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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Green Party deputy leader hustings - only one candidate knows what a woman is

123 replies

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/07/2020 17:32

Sorry if there's been a thread about this and I've missed it.

twitter.com/zeno001/status/1284958734612135936?s=20

Green Party currently having an election for Deputy Leader. Hustings over the weekend. Somebody asked 'What is a woman?' Here are the answers. Jawdropping.

However, good news! Andrea Carey Fuller, a candidate who was not at the hustings, has now clarified what she would have said - Adult Human Female. Flowers twitter.com/hullfair/status/1285193309959475200?s=20

It's a huge relief to find that at least one Green knows what a woman is but if she got elected she'd have her work cut out for her trying to change the internal culture in the Green Party. Good luck to her.

Green Party deputy leader hustings - only one candidate knows what a woman is
Green Party deputy leader hustings - only one candidate knows what a woman is
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truthisarevolutionaryact · 20/07/2020 17:48

That twitter thread is comedy gold Grin
They really want the votes from over 50% of the population yet can't identify them?

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/07/2020 17:50

It's laugh or cry time, for sure. The Green Party wants us to believe them on how to tackle climate change, which surely demands high confidence in science, and then demonstrates a total lack of critical thinking and scientific rigour here? I don't think so.

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Soontobe60 · 20/07/2020 17:59

Good grief, talk about avoiding a simple question that any 5 year old can answer! They may well just have said ‘I don’t have a fucking clue’

testing987654321 · 20/07/2020 18:05

It's properly shocking to hear those answers. Interesting that they aren't willing to say "anyone who says they are one" or "women and transwomen".

Instead they just waffle.

I suspect it's because they do know what a woman is, they do know that transmen are women and transwomen are men. So they can't bring themselves to answer clearly because they can't bring themselves to lie so directly.

ThePurported · 20/07/2020 18:05

"Being a woman is an attitude"
Oh?

Like this?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb6OpRfyLFo

IT'S MA'AM!

Annasgirl · 20/07/2020 18:08

Dear GOD that is awful. Someone needs to get this published so people not on twitter can read the idiocy that aspires to hold high office these days.

CharlieParley · 20/07/2020 18:08

Remarkable that while they definitely deny that women are adult human females, they cannot offer an alternative definition.

The nearest answer to an attempt at a definition is Cleo Lake:

Being a woman is an attitude.

It's right up there with the most bonkers ones.

Annasgirl · 20/07/2020 18:09

Oh and elect Andrea obviously

BoreOfWhabylon · 20/07/2020 18:16

Thanks Gasp0de.

How did we get to this? Of course they know. They ALL know.

thehumanformerlyknownasfemale · 20/07/2020 18:16

What an absolute shower of shit.

" I don't think it's a very productive question, to be honest ." Translation-stop asking me questions I can't answer without looking like an absolute spanner. #nodebate

"A ciswoman (what a twat) that can't give birth is no less of a woman than... a man." Confused

I wonder what their answers would be if someone asked them what a man is 🤔

peekaboob · 20/07/2020 18:17

Has anyone asked what a man is? Would that be "an attitude" too? Or would that be a person with a penis?

Datun · 20/07/2020 18:58

What an absolute shower.

They all know what a woman is. Every last one of them.

They are shit scared.

Just the quality you're looking for people who would like to run a country.

highame · 20/07/2020 19:00

They're a bright lot aren't they 🤣

MsMarvellous · 20/07/2020 19:16

I mean - how can you vote for that.

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 20/07/2020 19:19

I’ve given up on them a long time ago. Was 2016 the year of “we’re happy to be referred to as non-men”?

ScrimpshawTheSecond · 20/07/2020 19:19

I like the response 'ask your mum'.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 20/07/2020 19:20

They're a bright lot aren't they

I mean - how can you vote for that

I genuinely don't understand how they can be all about the science when it comes to climate change (which to be fair is an area they seem to have somewhat abandoned) and yet be total science deniers when it comes to biology Confused

Can they not see the vast harm this is doing the party. Many many women, including me, have left the greens over this.

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 20/07/2020 19:20

Being a woman is an attitude. So what is a girl? How does FGM tie in with that? Anyone cares to ask 4-year olds who were forced to go through it?

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 20/07/2020 19:22

Did someone ask them what is a man? Would there be as much confusion?

Sometimes I just want to opt-out of this shit. Can I? Can I out-identify of being human?

Michelleoftheresistance · 20/07/2020 19:25

Being a woman is an attitude....

Oh for fuck's sake. There's a point beyond which this is too silly and too offensive to be indulged any further. Stop erasing women to try and placate a tiny number of people who believe nobody matters but them.

Michelleoftheresistance · 20/07/2020 19:26

Cross post DrinkFeck

I am serious. I am saying to my MP and will say to the Green Party, if I don't exist, then obviously I'm going to stop paying taxes.

No taxation without representation.

onedaysoonish · 20/07/2020 19:28

I think people need to stop asking "what is a woman" and start asking "what is a man". I wonder if politicians etc are as prepared with their twittish answers - I bet a fair few would say adult human male without thinking because they haven't been prepped and rehearsed their waffle.

onedaysoonish · 20/07/2020 19:29

... and as we can see (as if we didn't know already) most of them are quite stupid.

highame · 20/07/2020 19:32

Are the Lib Dems and the Greens competing for 'Idiots in Politics Award' cos although they've got bags of competition, they're both front runners by miles

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