Andreia Nobre 💚🤍💜
@Andreia_O_Nobre
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Girls Matter, my new book, out now! Award-winning author for The Grumpy Guide to Radical Feminism. Journo and sometimes comedienne.
Terra do Munca
Joined November 2008
Ok, let's get this started! I'm trying to raise awareness of issues that only affect female bodies. I'll bring links to more info on each issue. I will start from what are considered big issues that barely anyone seems to care at all. Let's do it!.
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I'd like to bring something that it's crucial about Gisele Pelicot's case: she is the so called "perfect victim" that men can't dismiss anymore. I'll explain: men can't say "she was wearing this/that", "she provoked them", "she put herself in this situation," "she wanted it." 1/.
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The most important thing now is to get ALL these men held accountable for raping her. Catch them all, including the ones have not been caught yet, and all the men who saw it online and did nothing, and all the men who "refused" to rape her and still didn't report it. End/.
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Or that "she agreed to it," "she was aware of it," "she consented and then regretted." None of the common/popular male excuses of how this was somehow her fault work for her case. NONE. It was rape. Dozens of men, including her own ex-husband, raped an unconscious woman. 2/.
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I carried the blame for being sexually abused as a girl for 30 years, because when I disclosed it, my stepfather became furious with me for "defaming his relative" (the abuser was married to a female cousin of my stepfather). I was 8yo and insisted that this happened. 1/.
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In 2022, while visiting family, my adult younger brother told a rape joke in front of me. My older brother laughed. I said simply, "I should tie both of you in chairs with a gag mouth and read to you my book (The Grumpy Guide to Radical Feminism). Older brother took an issue. 1/.
If you're quite when a homie tell a r@pé joke or proliferates misogyny, stay quiet when a woman say all men are the same. You are not helping.
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More on the Mazan case: one of Gisele's rapists was a married man. After raping Gisele, he got drugs from Dominique, Gisele's ex-husband, then drugged his own wife, raped her let Dominique rape her too. A reminder that porn hurts women, no matter what side of the screen they are.
Dominique Pélicot supplied the same substances to another one of his wife's rapists. That man, Jean-Pierre M. then started administering them to his own wife, and he and Pélicot then raped her together 10 times.
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@jk_rowling Declaration: we, women, object to being called ciswomen, menstruators, ovulators, uterus/womb havers, bleeders, chestfeeders. #WomenIsNotAdirtyWord.
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Men can't breastfeed because men can't produce breastmilk. There's a protocol with a cocktail of drugs for nausea and schizophrenia that may lead to a condition called galactorrhea, which may produce a "milky-like" nipple discharge, but it's not breastmilk. 1/.
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I'm absolutely enraged. Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, Ugandan marathon athlete at Paris Olympics 2024, has died after being set on fire by an ex-boyfriend. And women keep being attacked online for reporting and denouncing male violence against women.
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Brazilian women are heartbroken again today. A 39yo man raped a 5 day old baby girl in Brazil on May 14. His partner is the baby's grandmother. They are a very young family, the baby's father is only 18, hence the age of the partner of the grandmother. They all live together. 1/.
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The man who was challenged by a woman in the female toilets, got angry and shot her dead, has been finally arrested yesterday, I've been told. This happened in Brazil. The woman was in a restaurante with her husband and kids, he was there with his wife and kids. He went to the 1/.
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There's also the grooming aspect of my story. He tried to make me available for abuse. I'll add it another time, though. It's cathartic to disclose my story but it's also overwhelming for me. Remember this, though: the blame for abuse lies with the abuser, not the victim. End/.
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So female friends started sending me feminist theory and I understood the dynamics of sexual abuse. After the gang raping, I became suicidal. Radical Feminism literally saved my life by making me understanding that it wasn't my fault. I didn't do anything to provoke that man. 5/.
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@jk_rowling In 2019 I was punched 5 times on the back of my head by a stranger who saw me saying to a friend that biological sex matters in a medical context.
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I totally understand what she's doing. She has overwhelming proof of her ordeal. She might even want to prove that when a woman has this much proof, the falocentric system we're in keeps trying to deny the crime, and Gisele is saying, "Not today, Satan. Not today.".
The courage of Gisele Pelicot is beyond belief .
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. and he went into denial, saying that this man would never do such a thing because he was his relative and because he was "such a religious person - he went to church every Sunday". I insisted I was telling the truth and that he forced me to touch his penis. 2/.
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. and my stepfather went "then you must have done something around him for this to happen." At 8yo. and I believed it for 30 years. It was only after a gang rape happened in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 that I started to understand what happened. Brazilian men were like: 3/.
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"It happened because she was a slut/she had already a child at 16", "It happened because her boyfriend knew 32 other men who were sexual predators - the lame excuses men use to blame the victim. I questioned all of this. I couldn't understand it, none of this applied to me. 4/.
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I'm afraid the world won't refuse to play sport with Afghanistan, because when it came to apartheid, it affected men and women who are black. What's happening in Afghanistan is affecting only women and, unfortunately, men in power don't care about women at all.
Remember when the world refused to play sport with apartheid South Africa?.We need to do it again with a nation that enslaves women to an unbearable life of effacement and privation. #FreeAfghanWomen #AfghanAtalan #AfgvsNZ.
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Allowing men who say they are women to book cervical screenings will take slots from women who need to have cervical screenings. It can't be allowed, resources reserved for women's health are already scarce and women who miss their screening will die!.
The Canadian Cancer society is now allowing trans women (men) to book cervical examinations. Hmmm Just one thing missing, A CERVIX!! What waste of tax payer time and money on an already burdened health system. 😡 Meanwhile REAL women XX are waiting to get in. @cancersociety.
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The man who murdered Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei in Kenia by pouring petrol on her and setting her on fire has died.
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The victim has now given permission to share the video she made of her aggressor. Watch the moment in which he says that challenging his presence in the female toilet is equivalent to "racism". Full video description in the article below x. #unbviolentamulheres
University of Brasilia's staff didn't expel a male student despite him accusing people of "phobias" for disagreeing with him, threatening them with lawsuits, and wearing sexualized clothing. In 2022, he assaulted a woman. @Andreia_O_Nobre .
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Started abusing boys before he targeted the girls. I said to my brother "I'm sorry this happened to you too" and he half-apologised for losing his temper that night. My brothers are "law-abiding" men, but misogyny - hatred for women - is taught to EVERY boy and man. It's up 8/.
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He said "I will never read your book because I'm against extremism." I tried to reply that radical feminism was not "extremism" but he kept shouting me down. Younger brother defended older brother's "right" to not read my book, mind you. They wouldn't let me speak, so I told 2/.
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Longer-ish thread, I hope. The case of the French woman who, for a decade, was drugged by her husband and then raped by men her husband recruited online is something I've been banging on for years now, since a 16yo girl was gang raped in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 by 33 men. 1/.
‘What a crazy monster’ they’ll say about the husband. And all the dozens of ‘ordinary’ men that raped his wife? Dozens and dozens and dozens?. Not all men, the saying goes. But men like this walk among us, and we’ll never know. We don’t even know if all they lack is opportunity.
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Both to go "eff" themselves and left the room. Older brother, nearly 50yo, ran to our mother to tell her I was verbally assaulted them, and she almost fell for it, until I told her about the rape joke and what I said about my book. Older brother demanded an apology from me. 3/.
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Ok, let's get this started! I'm trying to raise awareness of issues that only affect female bodies. I'll bring links to more info on each issue. I will start from what are considered big issues that barely anyone seems to care at all. Let's do it!.
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By the way, here's the list of things I was accused of doing that apparently "sexually provoked" the paedophile: "going to his house alone" - I went to his house because I was 8yo, they were our neighbours, so they were close by, in a calm neighbourhood with barely any cars. 6/.
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Today is #XXDay. I'm a woman because I was born with female anatomy, surviving until adulthood. Women: female adults of the human species. I'm not ashamed of having female anatomy. The female sex is not inferior to the male sex. Female erasure is misogyny! #WomenIsNotAdirtyword
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Sex-selective abortions: girls are being aborted in huge numbers throughout the world:.
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The youngest rapist on the Mazan case, after confronted with evidence, confessed to rape Gisèle. He did this on the day his own daughter was born. Nothing is sacred for these men.
"Youngest man to rape Monster of Avignon's wife took part in sex abuse on day his daughter was born. confronted with the photos, he admitted that she was unconscious and that it was a rape". via
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He also had a 6yo girl who I was friend's with and she was teaching me how to ride a bike. I didn't have a bike I wanted to learn how to ride one, so I went that day to his house because his daughter said she would teach me how to ride a bike. Next I was accused of: 7/.
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I'm speaking up about it again so more people can understand how so pervasive is victim blaming. I'm outspoken about surviving sexual abuse as a girl, but only two of the survivors of this man, out of around 20, told me what happened to them. They're too traumatized to speak. 12/.
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Case in point:
I think the Pelicot case once and for all gives the lie to the old cliche that men only rape pretty young girls in revealing outfits because they can’t control their lust. Rapists rape anyone they think they can.
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To you, men, to reject it in order to fully show your humanity towards the female sex. Reject misogyny! Misogyny is hatred of women/hatred of the female sex and the female anatomy just because women are of the female sex. It's irrational and counterproductive. There's no 9/.
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This morning, I'd like to thank everyone of you who have stepped forward to help so far. It's just the beginning. Today me and lawyer will outline my defense against the claim I was transphobic by writing in a news article that a man showing an erection is, in fact, a man. 1/.
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Find rape jokes "amusing". I pour it all out and reminded him of the neighbour who sexually abused me when I was 8yo. He finally went quiet for a while. Then he confessed that the paedophile who abused me had also abused him. I wasn't surprised. I knew for years that this man 7/.
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@PennyRed @jk_rowling @bindelj @PennyRed women are really trying to address male violence against women and we can't do that while men are saying that women are not oppressed anymore and while dehumanising us by calling women "cervix havers" with front holes. We really can't. We're not terfs. We're women.
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In India, an area covering 132 villages has seen no girls being born in the last three months:.
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"Agreeing to be alone with him in a room" - I rang the doorbell, he answered, I asked for his daughter, he said she was finishing her lunch, so could I wait for her. I said "ok" and stepped back to wait on the pavement, he asked if I wanted to wait inside, I said "ok". 8/.
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"MUUUUM, did you see that, did you see that, she literally assaulted me!" (For touching his shoulder, mind you). No, of course our mum saw nothing of the sort, she was right there and didn't fall for that for a second. Instead she defended me, and he got even more furious. 5/.
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"Letting him sit by my side giving him the chance to abuse me" - he was in his living room, how would I forbid him from sitting in his own sofa, at his house? Besides, remember, he was a "safe adult" and I was 8yo. Finally, I was accused of "letting him grab my hand." 10/.
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I agreed because he was a "relative" (a safe adult, that is). He asked then if I wanted to watch cartoons. I accepted because I was 8yo, he had a big colour TV in his living room and we only had a small black and white TV at home. The next thing I was accused of was: 9/.
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@Fri13Gal This is exactly another of the reasons she is "the perfect victim" bc it wasn't even she who went on suspicion mode and denounced it. Know what I mean? Right now I just blocked a person bc I spoke up about surviving abuse in an another thread and I was accused of "trauma dump".
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Nope, women are not sexually aroused when they breastfeed. This is being said to excuse the man who admitted he was aroused with a baby. Same reason men said when they were caught with their penis out and said that women do it, too.
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He grabbed my hand as my father and mum had done several times before, counting my fingers. Know what I mean? How would I ever be suspicious that he was going to pull my hand towards his penis? I was 8yo! And let's be fair, he didn't have "paedophile" written on his forehead. 11/.
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Women, let's do a social experiment, shall we? Next time you see men making unreasonable demands to women, demands that will harm women, just write "No" to them. Simply write: No. Nothing else. Don't use memes. Write No. Watch the reaction.
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He was completely out of control, so I left the house to walk around and calm down. When I got back, he came again, still enraged, demanding an apology. I finally lost it and shouted at the top of my lungs about how I endured years of abuse by men I used to trust. Men who 6/.
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I held my hands together, as if I was praying, touched one of my brother's shoulder with my hands held like that and said "oh, you want an apology, don't you? Here, I'm sorryyyy" (yes, I was being ironic). He had a terrifying look, as if I had punched him, and actually went: 4/.
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He was never held accountable for sexual abuse. The whole neighbourhood knew about it. He got away with it because he was a middle-class man who abused only kids from more humble backgrounds. He was a porn-addict who wanted his wife to do kinky stuff and she started refusing. 14/.
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Of all the survivors, I'm the only one who openly/publicly speaks about the abuse we endured. I'm not even the worst case in this story - the abuse my foster sister and his daughter suffered is way, way worse. He did unspeakable things to these 2 girls and got away with it. 13/.
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He then started abusing boys, hoping they would be too ashamed to report - and he was right, of course. They still are. After getting away with it, he abused his own daughter. When he got away with that too, he started abusing all the girls who befriended his daughter. 15/.
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It's Friday and, so far, a person felt unsafe with women leafleting, NHS urged to use the term "frontal birth" in pregnancy, Edinburgh Napier Uni teaches to medical students that men can gestate, and there's a list of women to be reported for fighting against female oppression.
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Tonight, I'm sending my support to Julia Szeremeta. Let this be the #LastTimeEver a woman has to compete with an XY opponent. #XX #SaveWomensSports
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@9Discordia9 Yes, I've seen this coming specially from the lawyers or from the defendants themselves. I just ran out of characters to include that one, to be honest.
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Brazilian media was informed that this man, who shot a woman 3 times (1 of them in the head), killing her, already had a criminal record. This was another femicide. This was male violence against a woman. A violent man was free to commit violence. Now another woman is dead. End/.
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China's one child policy led the country to several damaging outcomes, like sex-selective abortions of female fetuses and infanticide of girls. This policy has been terminated but the country is struggling to raise the numbers of births:
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Evolutionary benefit for humankind in men hating women simply because women are of the female sex. There's no evolutionarily benefit in men considering women inferior to men. EVERYONE is born of women. You're here because a woman gestated and gave birth to you. End/.
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Declaration: we, women, object to being called cisgender, menstruators, ovulators, uterus/womb havers. If you agree that these words are offensive and diminish our fight by othering us, please comment with #WomenIsNotAdirtyWord.
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Girls who grow up past 3 years could suffer, in many places (including the UK) Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): .
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For the American politician who said she doesn't know what a woman is bc she's not a biologist: it didn't take a team of biologists to decide who were girls to forbid them from going to school in Afghanistan. All it took was men legislating over women.
Many Afghan girls were left in tears as the Taliban reversed their earlier decision to allow them back to school — halfway through the first day in class.
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The baby girl is in hospital. The 39yo man lacerated the victim's genitals with his penis. Forensic evidence of the injuries clarified that baby was not hurt with fingers, like he said initially. I hope he rots in jail.
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Any man who feels entitled to use a female only space like a female toilet is a threat to women and children. However they claim to be. It's about female boundaries. Women have a right to privacy away from those adults born with male anatomy.
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Btw: this was not a man who said "I'm a woman". This was a man who used a female toilet for "reasons" and was challenged by a woman for using the female toilet. This was both male entitlement and a femicide. We need to be clear about this when talking about single sex spaces!.
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After that, as young as 8, girls could be sold as brides. This harmful practice happens all over the world and even in many developed countries like the USA:.
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Oh my world, I'm so damn happy. My 8yo (on the autism spectrum) has just revealed to me that he has 5 friends at school! I'm actually crying, tears of joy for him. So proud of him and his progress, this is such an achievement!.
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UK's policies put in place to avoid sex-selective abortions after parents find out they were having a girl: .
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@PennyRed @jk_rowling @bindelj We're not transphobes for objecting to fgm survivors being called transphobes for using the word female in female genital mutilation. There's no transphobia in demanding single sex spaces to remain single sex. Male sexual abuse against women is real. DV is real.
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Dear friends: I've found legal counsel. I will start my defense next week, challenging accusations of transphobia for referring to a man as a man. Many have offered financial aid and the best way to do so is by buying my books, so I can pay the lawyer. I hated writing this post!.
Just in: I am being sued in Brazil for "evident act of transphobia" due to writing a news story for @4WPub in 2023 about an individual who adopted the name "Kim Flores Carlos", who was born with male anatomy. First facts: the news story, here
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Last night, I received an unexpected message sent by a man who downloaded my report "Women's Sex-Based Oppression in The 21st Century". With his permission, I'll reproduce it here:."Hi Andreia, I have two girls and a boy who were brought up with utmost respect and love. " 1/.
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As soon as puberty hits and girls have their menarche, girls might be expelled from their homes during their periods or being kept in period huts:.
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The nipple discharge men produce if galactorrhea is induced by the drugs cocktail is not breastmilk because breastmilk, even in women, can only be produced after pregnancy/childbirth. Males can't get pregnant, gestate and give birth, therefore they can't produce breastmilk. End/.
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Every time a man writes on twitter "where are the feminists?" I'm reminded that there are hundreds of issues affecting women right now around the whole world, and also that most men don't follow women's rights campaigns or, when they do, women's voices are ignored. By men.
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More on sex-selective abortions throughout the world: .
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In some places, when and if a female baby is born, they could still be killed (sex-selective infanticide/female infanticide): .
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Breast ironing/flattening, girls have their breasts flattened with heated rocks to look like boys for longer and avoid rape: .
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female toilet for "reasons", she challenged him, he "got angry", left his family in the restaurant, went home, got a gun, came back to the restaurant and shot the woman who challenged him in the female toilet. For "reasons" (like challenging his presence in the female toilet). 2/.
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This reply to me stayed up for 13 minutos. A little glimpse of male violence against women.
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Everyone demanding women to be referred as womb carriers/cervix havers/vulva owners with front holes is responsible for the overturning of Roe vs Wade. Many women objected to this dehumanising language and alerted you this would happen. Now take responsibility for your actions.
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Male anesthetist arrested in Brazil. Nurses worried abt amount of sedatives he was giving to pregnant women during c-sections and left hidden cameras. While obstetrician performed the surgery he unzipped trousers and put his penis in the mothers mouth.
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@PrisonPlanet I never had an abortion and I support women who wishes to have one bc I don't own their bodies.
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I live with coercive control. I was yet, a few days ago, under silent treatment punishment for spending 3h on a video call with a woman last weekend. The "deal" here, it seems, is that I'm not allowed to do so. 99% of the time, I have no idea what I've done to anger him.
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Teen pregnancy is another huge global issue not properly addressed: .
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Women: stop recording male sex offenders as women. Police: stop recording women as victims.
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Just in: I am being sued in Brazil for "evident act of transphobia" due to writing a news story for @4WPub in 2023 about an individual who adopted the name "Kim Flores Carlos", who was born with male anatomy. First facts: the news story, here
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I have an announcement to make. When I denounce male violence against women, men spend days attacking me AFTER I denounce yet another case of male violence against women. So, from now on, I will not talk about male violence against women daily. I'll do that hourly. Cheers.
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#RespectMySex If you don't know what it is to be born in a female body, I don't give you permission to tell me that a woman is whoever identifies as a woman. A woman is an adult human female. I am a woman. If you were born with male anatomy, you're not of my sex class.
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Remember the women who are not backing down. Maria Machlahan .
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I have been brave. I was punched 5 times in the back of my head for saying to a friend "sex matters in a medical context." You all sex deniers can't beat all of us. Most will keep going like I did. #BeBraver.
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Periods are an issue to many female children or teens, who are missing school for not affording menstrual pads:.
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Females who survive to adulthood safe from these practices can come across Period Stigma:.
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Females should decide if they want children and when. No contraceptive is 100% effective and sexual abuse is rampant, resulting in unplanned pregnancies. Few countries have proper abortions rights. New Zealand is a developed country still debating it:
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Period stigma can also affect females in all classes and in different ways:.
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I stay away from Twitter one day to find out that pronouns are falling off bios like leaves in the autumn. Did all these people change their gender, their politics or they were always two-faced? Discuss:.
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What is not allowed at Tokyo 2021 Games in Women's Categories:. A swimming cap for black women with afros;.Breastfeeding women;. What is allowed:. A fully intact male.
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@PennyRed @jk_rowling @bindelj Trauma after sexual abuse is very very real. Women have a right to privacy away from those born with male anatomy. The ones who have been abused and the ones who know men abuse and want to avoide it. Male sexual abuse against women is rampant. Mandatory motherhood is rampant.
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Quote of the day:. "No, thank you.". If you've seen the video, you will get it.
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