Open 'Democracy' harrassing For Women Scotland and MBM

[JanieAllen]

FWS reply is excellent

forwomen.scot/07/08/2022/open-democracy/?fbclid=IwAR0C0Pjp5NXhaRba-OI88VplmxQSXl2RN2sXynvstdSW-73ftFDR2XvVEH0

Damn you beat me to this. I was about to post it.

Brilliant response to those ridiculous questions.

They have a private fb group which I've just joined they claim to be 'feminist' and come out with this crap?

Oh and btw 81% of their funding comes from foreign foundations working to undermine civil society in Scotland.

Just makes me wish FWS were suing someone else so I could send them some more money. Oh, and that I was Scots myself...

MBM's response was excellent:

twitter.com/mbmpolicy/status/1555903239748550658?s=21&t=x7cMCqk5Usfm75aq4zsaxg

Ha ha. Brilliant. And what a bad faith letter from OpenDemocracy. Wow.

That letter is so funny. Brilliant response.

FWS' frustration is understandable but it's poorly pitched as a response from an organisation that has won legal reviews of Scot Gov. decisions and may well need to do so again.

MBM's is a well-crafted, well-written response that is less open to being abused to their detriment as contributors to or stakeholders for Scot Gov. consultations.

send FWS more money! they have expenses preparing the next Judical Review while they await the scottish govenment to refund their expenses from the last one! they have paypal on their website accepts carrots, parsnips, beetroot

On it.. Does make me wish (it has occurred to me before) that there was a slightly more efficient way of finding out where compost contributions are needed than Mumsnet FWR - marvellous though it is I sometimes miss gardens I would otherwise have dug for... I'm not slating us by any means, it just makes me frustrated when I think about the resources open to the trans borg other side (Stonewall, the Scottish Government, little things like that..).

Agree.

ah I've been on Open Democracy's fb group which claims to be run under 'feminist' principles... it seems to be STUFFED with men. A response from

Gary Dunion
Open Democracy's questions are completely reasonable, and demonstrate a serious and conscientious journalistic approach. The idea that it is "harassment" for a journalist to make these enquiries of a political organisation is risible.

Adam Ramsay of Open Democracy's entire tenor is that stupid women couldn't possibly raise all that money by themselves......

If anyone wants to join their FB group which they claim to be feminist and the lively discussion....

Unsurprising bio:

twitter.com/adamramsay (assuming it was he/him who wrote to FWS)

A challenge for the thread. Would you say Adam Ramsay has a beard?

Definite beardy woke-bro.

Bloody brilliant response. Probably wasn't the diplomatic thing to say but I still love it

I've come across Adam Ramsay before, but I hadn't realised he was aristocracy until I read the FWS reply...

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