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Let Women SPeak - Australia & NZ tour

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ZombieMumEB · 11/02/2023 06:41

I am so excited that this is coming to Australia - I will hopefully be attending.

Anyone else?

Let Women SPeak - Australia & NZ tour
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Hepwo · 23/03/2023 10:35

nilsmousehammer · 23/03/2023 10:24

You're not going to accept that the men who attended the event were actual Nazis, or state what in your book could qualify as Nazi or far right if men dressed in black uniforms literally sieg-heiling

The Nazis were a political movement 70 years ago, with an army and a very clear political purpose, intentions, specific to that time and place. They murdered 6 million people on an industrial scale, they herded entire village populations into buildings and burned them alive, they committed atrocities that left millions traumatised, can we please not weaponise the actual real suffering of actual real people for a bit of political point scoring? Because we don't know we're born and really all the word 'Nazi' is standing for is 'bad person I don't like, who I think probably vaguely mouths platitudes about stuff I politically don't agree with and I know fuck all about real history and have no respect whatsoever for the holocaust'.

A twat putting on a uniform and going zig heil because they quite like the image of grrr I'm bad, look at me, and liking the feelz and the image is not a nazi. They are a larping, attention seeking twat. If I put on a feathered head dress and run around whooping and burning sage I have not turned into a cherokee. Rather like those claiming to be all antifa know fuck all about fascism, they just like saying it, and those claiming to be anarchists know fuck all about anarchism as a movement and have never done anything to actually involve themselves in it, they just like smashing stuff. And rather like we have those males who know fuck all about women or being one, but quite like the image, the feelz, the outfits and the perceptions of others around them.

So no. I do not accept that someone fucking about in a highly offensive costume for their personal jollies is a 'Nazi', they are just a larping twat.

Well said.

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:35

Helleofabore · 23/03/2023 10:23

"Almost as though these posters were trying to minimise the far right and provide proof on social media of MN and the gender critical being supportive of the far right."

Well. That is an interesting take. Sorry everyone, I am very slow on the take up this morning.

You have read posts with the framing that to question who are the far right and to ask just how many times does a woman who has already denouced the far right have to denounce the far right to be considered pure enough not to be referred to as 'far right' or aligned with the 'far right' as people 'being supportive of the far right'?

Is that what you really have twisted in your mind?

That we are all here being 'supportive of the far right'?

Still waiting for you to define the far right, @Helleofabore

For some reason, you seem unclear if men in black uniforms sieg-heiling are far right or...I don't know, just a normal bunch of mainstream lads having a laff with their mates.

Are you going to enlighten us on what exactly you think constitutes far right if this doesn't meet your very high bar??!

NecessaryScene · 23/03/2023 10:36

Exactly though, the Nazis were there to support SFW because they think SFW are on the same page as them.

Where are they claiming this? Did I miss something? I've only seen them denouncing KJK for her pro-lesbianism.

There was the thing above talking about the " Anti-Transgenderism/Anti-Grooming rally", but what makes you think that refers to Let Women Speak, rather than THEIR rally?

YetAnotherSpartacus · 23/03/2023 10:38

For some reason, you seem unclear if men in black uniforms sieg-heiling are far right or...I don't know, just a normal bunch of mainstream lads having a laff with their mates.

Are you going to enlighten us on what exactly you think constitutes far right if this doesn't meet your very high bar??!

I wonder what Melbourne's sizeable Jewish population thinks.

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:39

Helleofabore · 23/03/2023 10:34

On a different thread, I actually was posting denounciations on every page.

It didn't help one jot.

Oh right. It was on another thread.

Apologies, but I don't stalk you on here.

Surely it would be quicker to just say - we're those men far right or not in your opinion?

A yes or no will do. One word. Yes - they were far right or No - they weren't, despite looking and behaving exactly like a pretty classic definition of the far right.

Go on. Yes. Or no.

Which is it?,

Helleofabore · 23/03/2023 10:39

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:02

Also, I note the attempted conflation of 'right' and 'far right' here.

No-one has suggested for a second that there is anything wrong with women on the right speaking, and indeed, this is clearly not a party political issue - many leading women on the right, like the Baroness, Maria Cates etc do stirling work to stand up for women's rights.

Pretending that there is not a huge difference between right and far right or neo-Nazis is disingenuous in the extreme.

One is part of the normal political spectrum, one is deservedly outside it, for very good reason.

Surely you cannot be claiming not to be aware of the difference? Shock

And yet, on other threads a 'right wing' speaker was denigrated as being 'far right'. Here on FWR.

This is happening. Just because you don't think it is happening, doesn't mean it is not happening.

The people on this thread that you are accusing very personally are probably the people who very well know the difference. The reason we keep asking is because on FWR and over the internet people who are not 'far right' are being described as being 'far right.'

We can keep repeating this, and you can keep denying this. But it will get this thread nowhere.

nilsmousehammer · 23/03/2023 10:40

For some reason, you seem unclear if men in black uniforms sieg-heiling are far right or...I don't know, just a normal bunch of mainstream lads having a laff with their mates.

Oh for fucks sake. While you're dancing on the graves of slaughtered millions, would you care to pull out:

  • the political AIMS of this formed group that are so very dangerous
  • their policies
  • how this reinvented third reich apparently is now passionately supportive of women's equality, access, diversity, child safeguarding and homosexual females when the third reich actually murdered lesbians and were very into child medical experiments and would have had maya and julie bindel straight in the gas chambers for being non-aryan
  • what they are achieving politically?

No they are not mainstream lads. They are offensive cosplay thugs after attention and jollies.

I am now going to don a fucking gilet, put on riding boots and a scarf and turn into Princess Anne, since apparently all I need to do is wear the costume and do the odd action or say a few lines and it's Total Authentic Reality to some.

Helleofabore · 23/03/2023 10:40

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:39

Oh right. It was on another thread.

Apologies, but I don't stalk you on here.

Surely it would be quicker to just say - we're those men far right or not in your opinion?

A yes or no will do. One word. Yes - they were far right or No - they weren't, despite looking and behaving exactly like a pretty classic definition of the far right.

Go on. Yes. Or no.

Which is it?,

I have had plenty to say on this thread. Why don't you read it?

Anklespraying · 23/03/2023 10:40

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:39

Oh right. It was on another thread.

Apologies, but I don't stalk you on here.

Surely it would be quicker to just say - we're those men far right or not in your opinion?

A yes or no will do. One word. Yes - they were far right or No - they weren't, despite looking and behaving exactly like a pretty classic definition of the far right.

Go on. Yes. Or no.

Which is it?,

Is this a private interrogation or can we all watch.

There's some ducking bizzare behaviour going on here this week.

nilsmousehammer · 23/03/2023 10:41

HOW are they being far right?

WHAT THE FUCK IS far right?

What policies? What ACTIONS?

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:41

IcakethereforeIam · 23/03/2023 10:29

Just catching up with the thread, still a bit confused. These nazi accusations seem to have entered 'when did you stop bearing your wife?' territory. I'm going to assume the feminists in Australia (who apparently had in inside knowledge on the far right/nazi spectrum and what they would try), issued a statement to ask them not to attend. They surely didn't just decide to sit this one out, because......purity? They didn't decide that keeping their hands clean was better than doing, what exactly, anything?

Was that the Aboriginal flag that politician was dragging through the dirt? Metaphorically and literally.

Did the feminists in Australia do this?

I hope so.

Does anyone have any info on this?

BezMills · 23/03/2023 10:42

they looked like the Southampton students that visit Cowes every term to play Pub Golf, except with a change of clothes. A bunch of wee bawbags acting the goat for attention who'd probably be away home to their mum's house for a sandwich with all crisps on the side if it started raining.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 23/03/2023 10:44

Signalbox · 23/03/2023 02:42

Omg wtf 😂

“Wild moment @ SenatorThorpe
tries to storm the stage where Kellie-Jay Keen is speaking.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/StandingforXX/status/1638711951504158721

Just catching up but this is hilarious

totally inappropriate footwear for storming a meeting being held on grass Lydia. Think it through next time lady

the chants of ‘Let women speak’ in response to her ridiculous behaviour were great

YetAnotherSpartacus · 23/03/2023 10:45

they looked like the Southampton students that visit Cowes every term to play Pub Golf, except with a change of clothes. A bunch of wee bawbags acting the goat for attention who'd probably be away home to their mum's house for a sandwich with all crisps on the side if it started raining.

You really need to do some Googling because they really aren't. Even a cursory search will reveal that NN groups are a real threat in both Australia and New Zealand.

BezMills · 23/03/2023 10:46

I said what they looked like. I'm quite sure there are real bad people about. Maybe they were at home that day.

beastlyslumber · 23/03/2023 10:50

Helleofabore · 23/03/2023 10:39

And yet, on other threads a 'right wing' speaker was denigrated as being 'far right'. Here on FWR.

This is happening. Just because you don't think it is happening, doesn't mean it is not happening.

The people on this thread that you are accusing very personally are probably the people who very well know the difference. The reason we keep asking is because on FWR and over the internet people who are not 'far right' are being described as being 'far right.'

We can keep repeating this, and you can keep denying this. But it will get this thread nowhere.

xxyzz is one of the very people who regularly conflate 'right' with 'far right' and throws around accusations of racism and Naziism with abandon whenever it suits them not to have to respond to a poster or they can't think of anything else to say.

You're part of the problem, xxyzz. If you don't want people to conflate right with far right, why don't you stop doing it?

IcakethereforeIam · 23/03/2023 10:51

What is it about the culture of Australia and New Zealand that emboldens and nurtures these wankers?

Perhaps KJK could have got them to sign a piece of paper? That's always worked with Nazis....oh no.....wait!

Helleofabore · 23/03/2023 10:54

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:35

Still waiting for you to define the far right, @Helleofabore

For some reason, you seem unclear if men in black uniforms sieg-heiling are far right or...I don't know, just a normal bunch of mainstream lads having a laff with their mates.

Are you going to enlighten us on what exactly you think constitutes far right if this doesn't meet your very high bar??!

Me? You want me to define far right? Sorry I have been reading pages back and this just caught my eye while posting an answer for something else.

I, that is me personally, define the 'far right' as a group of people who hold views that are autocratic, and often based on a nationalistic ideal that may also reflect a deeply authoritative religious ideal (that is usually harmful to women and to other minorities).

I have never professed to have any qualifications in politics. I am clear on FWR that I am not politically aligned with any party. So this 'definition' is hurried and not well thought out but I am actually trying to get some work done.

Just because I didn't answer your questions and asked instead that you read my posts, you seem to have taken this as a personal attack by me as I am reading your posts.

Why should I have had to repeat myself yet again on this very thread because you couldn't be arsed to read and then ask questions that I didn't feel I have answered?

Anactor · 23/03/2023 10:55

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 09:08

Have you name-changed to attack me? How cute.

Yes, I am saying that anyone who actually cares about advancing women's rights rather than the far right will understand why it matters that all our hard work is not derailed by unwanted links with the far right.

You've made it clear that you're not prepared to do that and prefer to live in fantasy politics land, where we only ever wish to appeal to the converted or the hard right.

Enjoy living in fantasy land. The rest of us have to live in the real world, the one in which we will almost certainly have a Labour government in a little over a year. Who will not be persuaded by headlines which link women’s rights and the far right.

You can dislike the reality. But you ignore it at women’s peril.

Yes, I've done a very sophisticated name change from Anactor to Anactor. I'm sneaky like that.

That your first thought is that someone whose user name you don't know must be a name-change is revealing. How many sock-puppets/name-changes do you have?

My other question would be to ask why you're supporting the far-right? You've taken a smallish group of LARPing thugs, who might crash protests on a regular basis, and given them a massive amount of publicity. You're insisting that everyone who supports Posie Parker must be far-right, which is making it sound as if the neo-Nazis have sensible ideas. You're derailing the discussion of what was actually said at the Let Women Speak events...

The only thing left for you to do is to hand out their leaflets. You're effectively their biggest ally.

But, of course, that's a very old propaganda technique you're using. Create an enemy, make it sound like a huge threat, accuse any opponents of being part of the 'enemy grouping'. The fact that the 'enemy' is either a minor problem or completely imaginary is immaterial.

The important thing is that it's your grouping who ends up with the power.

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:55

nilsmousehammer · 23/03/2023 10:40

For some reason, you seem unclear if men in black uniforms sieg-heiling are far right or...I don't know, just a normal bunch of mainstream lads having a laff with their mates.

Oh for fucks sake. While you're dancing on the graves of slaughtered millions, would you care to pull out:

  • the political AIMS of this formed group that are so very dangerous
  • their policies
  • how this reinvented third reich apparently is now passionately supportive of women's equality, access, diversity, child safeguarding and homosexual females when the third reich actually murdered lesbians and were very into child medical experiments and would have had maya and julie bindel straight in the gas chambers for being non-aryan
  • what they are achieving politically?

No they are not mainstream lads. They are offensive cosplay thugs after attention and jollies.

I am now going to don a fucking gilet, put on riding boots and a scarf and turn into Princess Anne, since apparently all I need to do is wear the costume and do the odd action or say a few lines and it's Total Authentic Reality to some.

The slaughtered millions whose graves you so casually claim I'm 'dancing' on include dozens of members of my family, you weird sick person. Though your attempt to attack a publicly Jewish poster with offensive claims about the Holocaust has been noted, and conclusions drawn.

By your definition, a Nazi is ever so conveniently only a historical figure, one who died some years ago and has already committed mass genocide.

That is not of course the definition of neo-Nazi or far right - and as far as I know, the only people for this is a helpful game to play are people who are themselves on the far right, trying to maintain plausible deniability.

Normal people don't sieg-heil - and normal people recognise that behaviour as overtly far right. It's not cosplaying and in many countries in the world where they recognise Nazism only too well due to their history, that behaviour would be criminal.

Posts like yours are like warm nectar to TRAs, who are no doubt screenshotting these as proof that MN is so far right it cannot recognise as far right the men every newspaper headline correctly identified as Nazis.

I don't know who on earth you think you're helping with this stunt, but it sure as hell ain't women.

Again, your claim that the Nazis at that event supported women’s rights is one that's only ever made by TRAs. Are you a TRA? Why would you make such a bizarre claim??

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 23/03/2023 10:56

gwrachod · 23/03/2023 09:13

Fucking hell, give me strength.

We're talking about the actual far right. It's not complicated. If you don't know what that is, try Google.

Cor

turn out it’s not just gender ideologists who get shirty when asked to explain why they believe what they believe

if those kind of questions make you so uncomfortable you go on the attack, I’d politely suggest that’s a you problem

YetAnotherSpartacus · 23/03/2023 10:57

I said what they looked like. I'm quite sure there are real bad people about. Maybe they were at home that day.

Or maybe they were the bad people. Do you have inside knowledge that they were not?

In any case, it isn't funny and it isn't a lark. I've had gay male friends bashed by neo nazis in Germany (where the movement is still active as well) and more locally, friends wearing hijabs spat at by nasty little bovver boys.

Either way, it's fucking offensive that some posters here are minimising it.

Imagine how the family members of the Christchurch shooting felt.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/08/christchurch-shooter-was-active-with-australian-far-right-groups-online-but-escaped-police-attention

Christchurch shooter was active with Australian far-right groups online but escaped police attention

Inquiry details how gunman expressed support for Australian extremist in Facebook posts and engaged with neo-Nazi groups’ social media

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/08/christchurch-shooter-was-active-with-australian-far-right-groups-online-but-escaped-police-attention

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:57

Anactor · 23/03/2023 10:55

Yes, I've done a very sophisticated name change from Anactor to Anactor. I'm sneaky like that.

That your first thought is that someone whose user name you don't know must be a name-change is revealing. How many sock-puppets/name-changes do you have?

My other question would be to ask why you're supporting the far-right? You've taken a smallish group of LARPing thugs, who might crash protests on a regular basis, and given them a massive amount of publicity. You're insisting that everyone who supports Posie Parker must be far-right, which is making it sound as if the neo-Nazis have sensible ideas. You're derailing the discussion of what was actually said at the Let Women Speak events...

The only thing left for you to do is to hand out their leaflets. You're effectively their biggest ally.

But, of course, that's a very old propaganda technique you're using. Create an enemy, make it sound like a huge threat, accuse any opponents of being part of the 'enemy grouping'. The fact that the 'enemy' is either a minor problem or completely imaginary is immaterial.

The important thing is that it's your grouping who ends up with the power.

Ah yes, claiming the Jewish poster is really a Nazi.

I'm not going to bother to engage with that, strangely. Hmm

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:58

Enjoy the emoji fail.

Let's try that again.

Hmm
Helleofabore · 23/03/2023 11:01

xxyzz · 23/03/2023 10:18

I shall say this very simply, so you can't duck out:

Are men in black uniforms sieg-heiling Nazis, or is it unclear, in your view?

And if in your view that isn't enough evidence to prove someone is a Nazi, what kind of evidence would be enough for you?

Can you name any neo-Nazis? Who do you think counts as a Nazi, and why?

Await your reply with interest.

Sorry, I just came across the post you have been talking about.

Please go back and read my posts. I have been very clear who these men are. Including what I believe their intention was.

Your questions here are irrelevant when you go back and read my posts. You could have saved yourself the effort.

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