Women's rights general conversations - Thread 6

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of Thread 5.

There is so much excellent information and so many active discussions on FWR that I wondered if it would be useful to have a thread to sort of "cross-fertilise" between them - airing little thoughts or vignettes that wouldn't themselves merit their own thread, to highlight other posts/threads of particular interest or to point to notable developments on fast-moving threads so that casual observers know where to look.

(For example, "the X thread has meandered onto a fascinating discussion of Y" or "Poster P's amazing analysis on thread Z might have relevance to the scenario in thread W" or "Has anybody noticed this recurring theme that keeps coming up??" or even "Random bloke asked me to smile while I was choosing onions in the supermarket, grr"- that sort of thing).

I use https://12ft.io and that works well.

Some recent posts came to mind when I saw this earlier……..posted by Elon Musk.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5X8gZQWEAA5E0H?format=jpg&name=large

Thought I’d added the pic rather than a link…

Haha @bignosebignose

Things have changed for me. I've been unpeaked and I'm handing in my TERF card. I've discovered the musings of the real 4eva woman, Jarvis Dupont (she/her).

https://thespectator.com/life/cisgendered-menstruators-erase-identity/

Don't know about you fools, but I'm on the right side of history.

Blimey, the Speccie even essaying humour these days!

Ha!

(Although it takes the fun out of the Poe/not-Poe game when they print 'HUMOR' at the top.)

That's the American market for you.

Even still, some xistas struggle...

Jarvis Dupont is properly funny - I really liked Trans Koreans are Koreans, if only for the title.

That was hilarious! (According to my Bad Souled sense of humour, anyway).

Some more light reading (if you have a Bad Soul), or cruel erasure of the most marginalised and vulnerable (if you are Righteous):

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4890329-are-these-pronouns-real?

I'm thoroughly enjoying that thread.

Light reading on that thread, yes, but a serious point here:

I'm looking for a new job too and have already discounted quite a few roles for being affiliated with Stonewall. I just want to go to work, to work, without all these distractions.

The tentacles are spreading.

Email received today:

Dear Member

You are cordially invited to come along and enjoy an evening with Lisa Nandy and the Women's Forum Members. Friday 29th September 2023 at 19:00 in [redacted]

But, Googling 'Labour Women's Forum', it seems that they were 'transitioned' (I know, I know!) in 2020??

https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Guide-for-Transition-to-Women-Branches.pdf

I suppose I ought to go along and see what they reckon about Roisin Murphy... Costs 15 quid, though.

Interesting tweet today struck me as probably accurate:

https://twitter.com/KnownHeretic/status/1699826435601625527?s=20

Very clearly explained - the analogy of the thin person "feeling" fat, without actually having any idea what "being" fat actually feels like, is a good one.

WTF? This is insane and utterly wicked. What the hell is going on?

'My daughters had a pretty painful experience at summer camp where an adult counselor instructed them to write and shout out insults to a prominent women’s rights advocate (in the name of Transgender “inclusion”)...It appears the group voted to have a Harry Potter theme for one of the game days and one counselor (female and more or less normal, i.e. not they/them) just felt the need to add in this public denunciation game? and told the kids they HAD to shout mean things…The sensible middle daughter says girls were crying. I’m appalled adults would do this.'

https://twitter.com/SeaDeara/status/1700229155818975523

Somebody make it stop.

The cultural revolution playbook again. I hope they never go full Cambodia.

I've suggested on the exbird site they should make the counselor collect that one million pound prize.

So first it was, ' The Handmaid's Tale is not a user manual', now it's '1984 is not a user manual'.

Sounds like one for the press to pick up on.

I hope they do!

Shitting hell!

The most depressing thing about this is that as fucking outrageous as it is I'm not even a little bit surprised and I want to be surprised as well as outraged. I'm hardly even angry. I mean I'm low level angry but it's another day another fucking shitstorm from TRSOH.