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I've run out of ways to persuade people they should care about this

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I've run out of ways to persuade people they should care about this

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Graham Linehan
May 19, 2022
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A girl who said that biological sex is real after a talk about transphobia was surrounded by up to 60 girls who shouted, swore & spat at her. She did not receive the support of the school & is now studying at home for her A levels.
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Coercion of lesbians doesn’t do it, mutilation of young girls doesn’t do it, silencing of feminists doesn’t do it, destruction of women’s sports doesn’t do it, psychotic harassment of women doesn’t do it. The conmen don’t persuade them, neither do the predators, the fetishists or the misogynists. Rape victims don’t move them, lesbian rights are meaningless, safeguarding is outdated, and women deserve to be assaulted.

It is the great moral failing of this moment. And I’m not talking about the credulous “be kind” hippies chanting “transwomen are women”, who at least believe they’re doing the right thing, but the people who remain silent, knowing they’re not.

If just a few big names spoke up, even to do something as basic as defend JK Rowling’s freedom of speech, it would make all the difference in the world. But we’re into our sixth year of dead silence on the matter, and people like Jeremy Vine pretending to be stupid to stay out of trouble.

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Can anyone give me context here? Who was blocking the suffragette statue and why?
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Just tried to engage the masked, black-clad guardians of the statue. Went as well as you would imagine. https://t.co/hVtpkzKvoO
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Once again, this is a massive failure of the celebrity class. It will look not unlike Savile when it’s all over, with the biggest difference being that no-one will be able to credibly assert that they didn’t know it was happening.

I mean, what will it take? Do none of you have women in your lives? How can you take these insults? Speak out, for God’s sake!

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Andrew Byles
May 19, 2022

Each attempt at persuasion is another tap on the fragile glass that this stupid belief system is made of. Keep tapping, it’s only a matter of time until it shatters.

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William A. Ferguson
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May 19, 2022

Which is why I have elected to step away from this for a bit because I am at the point where...well, let's just say my anger is spilling over to dangerously unhealthy levels and I find myself headed into a really dark place.

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