Maggie Dods
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Author of A Short Guide to Writing Well, What You Know That Ain't So, and Boo & Hooray.
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Read my latest: A Short Guide to Writing Well. You'll never split an infinitive again! Unless you really want to...
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Months after the world's oldest women-only public toilets were converted into a gender-neutral facility, Camden Council has announced they will go back to women-only "urgently", after it had emerged the council had ignored reports of abuse inside them.
#toilets
#genderneutral
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This really puzzles me - why do people get so angry when I say I don't want to share toilets with men? I suppose I can understand them disagreeing, but why the fury?
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Apparently Marks & Spencer are refusing to reinstate single-sex changing rooms. How can we protest? Buy lots of clothes and return them, all day long?
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Women: We don't want to share toilets with men.
Men: What is the /precise/ percentage of assaults on women in toilets by transwomen? You really have nothing to worry about.
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In 2016 the university of Toronto reversed its ‘gender neutral’ bathroom policy after multiple incidents of voyeurism and indecent exposure were reported, with male students using camera phones over the stalls to capture women in the shower.
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2021 Anglesey leisure centres reverted to single sex changing rooms.
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A friend writes: I am unsure of the reasons given, but following complaints by female staff the system of unisex loos [in the office] was abandoned in favour of a more conventional arrangement.
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@Rob_ThaBuilder
If your chromosomes are XY, they're XY - what do you expect the company to do, lie to you?
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@Yourladybrain
Uterine tissue is not going to grow in other locations unless you have a uterus to begin with.
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@Ranavalona111
@emkburke
"Contains niacin and riboflavin. Flavoured with sugar, salt and malt."
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Reactions to this tweet provide plentiful proof that women don't want gender-neutral toilets and are not willing to put up with them.
I should add the Camden Council is a year old - if anyone wants updates perhaps some publication would like me to do the research.
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@gretchen_bee
@bcmnewland
@edinburghpaper
Only women menstruate. It's connected to having babies. Only women have babies.
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Just remembered arriving at uni and meeting people who'd never cooked a meal or sewn a seam in their entire lives.
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@LabelFreeBrands
Everybody should watch Sue Black's Xmas lectures. She demonstrated the difference between a male and female pelvis using an orange to stand in for the baby's head.
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@BBCWomansHour
@David_Challen
Definition of "woman", protection of women's rights, women's healthcare, women's toilets.
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@helenstaniland
That's one thing men beat women at, in fact they are superlatively talented and skilled - at dreaming up the most ridiculous arguments. And also misunderstanding women's underwear.
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@VictoriaPeckham
@fionayamamoto
@royalacademy
@JessDeWahls
Ask them "If women don't exist as a class, why did the Royal Academy exclude them for 100 years?"
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Have a look at the responses - imagine if the suffragettes had got this kind of reaction when they asked for the vote!
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@RuthAxelrod
@mgtmccartney
It wasn't "science" talking. "Science" proved the treatments ineffective or harmful.
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@GilmoreJNurse
We're not talking about those subjects - we are talking about women objecting to men in their hospital wards now.
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@hatpinwoman
But is there such a thing as an adult human man? And if there is no such thing as an adult human female, what are transwomen becoming?
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@BookshopGhost
Do you sell HG Wells? Adulterer, cruel to mistress. Kipling? Supporter of Empire. Enid Blyton? Racist, classist. Philip Pullman? Atheist. Laura Ingalls Wilder? Libertarian. Grimms, Langs? Cultural appropriators.
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@LightShiner2
I have foresuffered all and seen equally silly orthodoxies come and go. The educated and privileged seem particularly prone.
But I've never lived through one that's so dangerous.
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@cabaretagainst
@STVNews
@UoEStaffPride
You have to prove that your opponents are "hateful & intolerant who wish to demonize the most vulnerable in our society". Provide evidence. I'll wait.
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@Badgrlstrange
Men: Men should settle down and have families.
Also men: I'm not ready for commitment.
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@DreyfusJames
@AquilakaHecate
@Waterstones
How about we all go into Waterstones' and LOUDLY ask for the banned books at the till?
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@MalesInDisguise
Thinking about your own feelings when someone else is terribly distressed is pretty poor behaviour - but on the plus side you are beginning to accept reality.
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@SereneSquirrel
I can't imagine. There was a lot of backlash when women's public toilets were brought in, in the late 19th cent. Department stores and tea shops provided loos for women - and changed women's lives.
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If you can see this tweet please reply and my statistics will improve
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@Beardandcamera
@karen_plessis
@MayorofLondon
Do something for us - front fastening sports bras would help. And wheelchair accessibility at museums. And stepless underground stations. Please.
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@EcceMandy
When feminism started up again in the early 70s this was the first thing we had to do - understand that women are a class, regardless of "class", race or anything else. That's what "consciousness raising" meant.
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@simonjedge
@lespauljunior3
@TinaBhartwas
@LGBTLabour
How would everyone react if Rachel Dolezal won an award for black fiction-writers?
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@RonniNicole1
Emma Corrin, 28, wraps up warm in black coat while departing The Ritz in Paris with boyfriend Rami Malek, 42.
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@AnnetteMckay15
Good Lord. How about the girls and only the girls get a comfort stop halfway through each lesson? How about they bring in some GENTS and LADIES stickers and apply them to the doors? How about they guard the door with hockey sticks?
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In order to include trans people and treat them equally, it shouldn't be necessary to claim that "biological sex is a "falsehood" invented by the medical profession to "reinforce white supremacy and gender oppression" (Times), or to claim that TERFS hate trans people.
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@Indy4Scotss
@olafdoesstuff
She looks and dresses like a woman, so she is one. And yet "stereotypes of gender should get in the bin"?
Do you realise you have just contradicted yourself.
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@funkgodartist
"Children are vulnerable to magical thinking" - you've really nailed it there.
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Is "genocidal" the latest word to lose all meaning? See George Orwell on "fascist".
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@JaneyGodley
@AwayFromTheKeys
Why can't "these men" "get" women for themselves? Why does somebody else have to organise it?
Men - shower every day, change your clothes, get a hair cut and BE NICE. It is really not difficult.
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@pichipichipon
@ItsEmilyKaty
I've only just worked out, aged 71, that "act normal" or "natural" means "act neurotypical". And the same goes for "relax" and "be yourself"!!!!
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@BashanahHaBaAh
@Scot_Feminists
@sunderlanduni
This student does not WANT to find out why feminists become gender-critical. I'm not sure what they do want.
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@TheRealPocus
Which is why I'm just going to say "I don't WANT to share toilets with men" from now on.
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@WildfireWhisper
Thank you for saying that. When I was young, people denied it - particularly other women. Real gaslighting! I knew I was right and they were wrong.
(tho they did say "Oh, you can't say that. Men might find it threatening".)
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@twosheds35
How do I approach the school? March into the head's office and ask for scientific proof of these 66 genders. Start recording, and ask her to recite the 66 genders, while describing their accompanying flags.
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@ItsEmilyKaty
That's a very good question.
NT: Speaks coded sentence full of hints, allusions and expectations that the ND knows what they mean already.
ND: Says exactly what they mean.
Who's wrong?
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@zoesqwilliams
@speakoutsister
does the Guardian employ researchers? Perhaps they could find you some stats.
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@PissOffNow77
@latinspaceman
How are they going to avoid upsetting and offending the unpartnered?
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@HadleyFreeman
@hannahsbee
I'd love to see evidence of "the levels of vitriol against trans in the press".
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@LissaKEvans
@MForstater
@blablafishcakes
@ElisabethJane
They tend to use hooray words like "beautiful", "sacred" and "love" without actually saying very much.
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@LeithLemon
Macbeth is tragic. King Lear is tragic. How is objecting to mixed-sex changing rooms tragic?
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@WildfireWhisper
Does nobody know what a cervix is? It is not a "hole", it is the neck of the uterus where it meets the vagina.
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@ArrowPC_
@SarahTheHaider
Because sometimes we need to talk about men - or women. Why the rush to exonerate men? Or not to criticise them? We're trying to establish the truth.
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@Indy4Scotss
@ForWomenScot
@olafdoesstuff
I can't buy that - I'm a monist, not a dualist. We are matter. There is no "spirit" (which acts as a kind of thin matter but is not subject to the laws of physics). So often it's a "spirit of the gaps".
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@stillgray
They leave it deliberately vague. They think if they call something a "right" they can just HAVE it. But there's an official list of human rights - they should check with the UN, and lawyers.
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@inmyownfashion2
Happened to me more than once - they nitpick all my objections. And throw insults! Call me a bigot, tho the subject of accommodating transwomen has not been mentioned.
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@SexMattersOrg
I don't want to share toilets with men, they shouldn't be in women's refuges, I don't want gender-neutral toilets in schools, men don't belong in women's prisons or hospital wards.
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@AlexSelbyB
@revpamsmith
Whoever does the Tory Party's comms should at least change the wording for different accounts.
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@YorkArtGallery
As an art historian, I'd like to point out that you have given this picture an interpretation it was never intended to have.
How about deconstructing its intended meaning, which is grim enough? She is looking ecstatic because martyrdom will fast-track her to heaven, allegedly
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@SargeCraig667
@tstrachanedit
@nicolelampert
I admire the way you took the wheel and wrenched the conversation all the way towards insulting the Duchess of Sussex.
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@BrentAWilliams2
I was once told I had a "masculine mind". I am a woman, it's my mind, therefore it's a feminine mind.
I am logical and rational - sorry if you find that "unfeminine", world! (Hope things have changed in 40 years.)
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@Szy_Sefton
@Christi49034502
@amnestyusa
Exactly. "Human rights" does not mean "automatic, unquestioned rights". There's an official list, and they apply to all humans.
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@clarisselou
Yes, stating that students "feel unsafe" is not enough. You have to show how and why. It's one of the skills a university education teaches you.
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@helenstaniland
I have had vicious arguments with a group of men who were absolutely convinced that the pants go under the suspender belt. "It's like that in all the pictures!"
No amount of "But I'm a woman and wore stockings for years" made the slightest dent in their pig-headedness.
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@YorkArtGallery
You could say it shows that the Catholic church only valued women if they were tortured, mutilated and desexed.
And then you could look for modern parallels...
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