Want to talk about, y'know (whisper it) feminist stuff. Too effing pathetic to do it under my real name.
Aug 4, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
I've seen some people talking about how the @MForstater case has emboldened them to speak out.
Now me, I'm not very bold. Frankly, I'm a complete chicken. I didn't choose this username at random.
But it's emboldened me too, and I want to tell you the story of how.
So:
I'm a barrister ("a cowardly barrister? How is this possible?" Well, I don't know. You'd think it wouldn't be. But it is). And, being one, it occasionally falls to my lot to go out socially with other barristers. Lucky me.
And recently I was out with, amongst others:
Aug 8, 2019 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
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“I don’t care what’s between people’s legs.”
That assertion – heard so often from the Other Side -- bothers me. Every time. Gives me a frisson of doubt. Because it sounds so very much like the moral high ground. So lofty, so virtuous.
Are they right? Are we wrong?
Thinking about what’s between people’s legs doesn’t sound very noble, does it? A tiny mind and an upskirting periscope, obsessing grubbily on genitals – that’s not who I want to be.
So are we wrong?
I’ve tried to think it through, and this is where I’ve got to
Nov 22, 2018 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
I had a conversation recently (by DM) with a very polite young transwoman in America. She said she contacted me because she thought I might have a genuinely open mind.
Now, I am occasionally beset with the insane delusion that I can be some sort of mediator,
bringing peace and accord where all others have failed. (I have to say there is as yet absolutely no evidence of the truth of this belief; but I cling to it like a squirrel to its nut). So we talked.
It went okay till she asked me, did I believe she was a woman?
Oct 25, 2018 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
I don’t know if anyone will ever read this. I’m a new account with very few followers. If anyone sees this and considers it worthy of an RT I’d be grateful: I so much want to be heard, if only this once.
See, I joined twitter a few months ago in a different ID, to discuss Labour politics. I like lefty twitter. I’m happy there. I’m a party member.
I knew nothing about the GRA debate at that point; but did see mentions of transphobia. Naturally, I was against that.
