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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions
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tobee · 28/07/2023 13:32

Hasn't there been something also about Gina Miller and Monzo today?

PriOn1 · 28/07/2023 14:57

I’m not sure if others think I’m odd for this, but I actually find the wholesale capture of the banking industry as more troubling than the government being largely captured.

Banks hold so much power and although I had no particular reason to assume they would be politically neutral, I never imagined quite such a prevailing culture as that suggested in this article. I certainly never could have imagined a few years back that my own political view would be seen as so troubling that my bank might actually remove my account (and from what I’ve read, effectively steal whatever money is in it by closing the account but without paying out the money in it).

This feels massive to me. Something has gone horribly wrong.

CaramelMac · 28/07/2023 15:28

I’ve got an account with Monzo, I shan’t close it though, I’ll just leave it open with 1p in it so they have to keep sending me a new debit card when the old one expires. I reckon that’ll cost them more than me closing it.

MaryBeardsShoes · 28/07/2023 15:32

They are also generally a-holes.

RavingStone · 28/07/2023 15:42

Powerful misogynist men. They're in the police, keeping a naked woman in a cell, denying her medical attention and conveniently losing patches of the CCTV. They're in the banks, calling women TERFs and controlling who gets to have a bank account. They can do what the fuck they want, it seems.

FigRollsAlly · 28/07/2023 17:13

PriOn1 · 28/07/2023 14:57

I’m not sure if others think I’m odd for this, but I actually find the wholesale capture of the banking industry as more troubling than the government being largely captured.

Banks hold so much power and although I had no particular reason to assume they would be politically neutral, I never imagined quite such a prevailing culture as that suggested in this article. I certainly never could have imagined a few years back that my own political view would be seen as so troubling that my bank might actually remove my account (and from what I’ve read, effectively steal whatever money is in it by closing the account but without paying out the money in it).

This feels massive to me. Something has gone horribly wrong.

It’s not odd to feel that way when you consider that governments can be voted out but banks are not answerable in the same way and seem to think they can behave like this without even giving a reason.

Circumferences · 28/07/2023 17:17

It's fucking terrifying. It's also terrifying that some of people at the top of the system are also women. How women can be so powerful but so stupid is beyond me.

Froodwithatowel · 28/07/2023 17:22

PriOn1 · 28/07/2023 14:57

I’m not sure if others think I’m odd for this, but I actually find the wholesale capture of the banking industry as more troubling than the government being largely captured.

Banks hold so much power and although I had no particular reason to assume they would be politically neutral, I never imagined quite such a prevailing culture as that suggested in this article. I certainly never could have imagined a few years back that my own political view would be seen as so troubling that my bank might actually remove my account (and from what I’ve read, effectively steal whatever money is in it by closing the account but without paying out the money in it).

This feels massive to me. Something has gone horribly wrong.

Yes. The government permitted political capture. By a quasi religious nutjob group. Who have been able to exploit all the many safeguarding loopholes until they control the banks, the hospitals, the police and the civil service.

We're lucky it's only a bunch of rainbow haired lunatics who basically want male supremacism, but who will be the next insane political movement who use the same strategies and loopholes?

The HoC need to work out whether they want to keep their jobs or get out their strap on dildos, put on their gimp suits and let Stonewall crack on with running the country.

Imnobody4 · 28/07/2023 18:03

According to the Telegraph;

The Payment Accounts Regulations 2019 make it an offence to withhold or shut down accounts of customers on discriminatory grounds including for sex, race and religious reasons. But it also stops banks shutting down accounts because of a client’s political beliefs.
We need some banks being made example of.

Keykaty · 28/07/2023 18:24

How do they know whose accounts to target for closure? Is that a key issue? I thought GDPR applied.

Soontobe60 · 28/07/2023 21:32

Keykaty · 28/07/2023 18:24

How do they know whose accounts to target for closure? Is that a key issue? I thought GDPR applied.

God knows! I have no idea how any staff at Barclays, where I bank, would have a clue about my gender critical beliefs.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 28/07/2023 21:48

I saw it somewhere that banks have in their small print that they may keep an eye on customers social media...

Keykaty · 28/07/2023 21:53

Which is why I keep FB anonymous, with made up information. I use it to look at videos and occasionally to look at pics of someone I know. I don't have any other SM apart from here of course. But I'm not stupid enough to think I am not leaving a footprint everwhere I go these days.

Ourladycheesusedatum · 28/07/2023 21:59

Soontobe60 · 28/07/2023 21:32

God knows! I have no idea how any staff at Barclays, where I bank, would have a clue about my gender critical beliefs.

I think by following your soc med and possibly payments made to the likes of a gc go fund me and that legal fees one who's name escapes me.

Luckily for me I'm on fb with a fake name so although it's very vocally gc it cant be easily traced to me. It even uses a vague email address only set up for fb.
Mad that we have to jump through these hoops for a bank tho.

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