“Why are TERFs so well organized compared to us?”

[TheIsleOfTERF]

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/s/iQskn15N11

For anyone interested on theories of how TERF Island has come to be!

Get the bingo board out as it has all the classics!

-Housewives
-Lonely
-Jealous
-Funded by the right wing

I think this is it in a nutshell. Due to the purity politics at play, they struggle to form strategic alliances even within their own community. A commenter on that thread claimed there was more diversity among trans people than TERFs because trans people are divided over fundamental things, such as what it means to be trans. That commenter certainly raises a good point. If you're so busy castigating members of your own "community" for being transmedicalists or anti-neopronoun or simply disagreeing with one minor point of doctrine, you're not forming a united front line against the evil TERFs.

Whereas we have a lot of diversity of thought (some so-called "TERF" women don't actually consider themselves particularly feminist, some have devoted years to understanding feminist theory, some lean more conservative, some are Marxist) but will generally pull together on certain issues. There are exceptions as some on the far left won't work with for e.g. KJK but it still holds mostly true from what I can see.

That cake sounds fab.

Any other ganttphobes out there? I think it's something to do with my never diagnosed but definitely there adhd. I can do things, but I don't do them the way I'm meant to do them, and charts paralyse me. If the TRAs want to prevent me from being organised and to reduce me to a sobbing whimpering wreck, all they need to do is make a gantt chart . . .

@Igneococcus

"55g starch , any type will be fine"

Any type? Are you sure? I mean sure it makes my t shirts look great, but in cake?

They forgot "we are all living in our mum's basement telling ourselves we are disabled and the world owes us a living".

Maybe not spray starch (whatever that is)

I can't thole gantt charts at all.

Nor am I handy with any recipe involving meringue. I can make a pretty good soda bread, and I'm confident it's good because more than once I've suffered the indignity of leaving it out to cool and then discovering the cat has stolen it.

Just because cats can steal soda bread doesn't mean they should.

I must go and attempt to frost-proof my courgettes before I forget.

There are no vegan options on the chart. You monster.

Thinking of long lost cats of mine, one licked the icing off one whole side of a cake (which then had to binned, cake not cat) which had been foolishly left unattended.

Another cat forced his way into the room where there was a table full of chippie teas while we went into the next room to sing happy birthday and when we came back in, had a full battered haddock in his mouth. Despite the mouthful, he hissed with rage at being discovered and escaped with his ill gotten gains.

They never question why it’s because they’re rich housewives that they’ve been able to campaign on this issue, do they? Or indeed if it’s typical that eg a rich housewife would spend their weekends trekking across the country to enable ordinary women to speak. They think the involvement of rich housewives shows it’s an elitist campaign when actually their campaign has the elitist, privileged women.

One of mine, many years ago, obviously went around the area looking for open kitchen doors, and one night came home bearing a whole string of uncooked sausages.

This was not the same one who used to jump on my knee when I was having dinner and try to steal fish fingers off my plate.

Emily Grey ate the royal icing off a Christmas cake many decades ago. Iirc we replaced the almond paste and re-iced.

The cat before her upset me terribly when she had a ghastly stomach upset and produced black-and-red spotted stools for several days. My poor cat, 15 years old, obviously dying. Then I found she'd eaten the best part of a Christmas cake full of currants and glacé cherries and whiskey . . .

She lived to 22.

Nowadays I don't trust a clean tea towel to protect a cake on its own.

How do I find my local cell? I'd quite like to join 😁

I’m confused by the starch. Does that mean corn flour?

This might actually be one of their fundamental problems - they're so busy playing the man (big bad terfs) that they've completely lost sight of the ball (our position).

Yes, corn flour, or potato flour/starch also works.

It's all in the recipes chit-chat. If you decode it right, you have the details of your local cell (with all the right wing funding).
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@newrubylane

There are cells now????

first the garden parties, now the cunning secret cells made up of 50 women each that I’m not invited to be part of either!!!!

(btw I thought there were only 6 of us so how are doing cells of 50?)

You have to look out of your window on the night if a full moon. If you hear an owl.you can check the second bench on the left in the park the following morning. There you will find a note with a phone number. Buy a burner phone so you can't be traced and text the number with the code that you will find on a similar piece of paper the night after you find the number. You should receive a recorded voice message in return but don't answer the phone or you will have to start again. Listen to the voice message which will instruct you on the vetting process. Once you are safely through the vetting process, (usually a genital check and a taste test of your lemon drizzle), you will receive a microdot via WhatsApp which will allocate you to your cell. If you don't hear the owl you'll have to wait till the next full moon unless you hear a blackbird in which case you're a TRA and will be banned because blackbirds are not nocturnal.

Alternatively get in touch with the Women's Rights Network and they'll put you in touch with your local group.

Me. Would be an awful shame if the rest of you did the same. Oh, well I guess six down votes won't really matter anyway.....

Funny how they are so caught up in rigid gender roles that they can only imagine that we are either housewives or unemployed.
Never ever occurred to them that we might be doctors, lawyers, teachers, financial experts, nurses, scientists, CEOs, physicists or anything that requires an education really.

Doesn't occur to them that we took time out off our busy schedules to fight back because we are defending ourselves. Doesn't occur to them that we are people. We are just two dimensional utilities to them. How dare we have opinions! Would be like if the refrigerator got to have an opinion.

Thanks. I'll start perfecting my lemon drizzle recipe stat!

Lovely thanks! The rhubarb goes on raw and cooks underneath the meringue or have I misunderstood?

Yes, that's right. It needs long and slow baking to ensure the rhubarb is cooked and the meringue doesn't burn, that is the only slightly tricky bit with this cake.

Duh
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I always forget she's queen, probably because the actual queen the only monarch I've lived under before Charles, never had a king by her side