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14 March 2021

 

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RT @RebeccaMKBull: Tomorrow the Lords debate a last minute amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill which will import the concept of gender into misogyny and hurt women’s rights. #DARVOAmendment87B ...

March 14th @ 7:26 pm |

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RT @rattlecans: When I was born the nurses and doctors cared for me in an incubator just like this one because I was worth saving and I was #WorthProtecting #WomenWontWheesht https://t.co/wmw3KI...

March 14th @ 6:49 pm |

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Incredibly moving. Thank you for this - beautiful tribute to Sarah and to the women whose names @jessphillips read out this week. Flowers for Sarah https://t.co/yUYCot... via @YouTube ...

March 14th @ 5:59 pm |

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RT @ScottishJenbel: I think the girl in this photo is #WorthProtecting I think women are worth protecting. By excluding women from the Hate Crimes Bill, ScotGov doesn't agree. I'm not going to stop fighting for women and girls like these ...

March 14th @ 5:10 pm |

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RT @judgejules75: This week saw the Scottish govt place the rights of every category of protected characteristics above the rights of women. In fact, they put the rights of men in dresses above actual women. I can’t and won’t accept that my niece ...

March 14th @ 5:10 pm |

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“It’s even got to the point where there has had to be police or security at a women’s rights event I’ve attended. That kind of intimidation is unacceptable, and while there are many things I will sorely miss, behaviour like that is something I no ...

March 14th @ 4:26 pm |

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RT @tabascokid: Not often that I end a long day so despondent, but seeing how much a handful of people and a few images have changed the view of an entire day is really sad. Without a certain group, today’s vigil was peaceful. As soon as they were ...

March 14th @ 2:06 pm |

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RT @WTFoucault: The group he’s referring to is Sisters Uncut, an offshoot of UK Uncut - piggy-backers, provocateurs, gender ideologues, and therefor men’s rights activists. https://t.co/7wBcGh...

March 14th @ 2:05 pm |

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RT @campervanwoman: Spotted around Glasgow Uni this afternoon. Looks like #StickerWoman and #HatefulHaberdasher... woman have been up to their dastardly work. Shhh! Don’t tell Christina and Kirsty! https://t.co/2s99xZ...

March 14th @ 12:09 pm |

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RT @nia_endingVAWG: •Commit to a strategy to end prostitution, include properly funded exiting support for women involved in prostitution. Women and men can never be equal if one sex is a product and one sex is a consumer.

March 14th @ 10:56 am |

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RT @nia_endingVAWG: •Protect & strengthen single-sex exemptions for women who have been subjected to men’s violence •The domestic violence&abuse strategy should be within not separate from the men’s violence against women & girls’ ...

March 14th @ 10:55 am |

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RT @nia_endingVAWG: •Name the perpetrator, say men’s violence against women and girls not VAWG •Name and address femicide, not only domestic homicide •Proper funding for specialist independent women-led charities supporting women, including those led ...

March 14th @ 10:55 am |

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RT @holyroodmandy: Odds on that this will be yet another column written by a woman about women’s issues that won’t be shared on this place by some of Scotland’s feminist organisations. Funny that. https://t.co/jyGCrz...

March 14th @ 9:43 am |

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RT @LucyHunterB: The most surprising part of this story is the very last sentence. The party of government failed to provide a quote defending a piece of government legislation that was passed three days ago. I am not sure I’ve ever seen that before. ...

March 14th @ 8:17 am |

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A bit like the #HateCrimeBill. Legislating for people because of race, religion, disability or even VSC (which they couldn't even define or find examples of) is straightforward, but hate against women is really complex to deal with. Which, of course, ...

March 14th @ 7:38 am |

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This is the sort of demonisation that gets women hurt. A rape victim who wants a female examiner? A lesbian who says she doesn't like penises? A elderly patient scared by the loud male in the next hospital bed? Ginger thinks us "TERFs", all "hate ...

March 14th @ 6:46 am |

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Interesting. Now if @scottishlabour agree to restate the commitment to single-sex provision as defined in EqA (as they did in 2019 manifesto), this could be very interesting. https://t.co/8RiHWK...

March 14th @ 6:41 am |

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If a man and a woman go in costume to see Rocky Horror & are victims of crime, the perpetrator could get an aggravated sentence for the crime against the man. The woman may be asked what she was wearing to provoke the attack & the perp let ...

March 14th @ 6:17 am |

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.@AndrewMarr9 quoting Sue Fish on Hate Crime & trial in Nottingham as one the "simplest tasks she's ever undertaken in policing & it led to women feeling safer reporting crimes against them" This trial was belittled by Engender to justify ...

March 14th @ 6:09 am |

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RT @TracyTimpkin: @TheCatFromMars @roorooyes4 @ForwomenScot @GraceBrodie Please consider donating to Authentic Equity Alliance to ensure that UK organisations have correct guidance on trans inclusion. 1 day left! https://t.co/40dnlm...

March 14th @ 5:53 am |

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RT @helenhairnets: 2/ Hoped-for peaceful vigil on Clapham Common for a murdered woman attracts usual rent-a-mob with other agendas (eg Sisters Uncut) and turns into disrespectful embarrassing mess (gleeful "she's our George Floyd" etc) that will help ...

March 14th @ 5:52 am |

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Quite breathtaking chutzpah from the former comms director for a party who, this week, passed a legal version of the scold's bridle by blocking amendments to protect women talking about their rights in a bill from a Cab sec who refused to engage./ ...

March 14th @ 5:39 am |

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"If this is true, generally, it is true with knobs on for specific offences such as rape or murder. These are crimes of male aggression and it requires a grotesque and wilful blindness not to recognise this truth." https://t.co/eFwY9E...

March 14th @ 5:33 am |

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RT @Liesl_65: @ForwomenScot @JennyMarra Here is the link to Marra's speech to the Scottish Parliament during the HCB debate if anyone wants to hear it. I had missed it. https://t.co/OOwlRW...

March 14th @ 5:08 am |

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RT @Pilgrim_Says: Was there band wagon jumping and deliberate antagonism at Sarah Everad vigil on Clapham Common last night(?) Here’s footage of the whole event, filmed from the bandstand area -starts kicking off around 1.50, then look at what ...

March 14th @ 4:23 am |

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RT @boodleoops: “Carceral solutions to gendered violence” = sending rapists and murderers to prison. You know what, I think I’m alright with propping that up. I think we should do a lot more to prop that up. I’m a big, big fan of carceral solutions ...

March 14th @ 4:16 am |

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RT @JeanHatchet: There are few women brave enough to say - our service is feminist and it is single sex. @nia_endingVAWG is one of them and my beautiful friend @ShonaghDillon is CEO of another @AuroraNewDawn ... donate where fearless women work with ...

March 14th @ 4:15 am |

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RT @SarahPedersen2: @ForwomenScot @JennyMarra I have spoken on a lot of different issues, all over Scotland. That remains the only event with an hour-long security briefing. We were warned about bombs and planned how we would leave the platform if ...

March 14th @ 4:04 am |

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Great ranting! Sarah P was one of the (excellent) speakers at the Edinburgh University event which ended in the attack on a fellow speaker. In the debate on HCB this week, @JennyMarra said that 25 years of attending meetings she had never felt so ...

March 14th @ 3:58 am |

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RT @lizzbag: @KateMaltby @SistersUncut Sisters Uncut have a history of encouraging men to physically intimidate women at feminist meetings. I've been verbally abused by some of the angry men involved. They are awful. https://t.co/pxGzxx...

March 14th @ 3:23 am |

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RT @LesleySemmens: @HackneyReSiste2 Sisters Uncut, who supported Tara Wolf after he punched Maria Mac, and who campaign to defend the police and abolish prisons were there in force. They were there to cause trouble.

March 14th @ 3:10 am |

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Sisters Uncut are now using the murder of a women to line their own pockets. Travis was the person who forced Topshop to abolish female changing rooms after getting angry after being denied entry. https://t.co/b4mpw9...

March 14th @ 1:53 am |