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Mermaids being investigated by the Charity Commission - thread 2

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ResisterRex · 06/10/2022 05:55

The first thread, towards the end of which there was a discussion about having a second thread but it wasn't added:

Mermaids being investigated by the charity commission
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4644323-mermaids-being-investigated-by-the-charity-commissionn_

There's been a new development so maybe a second thread would be useful:

Lottery pauses trans charity cash during investigation

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c959a286-44e4-11ed-8885-043c27446b97?shareToken=6d482edb1a386656502f33453da5c230

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Whatwouldscullydo · 09/10/2022 14:22

ArabellaScott · 09/10/2022 13:38

Cripes.

Mew has written for Times Higher Education.

www.timeshighereducation.com/author/darren-mew

Mew writes for DIVA here, along with Marlo Mack. A video by Marlo Mack 'how to be a girl' is STILL on the Scottish curriculum. It's the one with the Lords prayer playing very very quietly in the background.

diva-magazine.com/2022/03/30/author-marlo-mack-and-mermaids-darren-mew-on-allyship-trans-visibility-and-normalising-transness/

Honestly, you think you've fallen down rabbitholes ....

Creepy Lords Prayer starts around 1.15, you have to turn the sound up really high. Scotgov are promoting this, a reminder, everyone!

Wtf is that video. A girl can be senator or an astronaut so they can have a penis too?

Why the language equivalent to bereavement fir the loss of a child ?

Everyone would love their child to he happy all the time. But thats not life. Reality sucks sometimes and we need to give children the tools to assess and problem solve and face problems head on. That will naturally lead to periods where kids struggle and are unhappy. But reality doesn't go away and putting off being honest doesn't make it go away.

ResisterRex · 09/10/2022 14:28

MrsOvertonsWindow · 09/10/2022 14:17

Would an investigation into Stonewall staff be any different? Remember, they promptly appointed Aimee Challenor to their Trans Advisory Group which worked with schools when their links with a paedophile were exposed.

But they are still not telling us who's on that group:

"MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WERE APPOINTED FOLLOWING AN EXTENSIVE APPLICATION AND RECRUITMENT PROCESS. PLEASE NOTE, SOME MEMBERS OF THE GROUP HAVE ELECTED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS, SO HAVE NOT BEEN INCLUDED ON THIS LIST."
www.stonewall.org.uk/trans-advisory-group

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RedToothBrush · 09/10/2022 14:30

Shakenotslurred · 09/10/2022 14:13

Am I the only one thinking stonewall have used this to throw mermaids under the bus? It would have made more sense for SW to challenge LGBA status, but they got a smaller charity with less standing to challenge. I reckon SW can see which way the wind is blowing on these issues and is using the time that everyone is focussed on mermaids to clean house. They know they are next….

Why would they throw Mermaids under the bus?

That would mean they have understanding that Mermaids were toxic... and if they knew that, they knew it would collapse and then draw scrutiny on themselves.

The question is more why didn't they do it themselves to begin with. They were the more obvious organisation to do it.

There are two reasons: 1) They worked out it was doomed to fail 2) They thought it was too high risk for themselves as an organisation.

The whole case is a nonsense that was never going to bring anything good to whoever brought it, against the changing political backdrop on the subject.

Its much easier to come to the conclusion that Mermaids, an organisation mired in poor judgement calls, simply decided to make another really crap decision in terms of how it was run. If you are THAT badly run and THAT arrogant, sooner or later you are going to hit a point where the entire thing falls down around your ears.

The irony is the LGB Alliance didn't actually have to do anything to destroy the reputation of Mermaids. They just had to exist. Mermaids have done all the hard work themselves.

PronounssheRa · 09/10/2022 14:33

BettyFilous · 09/10/2022 14:20

Mermaids’ recent statement about undertaking social media checks etc as part of their recruitment process isn’t ageing well. 🤦‍♀️

Oh FFS. Mermaids are a safeguarding disaster zone.

Shakenotslurred · 09/10/2022 14:35

I meant more of in the case they knew mermaids was toxic, knew they were coming under scrutiny, and sent mermaids off on a suicide mission. Organisations have been leaving the SW scheme, the AB case showed members of their scheme that stonewall will not support them if they get into trouble and donations have been falling. They are losing influence and once they lose influence, they are vulnerable to scrutiny. With all the focus on MM. no one will notice if members of SW board leave or resign, pages are changed and tweets deleted.

334bu · 09/10/2022 14:39

Words fail me.

"Assist with the day to day running of Mermaids’ online platforms, including
moderating comments, scheduling social media posts and emails, and making
updates to the Mermaids’ website and forums"

What kind of an organisation is this?

RedToothBrush · 09/10/2022 14:40

HOW THE FUCK ARE THE DAILY MAIL GOING TO COVER THIS STORY IN DETAIL TO GIVE JUSTICE TO THE FULL GLORY OF THOSE PICTURES?

Its like someone has gone, how far can I push this to ensure it doesn't get published in the the Daily Mail?!

Fair play to Darren Mew on properly jumping the Daily Mail shark and making Brass Eye Paedogeddon look like it was tame! Thats quite the feat of achievement.

He should put it on his CV. Might get him a couple of jobs... in hardcore.

RedToothBrush · 09/10/2022 14:43

Is anyone brave enough to do a penis count on that image? (I'm not going there).

RoyalCorgi · 09/10/2022 14:43

TheBiologyStupid · 09/10/2022 14:10

Unfortunately for Mermaids you can download the application pack clearly stating that the Digital Engagement Officer's role includes moderating the chat boards from this archived page: web.archive.org/web/20220930223750/mermaidsuk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DEO-Application-Pack-2022.docx-1-1.pdf

Also I found the cached version of the deleted link and took a screenshot.

Mermaids being investigated by the Charity Commission - thread 2
RoyalCorgi · 09/10/2022 14:47

Here's the second part.

Mermaids being investigated by the Charity Commission - thread 2
AlisonDonut · 09/10/2022 14:47

Oh to be at the Charities Commission head office tomorrow.

Even just as a temp.

Shakenotslurred · 09/10/2022 14:48

AlisonDonut · 09/10/2022 14:47

Oh to be at the Charities Commission head office tomorrow.

Even just as a temp.

I would pay for that job!!

Shakenotslurred · 09/10/2022 14:50

I’m sure the nice farming community have archived everything. There’s quite an informative thread on mermaids….

AlisonDonut · 09/10/2022 14:51

Shakenotslurred · 09/10/2022 14:48

I would pay for that job!!

I'm afraid I've already volunteered to take minutes at that meeting.

Shakenotslurred · 09/10/2022 14:52

Yeah but you’ll need someone to bring tea/coffee/gin….

ResisterRex · 09/10/2022 14:59

Archived Tik Toks

twitter.com/boxofbudgies/status/1579082542812041217?s=46&t=7Q-gpG5sAL6Z6VxwPfP1Uw

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Moonatics · 09/10/2022 15:03

FemaleAndLearning · 08/10/2022 22:29

It would be really good if someone did a network diagram showing all the links between these people.

We need a trello board.
There are free online ones although I forget which I've used previously.

Needmoresleep · 09/10/2022 15:17

The Goodlaw project Trans committee.

Not just Mew.

A couple of other familiar names:

Prof Alex Sharpe. Warwick U and Garden Court Chambers and witness in the Allison case.

Mridul Wadwha. Major figure in Scottish trans politics and heads a major rape crisis centre.

I hope people are drawing up a diagram of the links. We need the much missed R0wantrees.

Needmoresleep · 09/10/2022 15:21

Sorry, I misread an earlier post. Mew does not seem to be on the Good Law Project's Advisory Group Legal Defence Fund for Transgender Lives. The other two are, together with someone I assume to be a Mermaids mum.

At least they are transparent. Stonewall does not publish the names of everyone on its transadvisory committee. Transparency does not seem to be a thing in transpolitics.

BewaretheIckabog · 09/10/2022 15:42

I think there’ll have to be some sort of statement from MM tomorrow. Let’s see if they reopen phones and chat. I predict a very limited phone service and no chat rooms.

SG will resign soon due to intolerable abuse / bullying / transphobia towards her and her family. It’ll be a whole bingo card of excuses.

It may be something really simple like lack of trustees which means MM can’t continue - some will hang in for a bit but who would volunteer for legal responsibility for that shitshow. I believe they need 3 to continue.

But - most importantly of all JKR liked my comment on Twitter. I’ve been on Twitter for years but as an observer so only my second ever Tweet and I did a little happy dance round the kitchen. Bloody love her!

RedToothBrush · 09/10/2022 15:43

Can I write Tonight's Mail Article Please?

Mermaids in New Multi Dick Pic Shocker of Staff Member
This comes just days after the Children's Charity was hit by revelations of a Trustee associating with paedophiles.

Mermaids has been rocked by yet another scandal, just days after assuring the public that it was properly vetting its staff. It had admitted it had failed to check the background of Trustee Jacob Breslow, an academic in Child Studies at LSE and had relied on the reputation of his employer, after he was caught fratinising with paedos. The new explicit images bring further embarassment to the embattled organisation.

Darren Mew (in his 20s), the charities digital engagement officer with responsibility for moderating their forum where children meet with other children and adult staff, has been found plastered on the internet in what are being described as 'disturbing' images. One image features him in a baby pink and blue kit with the camera angle looking up his tartan adornment. The other, which we can not publish here, due to the Obscene Publications Act 1959, features a bleach blonde, naked Mew laid back surrounded by a Plethora of Peni.

A spokeswoman from the MN Feminist section said "WTAF ", whilst Owen Jones came out in support for Mew. He tweeted to accuse JKR of 'creating a second rate photoshop' which was 'maliciously hacked onto someone else account to destroy the career of an innocent queer'. He went further stating Rowling had deliberately put hateful messages in invisible ink in all her books which were influencing a generation of young minds in a terrifying way. Lush condemned the news and used the opportunity to annouce the launch a new range of rainbow coloured penis shaped bath bombs called 'vagina' with all proceeds going to support Stonewall. Ben Cohen of Pink News refused to comment and simply sat in the corner looking sheepish.

Mermaids have said they are "saddened by the revellation" and were not aware of any such images exisiting on the entire internet and that they "use safe search on all their computers to ensure safeguarding is complied with at all times". They said that the Charity Commission would vindict their position that the LGB Alliance were spearheading an organised and orchestrated campaign against them and all trans people. Their statement finished by saying that their offices would be closed tomorrow as they had a contractor coming to clean their hard drives following a targetted malicious computer virus attack from transphobic hate groups. They also confirmed that they had made a report to their mates down the Met for something, but they hadn't quite worked out what for or against whom yet. They are reviewing their procedures.

In underrelated news Chris Morris and Sacha Baron Cohen have put out a joint statement announcing their retirement from comedy, stating "With Great Sadness we regret to inform the public of our decision. There is no where left for satire to go, in this era of Cancel Culture".

We are getting beyond the realms where parody can walk. It really is like a scene from the last series of 'The Boys'. We have gone that far.

Its so fucking unbelieavbly awful.

People have stood by with all the red flag bunting cheering it on for YEARS. And are continue to do so.

Its now a game of seeing just who the last man standing supporting Mermaids will be and how few organisations that were part of this aren't sticking up their hands to say 'we helped fund this utter shit show' as part of their own sickening marketing strategies to boost sales. (Anyone up for a sweep stake on when OJ will reverse ferret?)

We aren't seeing businesses stand up and admit 'we properly fucked up here and regret ever being associated with this organisation'. They should be reminded of how their brand was linked with this charity.

Meanwhile children have been physically harmed after being drawn in like sailors to their doom by the lure of the siren's promises. And no one in all those political parties still seems to actually care.

titchy · 09/10/2022 15:46

Red you're brilliant! GrinGrinGrin

Smilelesstalkmore · 09/10/2022 15:47

ScreamingMeMe · 09/10/2022 12:41

Mew again, the subject of an x-rated collage.

Look, grown adults can pose nude for artwork if they want. What they can't do, is also work for a children's charity.

twitter.com/haus_magazine/status/1275738606049603585?t=W1cTB5syerz-5fVLuYWNPQ&s=19

Oh my gaaaaaad, my eyes! MY EYES!!!

I guess we can await the TRAs declaring anyone who questions whether this man is suitable to work for a charity for vulnerable children as being 'obsessed with genitals'.......

Shakenotslurred · 09/10/2022 15:50

So hold on, penises cause dysphoria for TW so should never be mentioned as it’s literal violence to suggest a TW has such a thing, but he has no problem plastering it all over the Internet. FML these people are batshit

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