Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

From LSE Gender Studies paper (via Sex Matters)

177 replies

ChristinaXYZ · 26/07/2021 14:48

If any LSE alumni on here feel like penning a complaint... How can this be acceptable in an academic paper?

"“If TERFs think trans* is an endemic threat to feminism, let us be the threat to feminism…

Picture this: I hold a knife to your throat and spit my transness into your ear. Does that turn you on? Are you scared? I sure fucking hope so.”

Matt Thompson, LSE GENDER STUDIES MSc STUDENT"

I'm pretty speechless.

twitter.com/SexMattersOrg/status/1419643247522103303

sex-matters.org/posts/the-workplace/gender-studies-and-sexualised-threats/

OP posts:
ScreamingBeans · 26/07/2021 23:07

The minister for universities is Michelle Donelan

[email protected]

Datun · 26/07/2021 23:27

@Wheretobuy

This should result in his expulsion from LSE. No questions asked. This is not even him inciting violence. It’s him threatening violence and shouting about it on Twitter. So the consequences should reflect that.
And asking his victim if they are turned on by it. It's a disgusting little violent wank fantasy. And exactly the sort of declaration the police should be investigating with a view to its potential escalation.

What an unpleasant individual.

Greygreygrey · 26/07/2021 23:31

DD yr12 considering the LSE. I’m thinking NO! But then everywhere is probably just the same.

This is all bizarre and outrageous. I hope the papers pick it up. I want the LSE embarrassed and other universities to learn by example.

FrankButchersDickieBow · 26/07/2021 23:45

Wow. The violence is palpable.

RedDogsBeg · 26/07/2021 23:48

@lionheart

Thanks RedDogsBeg.
You're welcome, I was quite impressed that I did the link right!
BaronMunchausen · 27/07/2021 00:12

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

It’ll probably appear in a 5 star gender studies journal. Does Sally Hines edit anything at the moment?

Seriously, as things stand it won’t stop him getting a lecturing job. There was a violent misogynist in a Facebook group the other day saying JK Rowling ought to have her mouth sewn up. Someone looked him up and he is a lecturer at Liverpool University.

Initials MH perhaps?
BaronMunchausen · 27/07/2021 00:14

@ArabellaScott

Apologies if I've misgendered the person talking about holding knives to women's throats - I am unsure what pronouns are required for a 'genderfuck' identity.
Fucker, perhaps?
alkanet · 27/07/2021 01:01

So where is the line Mumsnet? When does activism slip over into terrorism? Shouldn't we be allowed to talk freely about things that threaten our lives?

merrymouse · 27/07/2021 08:38

Looking at Thompson’s name and presentation choice, it’s difficult to understand how a woman wouldn’t experience this as a straightforward old fashioned threat of male violence against women. How can that be an acceptable part of an LSE qualification?

I don’t know anything about Matt Thompson or what led to this choice of paper, but the LSE allowed this and were happy to accept what appears to be Twitter trolling as an academic submission.

What on earth is going on at the LSE?

merrymouse · 27/07/2021 08:41

How many women were and will be forced to read or listen to this paper as it works it’s way through the system?

Coercive control.

Helleofabore · 27/07/2021 09:16

What on earth is going on at the LSE?

I guess my question is, is this what Gender Studies is now about? A vehicle for someone’s rather obvious fantasy to lauded.

And that lecturers and other students either have to go along with it or be investigated for wrongthink?

Considering the tweet about the Open University GCN and now this, if I was the dean of that subject, I’d be seriously thinking about who has that social media role, but also whether the lack of respect for women, but for freedom of free speech or even free thought coming out of this department.

RoyalCorgi · 27/07/2021 09:29

There was a violent misogynist in a Facebook group the other day saying JK Rowling ought to have her mouth sewn up. Someone looked him up and he is a lecturer at Liverpool University.

Surely he should be reported to the university?

ArabellaScott · 27/07/2021 09:30

No reporting to the police and/or Prevent?

So, it is presumably acceptable for this white, well-educated, well-spoken person to discuss his violent sexual fantasies openly?

What is the difference between expressing this in a university paper and a terrorist describing their violent revenge fantasies? Is it irony? Is threatening behaviour acceptable if it's 'ironic'?

merrymouse · 27/07/2021 09:31

A vehicle for someone’s rather obvious very gender conforming fantasy to be lauded.

ArabellaScott · 27/07/2021 09:32

@RoyalCorgi

There was a violent misogynist in a Facebook group the other day saying JK Rowling ought to have her mouth sewn up. Someone looked him up and he is a lecturer at Liverpool University.

Surely he should be reported to the university?

Yes. And possibly the police. See, most feminists are fine with freedom of speech but when you realise this is not 'expression', this is a form of terrorism, threat and hate speech, I think it's time we started taking these people more seriously.

If someone shows you who they are, etc.

merrymouse · 27/07/2021 09:39

this is a form of terrorism, threat and hate speech, I think it's time we started taking these people more seriously.

There is a link between violence against women and terrorism. There is also a long history of establishment endorsement of violence against women as long as it’s the right kind of woman. You’d have thought we would have made more progress.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 27/07/2021 09:45

What is 'the trans body' of which the author speaks? Surely the author means 'trans bodies' (by their own logic)?

Tesla73 · 27/07/2021 09:50

I wonder if Andrew Doyle is aware or whether GBNews will report on this

WhatKatyDidNot · 27/07/2021 09:50

I see there have been some reports to Prevent under the grounds of extremism. Good.

I think this should go further and we should campaign to have this as a dedicated Prevent strand. This dangerous extremist is not the first. We've had gun making at Brunel, bomb threats to WPUK, PCSOs making videos of themselves smashing images of women...

... dedicated Prevent strand. Now.

ArabellaScott · 27/07/2021 09:51

How would that happen, Katy?

YetAnotherSpartacus · 27/07/2021 09:53

Way back when I was studying women's studies I remember papers with similar premises - minus the violence of course. The basic premise is - capitalise on the fact that women's bodies are somehow disruptive to the male order - they are multiple (in pregnancy), bleed, inspire fear (look at many mythological themes for evidence of this). I've seen similar written about race. To this end, if you erase the shock factor of the violence and the very 'me, me, me' nature of it then it's not even original.

ArabellaScott · 27/07/2021 09:58

Banality of evil, Spartacus.

WhatKatyDidNot · 27/07/2021 09:58

@ArabellaScott

How would that happen, Katy?
No idea! Start lobbying the people who run Prevent and the ministers in charge, and include the various extremist/violent incidents and threats that have happened? Ask the baroness?
YetAnotherSpartacus · 27/07/2021 10:05

I'm not going near the one on vomit.

GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 27/07/2021 10:33

@YetAnotherSpartacus

I'm not going near the one on vomit.
I shouldn't think you'll need to. The one quoted in the OP is nauseating enough.

You can come out with that violent tripe at LSE, but don't you dare misgender someone on MN...