Misogyny from Cosmo UK

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Saw this on Twitter.

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/relationships/a28935330/terf-meaning

Not just how many of us buy the mags: How many of us here book advertising in Hearst magazines?

www.thegayuk.com/cosmopolitan-mag-blasted-after-publishing-terf-article/

Oh no, Grace Walsh is a woman. She's just trying desperately hard to get herself a byline and is too young and stupid to realise that slagging off women isn't a great way to start a long career in journalism or anything else.

grace-walsh.com/about/

I'm just aching with embarrassment for her

"Aspiring journalist" - she won't last five minutes unless she starts including some balance (not to mention facts).

Journalist? More like ‘up ones own one trick pony backside blogger’.

Ahahaha. Hard hitting journalism. Indeed.

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Ok so the last one isn’t real...

I skim read. I agree with the pp who said it reads as though written by an angry 15 year old.

Best comment on the Twitter thread:

What has this got to to with make up, clothes and pleasing men sexually? Oh...hang on a minute...

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wow, what an appallingly badly written piece of drivel!
No attempt at balance, facts or rational argument, just unadulterated drivel.

There are Twitter shenanigans afoot:

Twitter has blocked access to all the critical comments & added a load of fake Likes. After 8 hours this tweet had 14 likes. Now it's suddenly up at 1.4k 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They are so transparent

t.co/bOFMhxVEbr

The RT tweet about transwomen destroying women's sports has 4.6k likes & 600 comments all agreeing. It all loads! Obviously it is the account that is doing this. Cosmo have blocked everyone & bought likes & retweets.
That's pretty pitiful

It happened in space of an hour too I think. I remember noticing someone comment on ratio with specific reference to likes at maybe 6pm or thereabouts and it was looking grim. Amazing comeback for Cosmo. 😆

We need to include that in the complaints because they are faking support & blocking readers' ability to respond.

Check the engagement on their other tweets. Single and double figures. It's not even remotely convincing 😄 Need to remember and screenshot next time, we know these shenanigans always happen.

twitter.com/serialsockthief/status/1175157112508493825?s=19

Many of us can't see any responses to the Cosmo tweet because we are "deboosted".

Oh just seen a tweet that one of the feature editors parent is trans.

What was incorrect in the article though? TERFs ARE anti-trans activists - they're like broken records and never talk about anything BUT transwoman not being women.

*transwomen

In what way? Women who do not believe that a male can become a woman and therefore should not have access to woman only spaces, shortlists etc. Plus you know it’s thrown around as an insult and attracts violence/threats from some.

Why should women be forced to call a male bodied person a woman?

A few prominent TRA accounts tweeted the Cosmo tweet asking for their followers to thwart the ratio -- that's when it leapt from 8 likes all day to 1k +.

Most of the likes and RTs are from anime avatars. If Cosmo or their advertisers think these are womens magazine buying types they are fooling themselves (I'm sure they are smarter than that)

What was incorrect in the article though? TERFs ARE anti-trans activists - they're like broken records and never talk about anything BUT transwoman not being women.

It's a misogynistic slur. Most people don't believe MTFs are actually women, not just a minority of radical feminists. People who call women that for wanting to protect women's sex based rights are Anti Woman Activists. HTH.

This is, of course, bullshit. There is mountains of research by psychologists and academics to prove these ideas wrong, and these views have only fuelled the fire of violent transphobia that already exists in the UK.

Citation please. Of the "mountains of research" so we can examine the quality of it, and that the views of women about sex-based rights fuel anything, and that there is notably "violent transphobia" in the UK.

That's three claims, none of them evidenced. But don't let that get in the way of your whiny adolescent rant.

Why isn't there more of an outcry about Twitter bias and dishonesty, given that all kinds of public bodies use twitter?

As an organisation it has the most appalling amount of undemocratic power.

There is but I suppose we need to figure out how to get heard.

I see Marc Almond has said he is getting off twitter after getting dogs abuse from the anime’s and menz.

I see the Anime Avatars were out in force. Funny how most of their responses were variations on "Shut up, Terf!" and "LOL, Terfs mad!" They're really demonstrating their maturity and how well thought out their arguments are with those ones.

(Also that "terf" is clearly a substitute for "bitch". But we knew that already, didn't we?)

Can somebody explain 'deboosting' to me .

Women's magazines are daft. They are struggling. Why would you piss off existing readers of magazines from the same publishers? did they intend to be controversial? In which case that's piss poor writing skills or was it lazy cheap commissioning that's backfired and they are hoping will go away.

We don't harass a business for decades like the TRAs, but we do just quietly take our business elsewhere