What is going on over there?
I’m sure it’s not the only reason but one reason is: they went after Mumsnet
The website is extremely popular and mainly women just chatting about parking , breastfeeding etc. it’s got its faults but it’s a genuinely useful resource as a new parent and I’d imagine most mums use it.
So when the Troon army decided that they wanted to club it into submission they tried to get MN to dox some of their anti-Troon users. I say anti Troon but it was really mild stuff like ‘there’s a man in the girls changing rooms and I’m not terribly sure this is ok.’
Anyway they really went after Mn, and I think that’s where an awful lot of women who had previously been live and let live got exposed to troons for the first time. I’d never really even considered they existed but they had to implement set of speech rules about what you could and couldnt say. Now that was clever because it allowed discussion while keeping the place free from the Uks ridiculous hate laws but it drove the troons into a frenzy.
The resulting shenanigans basically peak transed
literally hundreds of thousands of mums overnight. Where the troons got it hilariously wrong is thinking that these women were all mummies who are of no consequences or power. But like i said, , almost everyone uses mumsnet when they’ve got very young kids. Some of us have connections or direct power . Some of us decided that if we couldnt talk safely online we’d do it down the pub in real life. Some of us are in places of power directly or via marriage or family.
They completely misunderstood how women wield power becasue THEY ARE MEN. They assumed that a good slap would sort the silly mummers ladies out, and all that happened was the ladies decided to use female power, which is a word in the ear of a minister at teatime, telling them in no uncertain terms they are to sort this out.
Not the only thing going on I’m sure, but certainly one very significant one. I know becasue I was part of it
