Comic Relief - Women Wednesdays. Really?

[NibblyPig]

Another day, another outrage. Comic Relief's Women's Wednesdays launches with a bit about, umm, Lili Elba. Because there obviously aren't any women they could honour

twitter.com/comicrelief/status/1062768558587998209?s=19

Judging by what is on their website the thinking behind their focus on "gender justice" was meant to be women and girls --- all the background info is on women and girls and there are two goals 1)We want all women and girls, both collectively and individually, to have equal power and agency in decision making at all levels and 2) We want the elimination of violence and discrimination based on gender and sexuality www.comicrelief.com/what-we-do/fighting-for-gender-justice

But judging by their social media its all about the trans (Laverne Cox, the quest for a trans flag emoji, LGBTQI education in schools, "Is Emile Ratelband ruining the #LGBTIQ cause to self-identify for everyone else?" ...) and now "women wednesdays" featuring a bloke

Charitably maybe this is just be an an overenthusiastic woke young comms person, or are they really actually diverting money away from violence against women to the transgender rights cause?

I'm surprised by the general tone and content of their other Tweets tbh. Not what I would have expected at all. Very woke 🙄

A big backlash on Twitter. Hopefully they'll pay attention.

holy mother of god! where did they get the womb from? shudders.

Bill Griffin @crowdwish is brand manager, marketing etc. Hope he's watching. He could read this when he's finished with twitter, if it ever stops.

www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/why-are-men-more-stingy-than-women-when-it-comes-to-charity/

Think about your donors, Bill

Candid - that 'overenthusiastic woke comms person' is reminding me right now of a 5 year old having a tantrum:-

twitter.com/comicrelief/status/1062651372829638657

Emile Ratelband wants to legally change his age from 69 to 49... Because it will bring him 'more matches on Tinder'. Are people like this ruining the #LGBTIQ cause to self-identify for everyone else? #GenderJustice

"It's not faaaaiiir, you're ruining the game for everyone else. We aaall wanted to be self-identify and get the prizes. You're just mucking about"

Comic Relief - WTF?

That Twitter thread....!!

Once again, I bravely decided to steel myself and read the tweets that had been hidden because of potential bad language

@Jardines Eyes
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53m53 minutes ago
Replying to @comicrelief
Women are oppressed all over the world because of their sex not gender! Are you totally ignorant?

Thanks nibbly

(have a child, so much wtf)

Emile Ratelbrand looks younger in real life than that cartoon, the ageist gits!

I was looking at their funding page.
Individuals can apply for up to £300k of funding. Checks and balances apply.
Let's form a company before someone else does.

Are people like this ruining the #LGBTIQ cause to self-identify for everyone else? #GenderJustice

Yes, there is sensible CR, wanting to deal with educating girls and stopping them being married off at 8 after being genitally mutilated.

Then there is the dick running CRs Twitter feed who is having a sulk because the canny Dutchman is ruining the Gender Party.

The twitter comments are dragging them. That’s a good sign. Although I bet the super woke teens running the account are resisting all temptation to apply terf blocker to it

It's one person gone bananas I reckon.

I think they'll do an Ocado.

Those pictures of Lili Elba... interesting to see that the bashful simpering girly pose was as beloved of transwomen then as it is now.

Because that's how we women pose for all our pictures, obviously. A little eyelash batting, a simper and a knock-kneed stance. Tee-hee-hee! Being a girl is such fun!

/eyeroll/

WTAF with the trans age tweet, I work in fundraising for charities and this seems really incongruous. I wonder whether they'll delete it.

Maybe the joke is that this is actually the launch of Wanker Wednesdays, and to prove it they hired one to run their Twitter account.

Wanker wednesdays
Nailed it kittens
Haha

A big backlash on Twitter. Hopefully they'll pay attention.

So many times an organisation will pull a stunt like this and receive hundreds of responses when usually they are luck to get a couple.

Instead of listening to women they just ingonre us and carry on. Think Leeds council, the police and cancer charities.

There are two erroneous apostrophes: it should be whose, and the one at the end of Wednesday. They can’t even insult women with proper grammar and punctuation.

Disgusting.

Feel free to make liberal use: [email protected].

As and when they come back with a response to me, I will consoder taking it to forms.charitycommission.gov.uk/raising-concerns/

Hang on I misunderstood, I assumed 'Women Wednesdays' (with apostrophe in the right place) was a regular thing they were already doing. They chose a man for the first one?

Reading their other tweets, it's obvious they have a woke intern or someone on their social media this week.

I'm a little sick of "woke" interns. #Understatement.

The replies are bringing me joy though.

My question from earlier in the thread was, to what extent can we tell whether or not any given company or organization actually is supportive of this stuff given the demographics of who's most likely to be running their social media accounts? And from there, would it be worth trying to connect with the people on the more businessy side of the business (likely to represent a very different demographic)?

I agree kitten's. I'm sure Kenny Henry would not be thrilled if Bame celebration were represented by Rachel dolezal. And J K rowling is an honorary trustee. Is this a blue hair who got the keys to the biscuit tin and has engaged in a kamikaze stunt, thinking themselves terrifically noble? I bet.