Bomb threats and Mumsnet! What drives For Women Scotland as they say they will never back down

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The group was formed in 2018 to fight against the prevailing gender ideology taking hold at Holyrood. In an interview with Holyrood magazine, three of the founding members revealed they became interested in the topic when using the website Mumsnet.

Trina Budge explained she had been "dipping in and out of Mumsnet for a variety of things – parenting, fitness, education, cookery" when she became aware of "silliness about sex and gender cropping up". While she dismissed this at the time, the Scottish Government's consultation on gender reform highlighted that what had seemed far-fetched online was actually taking place at Holyrood.

She met with Marion Calder and Susan Smith through Mumsnet and formed For Women Scotland, which counts JK Rowling among its supporters. Their first meeting was targeted by trans campaigners and was even subject to a bomb threat.

More at https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/bomb-threats-mumsnet-what-drives-32332960

Thank you FWS! 🙏💜💚🤍

Also - bomb threats!
BOMB THREATS!

Makes me think of that quote, possibly Germaine Greer, saying something like: men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.

That about sums it up.

This is the original interview:

https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,the-women-who-wouldnt-wheesht

“This has always been about women to me, the word ‘women’, even, it is about protecting that. When we’ve got a judge who steps in and says that the definition of ‘women’ changes according to context, you think, that’s just nonsense. How can my rights and laws vary according to a nebulous and changing context? It’s just silly. I guess I just thought someone with more power than me, a politician maybe, would eventually step in and call this out but that never seemed to happen and so what choice did I have? What choice did we have?”

“What upsets me is the people who know this is all wrong but who swerve the issue and think someone else will deal with it,” she says. “This has been what has happened to women’s rights since forever. We’ve always been told there are more important things to think about, that we need to be nice, we need to be accommodating, we need to think about others. Sometimes women just need that space to be able to have our own conversations and our own space."

Hear, hear.

Thanks for all that you do, FWS.

Bloody wonderful women. Thank you FWS

When we’ve got a judge who steps in and says that the definition of ‘women’ changes according to context, you think, that’s just nonsense. How can my rights and laws vary according to a nebulous and changing context?

And yet the definition of man has never changed. Funny that.

FWS, thank you ❤

It’s just silly. I guess I just thought someone with more power than me, a politician maybe, would eventually step in and call this out but that never seemed to happen and so what choice did I have? What choice did we have?”

Ach, they still had a choice, and they chose. Thank fucking God. Wonderful women.

Hear hear!

You’re definitely not “bog standard” women! You are inspiring and wonderful. 💐

I do love these women, what they do is utterly amazing! And hopefully they will being about the death of all this shit in Scotland! (And then the world 😁)

But, but, but it is both sides don't you know!

Next time someone, especially a politician, comes out with that crap they need to show the evidence and must not be let off the hook.

Thank you FWS. Awesome women.

Bomb threats eh.

Think there are certain men in society who know full well they wouldn't get away with something like that. But these men are clearly the enlightened type who have uttered the sacred words which must not be debated.

Thanks FWS for your bravery and persistence.

Thank you WFS and thank you Mumsnet...

This is a wonderful article. Who reads Holyrood magazine?

I realised after I posted it that it was based on another papers story.

But on the other hand the story is so good it is worth saying twice!

(And of course the catchy headline ... )