Nimko Ali and Lynne Featherstone MP

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This exchange on twitter is something to behold

Sorry, peer not MP.

“Support” ?

"Vilification"? Where?

A lot of conjecture in those six words. Nimco didn't even say who had objected to her use of the word women!

It's only ever about one group - and that's not women.

Why is it up to women to give support to a group pf people wholly unconnected to them ? Fine to support whatever cause one wants, obv, but why is it seen as an obligation ?

why is it seen as an obligation ?

Because we're supposed to be everyone's mum. Even grown men's.

Arnold that's very true.

What was the context? I can’t see the link between the tweets.

Presumably Featherstone knows what Ali campaigns about and got her OBE for? Has Featherstone thought why the use of the word 'woman' matters in such work? Or does she really not care about supporting those women and girls?

I am really becoming very tired of being told off for the "vilification" of transwomen by women who call other women "terfs".

This is a woman who told us she didn't want our vote unless we support gender neutral toilets ffs - how, on any planet, is taking away provisions for women a feminist thing to do??

Not just pictures of the cock - same price for ‘action’ shots. Bargain. Not fetish, not at all. Ughhhh.

Featherstone and Ali are long-term friends. Ali campaigned hard for Featherstone in the 2015 election, which Featherstone lost. Ali then stood against Catherine West, the woman who beat Featherstone in the 2017 election.

Featherstone is not so civil on twitter to women who aren't her mates.

Thanks to donquixotedelamancha for including a link. It make it much easer to follow what the OP is asking for comment on!

It would be good in posters stopped using screen shots, because not only are some of the formats not useable on all computer systems, but screen shots discriminate against anyone with a visual impairment.

Thats why pictures on web sites have what is called an alt tag.

Thanks!

In the case of Twitter - not necessarily this instance, but other cases - screenshots are often used because tweets get deleted so regularly. Probably good practice would be to include a link as well?

ErrolTheDragon - you are right and recommendation is in line with WWW disability guidelines!

(Y) = thumbs up / like - we need one for mumsnetters!

I hate to be nitpicky but could we please try to spell her name correctly - it's right there in the tweet you posted and as a woman with a "foreign" name, it is SO annoying when people are too lazy to get it right!

Her wiki page has both spellings, and her name/handle also so I'd have assumed she's ok with either ?

Not just pictures of the cock - same price for ‘action’ shots. Bargain. Not fetish, not at all. Ughhhh.
Wtf😱🤢🤢

Baroness Featherstone Aug 2018:

* I came to speak in this debate today because I am an uber-feminist. There are some feminists who have brought shame, I think, to the name of feminist by the level of hatred and vitriol that they have levelled at trans women. That is why I am standing here today. How little they understand this community. They should be welcoming and understanding to these new women. They should have humanity, kindness and inclusiveness in their souls. This fanatical assault is not feminism, it is false protectionism—mistaken protectionism. So to the faux feminists I say: regain your humanity and understanding. To be trans is challenging enough—with the sort of challenges that you have to go through to work in a world that has traditionally been totally binary and is now coming to grips with the fact that perhaps it is not the way we all thought it was. The attempted suicide rate should be indication enough that this is a community that needs our love and support. I am glad that we are going to try to do better.*

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3304168-house-of-lords-debate-on-gender-recognition-process

Feminists not welcome in Lib Dems unless they support gender neutral toilets, says peer

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/02/05/feminists-not-welcome-lib-dems-unless-support-gender-neutral/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3500621-Telegraph-article-about-Lib-Dems

'Uber-feminist'. Yeah that doesn't sound at all like totalitarianism

What a wally

The attempted suicide rate should be indication enough that this is a community that needs our love and support.

Ah, the attempted suicide rate rears its ugly head again. Some myths will never die, will they?

I hate to be nitpicky but could we please try to spell her name correctly - it's right there in the tweet you posted and as a woman with a "foreign" name, it is SO annoying when people are too lazy to get it right!

She explicitly spells it Nimco and Nimko in her twitter bio and handle respectively. I don't think anyone has spelled it wrong (If it's me, apologies).