Julia Hartley Brewer terfblocked on twitter by H from Steps

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mixed comments: sort of half and half, people calling her a bigot and people who understand biology and exploitation.

JHB's tweet about Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate was pretty horrible. Tate is a nasty misogynist who has now been arrested on suspicion of rape, whereas Thunberg is a teenager campaigning on climate change.

JHB was right, of course, about H from Steps, but then most people, regardless of political affiliation, understand that it's not possible to change sex.

Ahh you really have got her there with the difference between life and lifestyle....well done.

And yes she's obviously revealed she supports sex trafficking. As she's evil.

Hate her but a big ageist comment.ageism the ism that gets ignored esp by the trans bullies

Ageism is the last form of bullying that people think is ok, stupid really because they are only a few years away from becoming a target themselves.

I disagree with 95% of JHB says but she’s bang on on H. If he hadn’t blocked everyone outside of his echo chambers on Boxing Day we wouldn’t know how fragile his convictions are. Presumably my one and only tweet questioning the logic of a grown arse man wearing size ZZ prosthetic breast whilst teaching children was too much for him.

Maybe so, but starting a post about a woman with "Farty old..." is disgusting, particularly from a poster who has been demanding politeness from us on other threads.

I'm surprised that people kept following JHB after she showed herself to be a rape apologist (Ched Evans)

Amusing that hiring a woman's womb is progressive.

Did I say amusing, I meant creepy, creepy and entitled.

She's completely vile.

I'm not a fan of Julie, but there's something particularly sinister about men who think they have a right to rent a womb and buy a baby!

H also reckons he now knows more about women's menstrual cycles than women. Fuck. Off.

Julia Hartley Brewer is also a massive bellend who has said some really horrible stuff over the years.

Looking at the online arguments about H and Tate, it seems to me that it simply demonstrates that there are many different ways of hating women.

I know nothing about JHB but can't understand what is progressive about choosing to rent a woman's sexual organs and buying babies.----

Well Greta is now also transphobic, because according to all the “Trans mascs”on Twitter, using small dick as an insult “body shames” Trans men and equates masculinity with penis size thus invalidating Trans male vaginas.

Hahaha. Perfect.

Can I chose neither of them in this fight?

I'm wondering what cognitive dissonance you would have to employ to regard it as progressive of a chap to rent/exploit women's bodies in one instance and not in another? Is it progressive depending on which chap is doing the using of a woman's body.

I'm wondering if it is cognitive dissonance or hypocrisy?

I'd rather not see any woman's body used or exploited in any way; either rented to have a baby with the aim to remove it at birth, or rented to be used in another way.

I don’t know too much about JHB except that a few years back when virtually no broadcasters would admit to being GC, she held her head high above the parapet.

Woman with opinions is vile….please spare me. Akin to saying that women should know their place. What has happened to this board? Suddenly it is awash with posters who seem to be telling us what to think, simply because they say so.

I like opinionated women. Listening to someone and working out whether I agree or disagree seems a more fruitful task than simply making my mind on the basis that some internet random tells me that this person is vile.

Alas poor H from Steps has opted for the latter and a terf blocker that ensures he does not come across opinions that are not in line with his own. Sensitive soul that he is.

@Needmoresleep Sensitive soul that he is.

I wouldn't associate sensitivity with someone willing to exploit/rent a woman's body; with the aim of removing the baby to boot. I'd be more inclined to think vain and self-centred.

I was referring to his as someone who, though on Twitter, was unwilling to view views other than those he agreed with. He does not sound very bright.

I disagree with much of JHB's opinions but she has always stood firm on the TWAW argument and has rightly called H out on his hypocrisy
Her comments about Greta are unacceptable however.

It's just a cruddy blocker algorithm that's got fuck all to do with being vocally GC. I don't tweet anything contentious as I use it for vaguely work related follows - still got blocked, which is probably more due to a combination of

1. my shocking opinions upon the advisability of planting mint direct into the ground (don't do it),
2. the fact I've tweeted on plants without a user name like 'GranddadBriansAtTheAllotmentAgain' and occasionally about The Archers makes it more likely I'm a middleaged woman and
3. there are probably other middleaged people following me because of my radical mint exclusionary policies (requiring a third space insulated by at least an inch of ceramic and preferably locating on the block paved front path instead of out the back). As though there are no gay, trans, NB or people with other identities or sexualities into gardening and plants. Or cringing at the latest bollocks in Ambridge.

Who cares who blocks who?
Andrew Doyle (ironically the host of Free Speech Nation on GB News) famously has 10,000 people blocked.

I do know what you meant (and the tone implied!) @Needmoresleep .

I just saw the word sensitive, and though how opposite to such an attribute it is to exploit a woman's body in such a way. But, exploitation of women is apparently what is being called 'progressive' by some.

Wasn’t the original terf blocker written by Aimee Challenor ex of the Greens, the LibDems, Stonewall’s Trans advisory committee, and former Reddit employee.

One day we need a ‘where are they now’ thread.