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16 August 2021

 

Forwomen.scot

59 posts today

RT @thesophiratchet: Now it’s in bad taste to bring up that it is the women who are adult human females who have their very rights stripped away in an instant. This can happen anywhere in US, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Brazil, South ...

August 16th @ 11:43 pm |

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RT @hogotheforsaken: “What connects slaughtered baby girls in India and mass shootings of Canadian students and some elderly man who smashes a hammer into the skull of his wife of 50 years because she didn’t get the tea ready on time on a Tuesday in ...

August 16th @ 5:41 pm |

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RT @rogdmum: Here is @S_A_Somerville statement in Parliament in June 2019 re the old LGBTYS guidance. She worries that people are losing faith in the guidance and so it won’t be used. She says: “That is why it is important that the Scottish ...

August 16th @ 5:36 pm |

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RT @ElleBeeG: @ForwomenScot The worst thing is, especially with Hothersall and Comerford, that for them it's genuinely not about supporting or defending transpeople. At all. They've found a way to attack and abuse women that appears acceptable to ...

August 16th @ 5:16 pm |

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RT @JeanHatchet: There are women in their homes right now cowering. Wondering if their girls will be passed around to be raped and trafficked and this is your take on me pointing out sex is real and sex is why. F*cking have a strong word with you. ...

August 16th @ 4:57 pm |

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It is appalling that, tonight, we are being attacked by people who prefer to use a human rights catastrophe to further their petty hatred. For Haggerty, Wishart, Godley, etc we took this down because people like you decided to misrepresent it in your ...

August 16th @ 4:44 pm |

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Mr Wishart, as an MP can you not allow bad faith actors to attack women in desperate straights to make a reach on their pet subject? Ms Godley may, tastelessly, try to misconstrue the point, but this is unprincipled on your part. ...

August 16th @ 4:36 pm |

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RT @shonacraven: Incredibly disturbing to see people - men and women - disapprovingly referring to feminist women as "radicalised", mere days after a misogyny-fuelled killing spree in England and amid the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Seriously, ...

August 16th @ 4:14 pm |

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Both incels & Taliban "believe that women having rights – from education to democratic participation – is causing a decline in society that can only be reversed by removing women from the public sphere and forcing them back into the domestic ...

August 16th @ 3:22 pm |

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"The conclusion is established first and a search is then conducted to provide the evidence necessary to support the required conclusion." How @scotgov make policy. @alexmassie is right, the wider implications are frightening. https://t.co/a55Apk...

August 16th @ 1:36 pm |

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RT @AMARLondon: Please donate now to AMAR’s emergency appeal for Afghanistan’s distraught women, girls and refugees as they flee the Taliban.Women and girls are paying a terrible price. Our medics are ready to help in any way, but need your ...

August 16th @ 12:11 pm |

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RT @joannaccherry: The monstering of @ruth_wishart is disgraceful but it does go to prove her point. I don’t know how these people think we can have a reasonable measured discussion about anything including our country’s constitutional future in the ...

August 16th @ 12:07 pm |

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RT @iseult: Irish man says slapping a woman because she won't have sex with a trans woman is fine and fair game because she is being transphobic. Just another day in the land of Saints and scholars - no country for women. Empowered by @Amnesty and th ...

August 16th @ 12:04 pm |

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RT @amoozeboosh: @IsleHolly @TauntonHeat @ForwomenScot @EdinburghUni @Womans_Place_UK @Docstockk @selina_todd @bindelj @GoonerProf @Transgendertrd And you believe these males were inclined to violence having attended a lecture delivered by ...

August 16th @ 11:48 am |

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RT @rogdmum: If on the back of today’s new @scotgov guidance, any Scottish parents find themselves in the position of needing to challenge their school or LA re the affirmation of their child, I have links to resources including a QC legal opinion. ...

August 16th @ 11:44 am |

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RT @ladyduckpojok: @MhairiHunter @vickid75 @EwanHunter @deans_alexandra @ruth_wishart We did Mhairi. I personally wrote several pages of fully referenced arguments (including peer reviewed evidences). More effort than your government put in this ...

August 16th @ 11:30 am |

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If you are going to use consultations as evidence of gov engagement, it is odd to highlight one which has not been published and many wonder if it will ever see the light of day. Meanwhile, of course, the GRPBA replies were ignored wholesale for not ...

August 16th @ 11:19 am |

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One of our favourite stalkers is back and we are, apparently, to be "damned" for a crime which is up there is WW2 attrocities - you know, like genocide. What was this ethnic cleansing level offence? Why, asking if politician should return an award ...

August 16th @ 11:03 am |

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“I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I’m just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can’t leave my family. And anyway, where would I go?” ...

August 16th @ 10:16 am |

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RT @ruth_wishart: Dear heaven. Now I'm patronised from a great height. Advised to do more thinking. Better research. Know what? Almost prefer the abuse! However heartfelt thanks to all the sisters who came to my defence. Much appreciated!

August 16th @ 9:36 am |

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RT @SophieRunning: If you are worried about the freedom and safety of Afghan women and girls, please sign this petition. I know many of you have felt despair in recent days at the scale of the task. But it's not impossible. Let's work together. Thank ...

August 16th @ 8:31 am |

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RT @shirleysascot: We’re you planning on attending court for @millar_marion tomorrow in Glasgow? Had you booked the day off? Paid for travel? We have an alternative for you. Marion would very much like to meet you for drinks in her home town. DM ...

August 16th @ 8:30 am |

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RT @LabWomenDec: At this terrifying time of a worsening world for women, listen to Joan Smith @polblonde on @BBCWomansHour at 39 mins on woman-hating #Incel online culture radicalising young men to acts of terror. "Extreme misogyny has to be ...

August 16th @ 7:14 am |

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RT @Belstaffie: “We fail our boys and girls alike. “Because you can’t solve and prevent a problem, that you refuse to acknowledge is there”. @gemma_brett on misogyny and male reaction to the outrage in #Plymouth. https://t.co/CrURaU...

August 16th @ 7:06 am |

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Lesbian & gay people were discriminated against for years for their sexual orientation which, amazingly, is based on sex. Repressive regimes murder them or force them to ape the opposite sex (Iran) in order to conform to gender roles. How is any ...

August 16th @ 7:03 am |

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RT @LucyHunterB: Astoundingly bad response that wholly misses the point (and fact that footnote refers to a study with 433 people, when it was 84, does not inspire confidence that anyone in government ever went back and read the source for ...

August 16th @ 5:59 am |

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Which, of course, was what @ruth_wishart asked for. Patrick Harvie did the twitter equivalent of scream she was "transphobic" in response, but it is Ruth who Mhairi attacks? https://t.co/ZfONss...

August 16th @ 5:23 am |

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We are already learning that the school guidance is flawed - statistically and legally. Presumably because these groups are given full reign to write gov policy. Hijacking seems an apt term to describe how lobbyists have usurped the proper role of ...

August 16th @ 5:15 am |

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RT @CallieMac88: People who can be mobilised against safeguarding children can then more easily be mobilised to remove all child protections. It’s why you just shouldn’t do it. https://t.co/0lUfQI...

August 16th @ 5:11 am |

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RT @rogdmum: @ForwomenScot @LucyHunterB @S_A_Somerville Can I also point out how the TransPulse project manipulated the data (such manipulation has made its way into the @scotgov guidance @S_A_Somerville (Extract from a longer piece of analysis) ...

August 16th @ 4:28 am |

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RT @CallieMac88: When the government uses flawed data to underpin school guidance & tell schools it’s up to them how they use it, absolving themselves from any responsibility-you’... be forgiven for thinking said government aren’t fit for purpose ...

August 16th @ 4:27 am |

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RT @Miss_Demeanours: @ForwomenScot @Britestoan @karamantha @LRCinfo The flat out denial that sex based oppression even exists: Those poor women and girls can’t even show their face, ankle or wrist and you have people on here talking about how ...

August 16th @ 3:52 am |

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"It is technically incompetent and completely irresponsible to use that kind of data to draw conclusions about what would be true for an entire population.” Well said @LucyHunterB. Surely @S_A_Somerville needs to address this incompetence in her ...

August 16th @ 3:31 am |

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RT @jillparton: @DebbieHayton @ForwomenScot @spectator First day back after summer holidays teachers go through Child Protection Training. Most importantly you must never promise a child you will keep a secret. This is a massive Child Protection ...

August 16th @ 3:19 am |

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Oh well, when you put it like that... Another, variation on the "men are raping women anyway", this time suggesting that because they are not brought to justice in the US, we shouldn't worry if it's formalised in Afghanistan. It is possible women ...

August 16th @ 2:57 am |

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Today in things Incels or domestic terrorists might say, "comedian" Comerford comes out in support of males who hit women who refuse to sleep with them. According to Ade, it's not coercion, just teaching the bigoted lesbian a valuable lesson. Ade is ...

August 16th @ 2:45 am |