I haven’t read mumsnet at all and I may be very wrong here but I get a chuckle out of the audacity someone must have to frame parents being worried about irreversible medical procedures being performed on their children as a hate group.
I haven’t read mumsnet at all and I may be very wrong here but I get a chuckle out of the audacity someone must have to frame parents being worried about irreversible medical procedures being performed on their children as a hate group.
I can’t help but notice the inherent sexism of how they go after Mumsnet & moms in general (saving some ire for irascible fathers of rape victims reacting normally to being taunted by some dismissive turnip at a school board meeting). Maybe it’s not done consciously but holy hell I see it everyday from the TRAs.
I wasn’t peaked by Mumsnet, but I was radicalized by it. There was a transwoman in around 2015 trying to get moved to a women’s prison in the UK and Mumsnet was the only place I could find that had the same “WTF” reaction that I did.
There’s a particular snobbishness about Mumsnet in the UK, that it’s full of buttoned-up yummy mummies who screech “think of the children!”, when in reality it’s full of incredibly smart, funny women covering every issue you can think of, often giving each other support and advice and one of the only true female spaces on the internet. (Weirdly enough it seems to have avoided being swamped with “actual” women, I wonder why?)
Absolutely. I discovered it when my wife’s sister was being legally harassed by her ex because she wanted to move house somewhere that added five minutes to his occasional visits to his daughter. It included him setting the police on her child minder to investigate fabricated accusations of sexual abuse - mission accomplished, the child minder packed it in - and ended with a court case for custody. He was completely broke, but represented himself with online help, which dragged the process out further and added to the cost.
Long story short, Mumsnet was great for support and advice. Whatever is happening, someone has gone through it before. So with the Trans issues...women whose husbands have suddenly transitioned but expect to be fully validated by their newly lesbian wife (Trans Widows), lesbians told that deep down, they’ve always been men and that transwomen are more authentically female than them, fear and disbelief at what is proposed for their children.
Well she abandoned the move, but the judge laughed him out of court in the custody case. She couldn’t claim costs off him though because he’s got nothing except time on his hands, particularly since he self diagnosed with chronic long Covid.
(I wasn’t peaked by any of these sites ppl think. I was peaked by the masculine she/hers in the Be Kind community writing death/rape threats in response to JKR. “Listen to trans voices.” ✅ Did it. I’m quite confident dismissing the bulk of what’s going on as a power grab by Anime porn addicts to access women’s spaces, which strangely benefits Big Pharma.)
What they don't get is that most of those opposed to gender ideology and self-ID did "educate ourselves" and listen to "trans voices", and we realized the whole thing is nutters.
Yeah, I can see supporting the kid stuff just because you hadn’t thought about it very much or because it got some blessing from people you read as part of your group, but when people are out attacking moms my interpretation of their motives gets much less generous.
I mean it's not like the TRA crowd took it easy on Jessie because he's a he.
There just aren't a ton of men sticking their necks out on this issue, which makes sense because women going down the trans path don't pose nearly the same direct threat to us.
I haven’t read mumsnet at all and I may be very wrong here but I get a chuckle out of the audacity someone must have to frame parents being worried about irreversible medical procedures being performed on their children as a hate group.
I can’t help but notice the inherent sexism of how they go after Mumsnet & moms in general (saving some ire for irascible fathers of rape victims reacting normally to being taunted by some dismissive turnip at a school board meeting). Maybe it’s not done consciously but holy hell I see it everyday from the TRAs.
I wasn’t peaked by Mumsnet, but I was radicalized by it. There was a transwoman in around 2015 trying to get moved to a women’s prison in the UK and Mumsnet was the only place I could find that had the same “WTF” reaction that I did.
There’s a particular snobbishness about Mumsnet in the UK, that it’s full of buttoned-up yummy mummies who screech “think of the children!”, when in reality it’s full of incredibly smart, funny women covering every issue you can think of, often giving each other support and advice and one of the only true female spaces on the internet. (Weirdly enough it seems to have avoided being swamped with “actual” women, I wonder why?)
Absolutely. I discovered it when my wife’s sister was being legally harassed by her ex because she wanted to move house somewhere that added five minutes to his occasional visits to his daughter. It included him setting the police on her child minder to investigate fabricated accusations of sexual abuse - mission accomplished, the child minder packed it in - and ended with a court case for custody. He was completely broke, but represented himself with online help, which dragged the process out further and added to the cost.
Long story short, Mumsnet was great for support and advice. Whatever is happening, someone has gone through it before. So with the Trans issues...women whose husbands have suddenly transitioned but expect to be fully validated by their newly lesbian wife (Trans Widows), lesbians told that deep down, they’ve always been men and that transwomen are more authentically female than them, fear and disbelief at what is proposed for their children.
How did your sister-in-law’s situation work out, if I may ask?
Well she abandoned the move, but the judge laughed him out of court in the custody case. She couldn’t claim costs off him though because he’s got nothing except time on his hands, particularly since he self diagnosed with chronic long Covid.
(I wasn’t peaked by any of these sites ppl think. I was peaked by the masculine she/hers in the Be Kind community writing death/rape threats in response to JKR. “Listen to trans voices.” ✅ Did it. I’m quite confident dismissing the bulk of what’s going on as a power grab by Anime porn addicts to access women’s spaces, which strangely benefits Big Pharma.)
What they don't get is that most of those opposed to gender ideology and self-ID did "educate ourselves" and listen to "trans voices", and we realized the whole thing is nutters.
Yeah, I can see supporting the kid stuff just because you hadn’t thought about it very much or because it got some blessing from people you read as part of your group, but when people are out attacking moms my interpretation of their motives gets much less generous.
I mean it's not like the TRA crowd took it easy on Jessie because he's a he.
There just aren't a ton of men sticking their necks out on this issue, which makes sense because women going down the trans path don't pose nearly the same direct threat to us.