Newcastle Monument Metro Station

[Swamphag]

If the woman who put the "Celebrate Diversity Exclude Women" sticker at the top of the Pride Celebratory escalator, just know, I see you.
And if I'd had my phone out quicker, I'd have snapped a photo of your sticker 💚🤍💜

Thank you xx

^^badly worded (I am pissed) Should say "if the woman who...sees this" (still not great grammar but idk)

Good to know there are terfs in Newcastle!

isn't it great to see small signs of women fighting back .

There's quite a few at the university, and alumnae and alumni. According to a friend

Be careful or you'll get a visit from the police for photographing a sticker...

Oh she may well get a visit yet just for the crime of looking at it with a smile on her face!

Or looking at it in a funny way

Where do you get these stickers from?

what if they accuse her of smirking whilst looking at it in a funny way and she tries to counteract with no, just smiling. will the fact they have the expression wrong mean they'll let her go...or...charge her with smiling whilst smirking whilst looking at it funny whilst passing a sticker?

I've been thinking about putting stickers about lately. I know PP has some put would like to know if anyone has any other recs?

In a Geordie accent, 'smoking' can sometimes sound a bit like 'smirking'. So if the case goes before a posh judge with Geordie coppers and accused giving evidence ...

P.C.: 'We told her to stop smirking, your honour.'

Judge: 'Smoking, constable? <Turns to accused> Were you smoking, madam, in a non-smoking zone?' <Tuts>

Accused: 'I never had a tab on!'

<The P.C. interrupts> 'I'm referring to ribaldry!'

Accused: 'Nah, I prefer Bensons these days. Cost a packet, mind.'

Marking myself safe from being arrested. Having had to negotiate my way through a Metro (metty in local parlance) station whilst muttering about bloody drag queens and it being everywhere, before spotting the sticker and exclaiming loudly to DH "Did you see that?!? There's been a terfing!"
They'll never take me alive!

@AutumnCrow - love your courtroom drama however I was a Regal girl, never Bensons

Fantastic news! warms the cockles of my heart!

There was a woman wearing a Birdy Rose hoodie a few places up in the Co-op queue yesterday. It was all I could do not to drop my shopping and rush up to her. Wish I had now.

https://www.standingforwomen.com/

Wonderful! Will get off there next time rather than haymarket

Famous artist birdy rose also has great stickers. I love hers and KJKs

Brilliant.
I will make my way there from central today. 👋

@WarriorN and @IamAporcupine I hope you're prepared for the assault on your eyes from the glitter drag frenzy. I don't understand why it's still all up (wasn't June Pride month and the parade in July?) I can only assume it's now a permanent feature. Pride appears to be literally going on forever.

Willoughby has just noticed this thread and has copied in a screenshot to Northumbria Police suggesting they ‘check it out’. No India, you can’t police women’s conversations.

IW has tweet replies permanently turned off so is constantly surprised at real opinions in the real world.

God, it'd be hilarious if it wasn't so fucking sinister.

Woman looks at sticker. Prominent activist tags local police force in Tweet of screenshot.

Are there any other stickers I'm not allowed to look at? My kid has some skater stickers up in his room. Are these ok? I sometimes glance at them when putting his laundry away. Am I now banned from the yellow sticker aisle at the supermarket? Is it only an offence to intentionally look at a sticker or do accidental glimpses also count? I feel like we need some actual rules here.

In all seriousness though, is India Willoughby ok? This behaviour is a little unhinged and probably doing more harm to their cause. Most people would be like "Wha? It's a fucking sticker"
Is India a GC sleeper cell?

India has lumped this thread in with some, quite frankly, vile graffiti, on the high bridge.

Making a weak and tenuous a link between a sticker at monument stating that the current trend for commercial celebration of diversity actually excludes women as per the equality act, and vile stupid scrawled comments by one person on a bridge in a marker pen, illustrates the limited intellectual ability that this person has to comprehend and comment on this topic.

To clarify; the vile messages were around jumping off the bridge.

Others were statements about the sterilisation of children and that no-one is born in the wrong body.

Obviously the spin has ignored the latter, key issues that reversed nhs England and Swedish policy, and views a great deal of professionals share and are very concerned about.

India doesn't care about that though.

😱Is India OK?

would you mind taking a screenshot of the tweet?