Posted on 01/07/2019 8:49:56 AM PST by rickmichaels
You might have thought it was the most innocuous item someone could wear: a simple black T-shirt bearing the dictionary definition of woman as human female.
But a young mother has been barred from her local pub after a complaint that the words discriminated against transgender people.
The unlikely new front line of the ongoing war between feminists and transgender campaigners is the snug Five Clouds Tap and Bottle in the historic market town of Macclesfield.
Rebekah Wershbale said she was stunned when a barwoman at the pub informed her she was banned because of the definition.
Ms Wershbale said: She told me that the T-shirt I was wearing was upsetting people because it was transphobic and not inclusive so I was barred. What she meant was that I was somehow offending men who say they are women because my T-shirt did not include them in the definition of a woman. There arent even any transgender staff or patrons at the pub. Its crackers.
Ms Wershbale is a supporter of feminist group Fair Play For Women, which opposed a Governments consultation to reform the Gender Recognition Act (GRA).
This proposed legal change would allow people to self-identify as the gender they believe they are without any medical diagnosis. Feminists and transgender campaigners have been locked in an increasingly heated battle with leading feminists fearing the change will harm the safety and privacy of women.
Ms Wershbale, a mother-of-one, had gone last Sunday with her girlfriend to play board games at the pub where she has been a regular for three years.
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She chose the shirt specifically to make a statement about her perspective. She just didn't expect to run into someone who felt strongly against her perspective.
Or maybe she did: now she's brought much more attention to her point of view than she would have by wearing the shirt and having nobody care.
It has nothing to do with trans, bi, homo, etc. It is about controlling the language.
Socialists are using the technique exposed by Orwell: control the language and you can control the people. Socialists all over the world and certainly all over the U.S. are dictating to you what language you may or may not use.
When they can prohibit the language that is used by adherents of and describes the elements of, say, conservatism, they have basically outlawed it.
They are outlawing conservatism, free market thinking, straight-white masculinity, Christianity, homo conversion therapy, etc., etc., etc.
Fighting back against this at the University of Toronto is what thrust Jordan Peterson into the public light around the world.
Aren’t those making a point about the so-called “transgenders” discriminating against the real people in the world?
Leftists hate dictionaries. I was booted off Facebook for posting the Merriam-Webster definitions of criminal and illegal. Just that. No other commentary.
I sat down next to him and asked him how he was, Ms Wershbale said. He said, I dont want to talk to you to be honest please leave me alone. So I said OK and left it.
Thirty minutes later a member of the bar staff named Heather came to Ms Wershbales table to tell her she was no longer welcome at the pub. Heather said Id been upsetting people and Mika was crying, Ms Wershbale said."
By “crackers” does she mean white folks?
1) Youre a sexist.
2) Youre a predatory sexist.
Unless youre a lesbian. Then shes a homophobe. Its the rule.
Read the article
I’m frankly surprised the inbred muslims haven’t forced all pubs to close.
Drink up while you can; preferably somewhere else.
One might get the impression that she had in mind provoking a reaction from “Mika,” since her ostensible purpose was to play board games with her girlfriend. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if she’s being honest about the exchange, but I think her story of being “shocked” and all that is very thin.
Brit-speak for ‘nuts’, ‘crazies’, etc..........
F__k the Brits. Their country is almost gone and they are still trying to speed up the process. Morons and idiots!
I think “Mika” crying over a t-shirt is all I need to know.
adult
human
female
Yup. Checks out.
Lefty is anti-science.
1) Right
2) Count on it ...
I’m also deplorable.
Extremely deplorable.
What of it?
Thanks.
Not guilty
It’s a good thing she was told or who knows how they’d spike her drink.
I’ll bet the bar’s customer base just shrank.....................
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