Vice: how an online forum for moms became a toxic hotbed of transphobia

[NotTerfNorCis]

broadly.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/a3mn9k/mumsnet-uk-mom-forum-terf-transphobia-feminism

Thought people might be interested in this article. One thing that strikes me is the 'reducing women to their biology' argument. Don't transwomen 'know' they're not male because their body feels wrong? Then it is about biology isn't it? Otherwise why do they think they're female?

Satirical parodies of songs 'not in the spirit'?
I've been on MN for well over a decade and IMO they're exactly in the spirit of MumsNet.

Maybe we should be more traditional and stick to limericks and haiku?

There once was a young girl named Lily,
Whose politics, inexplicably, weren’t deemed silly.
Cheered on by lib feminists,
Posed head atop her angled wrists,
We all know she’ll keep hold of her
Successful and lucrative modelling career.

EXACTLY, Errol. Mumsnet's always been the home of parody & satire. Great hipsterfun!

I am the very model of a busy Mumsnet monitor
Whenever I see terfiness I always jump right on it-er
I think it's quite outrageous how these women are behaving
When they should be talking nappies & the best ways of leg-shaving.

With a taste for limericks
I’m on the slide
I’m toxic, I’m slipping under
With a taste of a poison parody
I’m addicted to satire
Don’t you know that I’m toxic

There's always a flurry of enraged reporting on Sunday. Seems like a sad thing to do with your weekend to me, but hey ho.

Bad biology
Says women all have vulvas
Nature is a TERF

MNHQ said: please do keep TGs in mind

I thought we weren't meant to call people that?

Some people say feminist Mumsnetters
Should be restrained in gulags and fetters
For daring to opine
On affairs of our time
And failing to heed self-declared betters.

MNHQ said: please do keep TGs in mind

I thought we weren't meant to call people that?

So did I. Maybe it should be please do keep [redacted] in mind?

Arran

In-depth article
Of woman means nothing by
Witless handmaiden

Feeling a little upset by the literal violence of having to keep TGs in mind when I don’t know what they are.
Also, to the complaint of pp about what things people are writing. What are you upset about? The baking recipes? The poetry/ songs? In this new day and age of having thoughts controlled by others, I’d like to know what I should and shouldn’t be posting.
I have loads of really dark shit going on in my life, but funnily enough I really don’t want to go on about it here.

Mumsnetters have been writing satirical haikus since 2004. I looked.

Squall

TGs = trgers

Doesn't it mean Talk Guidelines?

Words that hurt are but
petals on the mind
As #LiteralViolets

Talk Guidelines == T*rs these days

Doesn't it mean Talk Guidelines

Shit!

I thought we weren't meant to call people that?

Had exactly the same thought

I wonder if this is one of those “monitors”?

mobile.twitter.com/mimmymum/status/1071837104030842882

Probably wears a little badge with " Breast Milk Monitor" written on it.NotBad
On Fridays identifies as a Parking Attendant and gives out tickets to the school run, after reading the parking threads on AIBU. You get a free peaked hat with that job and a big pen.

I wonder if this is one of those “monitors”?

Probably. Scroll down a bit & their new insult is 'plastic feminists', whatever that means. Astroterfs?

Plastic means fake. I saw a reference to 'fake trfs'.... does anyone pretend to be a 'trf'??

She looks like the real thing
She posts like the real thing
My fake plastic terf ...