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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Debbie Hayton in the Times

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Igneococcus · 13/09/2018 06:22

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/women-are-right-to-have-concerns-over-trans-reforms-5kj5k28sd?shareToken=aa090ad90f6f886db629247a0d6ca19b

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Cascade220 · 17/09/2018 21:04

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BeyondAnOmnishambles · 17/09/2018 21:05

Not the slightest hint of irony in asking for evidence while throwing around the claim that posie is a racist lesbophobe, eh...?

lisamuggeridge · 17/09/2018 21:06

Yes @carrotyd it was done openly. So the question is why you do not recognise it not whether I have evidence. It was done so people would notice, it was done openly. and the consequences played out openly so the question you wish to ask is not the one you asked. Now as there is no chance of it becoming acceptable to do that, as it was done openly and a boundary has been set, I see no sense in me spending my time fending off(and so far we hvae had) gaslighting, outright calling me a liar, and deliberately obscuring what happened. Thats shame. It is appropriate. Noone has been anything but supportive of WPUK, noone has suggested that its overridden anything that WPUK has done which has been great, but if you are suggesting that we ignore it, no. We have children and this way of doing politics has excluded women from their own political machinery long enogh. I dont want to clog up this thread with the people who are going to keep cropping up trying to get me to pretend what happened openly did not. The issue here is reluctance to take responsibility for the hopefully unintended consequence and reluctance to accept that women have the right to say it is unacceptable to attempt to coerce and discipline and prevent women speaking with the threat of activists we are fighting. I would suggest working on that but it doesnt matter how many pop up to try and derail that, gaslight, say the problem ism e, that this is defamation. It was done openly. Shame is appropriate at what was done but it is not my responsobility to deal with that. Now I have not used this thread to openly discuss the other examples of exactly the same thing from exactly the same women for exactly the same reason but I have no fear of doing so. I dont think its helpful, and I dont think its necessary but I have no qualms about dealing with abusive behaviour and if you cannot tell the difference between actions which put children at risk and those which do not I suggest you rectify that cos we all have kids and unlike the women at the centre of this we do not hae the cushion of other peoples trade unions, a political party, and powerful friends and to use violence and the threat of violence to silence women from the action they have to take because they dont have that is not ok. Its not going to become ok if you gaslight, sealion and pretend noone needs to take responsibility/ It will just undermine WPUk, which considering the immense effort of SO MANY women to do something so great, is a betrayal of those women that wont be undone by trying to get me to doubt what we all saw to manage shame that is appropriate.

WhereDoWeBeginToCovetClarice · 17/09/2018 21:10

"if TRAs call her out on that"

Okay carrot you just outed yourself there - as a pomo, wokey cokey twat.

How's it going?

lisamuggeridge · 17/09/2018 21:14

I will be clear. The women at the heart of WPUK, not all, just a few have actively sought so far to do the following:
To prevent discussion of political consensus on welfare reform and local authority reform that killed 100000 at least because of their existing political affiliations. Political affiliations that currently present a direct risk of fascism, anti-semitism and have relied on overt abuse of women.
To directly put Posie Parker and her children at risk of violent activists, to show power and to claim leadership and to send a message. We have undone this and will catch every woman abused in this way. EVERY last one.
Defamed other women and groups EXTENSIVELY at a cost of those women finding it difficult to get people to speak, and at a cost of actual harm in their lives.
THis is hard left politics. This is clearly identifiable. Noone is looking to audition to the hard left after the way they have behaved and if you want to play purity politics we can play it but there will be NO repeat of putting children at risk of violent activists to assert authoriuty and send a message and it will not be tolerated. Hard left have our trade unions, have our political party and they can keep their anti-semitic, misogynist, dangerous hands off the women standing together in this movement. I dont care about difference, 7 billion people on this planet and I am wrong most of the time, difference is good.

There will be NO woman thrown under a bus, no woman having her kids put at risk, because elite women believed solidarity was a whip to use to create hierarchies. It is not.

lisamuggeridge · 17/09/2018 21:16

And to clarify I dont mean the whole of WPUK and I am INCREDIBLY grateful for what WPUK have done, which was and is and continues to be exceptional., If anything I do not wish WPUK to be undermined by the behaviour of a core few women used to operating in a world where this behaviour is normal. IT is not. And I do not believe for a second that 99% of the women in WPUK would even remotely do this, cos they wouldnt, they are awesome. There are MANY groups who have done MANY amazing things, it is our difference which is our strength but this is not to happen. And it will be called what it is.

CarrotyO · 17/09/2018 21:17

To prevent discussion of political consensus on welfare reform and local authority reform

Where Lisa? Where? How?

Cascade220 · 17/09/2018 21:18

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CarrotyO · 17/09/2018 21:21

Okay carrot you just outed yourself there - as a pomo, wokey cokey twat.

If TRA's accuse Posie of racism, that is due to her racist tweets, not due to a WPUK statement.

Do you actually hear yourselves?

The amount of women who genuinely think that wpuk issued that statement *to be mean", rather than because they have the interests of Muslim women at heart is shocking!

Doyenne · 17/09/2018 21:23

Carrot & Lisa you have completely derailed this thread in an arguement that would have been better taken off line

lisamuggeridge · 17/09/2018 21:23

Carroty, that would the linguistics of framing things as Tory led austerity, Tory this, tory that, in anticipation of Labour conference when there has been unbroken consensus on these things for thirty years rooted firmly in the economics. Would you like me to give you a reading list so you can clarify what is clearly obvious? Do you find this effective because you are behaving in a disturbingly manipulative way. You should know that doesnt work on me. Never did. If you truly have difficulty in knowing the difference between appropriate behaviour and not, putting women and kids at risk so you can feel virtuous is up there with the worst.

lisamuggeridge · 17/09/2018 21:24

Doyenne. I have responded directly to posts addressed to me. No I didnt. However I did get a barrage because I dared to say something and I didnt budge. But i did respond.

CarrotyO · 17/09/2018 21:26

Ok so this is exactly what I said earlier. You disagree with left women's strategy on ending austerity. You disagree that Corbyn and the left will end austerity. That's fine. Women on the left however, obviously DO think it's a worthwhile strategy. To assume they consciously support austerity because they have a different strategy to you doesn't make any sense at all. Please can you think about what you are actually saying.

SophoclesTheFox · 17/09/2018 21:28

I’m afraid I agree with Doyenne. This isn’t a dispute that most of us have been involved in- and honestly, I don’t want to be. I don’t know which “side” I can align with here, if any. Any chance you could take it to a specific thread to discuss austerity and the impact on women and how leftis politics have enabled that? (i am not the thread police, of course)

AngryAttackKittens · 17/09/2018 21:29

A new thread would be a good idea, since none of us want this thread to be deleted given how useful it's been for many reading.

Cascade220 · 17/09/2018 21:30

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deepwatersolo · 17/09/2018 21:31

if TRAs call her out on that

Because, obviously, if islamophobic or lesbophobic comments should occur, it is the natural thing for some white guys in dresses to call the commenter out. Violently. Did I miss something and those men in dresses have become the SA (aka Sturmbteilung aka Brownshirts) of the Muslim Community? Or of Lesbians? Or of the Left?

CarrotyO · 17/09/2018 21:32

deepwatersolo

I'm not condoning that. I am saying that the reason it happens is due to her tweets etc, not due to 1 statement put out months ago. TRAs were attacking her before that statement was issued

WhereDoWeBeginToCovetClarice · 17/09/2018 21:36

I don't get why feminists need to tiptoe around the sexism and misogyny of patriarchal religions in case the women who follow these religions (perhaps even trying to rebrand the inherent misogyny and sexism as an empowering choice or somehow pro-women) feel offended.

And the turn of phrase that truly irritates the arse off me is 'call out'.

'Call out' culture is what has been the deceptive ladder by which white males have been able to position themselves as the most oppressed group, and therefore entitled to abuse and even assault women.

Call out culture can fuck right off. It is misogyny and antifeminism in motion.

The time now is for robust exchanges of opinion, not 'calling out' ie - silencing, demonising and shunning women for having opinions.

AngryAttackKittens · 17/09/2018 21:38

Yeah, "call out culture" is obnoxious, and I'm not for a moment saying that I don't have Lisa's back here. I just don't want this thread to go poof because a mod decided it had become a bunfight.

CarrotyO · 17/09/2018 21:41

WhereDoWeBeginToCovetClarice

Yes I saw already that someone was upset by the phrase "call out" so I re-phrased it as follows:

"If TRA's accuse Posie of racism, that is due to her racist tweets, not due to a WPUK statement."

Once again, this is a difference of opinion. Women who don't acknowledge islamophobia and racism against Muslim women don't see the issue with Posie's tweets. However, WPUK obviously DID. And to ignore their stated reasons for disinviting PP and to decide that there were other ulterior motives is bizarre. Even if you personally don't think Posie's tweets were racist, WPUK obviously DID and acted accordingly.

WhereDoWeBeginToCovetClarice · 17/09/2018 21:41

Also, can 'can you guys get a room' as it were.

I agree that this thread is not the place for this convo.

deepwatersolo · 17/09/2018 21:43

CarrotyO
I am saying that the reason it happens is due to her tweets etc, not due to 1 statement put out months ago.

No, the reason it happens is because TRAs have been given license to use violence against women with 'unacceptable' opinions which make them 'literally Hitler'.

CarrotyO · 17/09/2018 21:46

Oh wow so WPUK issue licenses and TRAs hang off their every word waiting to see who they are allowed to attack, I see.

JackyHolyoake · 17/09/2018 21:47

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