Men get their moobs out in protest at the Supreme Court ruling at the Scottish Parliament.

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Apologies for sharing this. 🤮🤮

They just do our work for us don't they?

I'm reminded of the scene in Pratchett's Pyramids where Teppic is handed increasingly more fanciful articles of office and expected not to drop them.

What else could these topless, red armed, flower bearing, tape wearing men have done to symbolise various causes? A fish supper in the armpit to represent transwomen fisherpeople? One shoe with a blue tongue to represent how shoes are transphobic? Perhaps a ear cuff made from cotton wool to show that the non anti fascist feminists need to obey no debate.

That is tragic and definitely NOT a mental illness.

Censorship of trans voices? God's Teeth! If this is what they're like when they're censored, I dread to think what they're like if they start talking.

Oh, hang on a mo...

These men may well say that their painted arms are for anti-fascist red.

However, given the level of fetish found among men who want to be women, it's possible to read this quite another way.

It would be quite entertaining for women to join the group and do the same, and watch the police have a nervous breakdown trying to work out how to arrest the women for indecent exposure causing public issues, but not the men.

And the men would fully want the women arrested but not be able to process or explain in any way why or what separates them from the women.

The general public would have no trouble whatsoever.

I think that they were attempting this look. Nul point lads.

Im not sure if this will load, but it's a picture of topless women with red arms protesting on IWD in France.
https://medyanews.net/femen-stages-high-profile-anti-fascist-protest-at-paris-womens-day-demonstration/

Around 100 activists marched topless in Paris with US, European or Russian flags painted on their chests, along with a swastika and the words “fascist epidemic” drawing attention to the increasing right-wing shift in many countries. The activists carried black smoke torches, and many painted their right arms red and drew Hitler moustaches on their faces. They chanted slogans such as “Fascist epidemic, feminist response” and “For a feminist Europe, not a fascist one”. They also staged a performance targeting prominent figures, with one activist shouting out “Heil Donald Trump, Heil Vladimir Putin, Heil Elon Musk”, with the others repeating the slogan and raising their right arms in the Nazi salute.
FEMEN is a feminist activist group founded in Ukraine in 2008 by Anna Hutsol, Oksana Shachko and Alexandra Shevchenko. The organisation moved its headquarters to Paris in 2013 after facing harassment and legal pressures in Ukraine. They are known for their provocative topless protests aimed at challenging patriarchy, gender inequality and various forms of oppression, including from religious institutions, political corruption and sex trafficking. Their slogan, “I came, I stripped, I won,” reflects their bold and confrontational approach.

One of these days someone is going to write a brilliant comedy about these men and their antics.

And no disabled woman would choose those shoes.A heel! and strappy! an accident waiting to happen

@EsmeQuibbles Yes, that looks like what they’re trying to emulate.

Sadly for this little band of merry men all they have in common with those women is the arm. They wouldn’t be able to paint a flag over their chests (unless it was the world’s smallest one) as then they couldn’t display their ladeee boobs.

They’d also have to change the slogan ‘I came, I stripped, I won’ to ‘I came, I moobed, everyone laughed’

They forgot the pink pussy hats. Three arrows pointing down. Two flags (one red, one black). A cabbage and a cuddly toy, probably that shark one from IKEA. Maybe a basket to help them hold it all.

so.... they really didn't come up with anything original at all! They copied women's protest tactics to again attempt to wedge themselves into 'womanhood'.

I really do understand why they taped their mouths. Because it would ruin the entire thing for passersby to hear their male voices.

Maybe the WI could do a feature in their monthly magazine.

Hopefully it’ll be Graham Linehan.

With strategically placed chelsea buns.

I thought the pink strip was very effective at showing their masculine bodies actually. Well done to The National video editor who did a great job at saying lots without saying a word.

I hope so too.

Starring James Dreyfus.

And Brian Blessed.

Just because I absolutely love James as Constable Goody - for your viewing pleasure

A wee shopping trolley is a very useful thing when planning elaborate mult-layered protest events like this. I think they could have incorporated a lot more with better planning.

Or one of those wee roll-y baskets from Lidl? They could have had one each and had a different cuddly toy/weird as symbol in each one to hand out to disinterested passers by.

If they'd been really organised, they could have asked for a job lot of the sharks from IKEA to give out.

Organisation skills need a bit of work, lads. 2 out of 5. Props for the neat tape though.

I hope they remembered to put sunscreen on their moobies, it really is hot up here at the moment. Burnt nips, ouch!

A cabbage? Do they have mastitis?

They probably could also use an explainer to say what the tape moustaches/red arms/white flowers/moobs/black trousers/IKEA sharks etc all represent. Perhaps an interpreter and some pamphlets. Sandwich board might mean that the wearer doesn't get to show his boobs off properly, but maybe one of the larger ones could pap them over the top if he's desperate to get them out.

They could also have done a running list, perhaps with the Toilet Duckface chap in the transparent dress with the bottles of pee as a warm-up act.

It's a reference to the children's TV programme Crackerjack.

One game in it was a quiz called Double or Drop, where each of three contestants was given a prize to hold for each question answered correctly, but given a cabbage if incorrect. They were out of the game if they dropped any of the items awarded or received a third cabbage.

I am old enough to remember some programmes from the original long-running series.