Helen Joyce and Julie Bindel at Oxford Lit Festival 2025

[DungsWearingHarpy]

https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2025/april-2/trans-gender-identity-and-the-new-battle-for-womens-rights

I didn't spot that. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ticket booked. Pub sounds good 👍🥳

See you there!

SM's grasp of law seems on a par with SM's understanding of plurals and the use of apostrophes.

I’ve booked. Saw her at an event at UCL a while back and her clarity is astounding, so it will be a pleasure to hear her again.

Some edu-folk that I follow on BlueSky seem horrified. But I notice Lionel Shriver is speaking, and although her language around race and disabilities is perturbing, no backlash that I can see. The Sophie Molly’s must have their bat sensors just tuned to certain triggering names, with HJ at the top.

Always having to add the T into everything!

That's Sophie Molly the very deeply unhinged activist and TW rainbow green member from Aberdeen that even the most lunatic Green party members couldn't endorse during the election. There's been a few eye opening posts by Sophie Molly in the past. I'm sure also some documented threads on FWR. They aren't a well person. I wouldn't even react to them tbh just adds more fuel to the fire.

Booked! Very excited.

Good old bonkers Soapy Molly, never fails to make a spelling mistake. It's almost as if he's a bit dim, as evidenced by the probably fake "legal" case, but the great plonker.

Thank you so much for posting about this - I have read the book twice and enjoy hearing HJ speak in videos I've seen: she is logical and articulate in a way I can't quite manage in speech. Have just bought a ticket.

I'm slightly nervous to be out in public as a dinosaur/suffragette/Nazi/whatever I'm supposed to be as I'm usually pretty quiet about my thinking on this matter for cowardly work-related and family reasons. I'm expecting to have to walk through protesters but hoping to find friendly fellow dinos inside.

@MyCatIsTheHeadChef meet you all later at the pub? (There must be a pub surely).

Nearest and best is the Turf Tavern, about 3 mins walks.

https://www.greeneking.co.uk/pubs/oxfordshire/turf-tavern

I haven't been to the Sheldonian since passing Go and collecting an MA a while back but I reckon the KA is closer. TT better, though.

KA fractionally closer, but TT much more fun.

Terf Tavern, surely?

Nipple clamp Sophie Molly removed his X post threatening to sue and replaced it with a complaint.

https://x.com/search?q=Sophie&src=trend_click&vertical=trends

I want to thank Sophie as [redacted] has made a persuasive case for the importance of free speech and open discourse.

At least SM has worked out it’s a literary festival and not a literacy one.

'Diverse voices and open dialogue' - as long as they agree with SoMo.

'Rights and dignity of all individuals' - as long as SoMo's get priority.

This is, indeed, a persuasive case for the importance of free speech and open discourse - for all, SoMo, for all.

Yay! Can’t wait and Oxford is always lovely for a day out.

Nice to see AI being used in a constructive way.

‘Nipple clamp Sophie Molly’ 😂😂

(I’ve no idea who this person is but that made me laugh nonetheless)

Totally agree with you here. And feel the same. I read your comment earlier.

Was just making coffee and thinking JC how did we get here. In this country we’re now wary of confirming that yes, biological sex is a fact. An immovable fact. And that is (supposedly) contentious.

Fck you anyone that tries to make me feel wary saying that.

2+2=4
Biological sex is real.

There’s no room for debate in these spaces.

Ps. I call myself the old fashioned cunty type of woman. As coined by Ricky Gervais. Not pretty ear rings though. Perhaps just being naked would suffice. I’d ask the same of the protestors however I don’t want to be faced with so many angry penises at any time of day.

Looks good. There are several nice pubs very close to the event

I am self employed and have many clients who would not go near me again if I went public. I can't afford to lose them. I have friends who would shun me, and a sibling who would still talk to me but definitely wouldn't understand but none of that is as terrifying as the potential loss of my livelihood.

I understand of course. 🥺 (🤬🤬)