Sara Morrison vs Belfast Film Festival

[NorthernIrishFeminist]

Employers seem to be slow learners when it comes to women's rights! There’s another employment tribunal case being brought by a woman who attended and took the microphone at a Let Women Speak event in Belfast last year and has been treated very badly by her employer Belfast Film Festival as a result.

Looks like we’re going to have to keep gardening until they get the message.

disclaimer. I don’t know Sara and have no connection to BFF I’m just a woman who likes donating to causes that make a difference

SD this is a very sensitive are and the C's child has no role in these proceedings

Careful, we don't want any more live peaking.

MC I am a feminist

Are you fuck!

Odious little twerp.

This Mark sounds like a self righteous misogynistic knobhead. The kind of beardy bro on Twitter, who blathers on and on about love and peace and kindness and acceptance as a thin cover of justification for the pure vitriol he likes to spit out at women who say no.

I would never ever say guilt by association, for I am so considerately peaceful and reasonable. I say dirty from extremist views instead!!! But from a place of love and peace and acceptance of course.

Po-tay-to po-tah-to!

Actual lol at the R’s legal rep pretending to care about the C’s child. All these bastards pretending to care more than the child’s own mother! I’m amazed they can sleep at night.

Feminist my arse

Here is my smorgasbord of viewpoints, just take take ones that make you feel all warm and fuzzy and like a good person, and kick the rest under the table.

The great thing is he so believes in his own virtue that he continues to dig his own massive hole..

Quite beautiful in a way. 😂

From NW

J why is this relevant
NC C has sex realist beliefs. the suggestion is that the R is fully signed up to paying lip service to this belief system and this is about whether C has suffered discrimination
SD it's nothing to do with her child

NC it's directly relevant to the accusation that the R discriminated
J why is it not in the list of issues
NC it's not at the heart of it - but it's relevant evidence - it's in his own WS - I must be entitled to q him on the contents of his own WS
J so what do you want to ask

NC I have a sequence of q's it makes it v difficult to tell you the end point
J give us the gist
NC that's the same question
J I'll allow it to a certain extent, but don't go into social argument again
NC thank you

And so very handy for NC!

He's also making it v clear that to work at the BFF, you have to NOT believe in biology, or at the v least, pretend not to..
SM didn't stand a chance.

From NW

NC I asked if a mother might give a birth to a boy or a girl

• would she know about the sex of the person

MC there comes a point at which a trans person psychologically in their identity knows who they are - NC do you accept that the mother/child bond is profoundly powerful

Well yes, it‘s been blindly obvious to all us OG GC lefties that some of our political friends are suffering from such a huge heap of cognitive dissonance on this issue they can’t imagine how horrendously they’re going to be carved up by a cool, logical barrister.

I would be tempted to grab the spade and thwack something.
Thank goodness for NC and her much better self discipline.

NC I have a sequence of q's it makes it v difficult to tell you the end point

or to say it in the local vernacular
That ud be tallin ya!😄

This is a good point because he is a board member and thus legally responsible for the actions of the organisation.

The fact that he holds these views make it very hard for even the CEO (if she were GC) to express their legally held views without putting their employment at risk. This is a very significant case in employment law as a result.

From NW

MC yes of course
NC not just for the child but the mother too
MC yes
NC is it not massively authoritarian to change criticise a mother for using the real sex pronouns of her child
MC absolutely not
NC and is shows you were confident in doing this with colleagues on the board

MC absolutely not - I don't know the opinions of the board - you seem to think we had a phalanx of opinion - all lined up
NC we know where you stand, we know where MD stands - you may have GC colleagues, but you don't know who they are, do you?
MC just like I don't know the religion or sexuality of my colleagues

"there comes a point at which a trans person psychologically in their identity knows who they are"

We have swapped mystical allegiance from one lot of men in frocks to another lot of men in frocks.

From NW

NC the reason you don't know your GC colleagues is that they are frightened
MC no
NC they're worried about expressing their view
MC no - that doesn't sound honest
NC your line about accelerating the process "I therefore feel that we need to accelerate the process by which this is sorted... We can't have an inclusion/diversity officer who, many weeks after making such an ill-advised speech, is still standing by her actions
completely."

"We can't have an inclusion/diversity officer who, many weeks after making such an ill-advised speech, is still standing by her actions completely."

And this is the constructive dismissal proof.

From NW

NC you're trying to get rid of her
MC no that was my draw drop moment from yesterday
NC you're saying you can't have her as an inclusion officer - what are you going to do - make her the accountant?

Obviously Naomi got there first!

MC just like I don't know the religion or sexuality of my colleagues

Total bullshit! whatever about sexuality, people's religion in Ireland- which is not all about faith, it's more to do with ethnicity, culture and politics - is very obvious from many indicators, notably names, but also where they come from, what school they went to etc.

Disingenuous with a capital D.

NC you're saying you can't have her as an inclusion officer - what are you going to do - make her the accountant?

😂😂😂

Not always, just sometimes.

God above. 🙄 Can they bloody hear themselves??

From NW

MC my problem is her actions - not what she said "speaking in such an extremist context" - if she was going to stand by those actions we couldn't have an inclusion officer doing that. But the idea we were trying to move her out is "rubbish"