Do you support “trans” or are you a monster? New Good Law Project billboard campaign.

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The reliably foolish Good Law Project have commissioned a new outdoor campaign, coming to a street near you.

https://monster.goodlawproject.org/

They haven’t yet written up this debacle but I found this in the Wikipedia article talk page v amusing

On reflection, I think it's reasonably clear that this tag was a drive-by and should be removed. In the same timeframe the main article was serially vandalised by anonymous users with additions like 'Many consider him to be a pretentious twat' and 'Mr Smelly Bellend'. The addition of the tag is the only wikipedia activity by the anonymous user

God almighty, I flat lined with the tedium four sentences in.

I particularly liked the Twitter response that said "Of course I support single-sex spaces for women - I'm not a predator!"

#protectthemonsters

We Monsters are the most marginalised community in the whole wide world. 😭

More reactions on reddit and Jo has posted his apology on there too.

I'm starting to wonder if the GLP are actually allies at this point, or a psyop to get our money and fail to do anything useful with it.

Maugham has consistently used attention seeking tactics like this to milk trans people while achieving nothing positive.

It's basically pissing our money up a wall. There is something obscene about all of this.

I had to double take because I thought this was a GC ad

I have no idea what they were smoking thinking portraying us as sharks would do anything but harm us

I suppose it’s good to know what they’re spending the money on, rather than winning any cases.

I'm pretty sure you'd get better billboard ideas from running a school competition than this.

Who needs enemies when you have friends like the GLP

Distinguishing between incompetance and malice is really hard sometimes.

well at least they're not using the money spent here on badly fought court cases that they always lose and make things legally worse, for a change

That is perfection.

well at least they're not using the money spent here on badly fought court cases that they always lose and make things legally worse, for a change

No. They are spending it on a quilt.

I wonder what the WWF think about the demonising of gorillas when they have their own campaign for their protection.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/gorilla/

That photo of him under the lesbianism billboard made me think only two words: pretentious wanker.

And I think x formerly known as Twitter aptly sums up this thread:

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This reflects Mumsnet's typical lively, opinionated style on these topics, amplified here by the campaign's awkward visuals and messaging.

"Firrell is known for text-based public artworks on billboards around the world."

So word art? I wonder if he sells his stuff on Etsy?

So I have skimmed through the rest of that wiki entry, and I get the impression that he might be quite expensive...

specifically what it means to oppose trans people's rights, spaces and joy

for crying out loud, why on earth should women lose their legal rights to dignity, privacy, safety and in many cases any actual access so that a man with a gender identity can feel 'joy'?!

It will not 'persuade cis people' - for a start, anyone who defines themselves as 'cis' doesn't need persuading, that's an adoped gender identity signifying submission to the orthodoxy.

I'll crack on being a 'monster' who wants men with gender identities and women to have equal rights and both have accessible spaces.

Absolutely. On tenterhooks of anticipation here. I have enough popcorn for everyone and will buy you all a large frozen daiquiri once we're settled into a new Trans Unity Quilt discussion.

I have no idea what they were smoking thinking portraying us as sharks would do anything but harm us

They think the message was they were the monsters. 😂

They just don't modern art. 🤣

Shark(s) in Venice. A fine film. Before I saw it, I never knew sharks could change their size to fit into any canal they wanted to.

(Actually it is seriously awful, but I did laugh a lot.)

My DH collects absurd films about sharks. Everyone should have a hobby. Jurassic Shark, anyone? But also I refer everyone to Night of the Lepus, which demonstrates once for all that no matter how much ketchup you slather on a rabbit's face, it will still whiffle its nose at you.

OMG this campaign could not have been timed worse. It turns out that today is Shark Awareness Day.

"Celebrated on 14 July, Shark Awareness Day is designed to raise awareness of these incredible creatures and what we can to do help and protect various species of sharks."

https://support.wwf.org.uk/how-to-help-wwf-this-july

They are spending it on a quilt with no actual function, unless they have fitted the thing with zips or perhaps poppers or velcro so that it can be broken up into bits of a size to fit onto a bed.

I wonder where they are planning to store it? (A quilter needs to know.)

Oh this is just delicious.

Also, it's just a shoddy rip off of the AIDS quilt, which was an amazing awareness raising emotional thing. They can't even get their own ideas. Piggy backing on other people is a feature not a bug....

I support trans people so no, not a monster

Given I have previously identified as a shark on MN it does amuse me.

Oh good for you, do you want a cookie.

Are you implying that women who don't want transwomen in single sex spaces designed for women ARE monsters then? As even the Good Laugh Project has rowed back from that one.

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