Sibyl Ruth
@SibylWrites
Followers
2,027
Following
754
Media
405
Statuses
10,754
Adult human female. Sadly opens her mouth.
Birmingham
Joined July 2011
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
#KawalPutusanMK
• 2275705 Tweets
#TolakPolitikDinasti
• 1668132 Tweets
#TolakPilkadaAkal2an
• 1666372 Tweets
Nobara
• 237328 Tweets
FB JOIN OPENING BTV HOUSE
• 177648 Tweets
#BeyondTheVinesXFreenBecky
• 172415 Tweets
Mulyono
• 152122 Tweets
BATALKAN BUKAN TUNDA
• 147632 Tweets
Nigerians
• 104834 Tweets
Bolt
• 60412 Tweets
BOTO PARA SA SB19
• 53303 Tweets
鯉登少尉
• 36565 Tweets
チャイルドシート
• 33251 Tweets
ポケ森サ終
• 30400 Tweets
ポケットキャンプ
• 28194 Tweets
PilihDAMAI BarengPRABOWO
• 27911 Tweets
BBFA LAST HURRAH
• 24659 Tweets
LebihSEJUK LebihNYAMAN
• 23039 Tweets
首都高バトル
• 22923 Tweets
Widjiatno Notomihardjo
• 21605 Tweets
買い切り
• 19362 Tweets
中川大志
• 17270 Tweets
本人確認
• 13684 Tweets
GCSE
• 12896 Tweets
BTV X FORCEBOOK
• 11052 Tweets
月見バーガー
• 10617 Tweets
I hugely appreciate all this morning's messages of support.
135
297
2K
An underappreciated component of George Orwell's true terribleness as a novelist is his failure to understand agriculture and, in particular,the principles of keeping livestock. Domestic animals don't speak and so cannot attempt any form of cross-species collective action.
An underappreciated component of JK Rowling's badness as a writer is her utter lack of understanding of how systems and organizations work. That's not how schools work. That's not how government ministries work. That's not how newspapers work. That's not how sports work. That's…
729
951
16K
24
170
1K
@NickCohen4
As a former winner of the
@mslexia
Poetry Competition, I am appalled that they should drop one judge - Amanda Craig simply because of another's 'discomfort'. Writing is not, and should never be about 'comfort'. Instead, it should be 'an axe for the frozen sea within us.'
14
140
864
@Transgendertrd
It makes it sound as if the possession of both a vagina and a womb is some weird bit of synchronicity...
9
13
431
@OnjaliRauf
@rickygervais
I am now wondering what a Muslim Dinosaur looks like... Speaking as a Jewish Dinosaur. (Of course there are many dinosaur varieties. What we have in common is our rights-hoarding behaviour!)
10
17
481
@MattChorley
Well, we couldn't gather at funerals. And if that's not a leaving do, what is?
4
141
477
@AudreySuffolk
My 96 year old Mum has carers. Going out to access medical services is an ordeal because of her poor mobility. For years she's had a condition which means having to know where the nearest loo is. Ageing is already undignified. Her safety and privacy should be respected by all.
2
16
460
So
@Bex_Stinson
on
#womanshour
says
#Stonewall
can choose not to share platforms with anyone who makes them feel vulnerable. (In which case why is it problematic for adult human females to do exactly the same, i.e. choosing who they share space with?)
5
81
273
@genderisharmful
I've seen library workers arguing for Drag Queen Story hour - as inclusive, promoting diversity etc. This seems to be pushing these ideas further. Step by step.
6
12
236
@WorldOfOrdinary
@haywardgallery
It's really child unfriendly - and unfriendly to parents. To anyone who may need the loo urgently. Pregnant women/women with cystitis/women who are menstruating. Because we need safe, private facilities that are near at hand
1
9
223
If deciding on biological sex is so complicated, why is Harriet Harman described as 'Mother of the House of Commons'?
11
35
242
@CUSUWO
As a Cambridge graduate I feel ashamed at what is happening at the place where I was educated. Why - even in these appalling and reactionary times - are intelligent women inviting other intelligent women to be complicit in their own erasure?
3
15
174
@suzanne_moore
Any paper that publishes a long obituary of Peter Sutcliffe does not deserve you. In fact, the Guardian probably doesn't deserve any writers or any readers any more.
3
7
199
@wwwritingclub
@feministlibrary
An organisation that holds 'the largest collection of Second Wave Feminist material in the UK' seeks to deny access to anyone who support the principles of second wave feminism. (You couldn't make it up.)
7
48
175
@David__Osland
I hear her too. My Jewish grandfather Fritz Berndt had been a doctor in Berlin. He came here in 1937 and retrained in Scotland. He was naturalised after the end of WW2 and worked as a GP in Bolton. He was an excellent doctor, valued by all his patients.
2
19
194
#IStandWithJKRowling
because she is a decent, principled and honest human being who is unafraid to speak out, at a time when far too many women are being pressured and threatened into silence.
3
12
163
@PankhurstEM
@JohnLewisRetail
I am going to give preference to stores which guarantee single-sex changing rooms. Unless I can be assured of this I'll order clothing online from firms that understand female safety, privacy and dignity.
1
14
175
@jackappleby
Partner, a former childcare lawyer, a) sees the safeguarding risks and b) appreciates that the ability of young people to know what's in their longterm interests is something that evolves over time. Adult responsibility is not the same as just giving them everything they want.
0
7
151
@Womensrunninguk
For women running is harder if there's a bloke in lipstick 'identifying as a woman' in the same race. Inclusivity in sport does NOT mean women's organisations being unfair to women. What next - 'including' those without disabilities in the Paralympics?
1
8
152
@glosswitch
So - let me see whether I've got this right - as soon as you hit the menopause, you automatically become LGBTQI+? Did anyone tell Stonewall??
4
4
164
@AmandaPCraig
@Soc_of_Authors
I am so sorry to hear that. Stonewall stopped representing the interests of gay people so it was necessary to create the LGB Alliance. Perhaps it's time for a new writers group which not only advises authors on contractual matters but stands up for literary freedom of expression.
12
19
168
@Glinner
I read a really good article on The Conversation about the menopause, and someone had commented below the line that it was a bad article because excluded the menopausal experiences of trans women.
10
8
120
@MForstater
I've been trying to work out if women say they identify as men and are cross-dressing as women, they're then entitled to legal protection against 'hate crime. It's like one of Shakespeare's darker comedies.
6
13
138
@Womans_Place_UK
"Self-ID is not a simple matter of being kind and accommodating to people who want to live in a different gender. It means that women have absolutely no protection from the predatory men who, through history, have exploited any opportunity to abuse them." Thank you
@jennirsl
3
34
122
@HelenCBelcher
@garyyounge
@NesrineMalik
@arusbridger
@pressgazette
@PinkNews
@gaystarnews
@LizBarkerLords
@brianpaddick
The suicide of any young person is a tragic loss. But I wasn't aware teenagers read
@thetimes
and were affected by
@VictoriaPeckham
's journalism. We owe it to adolescents to look honestly at the many reasons why they're unhappy - instead of making use of them in propaganda wars.
0
11
122
@marksandspencer
@JeanHatchet
That's not even grammar
@marksandspencer
. How about respecting the safety, dignity and privacy of your female customers? How about being inclusive towards women whose religion doesn't permit them to share space with men. (NB your founders were Jewish.)
2
11
126
@rob_marchant
@simonjedge
@guardiannews
It's not as if you are interested in stuff like sex and gender and young people. But perhaps just a few lines in some obscure bit of the site? Or get that nice Owen Jones to do a whole column.
1
7
140
@runthinkwrite
@OpenUniversity
One political group is telling lies about leaving dos and another lies about science, material reality, the roots of oppression. We deserve truthful MPs of all parties.
3
14
134
Looking forward - with faint terror - to meeting
@andrewdoyle_com
on
@GBNEWS
to talk about my Tribunal case.
@JoPhoenix1
will be there discussing Sarah Jane Baker. What a way to finish the weekend!
15
22
146
@Critic_Speak
I'm appalled by the way in which you're censoring
@SonyaDouglas
for the 'crime' of believing in biology. Diversity isn't about everyone repeating the same mantra. Inclusion is not about cancelling dissenting voices. And 'speaking critically' does not mean uncritical silencing.
0
6
124
@Docstockk
I found Prof Hines weirdly divorced from reality - it was as if she was propounding some arcane form of theology - which is fine as long as that theology is not used as the basis for social policy....
2
6
100
We tell our daughters not to trust adults who say, 'It's a secret. Don't tell anyone.' But is
@Girlguiding
- formerly a place where girls could feel safe and grow in confidence - a trustworthy organisation any more? Thanks to
@mragilligan
for this piece.
4
43
95
@RosieKayK2CO
@MForstater
@BluskyeAllison
@ALLIANCELGB
@jk_rowling
Born at very end of the 50s. Growing up with Jim'll Fix It, Miss World on TV, Yorkshire Ripper at large, rape in marriage was legal. I had to do needlework and cooking at school, while boys did metalwork and carpentry. No awareness of child abuse. The clock is going backwards.
5
11
130
@henry_sister
Ex citizens advice person. What most clients want is longer opening hours, more appointments and help with debts, benefits appeals, keeping a roof over their heads, feeding their kids. Meanwhile the CEO is talking pronouns....
2
9
117
Employment Tribunal news! There was a terrific response to
@Craig_Simpson_
'Telegraph piece on my case and other press coverage followed. The initial fundraising target has been reached on my
@CrowdJustice
page. People's support - and generosity - has been overwhelming...
10
34
127
@RukhsanaSukhan
@BillBaggins96
@farquadfox
@JustDavidDavid
@intersexfacts
@EastCoastWomyn
@graceelavery
@RaginAye
@janeclarejones
@FondOfBeetles
'(My) material reality isn't shaped by your postmodernist belief system.' I'm going to have that on a T-shirt.
2
9
102
@Glinner
There's also something about the way in which single-sex sport offers women a kind of space and freedom which they don't have elsewhere in our lives. It's as if there's a kind of glee about taking this from us and calling it 'inclusion.'
3
18
97
@OozlumSam
It's happened to me once. I said, 'I don't do preferred pronouns,' and we moved on round the circle. It may be that other people formed particular conclusions about me, as a result - but I think saying this empowers other to refuse.
6
2
100
@glosswitch
Why has
@guardian
abandoned safeguarding in favour of trying to groom its readers? So many of its articles are embarrassing drivel now - but this particular type of drivel is dangerous.
4
18
120
@green_susie100
I think the point is that children cannot possibly make informed choices about whether or not they'll wish to have children, Sensible adults do what they can to help children feel as happy as possible without harming them. Whatever happened to the Hippocratic oath?
1
7
80
@MForstater
@labour
@LabourStudents
Appalling. So sorry. No major political party seems to provide a home for GC feminists. But you'd hope that
@UKLabour
at least had some regard for workers rights. (Or is it only blokes workers rights that count?)
2
8
98
@FondOfBeetles
Prof Roberts appears to be the Patron of a society which promotes rational thinking and a Professor whose job is to promoting public engagement with science. I am not sure how her statements on sex are in keeping with either role.
2
10
103
@MeghanEMurphy
@Nike
This is dreadful. As a mature runner with what is known as a 'fuller figure' I would never buy a sports bra worn by a flat-chested male. I take running seriously.
@Nike
are taking the piss
4
2
114
@womenslibrary
@ScotlandSisters
@san_alland
Perhaps you should just call yourself Glasgow Library. Except the real
@GlasgowLib
probably gives actual support to women.
0
3
95
1
0
100
@naomirwolf
Would suggest reading some gender critical stuff by second wave feminists. Perhaps also YouTube videos by
@Womans_Place_UK
. Cheer up Dr Wolf - I gather you're an intelligent person. Keep trying - you'll get there in the end!
0
6
96
@jessphillips
@janegarvey1
@ionaflawrence
It is so 'helpful' of men to want to access the safe spaces of women who are fleeing male abuse...
1
4
84
@MatthewdAncona
@STILLTish
@royalacademy
@JessDeWahls
'An independent charity with a mission to be a clear, strong voice for art and artists?' If only.....
0
2
101
@Jebadoo2
#IStandwithMaya
because even if the reactions are only like eating a bag of chips in the rain, this means people - most of them female - can't lose work for having totally reasonable beliefs (which other people don't happen to like).
1
5
98
@PankhurstEM
I'm assuming - perhaps wrongly - that the gym has a policy on inclusion and diversity. The gym should be contacting the person concerned, saying that if she can't treat others with the respect which its policies (and the law) requires, then she can have her membership refunded.
1
1
95
@BBCWomansHour
Happy to come and talk about what it's like to lose work as a gender critical woman - and my experience of fighting back!
0
5
100
@RedMags60
Uterine prolapse? Osteoporosis? Inadequate pension after taking time out to care for dependants? Marginalised and patronised?
1
5
98
@sarahditum
@AlexKJTimes
Is there going to be women's anything by the time this lot have finished.....?
2
3
67
@millihill
I am sad to see libraries, which should be sources of reliable information, supporting this event.
2
1
93
@wagamama_uk
@msjenniferjames
That's a terrific comfort. Sexual harassment is so very rare! And there's never more than 1 woman at a time with experience of being abused/who is having a period/who has cystitis/who has come out with a small child to supervise. (We are barely part of the human race, after all.)
1
8
80
When is a library not a library? When it is a 2 hour a week book swap run by volunteers. (Why don't I say that my house will open 2 hours a week. I'll supply cough sweets and plasters. We can call it an exciting new hospital.'
How sad is this? A 'community library' for South Gloucestershire. Hawkesbury Upton get a book swap in a community hall run by volunteers once a fortnight for only 2hrs!
#savelibraries
1
11
7
4
43
84
@HJoyceGender
@dennissewell
@VPointon
@MShipworth
@blablafishcakes
@JeanRhys____
@Glinner
@bbcr4
@Docstockk
@Jebadoo2
@polblonde
Which means the BBC goes down even further in our estimation. Podcasts and webinars become the preferred media for quality debate.
1
5
96
@MForstater
@OxfamIntermon
@Oxfam
I am an
#Oxfam
volunteer. But unless
@Oxfam
responds to say this is not their viewpoint - that they as a humanitarian charity understand the relationship between sex-based oppression and poverty - I'm going to have to reconsider my commitment to them.
2
9
82
@LGBTLabour
It's a very weird kind of equality that you want to deliver. I think we should all have the right to be protected from experimental treatments which may cause significant physical and psychological harm.
0
1
69
@CCriadoPerez
Presumably women don't fit the PPE equipment, because we're not trying hard enough...
1
2
87
@Gillian_Philip
I do believe people should wear what they want etc etc... But what blows my mind is the idea that with heavy 5 o'clock shadow, a perm and lippy and pink and a bag with gold chains = 'Woman". While us boring biological women get derided if we have one or two faint chin hairs.
2
0
87
@JessDeWahls
'Perceived' transphobic sentiments. Who is doing the perceiving? What power and status is accorded to these perceptions? Why?
0
0
81
@RooneyRachel
I don't understand why professional people use insulting terms on Twitter. They wouldn't insult others re ethnicity or disability. But they believe it's ok to insult those who believe in sex-based rights. If you want to positively influence the young, calling names isn't clever.
0
4
83
@jo_bartosch
The art of reviewing. Saving the reader from having to waste time on worthless books.
2
3
84
@ruthserwotka
@Womans_Place_UK
@UKLabour
@Keir_Starmer
I can't imagine a better use of any
@UKLabour
woman's time than working to ensure that the census provides proper information for the formation of robust social policy. That is, if we are serious about returning to Government....
1
4
84
@Dorianlynskey
I've no idea who you are. But I have known and admired Graham Linehan's work for some years. My respect for him has increased greatly over the last year. Also it's clear you've not listened to - or any rate understood - his critique of how social media distorts debate.
2
8
80
@glosswitch
The idea of women as, essentially infantile, less evolved, not as rational etc. has the most unfortunate history.
0
9
85
@RadFemLawyer
I think there is a particular kind of listening, sharing, validating and affirming which doesn't take place in mixed spaces. This gives women greater freedom to know who they are, to discover their power.
1
6
56
@MForstater
“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz
1
24
71
@Womensrunninguk
@eddieizzard
Please explain just how is it 'empowering' for females, if their sporting organisation opts to celebrate the 'achievements' of a person who's basically testosterone plus lippy?
1
2
68
@janeclarejones
Could we possibly have Michael Portillo as Leader of the Labour Party? (I think he likes trains so maybe he could sort the railways out too.)
3
5
73
@injiduducu
@PankhurstEM
@BBCNews
There doesn't seem much point being able to talk about periods now - if we can no longer talk about who has them. (Girls. Females. Women.)
0
2
72
@FredSargeant
@CaptainVirgilx
@Oxfam
The use of shinigami equates gender critical feminists with destruction and death. GC feminists are concerned about safeguarding the mental and physical health of young people. As a woman of German Jewish heritage and former Oxfam volunteer, I am deeply shocked by this image.
1
13
80
@Transgendertrd
@charlesworth102
"We may be a woman, but identify with the outlook and social norms of men. When we feel this way, we are transgender."
No,
#BBC
we feel this way because we're living in a patriarchy. By your logic all women are transgender and females have (conveniently) left the planet.
0
5
69
@helenpidd
You could ask her why a lifelong feminist, who has already voted, felt they had to opt for a male leader/deputy team because this constitutes the least worst outcome for women? Does Lisa feel her expressed views contributed to this and does she regret anything she said?
2
0
73
@AdamWagner1
@AudreySuffolk
And what would you think Adam, if I announced I was now identifying full time as a human rights barrister? Or - if I were a Gentile - as a Jew and demanded that statements on Judaism ought to be 'inclusive', and that actually shul ought to be on Sunday?
1
2
73
@SophiaSmith222
@MForstater
I suppose Daniel Radcliffe is typical of the kind of privileged young white male who simply Does Not Have A Clue. Which, sadly, has never prevented such men from opening their mouths and making noise.
#FemaleLivesMatter
.
2
10
71
@glosswitch
It's also painful for women on the left to feel that a party that supposedly supports sexual equality doesn't care enough to walk the walk. Agreeing with articles in The Mail and The Times is a mixed blessing. But they're the ones saying the Emperor isn't wearing any clothes...
1
8
62
GC Twitter can you alert me to any good material putting together the various incidents/occasions where
#dragqueenstory
hour events in libraries and/or school visits have proved problematic.,,?
22
42
77
0
3
70
@leng_cath
@STILLTish
So who will now say - as so many did -
#IStandWithDamianBarr
? In terms of his criticising Emma Nicholson I was reminded of Jane Austen. ' One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.'
2
5
69
@ChloeReading
@selina_todd
@OxIntWomensFest
And the Festival's theme is 'Thread of Liberation'. Why not 'Bonds of Suppression'?
0
11
69
@anyabike
Meanwhile another contestant has withdrawn. It appears that a lack of love and kindness may have made it difficult for that person to continue.
1
1
82
@JazzTulip
@suzanne_moore
@zoesqwilliams
In my head I am youthful with dark hair. Externally I am 62 with grey hair. That sort of discrepancy is achingly, boringly NORMAL....
2
2
78
@LucySixsmith
@ClareCollege
Is there a petition we can sign? I want to think this action by students is a result of organisational capture, purity spirals, an ideology promoted by too many of their elders. But I hope
@ClareCollege
will support their hardworking, caring - and probably not well-paid - staff.
3
1
69
@glosswitch
@HJoyceGender
I listened to N Sturgeon's speech. It reminded me of a headteacher saying 'I am not having breaches of the school rules. The juniors are upset.' What isn't clear is what these rules are. They seem to have been hurriedly made up, possibly by the juniors themselves.
4
7
70
@AmandaPCraig
Well that rather knocks the glitter off the glitterball. Inclusivity for everyone - except those with whom you happen to disagree...
0
3
81
@djandyhealey
I conclude that there are many people who don't care about the well-being of those with less power in society. They simply care about the 'rights' of men to access sexual pleasure no matter what harm that does to women and children. That is what is being framed as progressive.
1
13
63
