Do you exist IRL?

[EdgeOfThirtySeven]

It's just that I see so many TRAs stating that "nobody IRL cares about this stuff", so maybe we just all exist on Twitter/X and Mumsnet? Sort of disembodied AI? Not actual women in actual buildings, doing actual jobs and leading actual lives?

When Katy Colin Montgomery briefly returned to Twitter/X for his drunken pre- and post-Christmas rants, they centered on the idea that:

Man it's so weird looking at twitter and seeing GCs still going on and on about their nonsense ideology. Literally no one irl thinks about trans people at all. No one cares. If they got a hobby they'd be cured of their relentless insanity in an instant

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Obviously I've not posted for ages because of, you know, the nazis and the bots and how authoritarian Elon has even censored the word cîs. But there's one thing I wanted to say: Gender Critical isn't real. No one irl gives a fuck AT ALL

I'm pretty sure that I exist IRL. My dog certainly relies on that. Oh, and my loving family, and friends 😆

Re "nobody IRL cares about this stuff", seems to be contradicted by FOI with Supreme Court re viewing figures for FWS:
FOI disclosure 2024 - UK Supreme Court
~19,200 for FWS versus 579 average

Also, of course:

Your most-read stories of 2025

1. UK Supreme Court ruling

Image source,PA Media

The Supreme Court case follows years of legal arguments over the definition of a woman under the law

In April, a UK Supreme Court marked the culmination of a long-running legal battle over the definition of a woman under equalities law.

Judges unanimously ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex, siding with campaign group For Women Scotland.

The group had brought a case against the Scottish government arguing that sex-based protections for women should only apply to those that are born female.

Judge Lord Hodge said the ruling should not be seen as a triumph of one side over the other, and stressed that the law still gives protection against discrimination to transgender people.

But sure, Colin - NOBODY CARES IRL!!!

Your most-read stories of 2025 - BBC News

I think posts such as Finch's is trying to overwhelm people with what they consider 'science'. It could be considered a 'flood the zone' attempt. It is not really a Gish gallop but the attempt was either to overwhelm people with so much evidence that surely people reading will think that Finch had a really good evidence base and must be right.

It also offered an ideal opportunity to scold people who responded with scepticism for not reading everything instantly, in a typically condescending tone.

Literal genocide.

"It also offered an ideal opportunity to scold people who responded with scepticism for not reading everything instantly, in a typically condescending tone."

I suspect you are right.

after the Fausto link went to a mouse liver study

I mean we keep saying "you couldn't make it up" in response to this stuff, and run a pub of dancing gerbils, but still the visitors manage to surprise us.

He's deleted his rants on X now. So glad we saved a couple of posts for posterity 😁

Well ... Maybe I don't exist in real life.

Between men like this and Alex Drummond, I think I am definitely a man now. I was fixing my car and then putting on make up and going to formal dinners as a teenager, Alex. And Jenifer.... I too grew up where a shovel was used by all my family. I actually have three all of my own to do 'ground work'....

What next? I must be a man because I can also do excellent painting and decorating, I own saws, a mattock and an axe, I can mend fences? Because this approach is bonkers. That they are 'women' broadening the bandwidth and going where no woman has gone before is just bonkers.

These men are so misogynistic that it really defies belief.

https://x.com/JebraFaushay/status/2008238145251197341?s=20

They exist in a parallel universe.

If you use your femininely floral wrapped shovel, all the paper will come off and it will be an ordinary shovel with annoying bits of paper all over it.

yep. Ain't that the truth....

Crikey!

I'm a man because I don't ostentatiously twiddle with my fucking hair like a twit.

I got my first and possibly only Man Point of the year today, when I gave a crossfitter a jump start after the gym.

Okay so she used her own leads and did the actual connections, and we were supervised by a more manny man. But I knew how to open my bonnet and where my battery was, so I'm claiming my Man Point!

Thoughts and prayers Arabella.

Ahhh.. Bez! Welcome to the club! I used to be able to push start (or roll down the hill start) but those were the days...

supervised by a more manny man

😂

I hadn't realised we'd moved to a points based system. I think I'm in deficit in both counts. Does non-binary equate to a gender overdraft?

Use it?
Oh no my dear, we don't do that, we prop it up and look at it, preferably next to a picture of some kittens by a window where a real manly mannity manny man can be seen doing the garden.

I grew out of fairy stories about hidden identities and magical transformations when I was about six. I'm surprised you haven't.

'Berk' needs to be brought back. Its a great insult.

I noticed that finch did not come back and explain the failings of their post on either thread they posted it on....

It's Cockney rhyming slang. Berkshire Hunt - something that rhymes with 'Hunt'.

I had heard that...but wouldn't it be pronounced 'bark' in that case? 🤔

I had the same thought about the pronunciation so I googled. It's the Berkeley Hunt not Berkshire

I stand corrected.

Shovels are 'masculine coded'... huh... I have a huge suspicion that Jennifer - despite being a 'true and honest woman' (wink, wink) - has never been a pony mad girl. #SadTimes

Why are there so many untalented grifters in the arts?