Pub in Sheffield accused of transphobia, fights back

[Yambabe]

Seems that the basis of the accusations is that they hosted a WPUK meeting at some point. The two people accusing them in this particular case are local councillors. They are now threatening libel action.

Reading the blog it seems that this is a pub I would very much like to go and visit if I am ever in Sheffield.

theharlequinpub.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/false-allegations-of-transphobia/

Are you now, or have you ever, hosted a WPUK MEETING?...

... what a brave new world we live in .

Also love the pointing out of the terrible grammar and spelling of the complainant

I can’t even begin... have local politicians for nothing better to do? No homeless, schools being closed down, crime (the real type), traffic issues and local youth clubs/retirement homes/sports centres being low on funds?

Sir, I hereby charge you with the crimes of... JOKING ABOUT OTTERS, and ALLOWING WOMEN TO SPEAK. Your sentence is 10 years in the gulag. gavel

Tax money well spent on the salaries of those local politicians, then! Nice to see our political class focusing on the really important things.

Illiterate children talking rubbish. But it's dangerous rubbish. I hope they throw the book at them.

I do love the pointed use of [sic].

I also wanted to find out more about the daughter coming out as an otter. I feel there's a lot we're not being told there.

My favorite bit was one of the local politicos saying "I have no evidence but I know it existed, I saw Goody PubLandlord T*RFing with the devil I did!"

“Harlequin are [sic] well known in the trans community for being Transphobic and unwelcoming. Now trans constituents can’t visit cllr Phipps at surgery.”

Trans constituents can't meet with Phipps in the pub because said pub once hosted a women's event? How do these people cope with life, and why tf are the two councillors occupying themselves with this nonsense?

Just when you think this debate couldn't get more batshit! THE OTTERS, WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE OTTERS

Their other blogpost, on the topic of Jared O'Mara, is quite entertaining:

theharlequinpub.wordpress.com/2018/07/09/jared-omara-again/

Sheffield councillors are too busy with their massacre of the city's trees as part of a disastrously stupid and costly PFI deal to have time to engage in any kind of critical thinking.

The references to otters mean that I can not resist dropping in this splendid tweet:

this dude telling the audubon society they shouldn’t be promoting birds might be my favorite internet comment of all time

twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1081592072866537472

Trans constituents can't meet with Phipps in the pub because said pub once hosted a women's event? How do these people cope with life, and why tf are the two councillors occupying themselves with this nonsense?

It's so reminiscent of Ade Harrop accusing Posie Parker of allowing women to appropriate the word women and making men feel unsafe.

🤣🤣🤣

Reminds me of Monty Python (again):
Official: (suspiciously) "Are there any women here today?"

("All right. Bag of otters' noses, then. ")

Life of Brian is becoming rather topical again isn’t it?

hah!

from that twitter thread:

Audubon Society is basically a lobbying front for big bird

How many otters do you think you could fit in the pub?
Or, gentlemen, the lemon is in play.

So I live in Neal Gibson's council ward. He is AWFUL. And He himself has been in trouble for tweets a couple of times. e.g. www.thestar.co.uk/news/politics/councillor-causes-twitter-storm-over-ignorant-comments-1-9378968

He was heavily involved in the Sheffield street tree felling debacle, too. Local politics is a bit rubbish here.

Omg they do,film nights. 12 quid pint popcorn film
Fecking great
Who,wants the moany wee fuckers from Green Party anyways

I am indebted to the Audubon denunciation thread for the introduction to a new (to me) word: Backpfeifengesicht - a face in search of a fist/face that should be slapped.

Or even the moany wee f7ckers from the Labour Party
We should be able to,have f7n without the dullards killing any fun
Or indeed the stupids
Like them 2 councillors

This notion of "unsafe" is beyond ridiculous. I'm sick - as a woman of 60 who has spent most of her life (as we all have) needing to be aware of my own safety in a wide range of situations - of hearing people reckon that it's "unsafe" for them to hear things that hurt their feelings.

"Unsafe" is knowing - fucking KNOWING - that any time you walk down a street alone at night you are most definitely "unsafe".

I find this so funny, that an enlightened Coucillors daughter has "come out" as being an otter.
The councillor's daughter has far more sense than anyone else.

Ha, the publican should consider taking up politics, only I don't think these councillors would make a great job of running a pub.