Pub in Sheffield accused of transphobia, fights back

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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/

A pub for the Gulag, hurrah!

How many otters do you think you could fit in the pub?

100, obviously, but only if you use the overhead lockers.

To those (not on this thread) supporting the councillor - "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy"

If wish I lived near enough to go and buy a pint there.

Can I ask what (sic) means? I keeps seeing it and I still can’t work it out. Sorry, probably being a bit thick.

[sic] is a term editor's use Badstyley when they're directly quoting something which has been mis-spelled. So it's basically the Harlequin saying 'I know the councillor spelled we're wrongly, their error not mine.'

It's used for accuracy and sometimes as a pointed commentary on the literacy skills of the person they're discussing. I'll leave you to decide what this is

Chuffin love the Harlequin.

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

Oh, but they might get T**fFd if they go in there, and disappear into a puff of smoke. I say there should be a 200-metre exclusion zone around the pub for transpeople (and their supporters who are also vulnerable) just in case. With pink sparkly warning signs and a chain of safe spaces nearby in case anyone is triggered and needs to sit down for a bowl of glitter cornflakes and a good cry.

Ah, thanks Lonny

I use speech so maybe the spelling errors aren’t so obvious to me so that’s why. I suspect there’d be (sic) all over anything copied off me. Lol

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.
Looks like there's a Premier Inn within walking distance, might have to do a trip to Sheffield

The daughter came out as an offer? Wtf? Lol

I wonder why an otter - not a beaver, mink or ferret?

They write a really good blog. Beautiful prose. Excellent assessment of the situation. The Councillors could learn a bit.

Probably worth dropping in for a pint if you are ever anywhere near

The councillor in question is not remotely bothered by "TERFs" or trans people or anything, he's more horrified the pub in question hosted a surgery by Green councillors. How dare anyone in a northern working-class city not "be Labour". Bollocks to him.

But ferrets are cute and slinky.