Don't worry, we'll enjoy ourselves just fine while you're lurking and pretending not to be here. The only thing funnier than this chronically-underattended bit of farce is the desperate attempts of trans allies to paint the evening as a smash success.
Yes Wolf Alice were there, along with Adam Lambert who someone upthread was asking about.
So, a minor indie band no longer at their peak, and American Rylan. Funny how this supposed youth movement couldn't attract more Gen Z.
Chappell Roan could make time to look po-faced at Paris Fashion Week, but couldn't squeeze this into her diary. And you know they would have rearranged the whole thing around her schedule if she'd had any interest in showing up. She clearly knew it'd be a flop right from the start.
Didn’t Maya tell you that on X on was she too busy chatting absolute sht?*
Chatting shit is rather the purpose of X, is it not? I'm sorry you were disappointed by Maya's coverage of the event. Presumably sheer boredom had stultified her mind. It's nice that you read all her tweets anyway.
Would you say your obsessional hate of Maya has taken you to strange places? Just curious.
Very odd behaviour paying to attend a benefit gig purely to write scurrilous nastiness ..pretty sure I wouldn’t pay a penny to sit through a gender critical alternative ..but I guess obsessional hatred takes you places.
It sounds like they couldn't give away tickets by the end. Anyway, this is what your average music journo does all the time. Doing a write-up of a dud concert for the laugh factor is not actually that odd.
"Scurrilous nastiness", though? You sound Victorian. Definitely too old to believe in gender ideology.
Don't worry, we all know you wouldn't attend a gender critical event. You might have a good time, or accidentally hear something you agree with! If you can't deafen yourselves with a kazoo, and bring along a Covid mask + giant sign to hide behind, it's far too risky. Clearly.
The audience was largely cis women & gay men with a small proportion of trans folk
TRA assumes the gender feels of strangers ✅
I wonder why there were so many gay men?
I wonder where all the lesbians were? 🤔
none of whom were waving their penises around in the shared loos threatening to rape people, strange that eh?
Shared loos? Grim.
Also grim: that you think the safety, dignity, and privacy of women doesn't matter. Who cares how they feel? If the AGPs weren't wanging their willies around and directly threatening rape, women have nothing to complain about! Right? Fascinating.
Also interesting that you imply the "trans folk" all had penises.
Good representation by NION women, those of us completely fed up by feminism being hijacked by bigotry & our names being used . . . to propagate agendas that have absolutely nothing to do with our own beliefs.
I presume "NION women" means "not in our name"?
The DARVO really is shameless with gendies. I think you've filled up my TRA bingo sheet with this section alone. Brava!
Be honest. You're not fed up with the hijacking. You're fed up with feminism! It's too much about women, and doesn't think enough about men with magical lady feels. It's just not for you. Maybe it's time to stop forcing a square peg into a round hole, and admit that. Embrace the reality that you are a handmaiden. It's a pretty crap life of reciting the gender catechisms and genuflecting to narcissists, but you get the warm righteous glow of Being A Good Person and Being On The Right Side Of History, and that makes up for it a little. Of course, that glow may become a burning fire of embarrassment later on, if history doesn't pan out quite the way you imagined. But that's a challenge for another day.
Wembley was 3/4’s full - a bit over ambitious of the organisers to select it but then I can’t imagine a Sex Matters benefit gig filling more than a village hall given they’d be unlikely to get any artists keen to perform at it. Although I imagine you might get a few politicians, some of the Reform lot or perhaps Parker Posey’s mate Tommy Robinson back from an overseas grift. What delightful people the GC cause attracts.
If the gender critical side is so tiny, why would it be "over-ambitious" for the trans side to select Wembley? Surely you're the majority? And you got so very, very many artists to perform. Why couldn't you fill Wembley?
Obligatory mention of Posie Parker ✅
Obligatory mention of Reform ✅
Obligatory mention of Tommy Robinson ✅
I assume your beef with the latter is that his grift is overseas, and not homegrown like Jolyon's? How is the Good Law Project going these days? 😂
And the less said about the sort of people the trans movement attracts, the better, don't you think? There have been a few too many rapists, murderers, and child abusers given pride of place at the parade, for you to have a leg to stand on there. Do you really want to compare Tommy Robinson to Stephen Ireland? Kelly Jay Keen to Sarah Jane Baker? Good luck with that.
As for last night, there were speeches of hope and inclusion and positivity as well as those of loss from a mother who had lost her daughter needlessly and tragically. A good night all in.
"There were speeches of fluffiness and bunnies and rainbows, and telling women to shut up and go away and stop hoarding rights like dinosaurs and literally, no, LITERALLY, killing us. And then we wheeled out the grieving mother of a mentally-ill child, and tried to pin it on the terfs wanting their own changing rooms, because that's just the kind of exploitative thing we do! It was heartwarming, it really was. Great night!"
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