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?

"WRN only post on X"
thaat will be news to Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram

The "Women of" groups are indeed brilliant against their local councils but impacting across the board requires coordination.

@EqualiteaSpiller
Well, first off, I’d scrap the autocratic solo act where Heather Binning’s the sole director, secretary
She isn't so that is sorted already.

How would YOU run it ?

They are indeed hanging of the coat tails of others as they always have.
For Women Scotland and MBM are far more effective and important than WRN are especially now

1. Do not ignore those who politely dissent the direction of travel. They are helping your organisation to evolve healthily.
2. Do not assume that those who express polite dissent are “trying to take over”. That’s just insecurity.
3. Do not throw large amounts of members out when “breaches of security” are merely someone commenting that WRN members groups being “restructured” means that everyone in a specific action group (police, prisons, healthcare etc) has to reapply for membership of that group & emails are being ignored.
4. Pay attention to those in a specific group who have experience in that area & don’t just tell them that the admins will decide what to focus on.
5. Don’t insist that ALL the admins are in ALL the groups. Women know this is a method of control.
6. If a member sees an event where it would be useful to have a WRN member as an observer, don’t just reply “I don’t know anyone who is able to attend” without asking the members if they are able to go. That translates as “neither I nor the others in the inner circle are able to go”.
7. Stop ignoring why your membership might be falling, other than the great pogroms of Scotland (62) & Buckinghamshire (80 plus).

Stop ignoring why your membership might be falling, other than the great pogroms of Scotland (62) & Buckinghamshire (80 plus).

So this confuses me.
I was in a twitter shoppers group
it then became a WRN group
I am not a "member" of anything
I pay nothing
I sign nothing
so I am really struggling to understand the bandying about of WRN "membership"

where are people getting their numbers from
and what are the criteria?

Did you not get emails from WRN? If so they regard you as a member.

No one else can find the connection either

It’s illogical nonsense. Look there’s a squirrel is much more effective.

Could you link to where it says that email subscribers are deemed as members ?

Ditto for Filia
Ditto for Sex Matters
Ditto for WRN

Getting emails does not make one a "member" unless the email says its a "members email"

I run a club - we have public emails and member emails
we know who our members are
for ICO and insurance purposes

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I run a club - we have public emails and member emails
we know who our members are
for ICO and insurance purposes

Some of your posts are a bit cryptic. Are you referring to WRN?

Well yes, that is how social media works for every organisation.

You said they didn't, they do.
as do SM and Filia and co

No, the club I run has absolutely nothing to do with WRN.

its much more boring and geeky

Au Revoir

Does anyone legit want to claim this person, or are they just some sort of mad TRA? American spelling of favoritism ???

I was in a twitter shoppers group
it then became a WRN group
I am not a "member" of anything
I pay nothing
I sign nothing
so I am really struggling to understand the bandying about of WRN "membership"

That's strange. Are you not familiar with these documents?

WRN – NEW MEMBER PROCESS AND GUIDELINES
Version 07/24

WRN MEMBER GUIDELINES
Version – 07/25

Would you like me to post screenshots for you?

Oh look, @LordArnoldsWife is not just the tone police, she’s spelling police too! There are just SO many good ways to ignore the excellent points people are making, aren’t there?

I tthink member in this context simply means anyone who has passed the vetting process and been given access.

You keep promoting me. I'm flattered.
I guess you do claim the weird poster as one of your own then.

Me too, I don’t know if I’m a member or not. I don’t think I get all the emails. I want to get work done but this feels like more energy is spent telling women off than trying to change things.

I do hope that WRN Membership Dept women are following this thread.

They must find it quite concerning to discover that someone who claims to be in a WRN Group is completely unaware that they are a member of WRN and should be following WRN Member Guidelines.

Perhaps others on this thread who claim to be supporting WRN Ltd. and have been vituperative in their allegations against women criticising or asking inconvenient questions about WRN Ltd. are also unaware that if they are WRN Members then they should be following WRN Member Guidelines?

Vetting? Security ? Really ?
How about the time Fred Wallace got on a Zoom meeting and Heather buggered off and left all the women on the Zoom adrift? Not much vetting going on then

Me too, I don’t know if I’m a member or not.

I am wondering now if this might also apply to women who were purged from WRN for breach of the Member Guidelines? That is, that maybe they were unaware that there were WRN Guidelines and if they did not follow them then they would be expelled?

There has been a lot of boosting of the good job that WRN is doing communicating with people outside of WRN, eg. on social media, but it appears that communication within WRN with members might need some urgent attention.

Passed the vetting process and been given access

There are just SO many good ways to ignore the excellent points people are making, aren’t there?

Some of the points are excellent but you have given us no evidence that the WRN co-ordinators are not already doing most of them. All we have is a series of documents where what you say is contradicted by what they say. A series of posts where you claim bad things happened, that the rest of us have no way of verifying. Posts that suggest your people skills would not be a huge asset in any sort of organisation.