Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayEven after the Sun, even after the despicable comments by their editor, they are still going. This is targeted harassment. Why are politicians and @EngenderScot not condemning this? https://t.co/VfpQfk...
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43 posts todayRT @NimkoAli: This is so heartbreaking. 95 girls have been failed and now added to the 200 million women and girls living with #FGM. That’s 95 generations. Women like Domtila on the frontline are asking for help and funding yet we are just ignoring ...
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43 posts today"To say that, in fact, only women menstruate should not be a radical statement, worthy of mass denunciation, but it has become one." The incomparable #MeghanMurphy https://t.co/4a1EPV...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todaySo Mermaids decided today was a good day to send an "open letter" to JK Rowling using the tactics of emotional blackmail & manipulation. Then the lied about Stonewall riots & dismissed sexual assault in prisons that trans guidance ...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayThank you for collecting these voices @madeleinekearns. And for recording how much we appreciate @jk_rowling paying tribute to Magdalen. https://t.co/1iAL9J...
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43 posts todayRT @MForstater: @youngvulgarian @ExcelPope @alexmassie Yes I don't believe that everyone has an inner gender identity. This doesn't make me transphobic any more than not believing in Allah makes someone islamophobic . People's experience can be ...
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43 posts todayVery much doubt she would. In fact this is an attempt to smear @MForstater https://t.co/eDxA3e...
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43 posts today"if there is nothing particular or unique about womanhood, is there any need to protect woman as a distinct class of people or insist that, in some places and at some times, there is a need for women-only spaces?" https://t.co/vN9UZt...
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43 posts todayRT @intersexfacts: There's nothing quite like calling men with DSDs "women" to show you have a good grasp of the issue. This is grim. XXY is Klinefelters syndrome, which affects males. Thanks for the faux outrage, Naomi. https://t.co/94GtBx...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayIt should be disappointing and shocking that a woman who made a career as a feminist decides to dismiss or minimise MVAW, sadly, today it's too common. https://t.co/L6lgjZ...
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43 posts todayYes, we wonder this @HumzaYousaf A lot of people on here - including members of your party - were accusing her of inciting hate & causing harm. She received a torrent of vile sexualised abuse, but women wouldn't be protected. So could she face ...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayMuch of this is true and insightful. Its profoundly depressing, however, that in an article about reluctance to discuss the issues around periods, the word woman isn't mentioned once. https://t.co/F8xFYN...
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43 posts todayPointing out words that Pink News editor wrote himself is "abuse". What would happen to these men if they got a fraction of the terrifying death and rape threats women like Rowling have received? https://t.co/XP5yZB...
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43 posts todayMeanwhile, Helen Islan claims to support "universal" condemnation of Sun. Her very next action is to RT someone claiming the main problem with the article was it made JKR a "bigger victim". https://t.co/75ASqK...
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43 posts todayRT @AKAsusangreen: @judgejules75 @ForwomenScot @bindelj Let's love bomb JK with postcards. https://t.co/3fQ0ko...
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43 posts todayRT @wwwritingclub: Another woke author virtue signals her loyalty to the gender cult while throwing women & kids under the bus. Yuk. https://t.co/9JHtvM...
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43 posts todayRT @ClaireShrugged: The white, male editor of Pink News also attempted to use Black Lives Matter (a cause which Rowling has publicly supported) as a way of scoring points. By my count Pink News have far more stories attacking J.K. Rowling than they ...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayNever fail to be astonished that some people think they can be rude and aggressive, & demand you take their word on everything. Then, when you refuse to be bullied, claim you are not willing to listen and learn. Need to be fluent in "entitled ...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayNot so long ago he was comparing her to Savile. He's a major part of this and all the abuse that followed. https://t.co/EDt9zR...
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43 posts todayRT @charlesarthur: Totally endorse this thread. That a woman can speak up honestly about abuse and its effects on her, and yet have that ignored and instead receive the most unsympathetic reaction imaginable, is callous beyond description. Castigate ...
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43 posts todayRT @GillianMSP: The Sun’s headline quoting JK Rowling’s abusive ex-husband is beyond triggering for many abuse survivors, and enabling to abusers. It is irresponsible and dangerous. I could weep for the way women are treated by the tabloid press- ...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayThank you for this. We are seeing where the justification of abuse of women leads. @Keir_Starmer needs to take a stand now. https://t.co/mp73oV...
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43 posts todayRT @LabWomenDec: Appalled by the headline of @TheSun today glorifing male violence against @jk_rowling? #dontbuythesun of course. But who in @UKLabour is going stand up to this misogyny and licence to attack women who speak up for women's sex-based ...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayThis is the abuse some reputable accounts still cannot bring themselves to condemn and the abuse that many gleefully stoked. #IStandWithJKRowlin... https://t.co/uq0vfV...
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43 posts todayRT @k8souphead: @jesspf35 @ForwomenScot She doesnt speak for all women. No one does. Most women can easily identify with her experience because most women have been subjected to sexual violence and threats from the prostate havers. The assailants are ...
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43 posts todayRT @annalouiseadams: @HadleyFreeman @jk_rowling Hi Hadley, I wrote my dissertation on women’s experiences of being labelled as “TERFs” and it’s slurring properties if you wanted to read: https://t.co/Njyhzi...
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43 posts todayThe disingenuous reply to this is quite something. Apparently, this tweet was purely coincidental and he had no one on mind when he talked about "powerful opponents" playing "martyr". Odd he wrote it this week... https://t.co/b6EXym...
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43 posts todayRT @tryingattimes: Why is the onus on JKR to offer a ‘solution’ to a terminally flawed law she didn’t write? You and other advocates for self-ID are already outsourcing the consequences of your actions to women and girls. Self-ID cannot be fixed ...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayRT @DreyfusJames: This. Just this 👇 https://t.co/wlXTP4...
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43 posts todayRT @EvaPoen: FOURTY articles have been written about @jk_rowling in only five days by the "journalists" at Pink News. That's completely normal, like. Nothing to see here. Definitely not bullying or harassement of a woman. https://t.co/U0Hpw3...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayWell, you could. Or you could encourage pile-ons against women who speak out about latter. You could sign letters demanding women be sacked from your newspaper for writing about it. You could support PN lies about prominent UK VAW campaigners. You ...
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43 posts todayGary has a blue tick. One might have hoped these people would stop now, but apparently comparing a woman asking for CEDAW rights to Hitler is "educational and insightful". #IStandWithJKRowlin... https://t.co/AvU0uV...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayWhy the need to qualify a condemnation of abuse, Ms Blackman? What "harm" did she cause? This is gaslighting and victim blaming from an MP. https://t.co/84DCyY...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayHot take. "Weaponising" being abused... And men wonder why women don't speak up. https://t.co/ymWrDF...
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43 posts todayApparently, the woman subject to abuse "started it". https://t.co/ndGlpM...
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43 posts todayRT @joannaccherry: Everyone who claimed @jk_rowling was “weaponising her abuse” or “engaging in tired tropes” etc. Should take a long hard look at the Sun’s front page & accept that their dismissal of women’s #sexbasedrights has fuelled a tsunami ...
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43 posts todayThe progressive, kind @scotgp, everyone! #IStandWithJKRowlin... https://t.co/WhokR3...
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43 posts todayRT @LucyHunterB: I should also like to see people now finding a voice to condemn the massive, vile, sexually violent, misogynistically derogatory avalanche sent to to Joanne Rowling in the last few days. https://t.co/dnVyjm...
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43 posts todayRT @LucyHunterB: Policy makers and legislators who refuse to recognise and grapple with the existence of Steve are failing in their jobs more woefully than I have words for. https://t.co/tBKwF5...
Forwomen.scot
43 posts todayFantastic piece on the Kafkaesque nature of the debate over sex, the policing of women and why we won't be silenced. Thank you @satiricole #IStandWithJKRowlin... https://t.co/YTvdsI...
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43 posts todayRT @Alisdisgrace: @suzanne_moore #IStandWithJKRowlin... https://t.co/5HVFir... Jo’s charity - donating will count more than words on Twitter.
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43 posts todayOffering without comment except to say that if you only care about vile misogynistic abuse when the Sun gets involved, you are part of the problem. https://t.co/dKKHkt...
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43 posts todayRT @FeministWiki: The hounding of JK Rowling shows a society that has forgotten how to think The author raised important questions, and received a barrage of misogynistic abuse by Sarah Ditum @sarahditum https://t.co/Mfk0I5...