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GC feminist forum launched

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NotTerfNorCis · 08/08/2019 10:55

I noticed this on Twitter.

twitter.com/mkay_fain/status/1158367235083296769?s=19

We're launching a GC Feminist social media platform! If you are tired of Twitter suspending your account, consider joining our Beta test of Spinster. This link is good for the first 100 people to sign up:

Please RT and spread the word!

spinster.xyz/

I'm not associated with it and can't vouch for it, but I thought it might be interesting.

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FormerMediocreMale · 08/08/2019 11:17

Interesting, will wait and see before checking it out.

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NotTerfNorCis · 08/08/2019 11:20

Yes, as always I'd advise some caution - never use personal details for these things.

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TriptychDebbie · 08/08/2019 11:22

I've shared it elsewhere. Since Twitter dispensed with my services (and those of many other GC feminists) I've been waiting to see if someone would pick up the slack.

Might be good to give it a go when it's up and running.

OneEndedStick · 08/08/2019 11:26

Oh well yeah I am certainly interested. On my way!

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NotTerfNorCis · 08/08/2019 11:37

Joss Prior had joined. In a way that's a good thing. Healthy debate between feminists and TRAs, with the GC-sympathetic admin on hand to throw off disruptors.

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TriptychDebbie · 08/08/2019 11:41

Good old Joss.....

LangCleg · 08/08/2019 11:54

Of course Joss joined.

user1471449040 · 08/08/2019 11:56

What does gc mean?

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NotTerfNorCis · 08/08/2019 12:13

Gender critical. Rejecting the concept of an internal sense of gender. Viewing gender as cultural roles and stereotypes imposed on each biological sex - and as such, harmful to women.

TRAs on the other hand believe in a subjective gender identity that is more important in determining if someone is male or female than their biological sex.

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GirlDownUnder · 08/08/2019 15:06

Thanks for the info. Not.

Could be promising.

OhtheHillsareAlive · 08/08/2019 20:29

Thanks for this.

Thing is, I tend to think that "feminism" pretty much includes "gender-critical" - what else could feminism be ...?

I resist adding the "gender critical" when I describe myself as a feminist.

Manderleyagain · 08/08/2019 20:52

Mkay fain (the original tweeter) is the author who wrote a good medium essay on non binary identities which was doing the rounds recently. Worth a read. But she lost her job because of it.

DpWm · 08/08/2019 20:56

Who's Joss Prior?

AnotherAdultHumanFemale · 08/08/2019 21:16

You'd think so wouldn't you Hills, but alas liberal feminism centres the penis in everything (libfems are pro porn, pro prostitution and pro transgenderism). I wish they would stop calling themselves feminists, because their whole ideology does not help women, but they have sadly appropriated the term.

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NotTerfNorCis · 08/08/2019 21:39

Joss Prior is a TRA who's obsessed with Mumsnet.

Latest on the new forum - it's due to open on Monday. Wine

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JackyHolyoake · 08/08/2019 21:48

Some "TRAs" [aka AWAs [Anti Woman Activists]] have a stalker mentality and monitor and try to control the activities of women. They stalk women's online spaces relentlessly and persist in trying to disrupt them.

Here on Mumsnet, they fail spectacularly.

The women here see straight through such men and give them short shrift.

YobaOljazUwaque · 08/08/2019 21:48

Delighted that Joss Prior has joined. Anyone who sticks to rules of civilised conversation should be welcome on Spinster (and here) and that will hopefully be to the benefit of all. No point having a new forum for everyone to agree with each other.

BernardBlacksWineIceLolly · 08/08/2019 22:01

As I recall Joss lasted about 3 hours on here and then went back to monitoring, so I wouldn’t get your hopes of healthy, reasoned debate up too high

vaginafetishist · 08/08/2019 22:08

Yes Hills I agree, GC feminism is a tautology to be resisted.
I also dislike 'male bodied' instead of man although I realise the guidelines make this difficult/impossible. Male bodied somehow sounds like such a magical thing instead of bog standard man.

LangCleg · 08/08/2019 22:37

As I recall Joss lasted about 3 hours on here and then went back to monitoring

The Jossling was here for ages under a couple of names. We had some good arguments - Joss used to call me a crank and I used to get deleted for whatever I called Joss, on the regular. Now we're reduced to waving at each other through the ether.

MargueritaBlue · 08/08/2019 22:48

Not that I would join this anyway but this is off- putting. "Conservative" does not equal Nazi and "alt- right" gets thrown out far too often by the hard left.

M. K. Fain

@mkay_fain
We forked Gab to make our own platform!Gab is a free-speech Fediverse instance which hosts a lot of conservatives and alt-right. We copied their code to make our version, but minus the Nazis

LeighVBerry · 09/08/2019 18:43

The new site you cite is American-based.

IAmNotInvisible · 09/08/2019 18:51

Spinster. As in woman who has never married. Odd choice of name.

MouseandCat · 09/08/2019 19:03

Spinster - self defining, whirling dervish, centred on herself.... from Mary Daly

Jux · 09/08/2019 19:23

It says it'll "open the flood gate to 1000 women" on Monday. I can only get to the home and About page atm. Bit of a pisser.