But don’t we first have to define ‘violence’? If you mean no women were knocked to the ground by angry men, then yes, happily we were spared this. But then we come to the issue of the signs and the chalked drawings.
That many women who were survivors of male sexual violence, would have found deeply distressing and intimidating and as bad as a punch in the face. I hope you can find out who was responsible and that they are not welcome at any future protests.
Because any movement which relies on threats and intimidation to another group, going about their lawful business, is not on the ‘right side of history’. Particularly THESE threats to THIS group.
By asking them to stop. By washing away their slogans. By publicly and quickly announcing you do not support them.

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19 Oct
Here is what I now understand about what happened on Saturday at #FiLiA2021. There was a protest organised by @PlaceSteph which was supported by @amnesty. There was a separate protest organised by Cllr Claire Udy. A separate protest organised by staff/students at Portsmouth Uni.
I am told the police confirmed the arrival of another group at some time in the afternoon. And these were responsible for the offensive/threatening signs and chalking. @PlaceSteph assures me that her group did not know and did not encourage this final group.
I am willing to take her word for this. I have made formal inquiry of Portsmouth University to ascertain the extent to which members of their staff were involved. I have made formal complaint to Cllr Claire Udy having seen Facebook posts where she apparently celebrates the images
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19 Oct
Interesting. My attempt to email Ms Uddy from a gmail account was blocked. But seems to have gone through on another account.
I do not accept that it is appropriate for someone using a ‘gov.uk’ email address to be apparently celebrating male sexual violence against women and if I get no reassurance I will take this further.
Particularly when I see this.
Read 5 tweets
19 Oct
This is very serious. I saw the chalk drawings. It was rather hard not to. I was standing on a big pink penis, with a written invitation to suck it, as the names of women murdered by men appeared on the big screen.
There were also pictures of monsters with sticks to beat transphobes. Rather saddest of all this depiction of a cartoon princess as emblem of womanhood.
I could not have asked for a neater distillation of all that is wrong and dangerous about this movement - it’s hatred of women, it’s violence, it’s retreat into cartoon fantasy. I thought I might talk to this politician directly.
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17 Oct
All hail! ‘I lost my job… then unlocked the JKR badge and levelled up … <applause> so many people contact me to say ‘thank you - I can now do my job’ @MForstater #FiLiA2021 Image
Maya was asked who she wanted on her panel
Couldn’t fit them all in the 43 sec video but it’s on YouTube. These were the ‘chains’ of women who gave her courage.

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16 Oct
Tide turning? William Tench found in breach of Code of Conduct and suspended, pending social media training, for calling GC women ‘transphobic pond scum’. ImageImageImage
Good to see William recognises that sometimes you do have to exclude others to secure rights for some. Image
So all we need now is the LibDems to read and understand the Equality Act and it looks good for future sanity. #sexmatters ImageImage
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16 Oct
Stocking up on essential conference fuel @FiLiA_charity. Already seen some great T shirts in the queue! Image
A noble venue for #filia2021 Image
Really pleased to see calm sensible protest - as is absolutely your right. No shouting, pushing or anything untoward. And did I spot @PlaceSteph ? #filia2021 ImageImageImage
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