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chit-chatLet's talk about real-life WLW spaces
If you could start your own WLW or lesbian-exclusive space IRL, what would it be like??? What kind of groundrules would you have?
If you've participated in lesbian and WLW spaces before the TIMs invaded, how was it? What did you love about it? What would you change?
Personally I would love to have a WLW knitting+crochet group. It would be a monthly meeting, ideally at a local library or woman-owned yarn shop.
My rules would be:
To keep the TIMs out, we could register as a private organization which requires membership. I think we could even make the membership free, and simply screen new members over the phone or whatever. We could maybe even get away with simply allowing all interested people to show up, and turning away TIMs and men at the door.
Or we could register as a religious organization.
But feel free to daydream, if you don't want to worry about keeping away TIMs. Let your imagination fly. Would you want a WLW softball meetup? A lesbian acapella chorus group? We used to have all these and more, depending on the size of your city. Have you ever participated in something like that in the past?
Pedestrian crossings are pieces of safety equipment. Any damage to safety equipment would be highly illegal. The fact that local councils are themselves deliberately defacing this same piece of safety equipment via painting them so as to make them ambiguous and unsafe has been pointed out as a problem, but they seem to be getting away with their vandalism. They have even been saying accidental tyre marks on these crossings are a transphobic hate crime, so I imagine they would class chalk slogans as hate crime too.
If tyre marks on a road surface are hate crimes then they better put red velvet ropes around them to stop people walking on them, walking on things is what you do to things you hate, trampling the flag.
bunch of Nazis
Blind people who complained that their guide dogs did not recognise these rainbow crossings were also called transphobic. Old people with dementia who were confused by the crossings were similarly branded as bigots.
there is one I came across about a mile or so away, I had no idea it was there I was very confused myself if it was actually a crossing for people and decided not to use it and carried on walking until I got to a real crossing.