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Women’s Rights Network imploding

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NameChangedWren · 02/02/2026 18:21

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?

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LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 13:57

Shedmistress · 05/03/2026 13:47

One of the reasons I didnt join any networks was that back in the day, there was an utterly demented woman who started a 'Mumsnet Refugees' group on FB which was aiming to gather together all the people banned for stating biological facts. And to then doxx them. I smelt a rat and never joined but I believe it all went tits up as they say.

This behaviour by people supposedly either one of the people in the self appointed 'in charge of women's rights' club or pretending to be one of them, is as equally demented.

I really have no other words to describe it.

I consider the posts from the women trying to make WRN implode to be demented.

TinselAngel · 05/03/2026 14:02

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 13:57

I consider the posts from the women trying to make WRN implode to be demented.

Rude.

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 14:10

TinselAngel · 05/03/2026 14:02

Rude.

But not when @Shedmistress uses it against women

NameChangedWren · 05/03/2026 14:20

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 13:57

I consider the posts from the women trying to make WRN implode to be demented.

What do you think the women being badly treats should do @LordArnoldsWife ? Serious question. The ones who have just a gut for WRN then been booted out without right of reply. The ones like @HagsRule who got “caught in the crossfire”? The 62 Scottish women, 80 Bucks women and all the rest of them - should they just shut up because you don’t like criticism?

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TipsyKhakiJoker · 05/03/2026 14:21

They don’t just not like criticism, it makes them literally the same as Sandie Peggie 🤣

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 14:23

NameChangedWren · 05/03/2026 14:20

What do you think the women being badly treats should do @LordArnoldsWife ? Serious question. The ones who have just a gut for WRN then been booted out without right of reply. The ones like @HagsRule who got “caught in the crossfire”? The 62 Scottish women, 80 Bucks women and all the rest of them - should they just shut up because you don’t like criticism?

I don't think they shoud do anything in particular. I'm just commenting on how demented they sound.

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 14:26

EqualiteaSpiller · 03/03/2026 15:02

Lol right back at you, sweetheart.
A Zoom? With someone who’s “definitely 💯 nothing to do with WRN” and yet magically channels the exact leadership script, including the sneery “once were” line? Hard pass. I’ve watched how those cosy little calls tend to end for women who notice things.
Machiavellian mind? Bless. I prefer “pattern recognition”. And the proverb you’re groping for is “The lady doth protest too much, methinks” – not whatever suspicious/guilty mash-up you just served up. Though given you’ve now offered a private Zoom to a total stranger while furiously denying any connection… well. One might almost call that telling.
Still, you keep doing you. I’ll be over here with the receipts, the membership exodus numbers, and the growing list of regions that have already walked.

Sunlight’s still free, sweetie. Open a window before the whole echo chamber runs out of oxygen and starts eating its own tail. X

I mean, this is Patsy from Ab Fab right?

NameChangedWren · 05/03/2026 14:26

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 14:23

I don't think they shoud do anything in particular. I'm just commenting on how demented they sound.

So, you’re tone policing. Well I take the view that if an organisation that used to call itself feminist and claims to promote women’s rights treats volunteers as though they are unimportant, they have a right to speak about this. Even if you don’t like the way they say it.

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NameChangedWren · 05/03/2026 14:28

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 14:26

I mean, this is Patsy from Ab Fab right?

I don’t care that she calls you sweetie, inaccurate though that is. What matters is what she and other posters here are saying. Content, not tone.

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LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 14:30

I get it. It's 'tone' if I say it but 'content' if you say it.

TinselAngel · 05/03/2026 14:35

I don’t think women should be calling other women on the thread “demented”.

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 14:41

TinselAngel · 05/03/2026 14:35

I don’t think women should be calling other women on the thread “demented”.

Well it appears to be happening, without your permission

TinselAngel · 05/03/2026 15:24

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 14:41

Well it appears to be happening, without your permission

“Appears to be happening”? It’s you doing it!

Shedmistress · 05/03/2026 15:35

TipsyKhakiJoker · 05/03/2026 14:21

They don’t just not like criticism, it makes them literally the same as Sandie Peggie 🤣

Literally.

ThimbleThief · 05/03/2026 15:36

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 14:41

Well it appears to be happening, without your permission

The phrase, "Two wrongs don't make a right" comes to mind . . .

Shedmistress · 05/03/2026 15:38

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 14:23

I don't think they shoud do anything in particular. I'm just commenting on how demented they sound.

I dont mind being called demented at all, but come on, use your own insults. Be creative or something. Although using other people's work does seem to be a common theme with WRN.

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 15:42

TinselAngel · 05/03/2026 15:24

“Appears to be happening”? It’s you doing it!

Poor @Shedmistress . Does she get no credit?

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 15:46

ThimbleThief · 05/03/2026 15:36

The phrase, "Two wrongs don't make a right" comes to mind . . .

Blimey. I think demented is mild compared to <checks notes> utterly shameless bullshitting and defamation. One of your quotes, I believe.

EqualiteaSpiller · 05/03/2026 15:47

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LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 15:47

Shedmistress · 05/03/2026 15:38

I dont mind being called demented at all, but come on, use your own insults. Be creative or something. Although using other people's work does seem to be a common theme with WRN.

But your word is so perfect.

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 15:48

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As I said, demented.

Stopbringingmicehome · 05/03/2026 15:51

Money and power

FairIsFairIsFair · 05/03/2026 15:51

TipsyKhakiJoker · 05/03/2026 14:21

They don’t just not like criticism, it makes them literally the same as Sandie Peggie 🤣

Has there been any attempt at explaining why WRN likened their ‘cancellation’ by Alloa Women’s Festival to what happened to Sandie Peggie? I still can’t link the two things 🤔

“…actions sadly reminiscent of what happened to Sandie Peggie.”

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 15:55

@EqualiteaSpiller That's not me reporting you. I think your posts should stand as an example to the rest of us of what happens when you lose reason to emotion

EqualiteaSpiller · 05/03/2026 15:59

LordArnoldsWife · 05/03/2026 15:55

@EqualiteaSpiller That's not me reporting you. I think your posts should stand as an example to the rest of us of what happens when you lose reason to emotion

Oh, darling, how utterly precious—denying the report while serving up that sanctimonious shade like a faded echo from yesterday’s headlines. If my posts are the “example” of emotion over reason, yours are the masterclass in passive-aggressive piety, all while your little echo chamber crumbles faster than a house of cards in a stiff breeze. Keep preaching to the choir, pet; it’s giving “desperate deflection” in full technicolor.

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