290 ... Lisa Morgan ... Barrow and Furness
332 ... Julia Maria Long ... Bexhill and Battle
196 ... Kellie-Jay Keen ... Bristol Central
452 ... Catherine Briggs ... Doncaster North
318 ... Katharine Margaret Murphy ... Finchley and Golders Green
244 ... Hazel Exon ... Honiton and Sidmouth
354 ... Lesley Woodburn ... Islington South and Finsbury
116 ... Una Marie O'Mahony ... Kensington and Bayswater
283 ... Liz Panton ... Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
455 ... Linda Jane Law ... Norwich South
337 ... Katherine Mary Longthorp ... Oxford East
482 ... Louise McDonald ... Sheffield Heeley
295 ... Bernadette O'Malley ... South West Hertfordshire
274 ... Bev White ... St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
286 ... Kelly Jane Oliver Dougall ... Tynemouth
363 ... Seonaid Dawn Barber ... West Worcestershire
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CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 14:39
Please can you give me an example of a breastfeeding or menopause group being "overwhelmed by men"?
I think its hyperbole designed to scare women.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:05
This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
It's NoT gOiNg To HaPpEn. You couldn't be more deeply ill-informed if you ever so desperately tried. It ALREADY HAS HAPPENED. And is happening. There is literally a couple of entire full threads in this section solely of things we were told 'would never happen' and have. We've already been proven correct. Around 4000 times over. It's no longer in question. I don't know where you've been.
Many women on here who are GC have said they voted Labour just to GTTO. Yet still care about womens issues. You may not care about womens rights. But most people do. They simply voted tactically. It isn't proof that you are right that no one cares about womens rights. You are clutching at straws if you think womens rights is a minority issue because Labour won over the tories.
CassieMaddox · 06/07/2024 15:23
if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men
Kindly, get a hold of yourself. This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
rabbitwoman · 06/07/2024 15:04
'@CassieMaddox I think the results show the MN obsession with "what a woman is" isn't replicated by the voter base.'
Fine. Let it all happen then.
You know, we really have tried our very best - and will continue to do so. But if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men - for whatever reason, but I bet it's not wholesome - then at least I know we played our part in trying to get it stopped, and supported people like KJK in doing so.
And there will be a huge list of people that we will hold to account. And we will hold them to account, when the time comes.
SinnerBoy · 07/07/2024 14:29
RubyTrees · 05/07/2024 20:09
(I think it's unlikely that many men voted for the Party of Women.)
I can confirm that there was one from my household.
That's at least two of us, then. Had I not had a candidate, I'd have spoiled my ballot. I did feel a little bit strange, when putting my cross on paper. There are a number of reasons why I felt that I couldn't vote for Labour and men in women's spaces was another stone on the balance.
MotherFeministWoman · 07/07/2024 14:21
I'm gender critical but keep making stuff up.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 14:13
It exists as evidenced on this thread alone.
MotherFeministWoman · 07/07/2024 13:58
Doesn't exist because it isn't true.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:40
All evidence to the contrary.
MotherFeministWoman · 07/07/2024 13:20
That's an interesting (and incorrect) conclusion to come to.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:12
You certainly don't 'give a shit' about womens employment rights, either.
MotherFeministWoman · 06/07/2024 15:58
I don't give a shit how they feel. And I don't care about people voting against my desires, I care about them voting against people's rights
NoWordForFluffy · 06/07/2024 15:53
I'm sure everybody who voted against your desires is GUTTED about that.
MotherFeministWoman · 06/07/2024 15:52
I have no respect for anyone who votes for a party whose leader think it's ok to deny a section of society housing and employment.
MotherFeministWoman · 07/07/2024 14:20
I didn't say you had, I was talking about KJK
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 14:14
Luckily we haven't said that we want that.
MotherFeministWoman · 07/07/2024 13:59
I don't think women's rights is bigotry. I think wanting to deny a section of society housing and employment is bigotry.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:51
If you think womens rights is 'bigotry', you're no feminist. Any more than I'm the Pope. Feminism doesn't mean centring men.
MotherFeministWoman · 06/07/2024 20:05
I don't think she's successful, I think she's largely an irrelevance, with a side of bigotry. I'm also a woman and a feminist and so entitled to engage in this forum.
IwantToRetire · 06/07/2024 19:47
I innocently started this thread to provide some facts. This involved trawling through constituency results, etc., but thought other on FWR would be interested to know the outcome.
Maybe we could have talked about whether this was the start of something and what or how we could help come the next election. (PoW was only registered early this year.)
How did other parties start. How do you keep going.
There are many, many groups who election after election because they are committed to their beliefs, keep going.
So no suprise that the usual suspects bogged yet another thread down in repititious negativity.
Learn the names, so you dont respond to click bait and help other threads get derailed and stopped from providing an opportunity to share pro active ideas.
Forget the sneering, because in the records at the House of Commons and Electorial Commission it will be registered that there was a Party of Women who took part in the 2024 election.
And lets face it that is going to be far more of a lasting impacted than the unoriginal, tedious, sneering on FWR.
But of course on one level, as has been said before, this desparate attempt to try and drown us in negativity only illustrates how sucessful they think KJK is because they are so panicked they feel compelled to attack.
ChishiyaBat · 06/07/2024 19:31
Yes you are right, it is extremely annoying.
NoWordForFluffy · 06/07/2024 19:28
Don't do it to yourself. Disengage, it's not worth it!
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borntobequiet · 07/07/2024 14:54
There is considerable infiltration of breastfeeding groups, which of course were originally set up to ensure that babies were fed in as natural and nutritious way as possible. Now that focus seems to have slipped.
La Leche League
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/01/breastfeeding-la-leche-league-suspends-trustees-trans-women/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43071901
https://internationalbreastfeedingjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13006-024-00624-1
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 14:47
You may be confusing me with someone else. I never once said breastfeeding or menopause groups are being overwhelmed by men.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 14:39
Please can you give me an example of a breastfeeding or menopause group being "overwhelmed by men"?
I think its hyperbole designed to scare women.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:05
This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
It's NoT gOiNg To HaPpEn. You couldn't be more deeply ill-informed if you ever so desperately tried. It ALREADY HAS HAPPENED. And is happening. There is literally a couple of entire full threads in this section solely of things we were told 'would never happen' and have. We've already been proven correct. Around 4000 times over. It's no longer in question. I don't know where you've been.
Many women on here who are GC have said they voted Labour just to GTTO. Yet still care about womens issues. You may not care about womens rights. But most people do. They simply voted tactically. It isn't proof that you are right that no one cares about womens rights. You are clutching at straws if you think womens rights is a minority issue because Labour won over the tories.
CassieMaddox · 06/07/2024 15:23
if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men
Kindly, get a hold of yourself. This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
rabbitwoman · 06/07/2024 15:04
'@CassieMaddox I think the results show the MN obsession with "what a woman is" isn't replicated by the voter base.'
Fine. Let it all happen then.
You know, we really have tried our very best - and will continue to do so. But if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men - for whatever reason, but I bet it's not wholesome - then at least I know we played our part in trying to get it stopped, and supported people like KJK in doing so.
And there will be a huge list of people that we will hold to account. And we will hold them to account, when the time comes.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:02
So maybe read the post I was replying to before you tell me I'm ill informed and shouting IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED at me
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 14:47
You may be confusing me with someone else. I never once said breastfeeding or menopause groups are being overwhelmed by men.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 14:39
Please can you give me an example of a breastfeeding or menopause group being "overwhelmed by men"?
I think its hyperbole designed to scare women.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:05
This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
It's NoT gOiNg To HaPpEn. You couldn't be more deeply ill-informed if you ever so desperately tried. It ALREADY HAS HAPPENED. And is happening. There is literally a couple of entire full threads in this section solely of things we were told 'would never happen' and have. We've already been proven correct. Around 4000 times over. It's no longer in question. I don't know where you've been.
Many women on here who are GC have said they voted Labour just to GTTO. Yet still care about womens issues. You may not care about womens rights. But most people do. They simply voted tactically. It isn't proof that you are right that no one cares about womens rights. You are clutching at straws if you think womens rights is a minority issue because Labour won over the tories.
CassieMaddox · 06/07/2024 15:23
if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men
Kindly, get a hold of yourself. This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
rabbitwoman · 06/07/2024 15:04
'@CassieMaddox I think the results show the MN obsession with "what a woman is" isn't replicated by the voter base.'
Fine. Let it all happen then.
You know, we really have tried our very best - and will continue to do so. But if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men - for whatever reason, but I bet it's not wholesome - then at least I know we played our part in trying to get it stopped, and supported people like KJK in doing so.
And there will be a huge list of people that we will hold to account. And we will hold them to account, when the time comes.
Datun · 07/07/2024 15:12
The British wing of La Leche League (LLL), which gives mother-to-mother support to those finding it hard to breastfeed, has been told by its US-based board of directors that the service cannot be single sex and they must support “male lactation”.
They were also told that the use of the term “mother” could be a “roadblock”, and that questioning gender ideology was “harmful”.
La leche league, Cassie. You said yourself you don't believe men can lactate. So what the fuck are they doing there?
Still claiming it's "hyperbole designed to scare women." ??
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 15:06
Um, before jumping to one tiny bit of the post, maybe consider my "IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED" response was to your denial that self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities - would happen.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:02
So maybe read the post I was replying to before you tell me I'm ill informed and shouting IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED at me
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 14:47
You may be confusing me with someone else. I never once said breastfeeding or menopause groups are being overwhelmed by men.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 14:39
Please can you give me an example of a breastfeeding or menopause group being "overwhelmed by men"?
I think its hyperbole designed to scare women.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:05
This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
It's NoT gOiNg To HaPpEn. You couldn't be more deeply ill-informed if you ever so desperately tried. It ALREADY HAS HAPPENED. And is happening. There is literally a couple of entire full threads in this section solely of things we were told 'would never happen' and have. We've already been proven correct. Around 4000 times over. It's no longer in question. I don't know where you've been.
Many women on here who are GC have said they voted Labour just to GTTO. Yet still care about womens issues. You may not care about womens rights. But most people do. They simply voted tactically. It isn't proof that you are right that no one cares about womens rights. You are clutching at straws if you think womens rights is a minority issue because Labour won over the tories.
CassieMaddox · 06/07/2024 15:23
if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men
Kindly, get a hold of yourself. This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
rabbitwoman · 06/07/2024 15:04
'@CassieMaddox I think the results show the MN obsession with "what a woman is" isn't replicated by the voter base.'
Fine. Let it all happen then.
You know, we really have tried our very best - and will continue to do so. But if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men - for whatever reason, but I bet it's not wholesome - then at least I know we played our part in trying to get it stopped, and supported people like KJK in doing so.
And there will be a huge list of people that we will hold to account. And we will hold them to account, when the time comes.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:15
I think saying menopause and breastfeeding groups will be overwhelmed by men is scaremongering, yes. Which is what the poster said.
You can find as many links as you want to services being trans inclusive, that is not at all the same as "overwhelmed by men".
Datun · 07/07/2024 15:12
The British wing of La Leche League (LLL), which gives mother-to-mother support to those finding it hard to breastfeed, has been told by its US-based board of directors that the service cannot be single sex and they must support “male lactation”.
They were also told that the use of the term “mother” could be a “roadblock”, and that questioning gender ideology was “harmful”.
La leche league, Cassie. You said yourself you don't believe men can lactate. So what the fuck are they doing there?
Still claiming it's "hyperbole designed to scare women." ??
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:18
Self ID is not going to become the norm. Sterilising gay children "unchecked" was never happening and after the cass review, it's certainly not going to "resume".
Overemotive, hyperbolic language designed to scare people is not helpful.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 15:06
Um, before jumping to one tiny bit of the post, maybe consider my "IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED" response was to your denial that self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities - would happen.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:02
So maybe read the post I was replying to before you tell me I'm ill informed and shouting IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED at me
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 14:47
You may be confusing me with someone else. I never once said breastfeeding or menopause groups are being overwhelmed by men.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 14:39
Please can you give me an example of a breastfeeding or menopause group being "overwhelmed by men"?
I think its hyperbole designed to scare women.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:05
This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
It's NoT gOiNg To HaPpEn. You couldn't be more deeply ill-informed if you ever so desperately tried. It ALREADY HAS HAPPENED. And is happening. There is literally a couple of entire full threads in this section solely of things we were told 'would never happen' and have. We've already been proven correct. Around 4000 times over. It's no longer in question. I don't know where you've been.
Many women on here who are GC have said they voted Labour just to GTTO. Yet still care about womens issues. You may not care about womens rights. But most people do. They simply voted tactically. It isn't proof that you are right that no one cares about womens rights. You are clutching at straws if you think womens rights is a minority issue because Labour won over the tories.
CassieMaddox · 06/07/2024 15:23
if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men
Kindly, get a hold of yourself. This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
rabbitwoman · 06/07/2024 15:04
'@CassieMaddox I think the results show the MN obsession with "what a woman is" isn't replicated by the voter base.'
Fine. Let it all happen then.
You know, we really have tried our very best - and will continue to do so. But if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men - for whatever reason, but I bet it's not wholesome - then at least I know we played our part in trying to get it stopped, and supported people like KJK in doing so.
And there will be a huge list of people that we will hold to account. And we will hold them to account, when the time comes.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:18
Self ID is not going to become the norm. Sterilising gay children "unchecked" was never happening and after the cass review, it's certainly not going to "resume".
Overemotive, hyperbolic language designed to scare people is not helpful.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 15:06
Um, before jumping to one tiny bit of the post, maybe consider my "IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED" response was to your denial that self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities - would happen.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:02
So maybe read the post I was replying to before you tell me I'm ill informed and shouting IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED at me
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 14:47
You may be confusing me with someone else. I never once said breastfeeding or menopause groups are being overwhelmed by men.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 14:39
Please can you give me an example of a breastfeeding or menopause group being "overwhelmed by men"?
I think its hyperbole designed to scare women.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:05
This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
It's NoT gOiNg To HaPpEn. You couldn't be more deeply ill-informed if you ever so desperately tried. It ALREADY HAS HAPPENED. And is happening. There is literally a couple of entire full threads in this section solely of things we were told 'would never happen' and have. We've already been proven correct. Around 4000 times over. It's no longer in question. I don't know where you've been.
Many women on here who are GC have said they voted Labour just to GTTO. Yet still care about womens issues. You may not care about womens rights. But most people do. They simply voted tactically. It isn't proof that you are right that no one cares about womens rights. You are clutching at straws if you think womens rights is a minority issue because Labour won over the tories.
CassieMaddox · 06/07/2024 15:23
if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men
Kindly, get a hold of yourself. This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
rabbitwoman · 06/07/2024 15:04
'@CassieMaddox I think the results show the MN obsession with "what a woman is" isn't replicated by the voter base.'
Fine. Let it all happen then.
You know, we really have tried our very best - and will continue to do so. But if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men - for whatever reason, but I bet it's not wholesome - then at least I know we played our part in trying to get it stopped, and supported people like KJK in doing so.
And there will be a huge list of people that we will hold to account. And we will hold them to account, when the time comes.
Datun · 07/07/2024 16:17
Personally, I find the concept that breastfeeding groups, formerly respectable and well known, encouraging men to sit in on the women, just because the men want to, really bloody scary.
Likewise rape crisis centres. It's fucking petrifying that women cannot have a woman only space to discuss their rape. Or have to just cross their fingers and hope.
RubyTrees · 07/07/2024 16:36
The refrain of TRAs:
"That's never happened."
"That isn't happening."
"That will never happen."
It's oh-so predictable.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:18
Self ID is not going to become the norm. Sterilising gay children "unchecked" was never happening and after the cass review, it's certainly not going to "resume".
Overemotive, hyperbolic language designed to scare people is not helpful.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 15:06
Um, before jumping to one tiny bit of the post, maybe consider my "IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED" response was to your denial that self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities - would happen.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:02
So maybe read the post I was replying to before you tell me I'm ill informed and shouting IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED at me
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 14:47
You may be confusing me with someone else. I never once said breastfeeding or menopause groups are being overwhelmed by men.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 14:39
Please can you give me an example of a breastfeeding or menopause group being "overwhelmed by men"?
I think its hyperbole designed to scare women.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:05
This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
It's NoT gOiNg To HaPpEn. You couldn't be more deeply ill-informed if you ever so desperately tried. It ALREADY HAS HAPPENED. And is happening. There is literally a couple of entire full threads in this section solely of things we were told 'would never happen' and have. We've already been proven correct. Around 4000 times over. It's no longer in question. I don't know where you've been.
Many women on here who are GC have said they voted Labour just to GTTO. Yet still care about womens issues. You may not care about womens rights. But most people do. They simply voted tactically. It isn't proof that you are right that no one cares about womens rights. You are clutching at straws if you think womens rights is a minority issue because Labour won over the tories.
CassieMaddox · 06/07/2024 15:23
if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men
Kindly, get a hold of yourself. This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
rabbitwoman · 06/07/2024 15:04
'@CassieMaddox I think the results show the MN obsession with "what a woman is" isn't replicated by the voter base.'
Fine. Let it all happen then.
You know, we really have tried our very best - and will continue to do so. But if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men - for whatever reason, but I bet it's not wholesome - then at least I know we played our part in trying to get it stopped, and supported people like KJK in doing so.
And there will be a huge list of people that we will hold to account. And we will hold them to account, when the time comes.
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rabbitwoman · 07/07/2024 16:06
It's my post this quote comes from.
Fair enough, cassie. You think my worries about what could happen in the future were we all to just give in and let this happen unchecked are scaremongering and an overreaction?
In reply, though, you are taking the stance that this NEVER happens and there is no evidence that it does.
So let's take a midpoint - if a man WERE to join a breastfeeding group, for example, and it distressed other members, do you think it would be fair and reasonable for those women to ask for the man to be removed?
Do you think it would be fair for those women to ask if that man could be excluded from SOME of the meetings, so that they can be more comfortable, but he doesn't have to be excluded from ALL of them as there would be women who don't have a problem with him sitting amongst them, putting his nipple into a baby's mouth?
That could apply to all sorts of scenarios and I would support it - men can join women's groups as long as the other women consent and there are parallel services where women who do not consent to share their spaces with men can feel comfortable.
Would you support that, as a solution to this specific issue?
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:18
Self ID is not going to become the norm. Sterilising gay children "unchecked" was never happening and after the cass review, it's certainly not going to "resume".
Overemotive, hyperbolic language designed to scare people is not helpful.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 15:06
Um, before jumping to one tiny bit of the post, maybe consider my "IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED" response was to your denial that self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities - would happen.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:02
So maybe read the post I was replying to before you tell me I'm ill informed and shouting IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED at me
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 14:47
You may be confusing me with someone else. I never once said breastfeeding or menopause groups are being overwhelmed by men.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 14:39
Please can you give me an example of a breastfeeding or menopause group being "overwhelmed by men"?
I think its hyperbole designed to scare women.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:05
This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
It's NoT gOiNg To HaPpEn. You couldn't be more deeply ill-informed if you ever so desperately tried. It ALREADY HAS HAPPENED. And is happening. There is literally a couple of entire full threads in this section solely of things we were told 'would never happen' and have. We've already been proven correct. Around 4000 times over. It's no longer in question. I don't know where you've been.
Many women on here who are GC have said they voted Labour just to GTTO. Yet still care about womens issues. You may not care about womens rights. But most people do. They simply voted tactically. It isn't proof that you are right that no one cares about womens rights. You are clutching at straws if you think womens rights is a minority issue because Labour won over the tories.
CassieMaddox · 06/07/2024 15:23
if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men
Kindly, get a hold of yourself. This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
rabbitwoman · 06/07/2024 15:04
'@CassieMaddox I think the results show the MN obsession with "what a woman is" isn't replicated by the voter base.'
Fine. Let it all happen then.
You know, we really have tried our very best - and will continue to do so. But if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men - for whatever reason, but I bet it's not wholesome - then at least I know we played our part in trying to get it stopped, and supported people like KJK in doing so.
And there will be a huge list of people that we will hold to account. And we will hold them to account, when the time comes.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 19:20
Where did I take the stance it never happens? That is not my view. You are projecting.
if a man WERE to join a breastfeeding group, for example, and it distressed other members, do you think it would be fair and reasonable for those women to ask for the man to be removed? yes. I don't think males should be at breastfeeding groups.
I think a trans man would be fine though, they might need support. So it depends what you mean by "man".
I have a problem with extrapolating from a scenario where some males might try to infiltrate a breastfeeding group, to a dystopian future where menopause groups and breastfeeding groups are "overwhelmed by men". That statement is hyperbolic and in my opinion scaremongering.
rabbitwoman · 07/07/2024 16:06
It's my post this quote comes from.
Fair enough, cassie. You think my worries about what could happen in the future were we all to just give in and let this happen unchecked are scaremongering and an overreaction?
In reply, though, you are taking the stance that this NEVER happens and there is no evidence that it does.
So let's take a midpoint - if a man WERE to join a breastfeeding group, for example, and it distressed other members, do you think it would be fair and reasonable for those women to ask for the man to be removed?
Do you think it would be fair for those women to ask if that man could be excluded from SOME of the meetings, so that they can be more comfortable, but he doesn't have to be excluded from ALL of them as there would be women who don't have a problem with him sitting amongst them, putting his nipple into a baby's mouth?
That could apply to all sorts of scenarios and I would support it - men can join women's groups as long as the other women consent and there are parallel services where women who do not consent to share their spaces with men can feel comfortable.
Would you support that, as a solution to this specific issue?
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:18
Self ID is not going to become the norm. Sterilising gay children "unchecked" was never happening and after the cass review, it's certainly not going to "resume".
Overemotive, hyperbolic language designed to scare people is not helpful.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 15:06
Um, before jumping to one tiny bit of the post, maybe consider my "IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED" response was to your denial that self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities - would happen.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 15:02
So maybe read the post I was replying to before you tell me I'm ill informed and shouting IT ALREADY HAS HAPPENED at me
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 14:47
You may be confusing me with someone else. I never once said breastfeeding or menopause groups are being overwhelmed by men.
CassieMaddox · 07/07/2024 14:39
Please can you give me an example of a breastfeeding or menopause group being "overwhelmed by men"?
I think its hyperbole designed to scare women.
SoreAndTired1 · 07/07/2024 13:05
This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
It's NoT gOiNg To HaPpEn. You couldn't be more deeply ill-informed if you ever so desperately tried. It ALREADY HAS HAPPENED. And is happening. There is literally a couple of entire full threads in this section solely of things we were told 'would never happen' and have. We've already been proven correct. Around 4000 times over. It's no longer in question. I don't know where you've been.
Many women on here who are GC have said they voted Labour just to GTTO. Yet still care about womens issues. You may not care about womens rights. But most people do. They simply voted tactically. It isn't proof that you are right that no one cares about womens rights. You are clutching at straws if you think womens rights is a minority issue because Labour won over the tories.
CassieMaddox · 06/07/2024 15:23
if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men
Kindly, get a hold of yourself. This is not going to happen. It's scaremongering.
rabbitwoman · 06/07/2024 15:04
'@CassieMaddox I think the results show the MN obsession with "what a woman is" isn't replicated by the voter base.'
Fine. Let it all happen then.
You know, we really have tried our very best - and will continue to do so. But if no one will listen, and self ID becomes the norm, and sterilising gay children and encouraging irreversible surgery resumes, unchecked, and it's all rolled out in schools like fact, if it's all men taking women's medals and opportunities, if breast feeding groups and menopause groups and female group therapy become overwhelmed with men - for whatever reason, but I bet it's not wholesome - then at least I know we played our part in trying to get it stopped, and supported people like KJK in doing so.
And there will be a huge list of people that we will hold to account. And we will hold them to account, when the time comes.
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