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"Men in dresses won't hurt you. Stop being a bigot and strip down in the change room while they're there. They have a right to look at you. If you have a problem with that, that's your problem. Stop being a fear monger. Shut up and accept it! Nazi!"
It boggles my mind that after decades of being told to not walk alone at night, lock your doors, don't get into an elevator alone with a strange man, be careful of stairways, watch your drink, carry your keys in your hand, don't go into the park at night...
don't answer the door to strangers, don't hitch hike, be careful what you wear, take a self-defense class, be prepared to scream FIRE!, don't get in a car with a stranger
...after all these warnings we're told now...
don't go walking or jogging with headphones, don't go into the woods alone, close your windows, check the back seat of your car before getting in, avoid getting too close to vans, walk with a purpose, don't sit in your car at the mall, be constantly on alert...
@Cluffalo
I'm amazed that so many people have the double standard that women are supposed to be virgins and men are supposed to have sex with any woman who will.
If promiscuity is bad for women it's just as bad for men.
Women don't want to be a notch on your bed post.
Men in dresses: We're going to punch your face in. We're going to rape you. We're going to kill you. Now let us into your change rooms or you'll pay for it.
Women: No. Get lost.
Society: I don't know why women are being so unreasonable and selfish. Be kind and inclusive.
So you go to your public pool for the ladies aquasize class. You make friends with the other women and develop a pattern of after class going into the sauna together to laugh and talk. Frequently new women come and they're welcomed in as well. After all, it's all women...
"There's been trangender people for hundreds of years."
Really. Where were they when women couldn't vote but all men could? Where were they when married women couldn't get a credit card or have a bank account? Where were they when husbands were allowed to rape their wives?
For decades women were told that their first line of defense was to not go into spaces alone with a strange man.
They were also told to listen to their gut/heart/intuition whatever you call it, and if they felt danger they were to leave immediately...
We cannot have a conversation if you're going to insist that "transwomen" are women.
We just can't. Because you're lying. They simply aren't. And if the conversation starts with a lie it won't lead to anything truthful. It will just follow the lying path unless you turn back.
When you walk into a woman's locker room at the public pool, it's not unusual to see women in various stages of undress. Those women have consented to be undressed in front of other females.
If you're male and you walk in you are now a predator/peeping tom/voyeur...
I should not have gone on twitter today.
Man films woman in change room. Woman gets arrested for assault when she knocks his phone out of his hand.
Man sues for entry to a female only spa where women get nude. Court makes it legal for him to sexually assault women...
It takes a great deal of self-importance and entitlement for men to say...
1. I am woman, and women, we're going to rename you.
2. I am going into your bathrooms and change rooms. I'm not asking permission. Move out of my way.
3. I am taking over your organizations.
"Transwomen are women" because men say so.
Really, that's what it comes down to. And women who don't believe them are bigots - because men say so.
It all comes down to "because men say so".
@iHumanGuy
You'll find that the spaces that women pushed into were business spaces. Because they were kept out of business which affected their careers and finances.
It was never about your antlers and secret handshakes. It certainly wasn't about being in the change room with you.
I thought it would end at a boy demanding to be allowed to change with the girls at school and the girls objected. The girls lost.
I thought it would end when they allowed convicted men into women's prisons and raped women. It didn't.
This astonishes me...
Twenty year old boys deciding that women old enough to be their mothers, cannot gather, speak or see movies that those boys don't approve of.
If you think it's okay for those boys to do this to women, should they be able to do it to you?
There is no legitimate reason for a male to enter female spaces.
Everything they need is in men's spaces.
The only thing that isn't in men's spaces is women.
So it turns out that offering a third space is not the answer.
When there are three ponds, a men's, a women's, and mixed pond - some men still insist on being in the women's pond - even though they have TWO other ponds to be in.
It's not about having a place to swim or pee.
Oh, and if the man overhears you making plans with other women to go meet up somewhere else, because now you've lost your women's space - he assumes he's invited and shows up there too.
Please, please, please, do not use any form of the word "woman" when you are talking about men. There's no such thing as a "transwoman" because men are not women. They are men. Giving into the language has given them way too much power.
@ask_aubry
She's just had a baby and now has to host a party?
She has to pump her milk so others can feed the baby?
When she wants her baby back they won't give it to her?
He told her to go take a shower to get rid of her?
Oh yeah, nothing wrong with this scene.
Man: I'm a woman. You have to call yourself a ciswoman.
Me: No.
Man: You HAVE TO. I say so.
Me: No
Man: You're being a bully! You are denying my existence! You are literally genociding me! I demand you call yourself cis!
Me: No.
Man: If I have to kill myself it's your fault!
There are some countries where women and girls do not have bathrooms. They have to use the fields. Where they are raped.
So there are organizations working to get them bathrooms.
Yet in the western countries, we are trying to take women's bathrooms away from women.
But there's no laughing or talking or changing now because there's a man in the room watching and listening.
Some of the women just decide to go home soaking wet even though it's cold and snowing outside.
Eventually you stop going to aquasize because it isn't fun anymore.
Dear women who claim to be men,
You have actively chosen to leave "womanhood". You do not get to dictate to women that we can no longer use the words and phrases "pregnant woman" or "mother."
We did not reject you. You rejected us. You can call yourself anything you want.
The liquid coming out of a man's nipples is not nourishing milk or colostrum.
It's loaded with hormones that the man isn't supposed to have.
That gets passed down to the baby.
What does that baby's body do with those hormones that it's not supposed to have?
Dear Males,
Saying you're not a woman doesn't mean you don't exist. It just means you're not a woman and have no claim on women's spaces - just like half the world. You're not alone. You belong to the half of the world that aren't women. You exist.
@JebraFaushay
You don't get it. We're not afraid of him. We're afraid for him.
And when he's a teenage boy, we'll be afraid for the teenage girls that will be forced to strip in front of him because their well-being, dignity, and privacy will be sacrificed to please him.
I can't believe we're arguing about whether a man has a right to go into a woman's change room, walk around naked, stare at non-consenting naked women and girls, take pictures, and load them up on the internet.
What is wrong with people that they would be for that?
They declared that women were not adult human females. Instead they declared that women were not real, not definable, and therefore anyone could declare that they he was a woman.
Now you're all standing in line for the handful of stalls since no one wants to change in front of him. It was never an issue before changing. Some of the women used stalls and some just stripped naked in the open and it was all fine and everyone still talked and laughed.
Just because a man decides to change his label from "man" to "transwoman" - doesn't mean I have to change my label from "woman" to "ciswoman".
If you rename yourself Joanna it is not required of me to rename myself Pollyanna.
I didn't change and I don't need renaming.
So what is in the women's bathroom that isn't in the men's?
Toilets? Cubicles? Sinks? Mirrors?
I think men have all that. So what could it be? What does the women's bathroom have that the men's doesn't and makes men demand to be in there?
Got it!
Women!
If you believe it's wrong to go into a culture and rename the people there, take away the systems they have built, and demand that they obey you and your whims, why do you think it's okay for men to do that to women?
When you give puberty blockers to a boy - his penis doesn't grow.
When he's 16, he still has a little boy penis. And the thinking perspective of a child.
When he's 18 and legally an adult, he still has a little boy penis, the thinking perspective of a child - and no options.
Women don't care if men pretending to be women gather together. They can meet up, talk about their "periods", put on silk baby doll pjs, have pillow fights and squeal all they want.
We want no part of it and we won't protest them doing it.
So why can't they leave us alone?
One of the things that surprises me about this whole trans gender ideology, is that atheists, who mock people of faith, and who have been adamant that there is no such thing as souls or God, now are buying into an ideology that says that souls are born in the wrong body.
You just sit there. Feeling awkward. No laughing. No joking around. Man is in the sauna with you. Quietly you each leave the sauna, and he follows you into the women's change room because he doesn't want to be alone in the sauna...
I have 4 daughters and 3 sons. Pick your eyeballs off the floor and put them back in your head.
We had toys for both sexes which they all played with. The kids played together. Chores were based on ability and age, not sex. Rules were based on age...
If men (generalizing) said "Let's pass a law that prohibits women from gathering together or being anywhere without a man" everyone would be furious. There would be protests, parades, petitions, rallies, all against it.
However...
And then one day a man comes. He shows up in a women's bathing suit but it's obvious he's a man.
Fine, you do aquasize together. So then you go into the women's sauna like always - and he comes in too. There you are, awkwardly with your towel around you, and no one talks...
For decades human health has centered on men's health. It was all determined by how men's bodies responded. And then they realized that women experience heart attacks differently.
So then they started focusing more on women's health. Which is a good thing. Only now...
Dear males who go in women's spaces.
Just because women haven't confronted you on this does not mean that
a. You pass and no one can tell you're a man
b. Women totally accept you there.
It's more likely that you're intimidating and women are too scared to confront you.
The fact that the trans people are going after Sal Grover for creating a female only app, even though there are millions of apps out there they can use, proves that this isn't about "being a woman."
It's about controlling women.
When I say that males don't belong in female spaces, I get men throwing insults at me and cursing me.
Thereby demonstrating why women don't need these men in our spaces.
How is being rude and threatening a good way to convince someone that you're safe?
So now we're being told that boys who aren't allowed to play on girls teams and be in girls showers with them will kill themselves.
Manipulative sexual harrassment.
You call us bigots and Nazis. You cheer a guy that tells you to punch women. You carry rape signs. You threaten to kill us. You hold women hostage. You physically assault women.
And you tell us that we're perfectly safe with you in the same room while our pants are down.
In my 35 years of raising kids, not one of my children expressed a desire to be the opposite sex. Not one child that I knew (and I knew a lot of kids) expressed a desire to be the opposite sex.
It was not a thing. No one did it.
This is a dangerous social fad.
@HazelAppleyard_
Yikes.
She's going to be afraid to try anything because if it isn't perfect he'll rip her apart. And then he'll complain that she doesn't do anything and she's helpless.
She can't win this.
Dear "women's" shelters...
Please do not call yourself a women's shelter if you admit men who say they are women.
That's not a woman's shelter. That's an everybody shelter.
It's not fair to women to falsely state something, they go there, and find out you lied to them.
Now women are told that if they don't go into spaces alone with strange men then they are bigots and if they leave when they feel danger they are fear-mongers and being stupid.
These are the same people that tell children to keep secrets from their parents.
In the past few minutes, I've seen an man argue that it's perfectly fine for teenage boys to physically assault a girl from behind and beat her up and since she didn't have broken bones it wasn't an assault.
I saw an angry teenage girl knock a teacher out by throwing a chair...
Dear asexual people,
Honestly, no one cares about your sex life. If you don't want to have sex, you don't need a movement. Many people don't have sex for various reasons and no one cares.
Go about your day. Your sex life is not on a job or rental application.
It amazes me how many women think that women should disrobe in front of a man who claims he's a woman and demands to be in women's spaces.
How are they so gullible?
These guys are so delusional and arrogant that they think a "TERF" only bathroom is a punishment for us, and that creating a trans rugby league will make us angry.
Are they that stupid?
Forcing a woman to strip naked in front of a naked man is sexual assault. It violates a woman's body and her mental health.
Riley and every other woman associated with this occurrence due to Lia Thomas was sexually assaulted.
And people are mad that she's exposing it.
Trans logic: Men being uncomfortable is bad and everyone should revolve around them.
Women being uncomfortable is pure selfishness. They should accept that the world revolves around uncomfortable men.
They didn't want to be women then.
They only wanted to be women once women were more educated, more successful, more listened to, had more freedom, had their own refuges, were becoming politicians and leaders.
Then they claimed to be women.
They put in the pages a carboard insert of a list of pro-trans links and resources to help your teenager transition.
Since when is the library supposed to pass judgement on what you read?
Seen this latest tactic several times now. I'm betting it's a thing.
They refer to women as "cis females" and to men as "transwomen."
Did you see that what just happened there? They're no longer calling us women. They have outright taken the word from us and given it to men.
If you don't want to be called a predator, then don't act like a predator.
For instance, if you're male and you go into women's spaces, then you're acting like a predator.
Now you know and you can change your behaviour.
Dear women supporting trans males in women's spaces...
Who told you that males are sometimes women? That's right. A man.
Who told you that they are not a threat to women? Yep. A man.
Who told you that you're a bigot if you don't agree? Yes. A man...
If you're a man, telling me a woman, that I should fight the patriarchy, by allowing men into women's change rooms, bathrooms, prisons, and refuges, then I'm going to point and laugh at you, and then share your dunderheaded arguments so other people can point and laugh at you too
Men have never been oppressed because they were men. Some men have been oppressed because of the color of their skin, their religion, their caste, their lack of money, or their sexual orientation, but not because they are men.
Women have been oppressed because they are women.
It's interesting watching the meltdown that TQ is having about losing LGB. You can see them trying to force the LGB to stay.
Note: LGB are not forcing anything from TQ. They're simply saying "we want no part of you anymore" and walking away.
TQ is insisting they can't do that.
Anyone else read Enid Blyton's Mallory Towers?
It was a girl's boarding school. There was Darrel who loved to play lacrosse, and Bill (short for Wilhelmina) who loved horses and acted like a boy because she had a bunch of brothers.
They were GIRLS. Not pretend boys.
I don't understand men, who have wives and daughters, mothers and sisters, grandmothers, and girlfriends that they love - who support men going into women's spaces.
I know a lot of men see the danger and are speaking up. I don't understand the ones cheering predators on.
There is no such thing as "trans-inclusive feminism".
Feminism is about females.
Trans ideology is about overpowering women, silencing women, using women as sex toys, and closing doors on women.
That has nothing to do with feminism.
If I had ordered a pro-trans anti-woman book to read would they have put in a list of resources in support of helping your kid accept the body they have?
I doubt it.
When a celebrity like Boy George tells women that they should allow men into their vulnerable spaces the alarm bells should be screaming.
Boy George kidnapped a man, handcuffed him to a radiator, and tortured him.
And he's telling women that men aren't dangerous.
They weren't screaming that they were women then. They weren't demanding that they be allowed in women's spaces. They weren't claiming women's scholarships or competing in women's sports. They weren't telling women that women had to be called something else.
Transgenderism is a parasitic culture.
When they want refuges - they take women's. When they want bathrooms - they take women's. When they want sports - they take women's.
They don't build things themselves.
They couldn't even come up with their own name.
@HazelAppleyard_
I don't know how these women do this. They married a man, and suddenly they're totally on board with calling themselves lesbians and having wives and mostly of having their masculine men acting like women?
It makes absolutely no sense.
I feel so bad for the kids.
The word "woman" is one of the most inclusive words in the world. It includes all females.
The phrase "birthing person" only includes women who are of birthing age. "Bleeder" (which is derogatory) is again only including women of childbearing age with a uterus.
A year long wait list to get a copy of Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier from my library.
Which tells me there are not enough of the books and lots of people wanting to read it.
So I finally get it and what does my public library do?
Look at the next tweet to find out.
I don't know why this is such a difficult concept...
Women don't want to shower in the same room as men.
Not unless she has a sexual relationship with him.
Why do people not get this?
We are living in a world where men have passed laws that prohibit and made social changes to prohibit women from gathering without them.
More women should be infuriated. Instead the ones who aren't infuriated are calling themselves feminists.
I don't understand women who call themselves feminists, who also center men, demand that women give up their spaces to men, refer to themselves and others as "cis" and support the mutilation of children, including young girls.
What the heck is feminist about any of that?
Forcing women to be naked and shower with a man is traumatic and a sexual assault.
Transgenderism does not respect consent.
The university, the swimming league and Will (Lia) Thomas should be charged and sued for sexual assault of all the women this affected.
You are supposed to transfer your loyalties and your allegiance to the new country. You obey the laws, you learn to speak the language, you become a citizen...
You don't wander through the streets carrying the flag of your old country and demanding that everyone follow that flag
When men are allowed in women's bathrooms, they are no longer women's bathrooms.
Society is eliminating women's bathrooms.
Which means that women have nowhere to go to be away from the watchful eyes of men.
You know what's about as bad as the men going into women's spaces?
Being told by men that it's none of our business that men are in our spaces.
That's right. Women's spaces is none of women's business.
Where were they when women were repeatedly told not to get an education and to go home? Where were they when women were beaten and had nowhere to go to escape? Where were they when women made less money for the same job. Where were they when women were passed over for promotions
With men demanding to be called women, then women's health is in danger because instead of focusing on women's bodies - women's health will be about prostrates and other male issues. And they can say "see, we're putting money into women's health."
I thought it would end when the detransitioners stood up and said "they cut off my penis, they cut off my breasts, I lost my singing voice, I'm a girl with a beard, I was tricked into this....- instead they were ignored.
Men decide to pose as women, invade women's spaces, and take their places.
Then they accuse women of blowing this up into a big deal and say, "why can't you leave us in peace. We're the victims here. Just go away."
And people believe them.