Thread 2: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of linguistic transphobia on Mumsnet

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At fewer than 20 posts left, time for part two.

Thread 1: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5057460-a-corpus-assisted-discourse-analysis-of-linguistic-transphobia-on-mumsnet

Site Stuff thread that tipped off MNHQ: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/5057903-mumsnet-corpus

I have just tested on a thread with a namechange and no message!

How odd.

I just thanked your PP& got the message again.

Thanks are just data which is stored somewhere, somehow... thinking of other social media where following & liking the wrong person brings some users out in hives.

Might be worth getting a screenshot and asking on site stuff. It would make sense if it was a reminder that your thanks is coming from a different username to the one used on thread, but if it's not it's a bit pointless!

I will. I've also had a weird thing where if I visit new page, it goes to the bottom of the page & stays there. It works if it's the first page of a thread, though.

I've had that. I thought it was because I'd clicked to write a post then changed my mind. Sometimes I find posts I'd written but not posted for whatever reason.

Regular women eh? Not cis, just regular? I suspect it doesn't mean predictable every-28-days-ers either.

See www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/5052274-the-thanks-facility-and-name-changes

Thanks. I’m not familiar with how teemill works, so that is somewhat reassuring.

IcakethereforeIam · Today 12:51

There was that incident when LOJ was a victim of a homophobic hate crime, the thread was full of posters condemning the attackers.

And then the poisonous little sack of offal, on hearing that some women at an LWS (?) event had been beaten up, said, "Meh. What did they expect? Bigots should expect a reaction."

worried that weeve
not heard from @GCLabRat
for>24 hrs
started to right a limrik
2 intice her back

there once was a labrat from aston
who um
and then I got stuck for a rime for aston

@GCLabRat are you
sulking
cos of gerbils

Hopefully @GCLabRat had nibbled her way out and is on the way to a mumsnetters house to be fed and housed properly.

I tried writing a poem but my brain refuses to give Aston anything decent.

Sigh! Apologies.

DATA THIEF

Aston Uni: It's not very caring
taking all our words
without a bye-your-leave.
It's NOT the way to do things,
and I can feel my bosom heave
as I build up to lots of swearing.
And YES! I will be BLARING
to anyone who'll listen
about the Aston data thieves.

There was another one... More of a sentence than a poem, but it's how you present it that counts!

THE SANDBOX

Aston University.
Where adults should know better.
But don't!

I very much hope there's been
a successufl gettarway
wont worry
somuch now

like your pome
tried to change my name
to HeavingBosom to
thank you
but someone
nabbed it 1st

need a
rethink

your clever
thats a tercet
and the pressentation is
magnifissent

i dont know what
you call a pome
like mine
with only one and a bit lines

Am livin, jus fel in deap coma aftr ova heer grbls have there Judiff Buttler buk nite. Brayn cells stil recovrin

Violation

Aston data thieves didn't ask consent.
Women recognise that male entitlement.
Men's grasping hands take our words without asking.
Men's grasping hands touch our cunts without asking.
When we complain,
we get DARVO again.

Corpus is Latin for "body".
These men treat our words like our bodies.
Exploit, steal, monetise.
Invade, defile, despise.
I call these Aston men "scrapists".
It's no coincidence that that rhymes with "rapists".

So sc-rapists. Taking without consent.

@GCLabRat
good 2 hear your voice
much relieved
get out of their

cd not make head nor tail of jbuttler
myself
got book 2 explain her books to me
cd not make head nor tail of that either

sold jbuttler books
made shlef space for sensible things

maybe gerbils wil chew up
jbuttler for bedding
and leeve you a lone now

I wonder if Judith Butler books would make more sense if they were read to us by Helen Joyce? She could read out a chapter then explain to us what she's just read.

Honestly, it's the only way I can think to do it!

"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."

HJ: Gibberish.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

HJ: Gibberish.

"He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought."

HJ: More gibberish.

"And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!"

HJ: OK. I give in. There is no fucking sense in this shite.

Makes more sense than Butler

Mairzy dotes and dozey dotes
and liddle lams sy divey
A kiddle ey divey too
Wuddnt yu

The fight I've just had with autocorrupt!

Still more sense than Butler.

Ooh ooh ooh! A lovely Mumsnetter was inspired by that poem, and her version makes more sense than Lewis Carroll or Judith Butler!

And I would love for Helen Joyce to read me the book this poem is in! Although maybe Mary Harrington or Kathleen Stock or KJK or JKR! Gosh! So many choices for this one!

But I think I'd still want Helen Joyce doing the audio book.

love the terf pome

translated 1st verse of
jabberwok into morse
not sure if uk morse or
usa morse
or if universal
or even accurate

thought it might help any new scraping

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come out a bit odd when i pasted it odd big dot too but what the hell good oh