[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I guess that what could be said about JK is that she was clumsy in addressing concerns that she had and things that she wanted to say... But we’ve had enough discussions on the forum to know that her concerns are something felt by many women and their basis has no ‘phobic’ foundation...these concerns have to be voiced, I mean that’s always the starting point and what JK was attempting...?....and that things can’t ever and shouldn’t ever be silenced or cancelled or whatever because it will only become deeper and deeper so these difficult conversations have to be opened up....JK has tried to do that because maybe she thought that she would be a good person to do it, as an ally of LGBT etc...? ...but her conversation has been rejected ...at some point though, if the conversation isn't opened up in a non hostile way and without all of the ugliness that it’s brought atm...then two groups in society will just remain feeling ‘vulnerable and under threat’ and that will only cause to regress and prevent any progressiveness for either group...

Yeah absolutely right Ammi. Not being allowed to speak about these issues properly is just going to worsen relations and bad feeling and I'm sure most people on either "side" just want a solution, a proper line of communication needs to be opened. Sometimes it feels like people are deliberately trying to sabotage those avenues of reasoned debate/discussion for whatever reason and yes agree with others on the thread that social media and more specifically Twitter is making this whole topic so much worse, so full of angry people riling each other up