The BBC are still calling it ‘Girls Night In’ 👏🏻

[Blessex]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59054772

Seems girls aren’t cancelled after all when the adults get involved.

Have you read the article? The movement is called Girls Night or similar. It's not the BBC.

@Pandaly yes I have read the article. Have you been following this story?

‘Girls Night In’ was indeed coined by the women leading it. Then they issued a statement saying they were changing the name from ‘Girls Night In’ to ‘Night In’ because they came under pressure that they weren’t being ‘inclusive enough’.

Seems like the BBC ignored that memo - which is a good thing!

The movement to stay in is called ‘Girls Night In’ movement, whereby they plan to boycott nightclubs for a night in protest. Therefore the BBC aren’t using the term, the university students are.

Ok I give up!!! The university students felt pressurised to drop the word ‘girl’. Sorry I posted this in sex and gender discussions as I thought people here were following the story.

@Blessex ah right I see. Apologies I had only read a few articles and didn't realise they had changed their name to be more inclusive.

I knew what you mean OP. Clearly some posters haven't seen the pile on that got the organisers to change the name.

Yes sorry I only saw your OP

Students at Edinburgh were pressured to include anyone who identified as female as well as girls/women.

Let's hope it stays.

@Pandaly ha no probs. Yes so the female students got a pile on indeed and made a statement that they were going to drop the word ‘girl’ because it wasn’t inclusive enough. Seems common sense is returning.

I think it’s cool to say anyone can stay home. Of course we are inclusive there. Love it that other people are in solidarity.

Just don’t make us cancel our words, identity and frankly a super catchy and super clear title to a movement.

So let me get this right, a movement called 'girls night in' that came about because girls were being targeted in clubs, spiked and injected, got a pile on because they used the word girls.....WTF is happening in the world right now, who wasn't that being inclusive too I wonder. I mean boys maybe, as I have read about some boys that it happened too, but if girls want to protest about this then they bloody well should be able to without having to change their words. Who was giving them a hard time and who were they excluding?

Just using the word 'girls' was enough to exclude people who wanted in. In my opinion, the very ones the girls needed to keep out.

@Tabasco007 100% correct. And now the girls are falling over themselves to say that it’s not just girls drinks that are being spiked. It’s boys too! Our poor daughters!

Given a hard time by boys identifying as girls (or more likely male activists) and non binary identifying girls.

Trans students who are on medicalisation are getting upset about people speaking for them & not letting them just blend in.

The name's just pointless now then. They could have called it "Girl's (plus anyone who feels they are under threat of being spiked because they look like a 'Girl')'s Night in

I can't believe the BBC haven't even bothered to do a Twitter poll to ascertain if this is an important enough issue facing women! What lazy and irresponsible journalism to rely on the experiences of just a few women. And from the state broadcaster!

Such a transparent anti-man agenda. I am friends with lots of women and NONE of them have experienced this so I doubt this has happened in any significant number.

What I can never get my head around is that if TWAW then surely TGAG? So why don’t trans girls now want to be called girls? My head is all over the place.

@Blessex

Ok I give up!!! The university students felt pressurised to drop the word ‘girl’. Sorry I posted this in sex and gender discussions as I thought people here were following the story.

I'm following OP don't worry some of us know what you're talking about 🤣🤣 I felt sorry for the girls being pressured into changing the name FFS glad to see it's being ignored. To be fair though just calling it night in doesn't give any indication what the article is about and would likely have been read less, it's not the BBC sticking up for the girls.

@Blessex

What I can never get my head around is that if TWAW then surely TGAG? So why don’t trans girls now want to be called girls? My head is all over the place.

Well yeah. Girl only excuses "anyone who doesn't identify as a Girl". They can have their own night.

*excludes

@Hattie765 yep maybe the girls will see it was indeed a catchy and clear headline - and that’s how best to get PR attention.

Geo. How many is enough?

@Blessex

What I can never get my head around is that if TWAW then surely TGAG? So why don’t trans girls now want to be called girls? My head is all over the place.

Yes, I thought the whole point of TWAW was that transwomen are automatically invited into any female named space? Aren't they "othering" themselves by insisting that they are referred to separately? Surely any transwoman would read "girls' night in" and think "great- that's me!"