Sex Matters - Hampstead Heath Ponds -

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Sex Matters, a charity that campaigns for single-sex rights, will argue that the City of London Corporation is breaching equality law by allowing trans women to use Kenwood Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath.

Hearing this Wednesday.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/cceca8ca-4167-4b04-875a-40ddacfea782?shareToken=e9fe25a546d20835f1a5a66564cbf27b

Probably couldnt even point to London on a map, let alone Hampstead Ponds.

And yes, it’s painful that women are having to pay to try and maintain our basic rights. Especially when you remember that the gender pay gap is alive and kicking 😡

Same thing writ small goes on here. The same old boring TRA LALA arguments have to be gone over every 4-6 weeks when some 'innocent face' 'ingenue' comes here and goes through something so predictable and repetitive it might as well be a script.

It's a kind of attempted attrition in my view.

My previous post got eaten, maybe MN didn’t like the link, but you can set up an account with Just Giving and nominate Sex Matters as your charity. Then loads of places you shop with online will donate a percentage to your chosen charity. E.g. you can make M&S divert some of their profits for gender criticism 😁

There is a widget that you can set up too.

Devious.

I LOVE IT!

If they mention toilets then I reply, equally boringly (even to myself) explaining why ‘inclusive’ designed toilets aren’t inclusive, safer or healthier than single sex designs. 😁

I know GLP raised over £500,000 to lose in court over an argument that appeared to be insisting all toilets are mixed sex. If they had done their homework they would realise that can’t work practically, economically, legally or morally. That money could have been used to maintain 33 toilets in places of need (public toilets cost roughly £15k a year).

If I find myself in a queue for toilets with floor to ceiling doors and partitions I've taken to loudly talking about how unsafe they are, if I'm with someone or if I've struck up a conversation with someone else in the line. I don't just start declaiming. I'm not a complete lunatic. Helps to pass the time.

John Betjeman was alive when Spurs won the league!

🤣 oh I am laughing at that so much and I have a cold so now coughing. I photograph toilet doors (with permission) and get some very funny stares. I got very excited about a particular door grill once and told the train guard how good it was, who then side eyed me for the rest of the journey, which made me chuckle and look even madder.

Where are the BBC's fact checkers when we need them?

Don't underestimate the number of willing handmaidens who welcome men into the Ladies pond. You only have to look at the behaviour of the Kenwood Ladies Pond Association to see how many women have drunk the koolaid.

What do you think it is that really motivates them? Are they all very attached to being members of a group ( group think) or what?

i think that they think that membership of a socially acceptable set of views includes pretending that women’s rights are already achieved, done and dusted. And they are healthy and privileged and don’t have to rely on public services themselves, so they aren’t disadvantaged by the effects of ending single sex provision for public services. They can cope with a few mixed sex toilets in the theatre or art gallery and think other women are being fussy or paranoid.
They may have trans identified kids, and will likely be working with trans identified young people at their workplaces who individually are perfectly nice young people.
They’re living in a bit of a cosy bubble basically. Haven’t thought it through, no incentives to do so.

And obviously there a vast and weighty cancellation incentives against speaking freely about any doubts they might or god forbid actively objecting to men getting everything, everywhere, all at once.

On another thread this morning someone said, who reads the Guardian now, the centre-left abandoned it long ago? I don't really think that's true. I think there's still a hell of a lot of centre-left voters out there still reading the Guardian. I'm remiinded of a mate of mine, last time I visited,he complained "I'm the only leftie around here" (literally!) in a only-gay-in-the-village way. People take comfort in their tribe. That was my tribe too. Still is, in a way. The G has most closely mirrored my views on most issues through my life-time. But I call foul on genderwoo, and The G's promotion of it shameful, and increasingly tied in with its digital footprint in the US and Australia for boring financial reasons, no doubt.

Hampstead area well summarised in three paragraphs.

The Guardian send me weekly emails asking for donations, but never give me the chance to reply. I really want to tell them that I cannot donate to them if they won’t support women. I assume I am not alone. If they understood this perhaps they might realise their approach is costing them.

The Guardian has a thing to tell you how many articles you've read in the past 12 months. Mine used to be hundreds, possibly thousands. The last time I saw it I think it was 8.

Women are very much socialised to be kind and selfless - what better way to signal your virtue than a quick excursion to The Right Side of History?

As for the Graun, it was my go-to paper for absolutely donkeys. I migrated over to the Times during Covid for some respite from the "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DDIIIIIIEEEE AND THE TORIES ARE RESPONSIBLE" hysteria and never went back except for Jay Rayner and Nigel Slater. Since they're no longer there either, there's no reason to read it at all any more.

There's more to it.

Look at the comments on AGP's social media. Hordes of women falling over themselves to tell mediocre blokes how stunning and brave they are. They actually flock to these men and ritually abase themselves before them.

Its weird. But its a thing.

I used to just go back for book reviews. Go fed up of certain genres being pushed and getting gushing reviews so i finally gave up.

I stopped reading the Guardian because it seems to thrive on being incredibly anxiety inducing and doom laden and yet offering very few solutions and little levity or wit. I liked Suzanne Moore. Marina Hyde was funny sometimes.
The weekend section on Sat was awfully smug and self regarding though had some nice recipes.

Still like the Obs but I’m not a regular buyer now. FT including its international editions is/are good.

Well there are women who write to and end up marrying incarcerated murderers. People are weird.

I withdrew my top level subscription and deleted the app, but it's still my goto for news.

They wrote about a Met police special constable who was jailed for 24 years for rape then decided to identify as a woman. He was correctly sexed at trial. The Guardian went to great efforts not to use any pronouns and then resorted to using "them" at one point. Which is a massive improvement for them.

They also said that them committed them's crimes as James Bubb, but the judge said to use his drag name now. Also, them will remain where them belongs, in male prisons.