Trolling TERFs on Twitter

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I'm in a new job and still getting to know people. It's a new office and so everyone has similar length of service, less than 6 months.

A man I will be working closely with has barged about how he has multiple twitter accounts for the purpose of trolling TERFs, was very disparaging and thought his behaviour was hilarious.

I'm GC but didn't rise to his baiting and haven't outed myself.

When I try to take the politics out of his comments, I keep coming back to the fact that he enjoys bullying women online for their political beliefs. If the politics were any different, this would be unacceptable surly? Am I over reacting because it's me and people like me that he hates?

I've had a work-based disagreement with him where his behaviour was unacceptable, in my opinion, but now feel unsure if I'm conflating the two, and allowing my judgement to be clouded by his politics.

Or should I just think fuck it, not separate the two and deal with the work stuff with a hard lined approach when ever I need to? I don't normally take the hard line in the first instance but feel differently about this guy now.

I've already provided feedback to his line manager about a work issue where he behaved poorly, towards a woman. Coincidence?

On its own, that may not have been evidence of much of anything. A solitary incident where a male employee misbehaves towards a female co-worker may be due to any number of reasons, not just misogyny. Coupled with his online bullying of women AND his boasting of that to you? No. Not a coincidence. Massive red flags.

I wouldn't necessarily hardline on everything, especially if that makes your life at work harder, but I wouldn't give that guy the benefit of the doubt.

And good job on taking the E&D project on. We shouldn't have to do that, but clearly, if feminists aren't involved, these policies have too much potential to be harmful to women to leave them to everyone else.

Hope he's not in a relationship......guessing he's not

As others have said, take notes of everything.

What a pathetic arse. How anyone can brag about being a troll is beyond me but, I guess because it’s hate against women that’s okay, no one gives a shit about us. Anything he does wrong I’d report, even if it’s relatively minor just report, he will fuck himself up and I agree he will come out with some misogynistic comment or sexual harassment soon enough. Twats like him always do.

OP Perhaps you could record the conversations to turn into transcripts and accurately record what is said?

The national bullying helpline says it's a grey area. It will be against company policy to record conversations without express consent. or to share them without consent. But some legal processes (employment tribunals) can choose to permit them as evidence. and if the worse came to the worse, you'd have them as back up.

A ruling in the Punjab National Bank v Gosain Case opened the floodgates when a recording of sexually explicit and shockingly inappropriate comments by a boss were played in the courtroom.

Sorry to hear you have to put up with this neanderthal. In addition to taking notes, if you ever feel the need to say anything back to him about his misogyny, do it in an email which has the added bonus of validating your time line of events and quote back to him what he has said to you. Good luck.

There is one positive thing to say about this:

You know who and what he is and what his behaviour is likely to be, and are not going to be taken by surprise when it shows itself.

So you won't be taken aback or not know what to do, because you will already have a plan for dealing with it.