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Gay men's magazine bullied into grovelling

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aliasundercover · 26/11/2020 20:37

twitter.com/BoyzMagazine/status/1332052779871965186

Looks like they're gunning for gay men now. Anything other than complete agreement is no good.

Readers here will be used to this sort of insanity:
twitter.com/robholley/status/1332054419337334789
I wonder if it will wake up those who have not seen it before?

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notyourhandmaid · 27/11/2020 16:56

*propagandists!

Duckwit · 27/11/2020 17:05

@MadBadDaddy do you or do you not think a lesbian is transphobic is she excludes transwomen with todgers from her dating pool?

Do you believe in same sex attraction?

Do you believe that two males fellating each other could be referred to as a 'lesbian couple'?

Duckwit · 27/11/2020 17:09

By the way, I didn't like Object UK referring to that teenager's suicide in the way that they did, because I don't think anyone should speak about anyone's suicide in that way, particularly young vulnerable people.

So what? It doesn't mean I think blokes can become women!

SmallPug · 27/11/2020 17:11

Replying to a comment up thread, no gay men haven’t been as affected, but I am sure some would have an issue with this: attitude.co.uk/article/mr-gay-englands-first-trans-finalist-chiyo-gomes-terfs-genuinely-want-to-destroy-the-trans-existence-1/23833/

MadBadDaddy · 27/11/2020 17:14

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YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 27/11/2020 17:17

Hello everyone - can we ask that you consider our Talk Guidelines when posting? We appreciate the strength of feeling but we must ask that the discussion remains civil. Thank you.

DeaconBoo · 27/11/2020 17:17

Ah the same old arguments about "feminism". We sometimes see these pop up in the midnight hour...

Stealhsquirrelnutkin · 27/11/2020 17:17

Who exactly is funding the LGB Alliance?

Me! As an old lesbian feminist I was delighted when the LGB Alliance formed, and have been dipping into my tiny stack of widow's mites each month in support of a much appreciated initiative.

It breaks my heart that young lesbians have lost the wonderful women's spaces that welcomed me in the eighties and nineties, and that baby butches are being brainwashed into believing that their strong, beautiful bodies are wrong, and need to be messed around with binders, hormones and surgery.

So, even though I am disabled and on a very limited income, I am delighted to lend all the financial support I can afford to such an important cause.

Anyone saying that lesbians, gays and bisexual people should be forbidden from organising around their own special issues is homophobic and unworthy of my respect and consideration.

Also, wall of bollocks and and another prick in the wall? Please, for the love of all that is decent, show some consideration! Some of us are no longer in the first bloom of youth, and challenged in the urinary sphincter department. Will nobody think of the furniture!?!

SophocIestheFox · 27/11/2020 17:23

@SophocIestheFox

If it’s not acceptable for LGB to have organisations that only represent them, and not the T, then why is it acceptable to have organisations (Mermaids, GIRES etc) that only represent the T and not the LGB? If the former is transphobic, how is the latter not homophobic? On what grounds can the separate provision be justified only for one sub group of an otherwise indivisible group, and utterly prohibited for another?

That apology made me very uncomfortable. And it still wasn’t enough? Troubling.

Am still wondering about this...are trans only organisations “seeking to divide”? If not, why not?
gardenbird48 · 27/11/2020 17:24

Please, for the love of all that is decent, show some consideration! Some of us are no longer in the first bloom of youth, and challenged in the urinary sphincter department. Will nobody think of the furniture!?!

Grin Grin

Deltoids1 · 27/11/2020 17:28

Gin for Duckwit for use of the word todger. Marvellous.

Datun · 27/11/2020 17:30

[quote Duckwit]@MadBadDaddy do you or do you not think a lesbian is transphobic is she excludes transwomen with todgers from her dating pool?

Do you believe in same sex attraction?

Do you believe that two males fellating each other could be referred to as a 'lesbian couple'?[/quote]
I like to see the answers to these questions, too. Perhaps we have maligned MBD and JJ.

MBD, let's just clear all this up very quickly. What is your definition of a homosexual or lesbian? Is it based on sex or gender?

yourhairiswinterfire · 27/11/2020 17:31

LGBA (and others), openly seek to divide the LGBT community, and yesterday they failed spectacularly.

Lol, Boyz were very happy enough to promote the ''homophobic'' LGBA in the first place mate. They only backed down because the pitchfork mob, otherwise known as a lovely ''community'' came for them and they lost their nerve. Even now, apologies aren't enough and they're calling for sackings.

But please, do keep on at them. I love to see it dawn that no amount of capitulation is good enough, ever, when you're dealing with overgrown children that have never been told no. Absolutely love it 🍿

StillAFeminist · 27/11/2020 17:43

Sad to see David Bridle has deleted his twitter account although I can’t say I blame him.

Interesting tactic turning on the men

HecatesCats · 27/11/2020 17:47

Interesting tactic turning on the men

Fascinated to see how it plays out

WokesFromHome · 27/11/2020 17:49

I see this ending quite quickly if that is the case. And I don’t see activists targeting straight men to call them prostrate owners and forcing them to accept trans women.

I don't think they will do this. Once they go after straight men, it's game over. They just won't put up with it if it affects them.

yourhairiswinterfire · 27/11/2020 17:56

I read the articles about what happened at Pride at the time. Their slogan was 'dykes not dick', yeah? On what planet is that transphobic? Sounds like the kind of thing homophobes who are fans of conversion therapy would say...

Did we imagine the 17 year old lesbian sobbing on numerous videos for forgiveness because she'd been abused by sex pests telling her she needs to accept penis?

Did I imagine the T hammering Blaire White, and also Buck Angel, for saying lesbians don't need to sleep with anyone they don't want to sleep with? That wasn't real?

Kantastic · 27/11/2020 17:59

Once they go after straight men, it's game over. They just won't put up with it if it affects them.

I agree. Trans activists won't go after straight men. Because the most vitriolic of them ARE, er, female-attracted males.

HecatesCats · 27/11/2020 18:04

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OvaHere · 27/11/2020 18:43

I've just finished watching the webinar, it's taken a while as I've been dipping in and out.

It's really quite laughable how much outrage this caused because the four panelists are incredibly non offensive. Everything was couched in a very generous and kindly way, they respected pronouns and clearly want good outcomes for the trans community. All these men have a much higher tolerance for bullshit than most women could muster right now.

NonnyMouse1337 · 27/11/2020 19:29

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HPFA · 27/11/2020 20:18

@CaraDuneRedux

I have to wonder how many transitioners have a realistic idea of what life is going to be like. Do teenage girls claiming to be gay men watch any gay porn or in any way try to get a realistic idea of gay men's sexuality? It seems not.

I fear they form most of their beliefs about gay male sex from reading slash fanfiction on Tumblr and Archive of Our Own. The fact that this is largely male on male erotica written by straight women for an audience of straight women seems to have sailed over their heads (it's the female erotica equivalent of VHS classics with titles like "lipstick lesbians get it on while the plumber watches".)

Yes, I like a bit of slash myself but I've always seen it as a reflection of female sexuality rather than male. It seems to be the anime stuff that's turned people's heads.
MadBadDaddy · 27/11/2020 20:26

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Datun · 27/11/2020 20:38

Still not able to answer the question upthread, MDB?

SophocIestheFox · 27/11/2020 20:40

I think that’s a no, Datun, do your surprised face now Grin