Women’s Rights Network imploding

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WTF is going on? There are letters circulating with members alleging bullying, and anyone who asks a question is suspended and comments deleted. The leader calling everyone to urgent meetings with bizarre messaging: ‘there is no letter, and if there is it’s full of lies, and you can’t see the letter just trust us, and ooh look, something shiny!’ Should I cut my losses, cancel my standing order and just follow Let Women Speak?

The reference to Sandie Peggie is baffling! It's the sort of hallucination we have come to expect from AI, not Scottish women.

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Are they on drugs??

I hate the app it was on - I only use the sections relevant to me.
I'm not the one lying, and if anything that screenshot - and what a breach of trust, by the way - proves it. It's not quite the same as the story you told, is it?
It absolutely sums up why WRN felt the need to remove the toxicity of you and your ilk.

Excellent. I do love the way you're all outing yourselves. You know your writing styles are such a giveaway, right?

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for your very wise words 🙏

Your choice, but the option was open to discuss and you chose not to take it.

I’m not a member as explained earlier in the thread.

Into doxing now, are you? Nice!

You admit that you “ejected a lot of entirely innocent women”, then call other women vitriolic and petty? This is DARVO of the highest order

I didn't eject anyone. Where on earth did I say that?
Honestly, do you lot ever read what's written? I'm just an ordinary WRN member. No responsibility other than being sick to the back teeth of reading all this bull and I know the story and it's not the one being spread by a few vitriolic women, who won't admit their responsibility to the innocent women caught in the crossfire.

Apologies, I thought you were one who'd been removed. But if not, then why are you so invested in it?

Where have I doxxed anyone?
You really are clutching at straws now!

“Just an ordinary member” are you, who just happens to know exactly what happened in WRN Scotland when EVERY MEMBER EXCEPT THE COORDINATORS got kicked out. Pull the other one

Gosh, we do seem to have several real life examples of the problem on this thread.

Disclaimer: not and never have been a member of WRN although I did try to contact my local group a while back but never heard back. Sounds like a lucky escape. I have been deeply involved in volunteer organisations though at both grassroots and national level, so am well aware of the types of personalities and dynamics that can occur. My sympathies are with the banished members and I hope to see a “Women of Bucks” group emerge and have friendly working relations with the Wessex and Sussex lot.

My thoughts exactly.

I might equally ask, having an inquiring mind, why someone who is just an ordinary WRN member, is so incredibly invested in defending WRN Scotland, pushing a narrative of poor beleaguered WRNS, being horribly treated by the vitriolic yet innocent women they just HAD to expel because of awful, terrible behaviour, like showing screenshots evidencing that you’re lying. I think @ThimbleThief might have got it right, are you on glue?

Why is it any concern of yours?
Or are you just exercising your toxicity?
Posting screenshots from private groups onto a forum like Mumsnet is pretty piss poor, don't you think? And if it's your screenshot, meaning you are still in the WRN group, why are you in the WRN group? If it's not your screenshot, and you are sharing to try and cast shade on WRN, then rest assured, most people with a degree of integrity will see both actions for what they are. Untrustworthy and malicious.

You are resorting to ridiculous insults. We all know what that says for your (lack of) argument.
Why am I invested in defending them? Because I'm impressed at the effort they go to to get facts and figures, to meet with people who can effect change and to engage with a government that is desperately trying to wriggle out of it's commitments.
What are you doing on a similar scale?

This is all very well, but isn’t it a distraction from the point of whether WRN voluntarily withdrew from speaking, or whether the festival organisers asked WRN to withdraw? Hmm?

Me? I’m in an independent group that does all of that, whilst managing not to create a leadership tier that has to be treated like gods, and not to expel dozens of innocent women on the regular.
As it happens we’ve also never felt the need to have a ‘no screenshots’ rule in my group. We don’t tell lies, you see, so no one has to demonstrate the truth.

"Just an ordinary member" who thinks she knows who we all are from our writing styles.

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I am seriously wondering if some of these lunatics coming onto this thread to berate us are actually WRN high-ups or if they are undercover TRA agitators posing as a WRN high-ups.

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Seriously - why does it matter? There are others who were supposed to be there but are no longer going. I don't see any with hunts against those people. However, if you are so concerned, why not ask WRN directly? Or the Alloa organises, instead of speculating with glee on here?

I'm away to have a life this evening. Happy festering.

Sadly I think this one really is so dim she thinks shouting “vitriol!” will persuade everyone she’s as hard done by as Sandie Peggie, and that she can guess who multiple women on Mumsnet are from our turn of phrase. I suppose that’s what happens when you throw out all the women with any intelligence.

Seriously – why does it matter? Oh, I don't know, maybe because when a women's rights group draws parallels between their own "cancellation" and Sandie Peggie's actual harassment nightmare (even if just the no-rebuttal bit), then acts like it never happened... people notice. And when the same group has members mysteriously vanishing or getting ejected, yet the remaining choir sings "nothing to see here," it raises an eyebrow or twelve.
But sure, no "hunts" against the others who bailed – probably because they didn't pop up on Mumsnet playing the "I hadn't seen it... oh wait, now I have and it's a fairytale" game while gaslighting the entire thread. Selective concern is adorable.
Why not ask WRN directly? Or the Alloa organisers? Solid advice... coming from someone who's spent pages here defending them without once addressing the actual points raised (the parallel exists, the post was in announcements chat, donations allegedly funneled to a director's personal account). Pot, kettle, speculation with glee much?
We're all thrilled you're off to "have a life" this evening – do enjoy. Some of us prefer not to fester in denial, but each to their own.
And btw, the martyr-victim-flip routine is wearing thin. We see you, RAG. The typing style, the deflection playbook, the sudden "I'm away" exits when pressed... it's giving very familiar vibes. If it's not you, great – but the DARVO energy is unmistakable. 😏
Happy non-festering! Don't let the door hit you on the way to that life. x

Heminist or is it Himinist?

Why are you defending WRN so vehemently when you claim to not know about what’s been going on with their treatment of women? I smell a rat.

My post is actually not malicious, it’s aim is to help women chose a better women’s rights group to support, and expose lies from a group of women exercising power over other women. They still have not apologised for their behaviour. Don’t you find that concerning? Or are you them? If you are, please just answer the questions: did WRN jump from Alloa and are lying, or were they pushed and victims of cancellation?

WRN SCOTLAND ANNOUNCEMENTS

WRN SCOTLAND JUMPS THE SHARK

You may be aware that Mary was on the programme for the Alloa Women's Festival on Saturday 7th March. We have posted an announcement on the Alloa group chat to update members attending on developments today and thought it would also be helpful to update our wider membership.

Mary had been invited to present an update on the WRNS sexual assaults in hospitals report. Mary has today been informed by the organisers that her presence has been cancelled.

This appears to be a result of allegations from women who have engaged in a year-long campaign of accusations and harassment of some WRNS Coordinators.

No opportunity was given to present a rebuttal of the accusations, actions sadly reminiscent of what happened to Sandie Peggie.

No WRNS members will be presenting at Alloa and Coordinators will not be attending. Members will make their own decisions about attending and we wish everyone who does attend an enjoyable day.

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