I am glad I am 66, I realised this week that I don’t want to be around to see too much of where it all goes from here. A rising tide of bigotry on all sides, and state sponsorship of abusing minorities repackaged as compassion rising to meet it.
I have seen enough.
@bimbocommunist
You are so wrong it is silly, when I was a sex worker my clients were every kind of normal you would run across anywhere else.
Common factors being that they were less likely get off on using people than most and more likely to be lacking in social confidence in some areas.
Literally no one has sex with sex workers... like that not something normal people do, it’s not normal! I mean how many men do you know frequent sex workers? Yet from the way this guy talks about it, it seems like he makes a habit of it!
@IndiaWilloughby
When I got to a ladies only loo* my entire focus is on whether one of them is vacant.
*NB my usual facilities in Tesco and Lidl are unisex. I have never had a traumatic experience.
@asker1993
@ecomarxi
You may not understand the principle of martyrdom-this world is full of injustices that innocent people do nothing to deserve, a martyr balances this by giving his life for no personal reward. Most of our world is deeply unhealthy anyway.
@david_tough
My Grandchild still hadn’t figured out their gender when they died age 26. One of the things that hurts is that I will never know for sure which pronouns they would have wanted me to use now.
@KenidraRWoods_
I have lived that life. I am nearly 62 now. The only thing I can promise you is that, just sometimes, it HAS been worth it. But if you want to find out about that you are going to have to stay tuned.
@KilclooneyJohn
I am sorry that today a woman in Offaly died in such a way as to interrupt your viewing, the good news is, we only die once, so that she will never bother you that way again,
If you have the respect to delete your tweet, I will delete my reply.
@djbradshaw64
@allisonpearson
@GSK
Dave, in the UK a plaintiff must be able to show that the statement caused them “serious harm” to be able to sue, you have apologized and deleted here is the act:
So remember folks, if you live in Florida and a sex worker yells "FIRE!!!" stay in your seat...they are criminals and you shouldn't listen to them, the fact that the building is burning down around you is just nitpicking.
@DrWaheedArian
@GrahamScambler
I have never made sense of why people want to make innocent people suffer for the crime of being born in a different part of the world that became intolerable because of other people. We are all the same and our roles could switch any day.
@Deke_Moulton
You should read Bram Stoker’s books before you say another word, I used be a big fan when I was a kid and there was nothing about any secret cabal trying to control the world. I think Dracula was the only one that had an actual vampire in it, go know
“Of course people have a right to free speech, they don’t have a right to support terrorism, Hamas is a designated terrorist organisation in the UK”
TV presenter Rachel Riley says Hamas are “incompatible” with the freedom of Palestinians
#newsnight
@RozKaveney
My problem is that I don’t have to imagine what it is like to be a teen who can’t see a reason to go on with life because I know already.
What I can’t imagine is the inside of any mind that would defend or cover for that.
There are at least sixteen trans kids dead by their own hands through despair over NHS removal of gender-affirming care. This gets no media coverage.
J.K.Rowling complains that Keir Starmer doesn't hate trans people as much as she does. This is a top story everywhere.
@AidanCTweets
I saw some great kids dossing around at a local (daytime) pride event, they were having fun, and my only concern was the little girl next to me who insisted on rocking on a bar type stool that was bigger than she was. I didn’t think she should be doing that.
Do all the moral panicking you like but you cannot deny some of these young people are getting a start in life they could only have dreamed of. Would you rather they hung on to a bedsit by their fingernails for years?
Maybe their choices are just none of your business?
@KyivIndependent
No, this is dangerous. Like the buses evacuating Aleppo…they held some for 18 hours half way, some children died of dehydration. It was only a journey of 15km. But they were going to a free area, going to Russia with no comms people might never be beard from again.
⚡️Russia puts forth new requirements for humanitarian corridors.
Russia is demanding lists of all evacuating vehicles and accompanying officials and forbids any communications equipment, except for Red Cross representatives.
@KenidraRWoods_
You just remember I need YOU here...stumbled across you on a day when I was convinced the whole world was too dirty to look at...and your beautiful courage cleaned up a whole patch of that in seconds...
@asker1993
@jenruss275
@ecomarxi
No, it doesn’t, it makes you normal, but Aaron Bushnell was not normal, he was exceptional, as some people are. It is ok not to be exceptional.
"Not long ago Boris Johnson declared that we would ‘have to get used to people dying’. I for one can never get used to that."
@charlotteh71
Within 36 hrs she heard that her son has died, may Allah assist her, she deserves that.
My Grandchild did not make it, age 26, on 15 May 2021, and it is a great comfort to see that someone else chose to try, 6 weeks later, and is still going from strength to strength.
@YossiGoldstein8
@abierkhatib
It seems to me that you are projecting your own dehumanisation and hate of Palestinians on to others.
For the record I regard all bullies, murderers and those who support them equally regardless of ethnicity or faith.
@abierkhatib
Any tears for Syria? Or you don't care about the dead children in Syria because Jews are not involved?
You don't care for Syria, Yemen, or Libya, and you sure as hell don't care about the Palestinians.
@ManilanH
@d_fu66
1. You want facts?
There are plenty of Sephardic Jews who are not colonisers, but the wave of 1.2 million Askenazim Jews who arrived in the state between WWII and 1958, were, in every technical way, refugees who colonised territory inhabited by others.
This is just reality.
@NWCI
That’s great, now resolve it by taking a shot at explaining your position on the use of the word “woman” in legislation and policy instead of making a new fitna, as you will not let people in to ask questions you cannot blame them for not knowing the answers.
#inclusivelanguage
NWC condemns the ongoing misrepresentation of our position on the use of the word ‘woman’ in legislation and policy. We believe this is a deliberate attempt to create a false and harmful division between women’s and trans rights.
#InclusiveLanguage
@commietarawrist
Can you direct me to the cohorts of people currently selling sex who are demanding that their source of income be attacked as a priority?
@MavenOfMayhem
Teens question and challenge everything, in transition from a child to an adult, to find out who they are really becoming...
Teens who's parents do not support that process and the end result, whatever that may be, have a shocking suicide rate...
@MavenOfMayhem
Weird truth...nobody was even slightly worried about my fertility when they tried to put me on puberty blockers to halt premature puberty.
- aren't you supposed to be in recovery from engaging with toxic twitter?
@Billy_Timmins
@TheConorFinn
@eoghanymurphy
Perhaps you would also like the address and phone number of my friend in Leitrim with three children under 5 facing a cancer diagnosis who cannot even find a b&b as of tonight to “authenticate”?
@NicolaCentofan1
This is nonsense, the Nordic Model just harms all people who sell sex. Most politicians who claim to believe otherwise are just striking poses for political capital at the expense of people who can’t afford to fight back.
Parliaments across the globe are standing up for women’s equality by backing legislation similar to that in which I have introduced into the South Australian Parliament known as the Equality or Nordic Model.
@k8_lister
@LutonCPT
Is it REALLY that cheery to shut down other (probably single mums’) human beings’ workplace just before Christmas?🎄
Ok, I get that you don’t write the law, you just enforce it, but rubbing it in on social media is a free choice you are making...is that who you want to be?
@CurvyZoe
@LydiaCaradonna
@BBWxVEE
Another thing, people who experience childhood abuse within the family are far less likely to have support in crisis, sex work can make up a lot of the material difference, whereas social provision and charities often exacerbate the whole deficit.
Just in case you are wondering why I use the old backup account (I retain it since being impersonated) - I can't protect the kids in Syria from bombs, starvation and indifference, but I CAN protect them from age inappropriate content, so I do. It's just respect.
@BlondeHistorian
I live in the country and have been around a lot of sheepdogs. You DO NOT pet a working dog, he loves his job more than being petted by strangers anyway.
I might tell the owner that their guide dog is gorgeous, but that is as far as I go.
I am autistic - it was a huge factor in sex work being my only viable option in 1980s. The social skills were simple and easy for me, I could work alone, for myself and choose my own hours
#LouisTheroux
#sellingsex
#idontneedsaving
sex work kept me alive when all the other options ran out - that happens. Choosing sex work can only be determined in the context of the available alternatives, if they are worse then it is a free choice.
@moira_robin
It is harassment to call another human being ANYTHING if you know it will hurt or distress them.
It is also extremely hard for a grown up to justify convincingly.
And in the ideology corner…
Several folks have asked me about this post by MF.
1. It is almost certainly harassment to misgender someone with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment without very good reasons.
@TempleBarCo
You do realise that one of the inevitable side effects of a drug injection centre is a dramatic reduction of traces of drug paraphernalia and sick addicts on the street?
Or hadn’t you thought that through?
@NWCI
…and who is his significant “durable relationship” with?
Aldi?
Lidl?
Tesco?
Local library?
Have sense,
#VoteNo
and make them come back with good, well considered amendment that deserve a “Yes” vote…not this pusillanimous, trouble-making apology for them.
@UrNoFionn
Doesn't matter whether you "could have waited" your ACTUAL Doctor, who knows more about surgery and Covid than you, offered you this time, you can't be expected to say "Sorry, I think I'd rather wait"...really no, it was bad luck is all.
Ireland needs this change.
Women need this change.
Men need this change.
💜
#VoteYesYes
on March 8 to enshrine equality in our Constitution and send the message that a woman's place is wherever she wants it to be💜
@NaksBilal
They are doing this simply because they know they will get away with it.
Israel has had a free pass on everything for decades, but they never abused it this much before.
@RamAbdu
You know something, I would rather be dead than live free at the cost of 7 lives, let alone almost 70, whatever the injustice against me, and who knows but some or all of the hostages will spend the rest of their lives feeling the same?
Nobody thought of that.
@Quibilah1
A really important point, the risk and damage of precocious puberty is purely social and psychological, so if there is a real physical risk in puberty blockers…
1. When someone is driven to sell sex to survive it is hard evidence that the state and the social safety net it provides have failed them, and in that case I believe the state OWES them a real, viable alternative as a right, on demand
#beyondexploitation
#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
@Depheruk
James, you have to stop reacting to people this way…as long as YOU approve of what you are doing and the way you are doing it, other people DO NOT MATTER.
Every time you react to them you are giving them the idea that they do.
@ruhamaagency
1. I have always believed that a grant sufficient to leave should be available to anyone selling sex to survive against their wishes. However that grant should be made to the sex worker directly, as a RIGHT, not through any NGO.
@Berlinnaeus
But you aren’t “disagreeing” with people with disabilities, you are ignoring and erasing them on the topic of their own lives. A behaviour you claim to have stood against in so many other issues.
You do see how that impacts on any faith people once had in you?
@graceyswer
One thing is for sure, using sex work to pay for drugs is not a “defect of character”. I would say it is the opposite, the honourable way to fund a drug habit without harm to others, and should be recognised as such.
The National Women's Council of Ireland spent around €50,000 campaigning for Yes votes in last week's referendums on Family and Care which were rejected by voters
@AshRouth
Also, how on earth with they:
1. Cope with trans men in the ladies.
2. Know that they men they are coping with in the ladies are REALLY trans?
@DrProudman
Yes, but with the rider that if he used the offensive term, “prostituted women” (which most find as offensive as the “n” word) to explain I might be unable to prevent my hands from wringing his neck before it got to that point.
@JacciStoyle
The UK is in a cost of living crisis that is rendering survival itself an unaffordable luxury for some already. Some will sell sex just to survive that.
You frame those same people as a commodity to be casually sacrificed to your dislike of the way that a few men behave.
I wrote this article for the Scotsman on the hidden voices of prostitution. If you read men's comments about the women they buy, you would understand how equality for women is impossible whilst prostitution exists.
@IndiaWilloughby
@wesstreeting
I cannot stress how serious this connection is. A big reason for puberty blockers is to stop trans kids from being overwhelmed by a lethal cocktail of dysphoria and blind panic, and buy some time to examine all their options.
Cancel that and too many run out of time.
✊💜Adopt the Equality Model now!
Following the adoption of the report on prostitution by
@EP_GenderEqual
, we had the pleasure to meet some of the most vocal MEPs supporting the abolitionist stance and choosing to be on the side of survivors, a crucial step to
#EndVAWG
!
This is an amazing article. I left sex work in March 1993, but in all the years since the only help I found to survive came from my bank, my landlord and old clients, I never found any help to overcome my issues and build another life.
Nordic Model supports often talk about 'exit programmes' for sex workers. Here are my thoughts about them, the barriers to their success and the reality of leaving sex work:
@jasoblair
@Abdul_Badawy
@DD_Geopolitics
Jason, we do not ask Allah to fix things, we usually ask him to assist us, or make things easy for us.
The whole point is to overcome the wrongs of this world for ourselves.
No, this is false. The "Nordic model" does not provide other jobs, or better paying jobs, then sex work does. No, I do not want another job. I will never get a better paying job for the hours. EVER. The morality police are out in full force, FYI.
Two absolutely extraordinary videos.
Mohammad Sadeghi is a THEATRE ACTOR in Iran.
1st video is his reaction to a female “morality police” arresting a woman for not wearing hijab.
“Why do you get paid? To take people’s daughters into a van and arrest them?” he says.
The
No politician should ever have a single word to say about legislation against sex work until they have explained a detailed policy that will offer sex workers an alternative that actually meets their material needs, because until then you are just talking about persecution.
@MarkSchirmer4
Decriminalize sex work, so sex workers and their clients are in the same legal position as car mechanics, then reduce poverty to the point where it cannot possibly drive anyone to sell sex against their inclination.