Sian Berry & the attack on FILA conference

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I thought this deserved a thread of its own. It seems women meeting together to discuss feminism and issues affecting them are deliberately provacative.

x.com/sianberry/status/1976671744292438483?s=46

Oh the irony!

’How dare these women demand access to our safe space?!’

She’s obviously trying to compete for the idiocy award with her newly elected leader, Zack ‘I can make your breasts bigger with the power of my mind’ Polanski. The Greens are just a massive joke. I apologise for the level of cringe you will experience if you watch this video, but ZP is obviously trying to rival that other moron Ed Davey 🤦‍♀️

nitter.poast.org/TheGreenParty/status/1975162255483228336#m

Trans Activists can only exist through disagreement. Agreement is genocide.

Good idea for a separate thread. ‘Look at what you made here do’ for male violence.

She’s not gen z, she’s older than me!

Ridiculous woman thinking she’s down with the kids.

My MP IS Sian Berry. I voted for her Labour opponent who on the doorstep at least seemed to have some clue about the issues here.

This is great @fromorbit and just what I needed to gather my thoughts. I will be using you points to structure my concerns when I write to my MP Peter Kyle.

She has been back posting on different topics on twitter this morning. If she had an explanation that would help her out of the hole she has dug, I think she would have posted it instead of changing the subject?

Will add my FOI request into the mix.

As an aside, I assumed she might be quite young and naive but she is 51!

I am there. I wasn’t at the opening session - where ONE speaker, AFAIK, tried to get a chant going. My friend who was there said it was horrible and no one around her joined it. I later found out there had been a walk out by some Jewish women and allies. I would have joined them.

while there is good stuff happening there are other concerning things I’m learning. The virago women’s workshop pulled out of exhibiting all their work as one piece was refused as it depicted a LWS scene. WTF?

im about to go back in, mainly to connect with people ive met online, inc MN. But I doubt I will be supporting FILIA again tbh.

In response to Sian Berry:

https://x.com/PreetKGillMP/status/1976978015818310056

"Women have every right to meet, discuss, and advocate on issues that matter to them without intimidation or disruption. It’s deeply concerning when lawful gatherings of women are treated as “provocative.” The right to free assembly and expression must be upheld equally."

Preet Kaur Gill - Labour MP

And from Conservative MP Jonathan Hinder

https://x.com/Jonathan_Hinder/status/1976930118108074310

“Why did she wind him up? She knows he’s got a bad temper!”

https://x.com/Stephenmevans1/status/1976929699084280319

A poor take from Siân. I hope she reflects.
@FiLiA_charity
is a grassroots feminist conference where women gather to discuss and defend women's human rights. You don’t have to agree with everything said there to defend their right to do so. The venue was attacked – this is victim-blaming.

Stephan Evans, Chief Exec of National Secular Society

Vote her out

Jonathan is Labour. Interesting bloke. Used to be a copper.

I hope she’s hauled up in Parliament for unparliamentary behaviour. Feminist beliefs are protected beliefs under the Equality Act.

And I hope all the good voters of Brighton read what she says and decide she’s not worthy of their vote.

It saddens me that a woman hates her sex so much.

Jonathan Hinder is Labour. He is affiliated with the Blue Labour group, who generally seems to be sex realists. Jonathan has spoken out on this issue previously.

Sorry Jonathan!

I have emailed my (Labour) MP. He has claimed to care deeply about VAWG - something I referred to in my email. I really hope he shows that he genuinely does.

She uses the word "predictable" about the violence and criminal damage.

Did she have any insight or knowledge that it was going to occur and if so did she report to the police? I'm not sure anyone else thought it was predictable...She seems to have guessed or known it might happen a few months before it happened??

The National Secular Society have a stall at FiLiA, so it looks as if they’re not as ideologically captured as the humanists.

I have my issues with the NSS, but they stick to their brief. The humanists seem to have gone completely omnicause.

I'd say this is more about Green party politics than anything else.

Polanski's aim is to completely capture the Corbynite left, the vast majority of whom will brook no compromise on trans rights.

@Pleasealexa That thought crossed my mind too, how could she know that there would be violence/criminal damage ? Maybe the Police need to speak to her if she has inside knowledge , has anyone actually been arrested yet ?

It's more that she knows that the trans extremist zealots usually respond to women talking with a violent reaction. She supports the zealots.

Thd definition of terrorism is the use of violence, intimidation and threats to achieve a political aim, which is precisely what these maniacs do / are doing.

I'd like to know why she is supporting these dangerous extremist ideologues. Perhaps the Police and security services might express an interest?