd take a bit of organising, but it'd be a great day way to meet other GC feminist if nothing else!!

And take a picture by drone. Would that be eye-catching enough to catch media interest?

It's topical because of the GRA consultation, and media love an excuse to publish a picture of a massive dick, don't they?!

And every sign could also have on it "women don't have penises"

The signs could be screenshots of TWs saying things like "suck my lady dick".

Hi, I've just joined. I peaked trans recently when Cancer Research did their "people with cervixes" campaign and that was when I finally realised that the trans movement was trying to erase women. I was near-peak before that, but not quite there!

Anyway, I've been leaving a few leaflets in ladies toilets, telling people about the GRA - very small scale, and I don't get out much. I'm posting on my FB page very carefully about GRA which seems to be the best way to spread the word. I do have couple of FB friends have trans children (one is now in their 20's the other 16). I'm very much sticking to no to self ID at the moment...

Any other suggestions of how to spread the word gratefully received. I'm going to buy some stickers and print myself and stick on the inside of toilet doors - cleaners won't see them, but women sat on loos will.....I do love the women don't have penises stickers but for now, while the consultation is open, I want to try and get as many women as possible to fill it in.... Is there any other threads where there are other ideas...

If he can have a moustache then he can do this www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-24772626

Yes the pentagon shape around him is a fence and I believe it is national trust land.

A thought I liked the look of was the idea of making up business cards with eg vistaprint, and putting them inside library books.

Maybe cards with the speech bubble image above...