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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Mermaids on twitter

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HeyDuggeesCakeBadge · 22/05/2019 09:10

Has mermaids closed their twitter account or been suspended? I can't find it and I definitely haven't been blocked.

I'm wondering whether the whole Phoebe Waller-Bridge has forced them to be quiet for a bit?

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CraftyWoman · 22/05/2019 09:13

Nope, still there

HeyDuggeesCakeBadge · 22/05/2019 09:14

How odd? It finds them but then says user not found when you click on them.

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GrumpyGran8 · 22/05/2019 21:47

It's there now, but without the Phoebe Waller-Bridge tweets. They probably put the account to private while they flapped, panicked and deleted all the replies!

terfsandwich · 22/05/2019 21:59

What was that all about? I missed it.

GColdtimer · 22/05/2019 21:59

What were they saying about PWB?

Genderfreelass · 22/05/2019 22:01

If they've opened it up again hopefully there will be more Phoebe tweets, I'm banned so can't tweet.

What PWB is so true and so so common it's crazy that now kids are being put on a route if drugs and surgery. GIDS had over 80% desist with wait n watch which is understandable.

fortnitehatingmum · 22/05/2019 22:03

terfsandwich, being a TERF isn't exactly something to brag about...

BelleSausage · 22/05/2019 22:06

@fortnitehatingmum

Yes it is

Tired of Explaining Reality to Fuckwits
I’m a TERF every day.

NotTerfNorCis · 22/05/2019 22:08

terfsandwich, being a TERF isn't exactly something to brag about...

TERF is an insult, just like an insult about race, religion or sexual orientation. The neutral term is 'gender critical '.

HandsOffMyRights · 22/05/2019 22:10

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KnitterOfSocks · 22/05/2019 22:12

Sources please? That sounds like nonsense. Also do not use cis, it's very offensive

GeordieGenes · 22/05/2019 22:12

@fortnitehatingmum

Can you please link to the scientific article you’re referring to?

BelleSausage · 22/05/2019 22:13

Lady brain has been widely debunked. Try again.

The brain is elastic. There is no such thing as inate self. Try reading some Goffman.

BelleSausage · 22/05/2019 22:13

Also, I suspect a convo about biscuits is in the offing.

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 22/05/2019 22:15

studies about matter in the human brain have proven that transgender women have the same amounts of brain matter as cisgender women.

Which colour matter?
Do you actually understand what you are talking about here?

HandsOffMyRights · 22/05/2019 22:15

Yes please Belle.
Somebody wants this thread pulled.
They can go yank their own chain.

JackyHolyoake · 22/05/2019 22:16

I suggest that fortnite reads The Gendered Brain by Prof Gina Rippon.

[Hint: there is no such thing as a "female" or "male" brain.]

BelleSausage · 22/05/2019 22:17

@CaptainKirksSpookyghost

It’s the old patriarchal myth that women’s brains are smaller, and therefore lesser than men’s.

fortnitehatingmum has just shown themselves to be a nice, traditional misogynist.

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BelleSausage · 22/05/2019 22:18

Anyway, I had some really good Viennese biscuits from Waitrose this week. I ate the whole packet in one day and now I cannot stop thinking about them.

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 22/05/2019 22:18

Oh, then this calls for the old Harry Enfield sketch then.

boatyardblues · 22/05/2019 22:18

Also, I suspect a convo about biscuits is in the offing.

Aye.

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 22/05/2019 22:19

I won't support that

Why not?

She has as much right to say she is a fork as anything else, why do you feel the need to police this?

terryleather · 22/05/2019 22:20

Studies about matter in the human brain have proven that transgender women have the same amounts of brain matter as cisgender women

So what.

Even if the above nonsense was true it's impossible to change sex so they would still be male no matter how they feel/identify, it would still be a male brain because it's in a male body - sex is not established by looking at people's brains ffs.

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