Fair Cop dropping hints on Twitter

[teawamutu]

About something big about to happen to a red organisation beginning with 'S' that they won't like.

V unfair to vaguetweet IMO - anyone else seen it?

I believe Women’s Aid is a mixed-sex organisation now.

Increase in anti-LGBT rhetoric in the media, politics and the wider public sphere.*

With significant amounts of the anti-L rhetoric (or worse) coming from the T...

Increase in the anti-TRA rhetoric more like. And about time too.

Stonewall cannot last in Its current guise. It’s toxic.

[quote MorbidMuch]Article in The Spectator now: www.spectator.co.uk/article/network-rail-s-cowardly-decision-to-remove-a-jk-rowling-poster[/quote]
"...suffocating spasm of intolérance "

Lovely.

@womanaf

I believe Women’s Aid is a mixed-sex organisation now.

And the WEP

@DadDadDad

In their annual report, they discuss their risk management and list their three key risks:

Economic climate and change in political landscape leading to loss of income.
Increase in complexity of the regulatory environment.
Increase in anti-LGBT rhetoric in the media, politics and the wider public sphere.

hmmm...

Interesting.

The last one seems as much an opportunity as a risk, surely? If intolerance is rising, then Stonewall can ride to the rescue and fulfil its raison d’etre. I’d be interested in what they see as a rise in intolerance, as I suspect I might have a different take on where it’s being directed (I think to lesbians, but I suspect they believe it’s to trans people).

Do they actually mean

The risk of people getting sick of the corporate world parading rainbows as an easy way of virtue signalling their commitment to equality.

If employers were to shift tactic and actually change recruitment, employment and training policies to give equal opportunities to BAME, women, disabled, trans, and gay, rather than pushing money at Stonewall, could this be read as anti-LGBT.

Even more anti- perhaps is if any of the corporate money were to go to the LGB Alliance.

I suspect by “an increase in anti-LGBT rhetoric in the media” they are talking solely about the T, and by anti they mean anything that questions gender ideology, including articles relating to transing kids, and the lived experiences of detransitioners.

This is another reason why the law around the recording of “hate incidents” has to change. Organisations like Stonewall can hand-wave in the direction of 87,000 recorded hate incidents and talk about how intolerant society is becoming.

From Stonewall's point of view, I assume the risk means that they see more "anti" rhetoric which they need to counter and it will cost them money to do so.

Stonewalls ‘risk’ that concerns them most is them going under.

I was in the park and someone was playing some music and Lola by the Kinks came on. I almost peed myself when a ‘youngster’ passing by in mock horror (thank god) clapped her hands over their ears and shrieked ‘hate crime!’. She was joking!

From Stonewall's point of view, I assume the risk means that they see more "anti" rhetoric which they need to counter and it will cost them money to do so.

Yes, I can imagine they have some concerns about funding, but that's all.
In the space of just five years, this org has gone from protecting the rights of sexual minorities to telling people that sexual orientation is about gender, which means that a bearded male can be a lesbian if he says so. Stonewall employs people like that, so their risk analysis in terms of perceptions and funding can't be all that insightful.

I was in the park and someone was playing some music and Lola by the Kinks came on

I've been wondering how long my local radio station will be able to carry on playing it for.

and I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola

DH then asked if ‘take a walk on the wild side’ would be ok - ‘Shaved his legs and then he was a she’.

We had a discussion about it and decided probably not. Welcome to 2020 people...

It'll be Bowie banned next maybe for purity crimes?

"Lucy looks sweet 'cause he dresses like a queen
But he can kick like a mule, it's a real mean team
But we can love
Oh yes, we can love"

That's the song he gave to Mott the Hoople. So they'll need purity cancelling as well.

@SerenityNowwwww

DH then asked if ‘take a walk on the wild side’ would be ok - ‘Shaved his legs and then he was a she’.

We had a discussion about it and decided probably not. Welcome to 2020 people...

Probably would be objected to these days, although Lou Reed was friends with Candy Darling (and honoured her with the song) but I doubt that cuts the mustard these days.

@JamieLeeCurtains

It'll be Bowie banned next maybe for purity crimes?

"Lucy looks sweet 'cause he dresses like a queen
But he can kick like a mule, it's a real mean team
But we can love
Oh yes, we can love"

That's the song he gave to Mott the Hoople. So they'll need purity cancelling as well.

It'll sum up the current situation nicely if he gets cancelled for that rather than - allegedly - having sex with underage girls.

‘You've got your mother in a whirl
She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl’

Won’t get cancelled for the underage girls, or Nazi salutes - but those lyrics above could get us all into trouble...

Yeah, someone's mother is the last person who would be unsure, I'd think, unless they had a caesarian under GA and never saw their baby afterwards!

I suppose it depends on the mother these days.

"Get Back" by The Beatles is suspect too...as an aside Lou Reed lived with a male with a trans identity for a number of years...

Yes that’s right I’d forgotten that. He still got slapped with the ‘transphobic’ brush recently though didn’t he?

Eooowwwwwwww. I had not heard that. Yuk.

There will be a story breaking at midnight, apparently!

Has anyone got any further info on this?