Here’s a Mermaids fuck-up to brighten your Sunday morning...

[AngeloMysterioso]

So in a tweet yesterday Mermaids (shock horror) MISGENDERED non-binary Owen J. Harcum, saying that HE had been elected Mayor of Bangor.

A while later they deleted the tweet, reposted it using “they” instead of “he” and issued an apology, basically blaming their accidental hate crime on Grammarly, which I believe is a proofreading app.

Grammarly then responded calling them out on their blatant and quite possibly libellous lie, and so Mermaids deleted that tweet too.

Hope Grammarly sue their asses.

[Sophoclesthefox]

Am snickering like Muttley over “virtue signalling failure” 🤣

I’ve seen the Mermaids Social Media Guidelines, the subtitle is “Rules for thee, but not for me”, so their processes are working fine. Nothing to see here!

[Nonmaquillee]

[quote BluePorchAwning]A week in non-binary:
sheridansinclair.substack.com/p/a-week-in-non-binary[/quote]
This is brilliant - I particularly love the LNER mock-up!

thanks for posting this

[WorkingItOutAsIGo]

Am I right in thinking that I should report Mermaids to West Yorkshire Police and they will check their thinking and harass them?

[Lemmen]

I bloody dare you, please.

[HelpfulBelle]



Don't know how many if you watched New Girl, but '29' is already a meme

[MarieIVanArkleStinks]

@WorkingItOutAsIGo

Am I right in thinking that I should report Mermaids to West Yorkshire Police and they will check their thinking and harass them?

To see them hoist by their own petard would be absolutely delicious.

[Nonmaquillee]

[quote ChattyLion]Just for anyone else not already aware of this back story, which I just noticed on the BBC news website, probably nobody will be surprised to see that a middle aged female Plaid Cymru Senedd politician, called Helen Mary Jones, got it in the neck over her querying of aspects of GRA and speaking up at an A Woman’s Place meeting. And that she has now committed publicly to her own ‘education’ on this area and left her personal social media account.

It looks like the person who is now Mayor Hurcum made a resignation after this to become an independent candidate. At the time, Hurcum spoke out about this, I’m quoting from BBC article linked to below)

‘Trans activists say Helen Mary Jones used transphobic tropes when she spoke at an event by campaign group, Women's Place UK. At the event she questioned whether a rise in the number of "women and girls wanting to transition to the opposite sex" has been caused by pressure to look a certain way fuelled by social media. This is an argument many trans people find offensive.

A Woman's Place UK campaigns for women only spaces and a "respectful and evidence-based discussion" on proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act, which aimed to make changing one's legal sex simpler.

Owen Hurcum, who uses the pronouns they and them, was on the party's north Wales regional list and said the party should begin a disciplinary process against Helen Mary Jones.
They added: "I want Helen Mary Jones to apologise in a way that is not 'I'm sorry you're offended'.
"I want a sincere apology and I want her to make an effort to learn about the community and understand why she's perpetrating transphobia.
"If she doesn't resign, she at the very least needs to make it very clear that she's sorry and very clear that she's learning and Adam Price as the leader of the party needs to make it very clear not just that Plaid have a great set of policies for if they're in government, but are also tackling transphobia within their own party immediately.
"If Adam Price can make a public statement that disciplinary procedures are starting, that would be appreciated."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-56352615

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56276997[/quote]
Just a thought: could this they/them person actually be a huge joke??
Owen (first name of that annoying virtue signalling journo)
Hurcum ( just say the name in your head...yuck...do you see what I mean??)

In addition, his words about her need to make an apology just sound like pure piss taking.

Maybe I am wrong....

[OldCrone]

This article tells you everything you need to know about Owen Hurcum.

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/owen-hurcum-is-a-vicious-male-bully

And probably more than you want to know. Hurcum has written a book called "Don’t Ask About My Genitals" (yes, really).

[toffeebutterpopcorn]

Sounds like one of those ‘That’s Not My xxx’ kiddy books...

[LostToucan]

Nah, they is a real person. Born and brought up in Harrow, which apparently is no barrier to being able self ID as Welsh.

[kidsatuniemptynester]

@OldCrone

This article tells you everything you need to know about Owen Hurcum.

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/owen-hurcum-is-a-vicious-male-bully

And probably more than you want to know. Hurcum has written a book called "Don’t Ask About My Genitals" (yes, really).

Oh god, reading this is like something out of Orwell, or falling down the rabbit hole with Alice and meeting the Red Queen who cuts off your head for calling her a Queen and not recognising that she is identifying as a dormouse.

[Cailleach1]

So many are now gleefully using this sort of stuff to attack and bully people. They are no more than little tyrants; delighted at the abusive power they have to malign others under this new religion. It is akin to a descent into the dark ages.

[toffeebutterpopcorn]

Little Red Guards.