Why are we putting up with this?
The Evening Standard says Julie Bindel had it coming.
CONTROVERSIAL feminist writer Julie Bindel says she was “lunged” at last night by an activist who had to be restrained by security guards. Bindel, co-founder of Justice For Women, was leaving a panel event at Edinburgh University when she was approached by activist Cathy Brennan, a trans woman whom Bindel mis-identifies as a man. “He ran right at me, was inches away from me. His fists were raised and his face was twisted with hatred and anger,” Bindel told The Londoner this morning.
Note the care to monster her with the very first word, which luckily is in all caps.
Then note that they see fit to say she “mis-identifed” as a man this large man who felt large and male and confident enough to lunge at her.
Much misidentify.
https://twitter.com/FranFaeFife/status/1136415300788903936
The Standard again:
Brennan posted on Twitter last night that she “lost my sh*t at Julie Bindel. She filmed me. I’m safe”. Brennan also claimed “the truth of the matter is that I did not raise a fist. I attempted to push past security so I could speak…with a person who has caused great harm to trans people.” The panel, entitled “Women’s Sex-Based Rights: what does (and should) the future hold?”, had already drawn anger last month after the Edinburgh University’s Students’ Association Liberation group accused the university of “stirring up transphobia” for hosting it.
The panel didn’t “draw” anger. Some students chose to get angry about it. Saying the panel “drew” anger shifts the responsibility.
H/t Josh
It gets even more bizarre, actually:
https://twitter.com/FinTechEsq/status/1136582920842436608
Why ARE we putting up with it?
I see his twitter handle no longer comes up. We’ll see how long that lasts for. I expect twitter will find some excuse to allow a man to continue using their service to harass and threaten women.
Yeah, J.A., I searched for the name and virtually all the results were for that woman you cited. Crazy that the transwoman one apparently picked the same name to harass her.
I love the “I’m safe” from the lunger.
It seems to be an article of faith that filming a trans person at a public event endangers them. I’m not sure how that works, particularly when they already have a social media presence.
Before I got banned by Twitter for saying men are not women, I reported that creep more than once about his violent threats and his impersonating — wish I had saved screen caps of Twitter telling me over and over that his conduct did not violate their community standards.
Skeletor, he was in great danger of damaging his fist when she thrust her face against it over and over again. Fortunately, that didn’t actually happen, and he doesn’t have to crack his knuckles a few times to get them straightened out again.
The Twitter account @TownTattle (“Catherine M. Brennan”) comes up with no tweets available. Suspended, made private, something like that.
Yes, made private.
Twitter account now completely deactivated.
Oh thanks. I shoulda checked.
I explained once to a man that if I punch him in the face, I’ll break my hand and bruise his face. If he punches me in the face, he’ll break my face and bruise his hand. He was shocked and said he wished he’d known that sooner. He was almost 50 at the time ffs.
We can confidently expect this to be put down as another precious trans person chased off twitter by nasty terfs, another ‘casualty’ to add to the imaginary genocide against them.
Right, Holms, because leaving Twitter is exactly the same as genocide, right? And because no woman anywhere, ever, has been shut down on Twitter because of saying “no such thing as a girl penis, luv”.