being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.
Lesbians dressed as clowns disrupted a “gender-critical” panel last month at University College London. Participants were surprised when trans and cis dykes from The Dyke Project obstructed the proceedings while in cheerful clown attire. Julie Bindel, one of the panelists, has been a major voice against trans, bisexual, and SWer rights. The protesters chanted, “you’re not feminists, you’re all clowns!” while interrupting her. More of these protests, please! Read the full story on Dazed.
At 0:19 you can see them fully assault a protester. Not “just” escorting them out the building, but shoving them onto the ground hard
Per the Dazed article, these protesters did the smart thing: rather than all begin shouting at once, the protesters took action in different groups. While the first group raised a banner, the remaining three groups pretended not to be protesters. Then, once the event organizers had removed the first group and begun the presentation over again, the second group of people (the ones in the video) began their disruption. Then the event organizers got everything in order and the third group of protesters interrupted them all over again. There was four groups in total!
The tactic has two benefits: first, they were able to make chaos a lot longer than they would’ve if they’d all protested all at once. But also, they got the TERFs to stop trusting each other. The protesters created an air of paranoia amongst the bigots and I hope it fucking haunts them until they’re in the ground
okay, hold on, time out. that’s not fair. if they’re allowed to shoot energy beams using the power of friendship, i should be able to summon a monster using the power of divorce
Not feminist as in “women should be included in the draft” but feminist as in “being drafted is a violation of bodily autonomy for any gender”.
The draft should not exist. Drafting people into the military is a violation of human rights. You should not be able to force someone to risk their life. If you can’t find enough people who care about a conflict to keep it going then it simply shouldn’t keep going. You can’t even force someone to donate a kidney using government power, why the fuck can you force them to donate their whole body and life to a cause they don’t agree with or don’t care about?
