Rachel McKinnon suspended from Twitter

[Nephilim1964]

Apparently telling women to 'die in a grease fire' is hate speech. Who knew?

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Are they auditioning for panto this year?

Just a case of a different public stage really.

They get more power? To do what exactly I wonder.

No, 'die in a fire' is not an 'idiom'. Or if you're associating with people who think it's an ok idiom, then you have a problem...

It's a thing that happens, deliberately, to women. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_burning

Its not an 'idiom' any feminist could possibly use, surely?

No, 'die in a fire' is not an 'idiom'. Or if you're associating with people who think it's an ok idiom, then you have a problem...

Urban Dictionary says it came from gaming (Magic: The Gathering)...

... don't tell Glinner! He'll mention Gamergate and send Rachel into another furious paroxysm!

No, 'die in a fire' is not an 'idiom'. Or if you're associating with people who think it's an ok idiom, then you have a problem...

Shami Chakrabarti used it when she commented on women who object to males using women's facilities. And no, she didn't take our side.

Shami Chakrabarti used it

I mean, I know I lost all respect for her when she did that dreadful cover-up job on anti semitism in the labour party, so I suppose I should know the depths she's capable of plumbing. But I'm still shocked that she would use DIAF unironically of other women...

To think 20 years ago she was one of my heroes.

Shami said:
"I don't want to police the borders between these segregated sexes and I'm not going to say to any refugee or migrant to my sex that you don't belong over here. And you know what, if you lock the house too tightly, you might just die in the fire."
She said the last bit in a very deliberate manner. I can't find the video, but that's verbatim.

Yes I remember.

Not exactly the same thing, I suppose, but at very least a peculiar choice of words.

'Refugee'...wonder how she feels about colonisers?

Shami Chakrabarti is a disappointment and an utter disgrace.

I'm going to say that it's not possible to migrate to the female sex from the male, Shami dear. And if I did happen to die in a fire because of that reality-based view then it's reasonably likely that I've been murdered by unhinged misogynists.

I found that so difficult to believe that I went searching and found this:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/a3431422--BristolUniWomen-Shami-Chakrabarti-event-tonight?msgid=82875417

I am appalled. It's just, well, words fail.

Not exactly the same thing, I suppose, but at very least a peculiar choice of words.

Tbh, I find the needlessly emotive language about 'refugees' more grating than the DIAF bit, but she definitely chose her words very carefully.

Move over baseball bats, bricks are the future, more compact eh?

McKinnon hates women.

'She' loves dressing up as a violent man...

McKinnon is simply a wind up merchant.

McKinnon proves that you don't need to HAVE a twat to act like one.

Crack on, Rachel, love. That’s a fabulous image.

McKinnon is simply a wind up merchant.

^This

Those tweets.... Don'tcha feel reassured sharing women's toilets/changing rooms with them...

Gosh doesn’t Rachel look lovely and feminine...

Bless McKinnon and their special brick. Hope they drop it on their massive clodhoppers

'Tis canny risky spraying aerosols next to an open fire though, even if you are invulnerable and untouchable.