Billboard with dictionary definition 'woman: adult human female' removed after pressure from TRAs.

[R0wantrees]

Is the OED now hate speech?

Interesting to note some of the sources of the complaints: twitter.com/Direct_PS/status/1044263398333132800

Donated

@BoreOfWhabylon @howlsmovingcastle84 I'd definitely throw a few quid in too...

A poster is guilty of thought-crime, whatever next? The billboard owners themselves said the content seemed fine (as you say it is in all the dictionaries). They have just judged the thought they've perceived behind it! It won't be long before adverts for sanitary towels, tampons and thrush cream are banned for transphobic intent.

Donated.

It won't be long before adverts for sanitary towels, tampons and thrush cream are banned for transphobic intent. Fixed that for you.

Donated. This is such obvious breach of contract, for no reason at all. When the billboard first went up I thought "They'll mob the company and have it taken down" then thought "No...they'd never be that foolish, to let the general public see how deranged they are." But they are. How could anyone spend so many years studying medicine, then throw it all away because they get a bee in their bonnet that aligns with their hatred of women? How can that person ever be allowed near women patients, when the hatred is so visible and the thinking so obviously cockeyed?

This is frightening. We are forcibly being made to deny the dictionary, scientific definitions, and the common understanding of the meaning of words. This is a totalitarian cult forcing its views on everyone else and dictating what is and what is not blasphemous.

Also I’ve been looking for media coverage of this, not found anything yet. blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/09/labours-refusal-to-accept-the-definition-of-a-woman/ I hope the Spectator will do a follow up about this shocking censorship.

Excellent tweet here -

twitter.com/c_kennaugh/status/1044372898604109824?s=21

I'm not very familiar with twitter, and have gone to both the company twitter account and the CEOs account, but can see nothing about the billboard. God this paragraph thing is so annoying. Gone down the rabbit hole on twitter of reading responses to the billboard company's announcement, and came to an explanation of why the billboard is transphobic - someone claiming that Posie Parker has called for the sterilisation of all trans men!!! There's no depths they're not prepared to swim down to 🤣

Interesting that it's acceptable to project REPEAT AFTER ME TRANSWOMEN ARE WOMEN onto the HoP, but dictionary definition of the word 'woman' is hate speech.

We’re living in the Handmaid’s Tale. Un-fucking-believable.

Send it to The Sun. They are having a field day with all this. But they don't read it in Liverpool though do they?

I'll be donating and so will DH. This is utterly ridiculous.

If anyone works for the OED, look out for attempts to change the definition.

He is a more malignant lilymadagain

Is he a real person though? I assume most people that odd are like Keith Lemon or Dennis Pennis.

Donated. Will happily donate again to a specific legal fund.

Standing For Women have merchandise! I’m a sucker for a seditious tote bag

I wonder if anyone got photos of it being taken down?

Standing For Women have merchandise! I’m a sucker for a seditious tote bag 

I've bought the t-shirt 😁

Seen a few badges on Amazon. I might have to unleash my inner 80s student chic . This may scare and confuse today's students though. 'Xi's wearing mens DMs! That's a man's overcoat! Xi's head is mostly shaved! Xi's wearing makeup! Xi's wearing a ballgown!!!' Yes that was me in the 80s. And I never got all upsetsy when old ladies called me 'son'.

I too was that 80s student, fekko. If only I’d know then that I was actually Stonewall trans ... 🙄

Transvestites were usually the catty trouble-makers in clubs. Transsexuals generally just got on with it.

Indeed. Those heady days of not being offended by the very existence of women.