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44 posts todayThis is the group that may have prejudiced the chance of a fair trial tonight. https://t.co/94RQIn...
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44 posts todayLest there was any doubt that this has been hijacked by extremists. https://t.co/Vmqg03...
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44 posts todayThis is awful. Sisters Uncut may cause real issues here. They are a disgrace. https://t.co/P41NN5...
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44 posts todayHis "happy picture" involved high jinks in the ladies loos. Now he is being poo faced about men needing to be wary of frightening women. Then, he was abusing women for saying this behaviour was inappropriate and intimidating. https://t.co/H8Or0G...
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44 posts todayThis is something good. Even if the cause is so awful. https://t.co/zRqry0...
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44 posts todayWell said, Chris. Josh boasted about "always" using women's toilets in the knowledge that women daren't challenge, arrogantly oblivious to their fear. His thread tonight is, frankly self-serving and rather nauseating. https://t.co/sOnoJr...
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44 posts todayRT @gmperriam: I hope every MSP who voted for the #HateCrimeBill reads this. @ScotParl @scottishlabour @scotlibdems @theSNP @ForwomenScot @mbmpolicy https://t.co/tqqefP...
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44 posts todayRT @SusannaRustin: This is a sad unsettling read. Sympathy for Sarah Everard's family & friends - including the men who loved her - needs more space, along with all the rage. They're living through a parent's/sibling's/... worst nightmare. I'm s ...
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44 posts todaySisters Uncut have supported at least 3 violent males who physically assaulted or threatened women. https://t.co/xd3dS4...
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44 posts todayThis is troubling, it means that single sex services - which are desperately necessary for women fleeing male violence - will not be considered. Of course everyone deserves to be safe, but to be safe, women need services like Nia and women like ...
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44 posts todayRT @ruthserwotka: It's so disappointing, but not surprising tbh given the state of liberal feminism, that rage about male violence is being misdirected into centreing transwomen, enbies and other males. FFS can't women have this one moment to say ...
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44 posts todayRT @SexMattersOrg: https://t.co/m7vYAE... https://t.co/Bahlht...
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44 posts todayRT @satiricole: Fawcett, 2016: "We remain of the view that gender is a social construct from which women experience discrimination, and that it emerges from the oppression of the female biological sex class" Five years later, they're conflating sex ...
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44 posts todayRT @Beathhigh: Greyfriars Bobby well wrapped up this afternoon... https://t.co/pFnrLo...
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44 posts todayRT @wwwritingclub: OK so @WomensPrize @katemosse @BernardineEvari what does this twisted rape narrative in which the narrator utterly dehumanises women have to do with *literature by women* again? Make it make sense, in the week women plan to reclaim ...
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44 posts todayAs a member of the working group, shouldn't you be open to examining all evidence before reaching conclusions? Is there any point in claiming you will consider all options if you have resolutely shut one off? This is not inspiring confidence ...
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44 posts todayMake sure that all candidates know that your vote may depend on a commitment to women's rights! https://t.co/g9peBB...
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44 posts todayVery troubling in light of the #HateCrimeBill debate. @JohannLamont was right to raise concerns that women could be redefined in whatever the working group came up with. Emma Ritch & others claim to oppose "gender neutral" law, but would also be ...
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44 posts todayRT @thecoastguy: What I actually mean is what I actually wrote. https://t.co/wuVOI0...
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44 posts todayRT @BobBibBab1: @Feorlean No, *I* was disgusted by the sight of man after man after man telling brilliant righteously angry women being told to wheesht & wait. Now I can see how embarrassing it would be for the 1st case of hatred of women ...
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44 posts todayRT @wornoutmumhack: Just had a memory of a guy exposing himself to me and my two pals in Dublin’s Phoenix Park when we were 17. This week has thrown up a storm of such lovely remembrances.
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44 posts todayUtterly sickening that a prize for women is now celebrating the porn addled violent fantasies of someone who clearly regards women as little more than objects. https://t.co/a6o7y7...
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44 posts todayYou mean it does protect women? It doesn't have different thresholds for "stirring up" for different groups? Or maybe, critics - incl police and senior lawyers - are not as ill-informed as you believe. The Justice Sec, OTOH, demonstrated shocking ...
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44 posts today"strong, talented women.. are considered a threat rather than an asset. Its failure to make sex a protected characteristic in their Hate Crime Bill is the final proof – if any were still required – that the SNP does not take women’s safety and ...
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44 posts todayAwful and upsetting. Sexual assault is dismissed so lightly and women's lives and trauma so little valued. This is one of the reasons we wanted HCB to acknowledge women. Had it done so, there would have to be training as a matter of urgency for those ...
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44 posts todayYet more terrible press for the Hate Crime Bill, this time from the Daily Record. Almost as if it’s a terrible idea. ...
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44 posts todayRT @campervanwoman: I'm really confused. Has this been sanctioned by @ChristinaSNP? Does @KirstySNP know? We were told ribbons were threatening and frightening. Isn't that the case any more? #HatefulHaberdasher... https://t.co/USG2ij...
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44 posts todayRT @lnmackenzie1: @janehamilton22 @ForwomenScot @judgejules75 Yes, thank you, Jane. I imagine most people reading today's paper will find it eye-popping that the bill protects men who recreationally cross-dress but not women. As Johann Lamont said in ...
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44 posts todayRT @AlisonJDowling: Our Scottish Parliament is not listening. Give @theSNP @scottishgreens and @ScottishLibDems a clear message at the ballot box in May. They voted down protection for women, so repay the compliment and vote them out. ...
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44 posts todayRT @judgejules75: Excellent article from @janehamilton22 re the #hatecrimebill. I’m still gobsmacked every time I read that men on a stag do/night out, dressed as women, have more protections in the law than actual women. Women are now second class ...
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44 posts todayRT @MujerGuerrera78: The men who attack women they do it bc we are women, not bc of what we are wearing. These males, even though they wear stereotypical women clothes, feel safer at night. No woman ever feel safer at night. It's not the clothes we ...
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44 posts todayRT @mar_vickers: @S_A_Somerville @scotgov Reallly, Shirley-Anne? Even these clauses? https://t.co/Vmp6eo...
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44 posts todayRT @FrancesLumsden: I cannot count how many new female followers I have had from Scotland in these last weeks. From what I can see of their connection with my tweets it seems they are following me because I’ve been speaking out about how the Scottish ...
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44 posts todayWomen have the right to assert boundaries and say no to male people in their space, esp those fetishising our bodies. Anything else is rape culture. Women resisting coersion or rape culture rarely results in violence against males. Sadly, it does ...
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44 posts todayRT @SonyaDouglas: It’s alright to be afraid, but angry is better. Be angry. Get angry. Stay angry. https://t.co/1Lr5zB...
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44 posts todayIs there a competition we missed for bonkers tweet of the day? Or is this the next stage after HCB? No more news reporting unless sanctioned by Scot Gov? https://t.co/cZtRhy...
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44 posts todayThis is shocking @bbcscotland, you are dancing to their tune. I thought you had agreed that they should not be allowed to close down debate like this? Also, I seem to recall David Paisley was allowed a huge slot on @BBCRadioScot to make ...
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44 posts todayThread https://t.co/RonsMx...
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44 posts todayRT @ladyduckpojok: Your reminder that being different does not equal being inferior. Are men inferior because they can not gestate children? No one would ever say that. But the idea that women can be different from the default human (only true ...
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44 posts today"we are speaking now about the fear of attack that never leaves us. But, we ask ourselves, is anyone listening? Because our Scottish Parliament is not" Powerful & angry from @DalgetySusan on the murder of women & the "jaw-dropping arrogance" ...
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44 posts todayMore "international best practice" from Canada. Heather campaigns for women in prison. She has reported how huge numbers of violent criminals are taking advantage of self ID. This thread is horrific. Imprisoned women having to fight or be raped & ...
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44 posts todayBut H&I MSP, John Finnie, thinks groups with "mild sounding names" are the "terrorists". If you brand women a danger for taking about rights, this will happen in Scotland & it will be on those - incl MSPs like Finnie & Harvie - who were ...
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44 posts today"International best practice" Canada. This is the result of telling people that words are violence. @HumzaYousaf this attack looks like a hate crime. Ironically only the victim might fall foul of the law in Scotland & be charged with 'stirring ...