Stroud brewery

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Just mentioning this news story where two journalists had a private event cancelled at Stroud brewery.

I think the brewery has mixed transpeople up with fairies

"Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy someplace that falls down dead."

It seems to be an easy mistake to make.

Re. the .gif. i never noticed before that Tinkerbell is made to sprinkle her fairy dust by being spanked

Fascinating. There are so many things that have been hiding in plain sight

That is some funny looking CPR.

Presumably Jo’s talk is about evidence that porn isn’t that great, particularly for women and girls.

So what exactly does the ‘we recognise that some content could challenge the identity and safety of members of our trans community, which conflicts with the values we uphold.’ mean? That she’s speaking about people who are producing/watching extreme pornographic content and feel afraid she’s going to call it out?

The way the Brewery have framed it, it sounds like they are harbouring offenders and their values are harbouring criminals?!? It makes them sound like they know their trans employees are up to no good. That’s not good optics or fair on trans employees.

We all know in any demographic there’s good and bad people. Presumably they have nothing to worry about so why stop it going ahead?

Thank you for that, Marie 😁

I left 22 years ago, and at that point it was mainly fire jugglers on stilts that I never wanted to see again. 'Trans' just wasn't a thing then. Nobody had heard of it, although, of course everyone had always known that some men liked to cross dress ,and some even 'took it further'.

So what exactly does the ‘we recognise that some content could challenge the identity and safety of members of our trans community, which conflicts with the values we uphold.’ mean? That she’s speaking about people who are producing/watching extreme pornographic content and feel afraid she’s going to call it out?

I'm going with ignorance and stupidity here.

Some Omnicausers, either on the brewery's staff or in the area, have seen Jo Bartosch's name and, because she's on their no-platforming list, have demanded that the brewery cancel the booking.

It's quite possible they didn't even look at what subject she's discussing, at least initially.

Wow, the attitudes that are in plain sight never cease to amaze and depress me. The people TRAs pick on...just off the top of my head, a black lesbian, a lesbian rape survivor, a woman with a disability; now a bisexual woman and a gay man talking about how porn isn't totally fantastic for society.
I mean they really are just special and lovely aren't they. Rather than being the grown up version of the school bullies.

Oh and nurses.

There appears to be a drag queen who regularly performs at the venue. He said on SM that he was pleased to be involved in such a sensitive topic and was happy they had cancelled. It seems like the first port of call on most things these days is to ask a drag queen.

I wonder how many complaints there actually were.

I wonder how many of the people who complained have OnlyFans accounts.

Has she now deleted it? I can’t find it.

The brewery are getting absolutely pasted in the comments though. 🤭 Very few comments in support of them.

By doing it publicly, they were virtue signalling. Hopefully that will come back to bite them on the bum.

Yep.

And I'd love to see them scrabbling around, assuring everybody, that no, no, it was nothing about the pornography, it wasn't that, we don't object to that, we object to her opinion about something else entirely.

...and then trying to explain that. And then throwing their spade away in desperation, and jumping in the hole themself 😁

And yes those comments.

It's quite a revelation about exactly how informed all those Facebook users are and how unafraid they are to say so.

Gone are the days when a few lone voices were chipping in.

It's overwhelming criticism of Stroud Brewery and exhortations for them to lawyer up.

Of course, Rob Jessel is Co Founder of Fair Cop. 😂😂

I recall they've had considerable success in challenging the over reach by the Police and organisations pandering to the anti democratic bullies and silencers. Don't expect Rob will have any problems accessing first class legal advice about Stroud Brewery's fuckwittery

Of course, Rob Jessel is Co Founder of Fair Cop. 😂😂

I forgot that! I knew I recognised the name.

Oh, they're fucked.

Indeed. I recall they've stated that 40% of their work now involves people being bullied for knowing that sex is binary / you can't change sex etc.

I'm willing to bet that Stroud Brewery's staff have been living in a bubble with their fellow Omnicausers and have quite possibly never read anything contrary to their world view, lest they be polluted.

If they have heard of Forstater or other cases, I imagine it will have been via biased sources, for instance social media accounts such as the GLP's, so no wonder the councillor thinks their actions are legal.

It is very kind of posters on FB to advise them to consult lawyers. I wouldn't give such advice, I'd just watch them get hit with the letters before action out of the blue. I should probably work on my charitableness.

Something else of note in this post:

"people who have concerns....can share them with the women involved"

I count one woman (Jo) and one man (Rob - obviously a man's name, too). Yet they put all the focus on the uppity, above her station, woman who dared to try and speak. Colour me surprised.

Did they...did they misgender Rob Jessel!? <swoon>

Someone should tell them. Ending with an exhortation to "Do better!"

Is there a beer festival happening in the area soon? Perhaps if there is, campaign for Stroud Brewery to have any presence removed.

Isn’t that the Free Speech Union’s workload? The 40%? You know we like to get things right round here 😊

Damn - you're right. I got my FCs and FSUs mixed up.