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10 June 2020

 

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45 posts today

RT @WombHaver: A friend of Owen Jones sexually assaulted me. Owen never reached out to me personally when it came out, though did use the incident to manipulate women who were criticising him for sexism at the time. Men like him dont care about ...

June 10th @ 6:53 pm |

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RT @kevverage: this by @jk_rowling is an unsurprisingly brilliant, surprisingly personal and compellingly well argued riposte to those who have been abusing her on this platform for having the temerity to have a considered, nuanced view on a ...

June 10th @ 6:22 pm |

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RT @AlexBoyd: I remember a time when a woman with a profile as large as @jk_rowling would be applauded for openly sharing her experience of abuse and her fight against misogyny. The response to her this evening lacks compassion, understanding or ...

June 10th @ 6:02 pm |

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RT @Stuartmidd: @DAaronovitch @ForwomenScot @jk_rowling @NicolaSturgeon The most famous author in the world who lives in Scotland states biological facts and is not transphobic, gets the most vile abuse - Silence from u but plenty from those in your ...

June 10th @ 5:57 pm |

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RT @franklincrick: @Glinner @MForstater @SoniaPoulton @bindelj @CCriadoPerez @DrJessTaylor @Woman4W @ForwomenScot @fairplaywomen Loreal a company that targets and sells products almost exclusively to women (and owns The Body Shop) doesn’t have a ...

June 10th @ 5:51 pm |

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RT @JohannLamont: So many years arguing about women’s rights and equality. Dealt with men who clung to their sense of entitlement. Won some men over. Met some brilliant male champions. But the worst of them never told me they knew better about ...

June 10th @ 5:36 pm |

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RT @ClaireShrugged: The only thing to do with unsolicited male opinions about how we define the women’s liberation movement, and which women are feminists. https://t.co/P2dsGy...

June 10th @ 5:28 pm |

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Exactly, #DanielRadcliffe and #EddieRedmayne are free to disagree but when they turn a blind eye to the abhorrent abuse they are tacitly encouraging, they are part of the problem. https://t.co/zndNfh...

June 10th @ 4:40 pm |

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RT @DAaronovitch: Someone just sent me a screenshot of a fraction of the violent and misogynistic abuse sent to @jk_rowling in the last week. Their language reminded me of the way the most militant racists and whites supremacists have long responded ...

June 10th @ 4:31 pm |

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Surely if it were this terrible, you would suggest people read it as they would realise it themselves? The panic here is that of a desperate child caught out in a lie whose fantastical nonsense has been demolished by an adult. https://t.co/ctvVZN...

June 10th @ 4:08 pm |

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In a month when the US is in flames because of structural racism, @Independent decides to tell us that black people didn't understand where babies came from until white people told them. This is disgraceful. https://t.co/cHwKEc...

June 10th @ 3:47 pm |

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RT @Docstockk: Bring it on, trans activist academic twitter. Show the world your frankly astonishing repertoire. Some saying not to read the nasty lady's words. Others saying biological sex was invented by colonial invaders, before that people just ...

June 10th @ 3:44 pm |

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RT @ledcam: @ForwomenScot @jk_rowling Very well argued by Jo Rowling. She has NEVER advocated the removal of ANY trans rights. That crucial point is lost in the convenient mass hysteria generated against her. @scotgov you have an elected duty to ...

June 10th @ 1:56 pm |

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RT @amoozeboosh: @ForwomenScot @jk_rowling Thank you thank you for just laying it out, @jk_rowling Every point we never get to make because the insults and derailing and whataboutery starts. You've hit every single note. I hope you know how much this ...

June 10th @ 1:55 pm |

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RT @joannaccherry: .#IStandWithJKRowli... “Political parties seeking to appease the loudest voices in this debate are ignoring women’s concerns at their peril.” Without #FreeSpeech there is no democracy https://t.co/k6bMyn...

June 10th @ 1:32 pm |

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RT @ALLIANCELGB: .@Keir_Starmer You turn a deaf ear to us, and to the thousands of women and LGB people who are so disillusioned to see the Labour Party toss their rights overboard that they feel politically homeless. Perhaps you will listen to ...

June 10th @ 1:13 pm |

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A fabulous, nuanced & empathetic article by @jk_rowling on the background to her tweets. Thank you for you clarity, comprehension & for looking in so much depth & detail into the issues for all affected by potential changes in law. ...

June 10th @ 12:42 pm |

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RT @AudreySuffolk: This is a good thread. Also worth pointing out, in Equality Act, harassment is not entirely subjective. Under s26, the claimant alleging harassment on grounds of protected class like gender reassignment has to show it was ...

June 10th @ 10:54 am |

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RT @JeremyDuns: 'History shall judge' sounds very ominous, Paul, but I don't change my views through portentous pronouncements, but reasoned argument. Your bio on here as 'porn baron' makes me wonder if you're up to that task, but that indeed might ...

June 10th @ 10:31 am |

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RT @fawcettsociety: 56% of pregnant women admitted to hospital with Coronavirus between March and April were Black, Asian or from an ethnic minority background. Incredibly worrying findings. Midwives call for direction and action from Gov now. ...

June 10th @ 9:23 am |

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A devastatingly important thread about the impact in Norway in allowing sex self ID, especially in the reporting and statistical analysis of rape. Another example of what happens to women under @scotgov @S_A_Somerville @ScotGovFM favoured measure of ...

June 10th @ 9:05 am |

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RT @AlisonMoyet: Regardless how I feel about anything,I always hated a pile on since schooldays.Even against those that’ve been hateful to me. As it happens JkRowling is not hateful.I see a woman convicted & hung and wonder where the same venom ...

June 10th @ 8:13 am |

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RT @uracontra_: A lot of new followers the past few days (hi!) because of my essay on the misogyny towards JK Rowling. Here is something I wrote in 2018 about the hideous misogyny of the porn industry. Hopefully this will resonate with some of you, ...

June 10th @ 7:57 am |

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RT @BillBaggins96: Women have very few "freedoms" specific to them, and the few that they do have (e.g. right to run female-only rape support services) are not things to be "enjoyed"; they exist only for a very sad reason, which is that too many men ...

June 10th @ 7:35 am |

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RT @campervanwoman: Being female has the same social and political significance to a person as having brown hair or hay fever. The deputy leader of the SNP at Westminster, ladies and gentleman. https://t.co/D65l9Z...

June 10th @ 6:34 am |

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RT @AudreySuffolk: I suspect this politician needs to read Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health—and What We Can Do About It https://t.co/NRVbvc... https://t.co/yGteWx...

June 10th @ 6:31 am |

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RT @RossVodt: For those who think that Rowling is making up the trans activist erasure of the female sex. Read this first: https://t.co/zGL1UP... https://t.co/XyCUQD... https://t.co/wzBBt3... https://t.co/MxKFhy... https://t.co/dOaLZW... https://t.c ...

June 10th @ 6:27 am |

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RT @Unbridl09298089: This montage of goodness got me wondering. Is the real reason men want to force these men onto us because they’re terrified of them themselves? Gallant I’d say. https://t.co/N6bCnR...

June 10th @ 6:10 am |

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RT @AWumman: A few days ago an "ally" told JK Rowling to "Shut mouth, open purse". I found this language interesting because this phrase was used in 1950s Glasgow by abusive men who wanted their "nagging" wives to stop moaning about their drinking ...

June 10th @ 6:04 am |

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RT @Baroness_Nichol: True statement by the writer Celia Walden; Truth Will Out,so don’t tell lies.I,too am a woman,I respect all people except deliberate liars who try to erase nature’s binary pattern which we all share.⁊@Telegraph⁩ ⁊@jk_rowling⁩ ...

June 10th @ 5:28 am |

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Women had to fight hard for the rights men always had. In order to mitigate the effect of 1000s years of discrimination &, unfortunately, MVAW, women eventually got some tiny corners reserved for themselves. Now some males want to take away those ...

June 10th @ 5:21 am |

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"Once a society allows that people who feel emotional anguish are entitled to apology and moral restitution, there is no limit to the abridgment of free speech it will allow in the name of compassion." https://t.co/zRxKbP...

June 10th @ 4:50 am |

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RT @ExcelPope: Philip Pullman was confused about the J K Rowling argument, so I wrote a long blog to help him out. Now I'm confused as well, but hopefully someone will write a blog for me. https://t.co/zUgQ2m...

June 10th @ 4:28 am |