@ask_aubry
I make cookies for a neighbour who occasionally helps with handyman stuff. As best I can, I make contact through the wife and suggest that one of their kids comes over to pick up the cookies. It’s really not hard to keep boundaries.
@MarianKeyes
Only used for things women and gay men like. Never for watching football or golf on the telly, for instance. Sure as hell not used for men watching porn.
@IjeomaOparaPHD
Your church doesn't have a disabled toilet? That's horrific, probably illegal and sounds like something you should be campaigning for, right?
@nearlythere2020
@JessicaKPardoe
@metpoliceuk
20 years ago I was being followed by a man as I walked home around 3am. I was so thankful to see a
@metpoliceuk
car! Asked them to drive me a couple of blocks so he couldn't catch up. "We're not a fucking taxi service, love," said one guy as the other one laughed.
@solarsystern
I was once touching up my lippy on an Italian train, the conductor was passing by and he blew me a kiss and said “Now you are perfect”. Delightful.
@SholaMos1
@stellduffy
I still am shocked that so many British white people said that they had no idea how bad "uppity" was to use for her (or frankly anyone). I mean, if that's not bloody obvious...
@K_IngalaSmith
How dare you. We all know that civilians participated in the massacre of October 7th and cheered as dead bodies were paraded through their streets.
@PennyRed
@suzanne_moore
Having seen Penny's wide-eyed, "Oh really, is that actually happening?" etc etc many times on here, disingenuous is precisely the word. What on earth do Suzanne's kids have to do with any of this?
@LADYRAMPANT
I had no idea that drag queens or transwomen marched with the suffragettes, got beaten up, imprisoned, force fed and tortured under the Cat and Mouse Act!
@tomgabion
@helenstaniland
@SPennman
@OwenJones84
Honestly, this is what we needed - I for one thank Tom for this. A clear statement that women and girls will be in more danger, and an equally clear statement that a man thinks he has the right to "accept" a decision to expose us to more physical and emotional harm.
@TessaThompson_x
@sundancefest
The film *shows* the hyper-sexualization of preadolescent girls.
What kind of consent could they possibly get from child actors to make this okay?
@CaptSandyYawn
@superyachttimes
Dreams are dreams until your captain bullies you, micro-manages you, makes you cry, plots against you and sacks you.
I don't care if it was the storyline. You did it. Those were your actions.
#fixedit
#justiceforKiko
@K_IngalaSmith
Erm, I get my toothpaste, cleaning products, candles etc from there. Also my After Eights. Have you ever shopped there? What makes you think they’re poor quality? This sounds really snobbish.
@IjeomaOparaPHD
Which church is it? I'd be really happy to help you publicise this and campaign for disabled people to have their own spaces which they deserve for privacy and dignity.
@tibby17
@lloyd_rm
@jackappleby
I've seen this again and again - the men who insist that sex is a binary only respond to men. They certainly can tell the difference between the sexes on Twitter!
@ElizabethHoyt
Also, it's mocking a genre that women enjoy, instead of, say, the ridiculously macho thrillers for men where beautiful prostitutes throw themselves at the hunky hero for free and he survives against impossible odds.
@benjamincohen
@MattHancock
If you were straight then one of you would have a womb, eggs etc to erm, allow the NHS to *do* the IVF. This isn't homophobia. Lesbians get IVF, for obvious reasons. You could just have well have written "If we were lesbians..." !
@robjessel
Last year, a Labour MP was convicted of viewing porn involving a raped baby. By some bizarre coincidence, he also was against single-sex services... it's almost like there might be some common goal...
The Battle of Bamber Bridge, 1943.
Racist US military police attacked black US troops on British soil.
US military authorities demanded the town’s pubs impose a colour bar, the local landlords responded with signs that read “Black Troops Only” which pissed them off.
A THREAD
@eaadams6
I don't know, Emily. It's almost as if people from any country can access Twitter. But obviously, as a journalist, if that were the case you would know that.
@WhitHealth
@NoXYinXXprisons
Ooh I am ONTO your PALS contact first thing on Monday. Get ready. I'm just down the road and really, really good at raising issues.
@PennyRed
@SinclairJM1987
We read Pippi Longstocking, the Famous Five, Swallows and Amazons, Nancy Drew. We climbed trees and hung off gates upside down, took the "boys'" parts for school theatre and country dancing and none of our parents gave a flying fuck. Many of our teachers were lesbians.
@KarenFindlayMPS
@JessicaKPardoe
@metpoliceuk
20 years ago I was being followed by a man as I walked home around 3am. I was so thankful to see a
@metpoliceuk
car! Asked them to drive me a couple of blocks so he couldn't catch up. "We're not a fucking taxi service, love," said one guy as the other one laughed.
@uberman21
@ripx4nutmeg
The
@WEP_UK
and
@GuileneMarco
, their candidate, were a laughing stock last time they campaigned in my ward. Parents had realised that they refused to say "no penises in women and girls' changing rooms". The council may be woke but the parents in our ward are extremely articulate.
@ripx4nutmeg
IIRC, Mouncey would have been allowed to go to the Olympics but not shower with her teammates/other female competitors. She was offered her own facilities but refused. I've always found those priorities really telling.
@PennyRed
@SinclairJM1987
There were no sexy padded bikinis for young girls, or high-heeled shoes, or t-shirts with sexy slogans/saying "Be Kind" or any crap about being sweet or loving, or leopard-print leggings. Our parents would have stormed shops that sold them. You are talking utter crap.
Chap once came round to mine on a date, inspected my bookshelves, turned and said to me: "Would you like to know my analysis of you, based on your books?"
Me: "No".
Reader, he was *amazed* at my response and shit in bed too.
thinking about the guy i once found in my bedroom at a house party looking at my bookshelf, who turned to me when i came in and said “an unsurprising selection”. hope he’s dead now x
@CaptSandyYawn
How are you enjoying these responses, Sandy?
No one’s going to eat at a restaurant run by you. No one. Ugh, imagine you coming up to a table!
@harlequinpub
@OwenJHurcum
@CubeNightclub
Yeppity, seconding this - consider that the last thing owners want to do is damage their own property, so forcing a door is an absolute last resort.
@SadieSouth3
If everyone has the right to self-identify, how can they object to you identifying as someone who objects to being called that term? If she has the right to be called what she wants, then so do you, surely?
@SianGriffiths6
@SafeSchools_UK
@Transgendertrd
@thesundaytimes
Me explaining this to Teen Nephew, who asked me about the toilet issue (all boys' school so doesn't arise for him): "Girls are holding in their pee because they're scared to pee in unisex loos - boys will mock the noises they make."
Him: "Oh. Yeah, that would totally happen."
@Ms_White_999
@ajlieshere
@january_myth
And do google the atrocious euphemism "comfort women" for what the Japanese did to captured Korean and Chinese women during WW2. They still refuse to apologise for enslaving and raping, often to death, between 200-400k women. Wow, you say, they can't estimate nos any better? NO.
@groundhogsday3
@TonyPhatt
@dickydickypand1
@PennyRed
Hey all, Laurie is a young and vulnerable woman who cannot possibly as a 35 year-old who went to private school and Oxford be expected to correctly identify dates or do basic research despite working for over a decade as a journalist, OBVIOUSLY. Back off this delicate flower!
Women aestheticians are being sued for discrimination for refusing to wax testicles/go unaccompanied to the home of a client with male genitalia to wax them. Sounds insane. But it's happening.
I hate, btw, that some of them are having to plead religion as an excuse.
@Siennasaurus1
@KatiePrior2
I was dancing at Koko back in the day: a man came up to me on the dancefloor and grabbed both my boobs. I hit him hard, he reeled back, and then another man came up to me to say that he was 1st guy's carer and I had not been empathetic to his mental disability. I hit him too.
@EdibleTom
Also, EEEWWWWW. In the olden days people didn't feel the need to broadcast fetishes, they just got on with them happily.
I miss the olden days.
I mean, we're all non-binary. I've been saying this ever since the term came into vogue. None of us are 100% a 1950s stereotype of Rock Hudson or Doris Day.
@MarianKeyes
See also my chicklit friends when asked what they write at parties, and so often get the contemptuous response: "Oh, I don't read that."
NEVER happens to crime writers.
@GStandingready
@KatiePrior2
But you don't. You don't. I've literally had a perv try to steal my flipflop off my foot on the subway and none of the guys did anything. You don't.
@SarahSurviving
I am so fucking sorry. Would you like to meet up some time and I can do some “how to say no to men” coaching for you? I’m really good at it and love to pass it on xxxx
@zoesqwilliams
@VictoriaPeckham
Have you actually volunteered with asylum seeker women? I doubt it. I did for years with ones who had an above-average knowledge of English and they wouldn't have known the word "cervix" from "plutocracy", say.
@elleandback
Hey James
@jjswin
, there is a really easy solution. Campaign for your fellow males to make people using your loos safe and comfortable, whatever they look like. That would fix every single problem you raise.
@veefeeley
@MarianKeyes
I've been writing sexy bonkbusters for years, so am really familiar with the phenomenon! When you point it out to women they always get it instantly. To men I say: "Right, like football isn't one gigantic soap opera."
It is my MISSION as a feminist to get this term erased!
@AllianceLGB
@MrJohnNicolson
Isn't he the one who has a photo of (presumably) his mum on his home page but doesn't know what a woman is? Maybe he should ask her!