University implements high security due to MN feminists

[GCAcademic]

Just read this by Susan Matthews. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t such a depressing insight into the intellectual poverty of certain academic fields:

medium.com/@susanmatthews28/an-academic-conference-in-the-age-of-gender-a00a4c656d56

Interesting traffic light system.

Is this... real?

A notice explained that ‘This conference is operating a traffic light communication system. Name lanyards can be used to indicate the level of communication you wish to have with other delegates.’ Green meant that ‘I wish to speak with other delegates and welcome you to approach.’ Yellow told others ‘I will approach you if I wish to speak’ and Red: ‘I do not wish to speak with other delegates’. The women’s toilets (but not the men’s) had been hastily renamed ‘Gender Neutral’.

And this:

In ‘Who gets to be a feminist?’, Cheryl Morgan offered a history of the co-existence of trans and feminist organizing. The first slide presented Kathleen Stock as an example of hate speech and biological essentialism.

I have no words, but I take my hat off to women who persevere in academia.

So once again

Ladies bogs are now ‘gender neutral’ and the gents is just male

Fucking awesome

Ok, this thing with the lanyards.

I am pretty sure this is a clear sign of social breakdown.

Holy shit. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry reading about that ludicrous ‘academic’ gathering.

The first slide presented Kathleen Stock as an example of hate speech and biological essentialism.

Psst! Faschidiots! Biological Essentialism doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.

Also, hate speech is not defined as "things with which I disagree"

Honest to gawd I'm beginning to think that the climate change apocalypse can't come soon enough...

Ha ha ha ha ha.

An academic conference where people can wear lanyards effectively saying "I am so scared of having my world view challenged by having to debate ideas and engage in argument that I am refusing to speak to anyone"?

Is this the cult of gender's equivalent of joining a Trappist order?

Honest to gawd I'm beginning to think that the climate change apocalypse can't come soon enough...

And let’s hope a No Deal Brexit leads to a shortage of lanyards.

And let’s hope a No Deal Brexit leads to a shortage of lanyards.

Seconded!!!

This is a Fox News propaganda piece about “how bad socialism is in Yerrp,” designed to scare people into voting Trump 2020, right?

Next week I have to go to an event, do a presentation and then network for a couple of hours - not my thing. I would LOVE to be able to wear a red lanyard and instead just stand by myself drinking wine and eating canapés. One thing I can guarantee is that nobody will ask me my pronouns (male dominated industry)

All that for 16 delegates.

For an "academic" session that seemed to be based on unhinged Twitter memes.

And the snowflake students had a strop and wouldn't attend because of "disagreement in conference organisation practices".

Presumably they didn't think the lanyard social comfort traffic light system didn't go far enough.

Maybe they wanted a non-trinary and lanyard-fluid options.

We'll never know.

And the backlash to the trans cult in the UK is down to the landed gentry apparently.

transstudiesuk.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/transfeminisms-conference-cfp-3.pdf

From the Trump administration’s aggressive policing of trans soldiers in the military, to rampant transphobia in the UK’s feminist circles ...

That's the last you hear about Trump in this, it's all about the middle aged lesbians and mums of Britain from here on in - they're the real enemy.

So, another crucial dimension of our conference will be thinking about other semantic formations of the prefix “trans-“ and of trans subjectivity, such as transnationalism, transculturalism, and translation.

Transplant? Trans-Siberian railway? Transubstantiation?

Is 'transculturalism' what we were all calling 'cultural appropriation' about 5 minutes ago? There are many new words here and it's hard to keep up but it's all very thought provoking.

Transversal thinking about gender and sexuality ought to include concepts and theories challenging the contours of Eurocentrism

Contouring and brexit. Got it.

critical femininity studies

Fuck is this?

Postposttranssexuality

No.

HOLY FUCK

But also, from the article in the OP:

The conference was sparsely attended (we counted 16 delegates)

Bless.

The lanyard thing is based on systems originally used at events run for and by autistic people, where having an easily visible signal indicating preferred communication approach makes perfect sense. At an academic conference? Not so much.

Translating the trans Siberian railway : a trans centred epistemological debate.

I am still puzzling over the idea that filming everyone there will somehow protect against women from Mumsnet taking pictures for nefarious purposes.

I went to a networking event this week where, as well as pronoun badges there were red/amber/green badges to indicate how willing you were to talk to people.

Not convinced that they are actually beneficial to those who are more socially awkward to start with.

I suppose it is a really polite way to say everyone can eff off.

"The key question was why a transphobic agenda had been more successful in the UK than anywhere else. Answers included the power of the London/Oxford bubble, the influence of class especially of the landed gentry and the role of crowdfunding in enabling the covert transfusion of funds from the alt right. Things were made worse by the infiltration of the seats of power by rad fem biological essentialism."

Further proof, as if any were needed, that these people are FUCKING INSANE !!!

Actually, discussing transubstantiation would have been an appropriate addition - the belief that the bread/wine actually becomes the body/blood of Christ versus the belief that it's a symbol, ie a fiction. I remember someone pointing that out on here a couple of years ago.

I'd say the key question is actually why you'd go to a conference if you don't want to talk to anyone.

Curious how difficult the concept that it's ordinary women who are the ones who are standing up and asking pertinent questions. I know many everyday women who are by nature of their own thinking are GC, probably would consider themselves broadly feminists but not 'active' and they are mostly left or left of centre types. We're not posh or alt right. Quite the opposite.

What would happen if everyone wore red lanyards? Would the conference cease to be?

I think it is interesting that women who are not wearing a lanyard are automatically considered 'ordinary'.

As if we got to middle age without ever going or experiencing anything out if the ordinary.