Thread by @MForstater

Its ground hog day ....

This time last year @SarahbaxterSTM @thesundaytimes made a half-correction (but didn't apologise) for using the title of an article I didn't write to make claims about me and call me "a very rude person"

https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1209189502423576576

Because that's the kinder, gentler thing to do

A year later it is @ForeignPolicy that wants to use the title of the same article to call me an "anti-trans troll"

https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1339894886758289408

Because, you know, "the gender critical movement is illogical, anti-feminist and cruel"

(But allowing bullies to use the pages of respected magazines to smear women with innuendo is kind, feminist and rational ? 🙄)

"Pronouns are Rohypnol" was not discussed in my employment tribunal, (neither the phrase nor the article) but it turns up in the judgment in the section where it said "Clair Quentin had alleged I retweeted transphobic material".

The "allegation" that I had retweeted transphobic material didn't come from the counsel for CGD and it didn't come from Clair Quentin's witness statement, and it was nothing to do with a colleague or any harassment.

It came from evidence i put in of Quentin trolling me

Quentin was a surprise witness who pitched up to say that when I had tweeted about Pips Bunce I was really tweeting about Quentin (someone i barely knew) because we were both on "tax twitter" and Quentin was non binary.

So i put in a supplemental witness statement to say i hadn't tweeted about Quentin, but Quentin had been trolling and trying to bully me on twitter - telling professional networks not to talk to me
hiyamaya.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/supple…

In the evidence was thread of tweets where Quentin had after i had lost my job and launched my case told someone not to talk to me and had included screen shots of a bunch of my tweets

This is where the "pronouns are rohypnol" tweet came from

drive.google.com/file/d/1jOm_89…

Its a weird thing that those tweets are in the judgment at all which is supposed to be about testing my belief against the Grainger Criteria - and about which I had submitted an extensive witness statement and a tonne of evidence.

mforstater.medium.com/claimants-witn…

Anyway yes doing mental gymnastics with language puts a cognitive load on people and confuses them.

If you mess around with language enough people don't notice that you've pulled a switch between who is being a bully and who is being bullied.

fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/