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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Jon Ronson and Adam Buxton

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WarriorN · 17/03/2024 09:10

I'm astounded at this "bonus episode" of "and things fell apart."

Absolutely everything Glinner has said has been proven.

This is a twitter link, I imagine it's on bbc sounds

x.com/glinner/status/1769152705333699000?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

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SinnerBoy · 19/03/2024 20:35

AdamRyan · Today 17:13

+ + Can you provide any evidence to support your claim that Linehan thinks that "all" trans people are groomers? + +

What it has to with the LGB is the long standing, pernicious and harmful lie that gay people are deviant and paedophiles by nature. As shown in the link I posted up thread - this is an old old conspiracy from before anything to do with "the T".

So, to address my first point (which you didn't) you have nothing to support your claim that Linehan says "all" trans people are groomers. You also failed to address my second point, to wit, what has the LGB got to do with TQ?

That same lie is continuing to be peddled under the guise of the threat from trans predators. Hence why the Florida bill is referred to as "don't say gay".

I am not in Florida, you are not in Florida, most posters here aren't in Florida and are not discussing Florida, so why you introduced that non sequitur is something of a mystery.

Finally, are you saying that there are no trans predators, or that transw prisoners aren't far more likely than the average prison population to have been convicted of sexual, or violent crimes against women and children? Or that parents - and the public at large - aren't right to be concerned about that? Or self ID, puberty blockers and cross sex hormones? Or horrific, mutilating operations?

AdamRyan · 19/03/2024 22:39

🙄 I'm saying that while there appear to be a disproportionate amount of trans sex criminals, that doesn't mean all trans people are sex criminals or that there is an organised faction using trans issues to be sex criminals
Hiding the thread now as honestly why would I hang round to be called a TRA or a sea lion. Other opinions clearly not welcome

OldCrone · 19/03/2024 22:43

I'm saying that while there appear to be a disproportionate amount of trans sex criminals, that doesn't mean all trans people are sex criminals or that there is an organised faction using trans issues to be sex criminals

No one has said that all trans people are sex criminals.

No one has said that there is an organised faction using trans issues to be sex criminals.

Why are you making this stuff up?

SinnerBoy · 19/03/2024 23:38

AdamRyan · Today 22:39

I'm saying that while there appear to be a disproportionate amount of trans sex criminals, that doesn't mean all trans people are sex criminals...

Nobody has claimed that.

Again, you claimed that Linehan said that all trans people are groomers. I asked for supporting evidence.

Have you any supporting evidence?

PurpleSparkledPixie · 20/03/2024 00:30

that doesn't mean all trans people are sex criminals
Nobody has said they are. Absolutely nobody has said "ALL". Except TRAs who try to cause trouble/get screenshots. So no idea why you've brought it up as I don't think you are actually doing either. So why use their false arguments?

or that there is an organised faction using trans issues to be sex criminals
Huh? Can you put that into English?

Hiding the thread now
Not surprised. You are starting to talk absolute nonsense with zero links to back any if it up. You are coming across as being argumentative just for the sake of it rather than wanting a proper discussion.

Other opinions clearly not welcome.
I'm willing to listen. But not if you are going to insult me, pretend that certain things are factual but can't back it up, be argumentative with hyperbole everywhere. It's just pointless otherwise tbh.

haXXor · 20/03/2024 01:00

CantDealwithChristmas · 19/03/2024 16:30

Also known as the Owen Jones Method.

Speaking of which, did anyone see little OJ's latest tweet about how he thinks gender critical feminists might be spying on him through his phone? Now there's a conspiracy theorist if ever I saw one.

he thinks gender critical feminists might be spying on him through his phone

Highly unlikely. One of us would have to trick him into downloading some kind of stalkerware app. The Chinese or US Govts OTOH...

It's far more likely that LOJ is trying the old disinformation trick of slinging as much mud as possible in the hope that some of it will stick.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 20/03/2024 05:35

AdamRyan · 19/03/2024 17:39

I read the debate about Ludwig when it first happened. Back in the day when you could have a sensible conversation about the risks from self-identification on women's spaces and the potential harm of allowing predatory men unrestricted access to vulnerable women and girls.

What's changed is now there's this element of right versus left wing, competitive victimhood about which activists have behaved worse, accusations of "you want to harm women and/or children" being levelled at people doing their jobs and ridiculous "institutional capture" nonsense going on.

I don't need to read the twitter of someone who is fully on the activist band wagon thanks. I'll stick to reading this board and more rational sources about what's happening.

ridiculous "institutional capture" nonsense going on.

Nonsense? Have you read about Elspeth's whistleblowing about civil service capture yet?

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 20/03/2024 05:43

CantDealwithChristmas · 19/03/2024 18:04

I started following the debate when I got kicked out of a Facebook group and told to "educate myself" in 2013. Which I did on gendertrender, the reddit "peak trans" posts and on here. I've been very actively following the debate since then.

Now I'm getting told all the time on here to "educate myself" on how to be a Proper GC Feminist. It's quite ironic really.

I didn't suggest you educate yourself. Merely that you crack the spine of a book instead of following the debate online, where arguments are emotionally manipulative and facts are lost.

It's not a right vs left issue
Could have fooled me. If I raise the lobbying power, financial links to the Government and lack of transparency of Policy Exchange (source of a lot of trans stories) I get called a left wing shill blah blah. However financial links between LGBT groups and other parties (that are transparent) are being held up as "proof" the left are "captured".

QED, the exact point I'm trying to make. Leave aside the speciousness of 'left' vs 'right' in our post-industrialist society, where the marxist definitions no longer make sense, and leave aside the fact that 'Progressivism' has its roots more in hypercapitalist consumerism and hyperindividualism than any form of materialist dialectic. The fact remains that objectons to this issue came initially in the UK from grassroots working women's groups. We were smeared as terfs, dinosaurs and bigots. But eventually our arguments gained traction so that even our ideological opponents of old, the tories, could see that it was a proper cut through issue. Which it is. I'm not voting for any party that can't define my sex class. And I hope Kemi Badenoch keeps talking about this issue. Loudly. Because she's popular even outside tory voting base. people will listen to her.

Leave aside the speciousness of 'left' vs 'right' in our post-industrialist society, where the marxist definitions no longer make sense

Yes they do. The land-owning classes continue to rent-seek on the land their ancestora stole from the rest of us with literal swords in 1066.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 20/03/2024 05:48

AdamRyan · 19/03/2024 22:39

🙄 I'm saying that while there appear to be a disproportionate amount of trans sex criminals, that doesn't mean all trans people are sex criminals or that there is an organised faction using trans issues to be sex criminals
Hiding the thread now as honestly why would I hang round to be called a TRA or a sea lion. Other opinions clearly not welcome

that doesn't mean all trans people are sex criminals or that there is an organised faction using trans issues to be sex criminals

Literally no one has claimed either of those things. You are strawmanning badly @AdamRyan

NecessaryScene · 20/03/2024 06:20

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SinnerBoy · 20/03/2024 06:55

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · Today 05:35

Nonsense? Have you read about Elspeth's whistleblowing about civil service capture yet?

It's yet another example of "The Process is the Punishment," which is surely doomed to fail. One of the "complaints" in the lawsuit is that she said that only women menstruate, for goodness sake.

The crybully's complaint says, amongst other things, that, "The existence of the network 'has the effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating and/or offensive environment for the claimant."

illinivich · 20/03/2024 09:03

Its all whataboutery and reframing of the issues.

JR and AB have to talk about a friend becoming obsessed because they dont want to talk about gender ideology directly. Institutional capture should have been an ideal subject for JR, but he cant touch it because he is part of the capture.

So the bbc and journalists like JR are continuing to force the narrative away from gender ideology and the institutions attitude to it directly, to how individuals against it were 'obsessed'.

Its the same when people say the real problem is the public assuming every trans person is predatory. Or that individuals arent really bothered about womens sports or women's rights, they are just anti trans. Its tactics to stop people taking about trans ideology directly.

It never works here though, because the whataboutery tend to force the threads go on for pages.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 20/03/2024 09:09

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Helleofabore · 20/03/2024 09:20

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It is a script, isn’t it? Very obvious once you spot it.

Helleofabore · 20/03/2024 09:22

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I think this is pretty good as an explainer of the disconnect that we see all too often.

Waitwhat23 · 20/03/2024 09:22
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The flouncing made me think of this

Itscatsallthewaydown · 20/03/2024 09:23

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HornyHornersPinkyWinky · 20/03/2024 10:33

illinivich · 20/03/2024 09:03

Its all whataboutery and reframing of the issues.

JR and AB have to talk about a friend becoming obsessed because they dont want to talk about gender ideology directly. Institutional capture should have been an ideal subject for JR, but he cant touch it because he is part of the capture.

So the bbc and journalists like JR are continuing to force the narrative away from gender ideology and the institutions attitude to it directly, to how individuals against it were 'obsessed'.

Its the same when people say the real problem is the public assuming every trans person is predatory. Or that individuals arent really bothered about womens sports or women's rights, they are just anti trans. Its tactics to stop people taking about trans ideology directly.

It never works here though, because the whataboutery tend to force the threads go on for pages.

Yes, It seems like there is so much whataboutery on this issue - it means that disingenuous people don't have to address the actual argument, they can simply dismiss someone entirely, either due to association (as happened to KJK) or by labelling them right wing (and therefore bad and not worth listening to), or by misdirection - but what about this other thing over here.

To me it's a sign of them not being confident to argue this issue on it's merit.

SinnerBoy · 20/03/2024 11:56

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ILikeDungs · 20/03/2024 13:22

Ok people, what did I miss? I was only away for an hour or so

Itscatsallthewaydown · 20/03/2024 13:25

It would appear that a previous contributor to the thread has been getting any reference to them removed. What strange behaviour.

TathingScinsel · 20/03/2024 13:27

How odd.

Itscatsallthewaydown · 20/03/2024 13:29

TathingScinsel · 20/03/2024 13:27

How odd.

What’s odd is that MN have deleted them. It was all very anodyne.

ArabellaScott · 20/03/2024 13:36

So, having exhausted the patience of everyone on the board a poster moves to get posts deleted. Another attempt to control/stir up trouble.

I highly recommend ignoring all posts going forward. This is nothing more than tedious community disruption.

Helleofabore · 20/03/2024 13:36

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