It's worth watching the stream from last night's Manchester meeting - several of the speakers went into the humour aspect, including Posie. Remember the Atwood saying that men's greatest fear is women laughing at them, and put it in that context. And remember that what is happening IS absurd and should never have got to the point where polite fictions become untouchable sacred cows.
I do feel like the atmosphere has changed in the last week. We've all stopped pussyfooting around men's feels, even on Twitter where their power seems strongest. We know we aren't lone voices in the wilderness any more. We can say outright "this proposed thing is bad law and we don't want it, and well have our spaces back too, ta". Posie is great for straight talking and that's been very powerful this week, but it's worth acknowledging that Dr Nic and Agnes set this up on TV and radio the week before with the stats-based safeguarding approach. And before that we've had journos coming out of the closet, and Dr Stock breaking ranks, ManFriday, and Glinner banging away, Johnny Best bringing the gay man's perspective, the few GC trans people who put their side, and all of the dozens of women who were brave enough to speak out before that for years...we need ALL of it, all of us working together in our own ways. We're a symphony, a choral event. Posie may be the lead mezzo-soprano right now, but one singer doesn't make a concert and it's not fair to ask her to carry it alone and be perfect. Pretty sure she'd be the first to acknowledge that, too. There will be other voices (and people like me, who scurry around in the background, photocopying the score and making the tea).
And I tell you what, some of those voices had better be politicians. 