#speaker's corner

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before the next round starts, we all need to get on the same page

vote rose out

VOTE BRIG!

if rose wins this companion tournament as well i'm deleting the internet

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Anonymous. Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park. London. 1962-64

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TERFs vs. BLM at Speakers Corner

I couldn’t find any transcripts of the videos for this, and they’re very loud and hard to hear, so I thought I’d upload some transcripts for accessibility. Click the readmore to see it, because this video is about 5 minutes long.

This is Posie Parker & co at Speakers Corner vs. BLM activists.

People: BH (Blue Hair), BLM2-4 (other BLM activists), TERF R (Red hair), TERF B (Blond TERF)

Transcript starts @ 25 seconds:

BH: Where I'm coming from, honestly, is this is hate. I am seeing hate against us.

TERF B: I'm seeing misogyny!

BH: Ok well

TERF B, interrupting: Well I’m seeing misogyny! I am seeing outright misogyny, where you can’t even understand what a woman is.

BH: [unintelligible] as you as a woman, as well, I am also a woman, as you as a woman as well, who has space and oppressions, I don’t understand how you can oppress another marginalised community. That’s my thinking.

Random white dude on the side 1, loudly: Men are not oppressed.

BH: I’m having a conversation with her, and I’m not talking about that. You as a woman, you’re a woman, women are oppressed-

TERF B: Yes

BH: Women have always been oppressed, and you are now-

TERF B, interrupting: On the basis of what? How are women oppressed?

BH: On the basis of what? Gender-

TERF B, interrupting and yelling: [unintelligible] Answer the question! What is about women that makes them oppressed?

BH: If you would let me finish talking... [crew of white people filming behind TERF speakers talks over her]

Random white dude on the side 2, loudly: Not the way to start a conversation, assaulting someone and then trying to take their side. (repeat 2x)

BH: I can’t even get one word in! What’s the gender pay gap right now in the UK?

TERF R, yelling loudly, close to BH’s face: You can’t tell us what we asked you! You’re not answering our questions!

 BH: You asked me a question... listen to me, man. Come on, calm it down (?). You asked me what the basis is, I said gender pay gap. The only two actual [unintelligible, talks about Iceland’s pay gap a bit]

TERF R, yelling even more loudly: WHY ARE WOMEN OPPRESSED? Why are we paid differently? (x3) Because of our REPRODUCTIVE CAPABILITIES. Oh my GOD. Because WOMEN have BABIES. That’s where the pay gap comes from.

[skipping approx 20 seconds of BH attempting to make her point regarding the statistics in Iceland]

TERF R: Because of your gender? It’s because of your WOMB

BH: You’re asking me for facts, I’m telling you statistics. [being interrupted by TERF R] How can we have a conversation?

BLM2, to TERF R: You’re saying women are women because of their reproductive organs. What about women who don’t have wombs?

TERF R: They’re still FEMALE!

BLM2: So what you’re saying doesn’t make any sense! Is it the vagina? Is it the vulva? Is it the womb? Is it the uterus?

TERF R, yelling, getting close to BLM2′s face: It’s the ACTUAL reality of the FEMALE SEX. I can’t help you (repeat 4x).

BH: This is what's really annoying now with intergenerational politics, because the older generation [unintelligible] that we don't know, don't try to start us like we don't understand what's going on right now. You're not about to diminish my experience and diminish me knowing actual fact because you're saying 'oh you're young and you don't know anything'

TERF R: You don't know what a woman is, babe. You don't know what a woman is. What is a woman?

[unintelligible, she keeps repeating it over while BLM tries to respond and others comment]

BLM3: Wait, wait, you’re going off the dictionary definition

TERF R, now yelling in BLM3′s face: I can’t hear what you’re saying with the mask on your face.

BLM2: I don’t know what a woman is? I’m so confused.

BLM3, getting between TERF R & BH: Leave her alone. Leave her alone.

TERF R: You don’t get to control who talks to everyone.

BLM3: I’m not controlling who you talk to. I’m telling you don’t speak to her.

TERF R turns to BLM4, pulling back jacket to show “woman: adult human female” shirt: A woman is an adult human female. What do you think it is? What do you think makes you a woman? Oh, you can’t answer it? I can. It’s an adult human female.

BLM4: Someone wrote a book, and you’re believing it.

TERF R: You don’t HAVE a definition.

BLM4: Unintelligible

TERF R, leaning back, quieter: I’m not trying to shout in your face, I’m trying to make myself heard.

[abridurif]

Michel François, Speaker’s Corner, 2006

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I also want rose out, but everyone needs to lower their expectations of it happening, we are outnumbered here by by the fact that almost everyone on tumblr will have heard of Rose, if they see a poll between her and someone who they've not heard of they're voting for her. I do it too, if I see a poll and only recognise one option, I'm voting for that option

really what I'm saying is, if we want Rose to lose we have to make people watch the rest of the show to raise awareness for her apponents

VOTE BRIG

True

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I saw the competitors for the losers poll and said out loud “Who the fuck is Ben?” before suddenly remembering beloved S4 companion Ben Jackson. Present for the first ever regeneration Ben Jackson. I just… forgot he existed for like 30 seconds. I remembered Sara Kingdom was a companion but not Ben. I think that says something about him but I’m not sure what.

Love u Ben jackson. Go girl give us nothing

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Oh yeah the reason I called it "speaker's corner" is because the image I want you all to have in your minds is that of people standing on boxes and shouting

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