If it was so complicated.....

[rabbitwoman]

• How come there are 7 billion people on the planet?

• how did anyone get married before same sex marriage became legal?

(feel free to add your own)

@rabbitwoman

If it is so complicated, how come I am not allowed to just wear swimming trunks at my local swimming pool!?

This is interesting.

Wisdom of doing this aside, I wonder what the response from authorities would be if groups of topless women (in swimming shorts) pitched up at local leisure centres explaining they identified as male. Would they respect this and let it go?

There were some excellent women demonstrating this, I think, they called themselves girl Friday? They would 'identify as men' on Fridays and then I bade men's spaces?

The most memorable was when they chose the hampstead heath open ponds and arrived at the men's section (I think they were topless but I can't remember).

The men called the police who turned up and were, I think, amused?

Obviously, covid put pay to their antics....

I’m trying to think of ways of making these points in hard-hitting places without having to expose my breasts.

I’m finding it difficult to think of any that don’t put biological women in danger.

There were some excellent women demonstrating this, I think, they called themselves girl Friday? They would 'identify as men' on Fridays and then I bade men's spaces?

They were Man Friday, and it all started here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3176098-I-am-about-to-ID-as-a-man

Perhaps we could gather in gangs of about thirty, and queue up outside the men’s theatre toilets in the interval. Quickly place our false beards over our ears and make the men wait behind all thirty of us to take their turn.

(Thanks; will check out the link )

@Swashbuckled

Perhaps we could gather in gangs of about thirty, and queue up outside the men’s theatre toilets in the interval. Quickly place our false beards over our ears and make the men wait behind all thirty of us to take their turn.

(Thanks; will check out the link )

You jest - it's a crazy plan, but it might just work.....

I don’t know that I am jesting, but am trying to feel inspired by things that could be done to make our point. There was a recent thread about trying to engage the silent majority; the ordinary men and women who feel this is ridiculous but are not really touched by it. (The one where we tried to think of a catchy name for GC.)

So I’m just sitting here with my glass of “after work whisky” trying to think of humorous scenes (“Happenings”, if you like) that would make these ordinary men and women laugh in recognition and encourage them to come on board.

And I’m aware that I am up in the Grim North and a long way from the places where these sort of Happenings would get noticed.

@GinUnicorn

How come we can see scans at 16 weeks?

Harmony test at 8/9 weeks

Everyone loves The Life of Brian, along with the scene which includes Brian’s mother (and the other women) wearing false beards and speaking in gruff voices so they can have a bash at the stoning.

That kind of thing…so those watching will be laughing along with us.

If it's so complicated, why wouldn't transplanting a tail and pointy ears onto my body make me a cat (even if I'd always fancied chasing mice and claimed to suffer from hairballs)?

If its so complicated, how come when a Lord, Duke etc dies, they know which relatives can inherit the title and associated property and which can't, despite being older and/or a closer relation?

I thought it was a lot more complicated than this!!! Come on, NHS, you should know better.....

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

If its so complicated, how come when a Lord, Duke etc dies, they know which relatives can inherit the title and associated property and which can't, despite being older and/or a closer relation?

Yeah you can't trans out of that one, primogeniture law specifically forbids it howcome that's not transphobia when everything else is...