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I am sorry to have to tell you that Heather passed away last night after a long battle with a brain tumour. I am devastated
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@mrjamesob No, "woke" is pc on steroids. Woke is smug sanctimonious intolerance of anyone with a different view. Woke is silencing and cancelling. Woke is killing the liberal left, they just haven't realized it yet.
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"Knitstanbul." You cannot keep a good woman with a crochet needle down.
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These Syrian refugees in Turkey crochet Christmas gifts to support themselves ☃️
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@itvnews @stevescott_itv @BorisJohnson Bridges is not female. Sorry if that makes them unhappy, but that is the truth. They cannot therefore compete fairly in the female category. Make the male category open to all. Sorted.
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@guardian Maybe you could ask JK Rowling? She gets a ton of death and rape threats, as you know.
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@AHFdoco @ScotNational @BBCScotlandNews @TheScotsman @Channel4News @thetimes God, so sorry. These middle class students who have embraced gender nonsense are such children. Universities generally, and Edinburgh specifically, are looking increasingly ridiculous.
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@bbcweather Woohoo! The planet is becoming uninhabitable! Break open the champagne!
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@zackbeauchamp And I'm equally perplexed by the fact that women in the US get no maternity pay, are losing their abortion rights and can be married off as children. Maybe the UK women's movement is just more effective.
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@jenna_os At some point, you are going to have to come to terms with the fact that someone holding a different opinion to you does not make you "unsafe". Or you will never go anywhere.
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@sciam Oh lord. You really are in a mess.
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@soniasodha Nurseries need to say a very firm no to this. They shouldn't be talking about sex and gender *at all*. They should be letting children play, learn and be themselves in safety. That is their job. And Stonewall has gone insane.
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@RosieKayK2CO @MForstater @BluskyeAllison @ALLIANCELGB @jk_rowling I am so, so shocked at what Bev and Kate have been put through. It is just bullying. I've never known anything like it. This action is shameful.
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Test NHS staff NOW. @BorisJohnson
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@AdamMaidment @MENnewsdesk Oh for pity's sake! Why can't they leave women alone?
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@GoodLawProject Your hounding of lesbians for organising for themselves is utterly shameful. I am shocked by what I've witnessed today.
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Those hard-working people just made redundant in Redcar, do they get called "scroungers" straight off, or is there a grace period? #r4today
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@billybragg Well left wing men told us we were all evil Nazis, so we found other allies. No point crying about it now.
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@christopherhope Hi Chris, tell Johnson to pop round to mine - I want my library back, I want schools that open Friday pms, there's a massive queue of homeless at the soup kitchen need hostel places, and the cops have given up the ghost. Just for starters.
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@WorldOfOrdinary @haywardgallery I just want a ladies' loo. Seriously. I am sick of this.
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@Keir_Starmer Take a look at the replies, demanding women be expelled for protecting women's spaces from male aggression. That's what you've embraced. Good luck.
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@Jebadoo2 Exactly this! They screamed no debate, so the debate went elsewhere. What did they expect, that everyone would just lie down and die? Left wing media actively drove women away. The right wing media cannily opened their arms.
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@RashidaTlaib @nytimes Dems are about to lose both Houses. Do you ever think maybe you just got everything wrong and should try listening to some different opinions for a change?
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@colwight Absolute tragedy what was done to Women's Studies. Absolutely trashed.
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@JeanHatchet How can anyone support this? It's clearly misogynist aggression. At least it is out in the open, but it still baffles me how easily "progressive" movements were turned inside out.
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Absolutely love all these videos people send in to #GardenersWorld . I've learnt so much.
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Hi Jennifer Arcuri. Can we have our fucking money back please? Because thats my taxes, and my disabled sis is having her motability car taken away and I'm fucking furious. #c4news
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@TouroftheGila @marce_prieto92 @patobike030773 She couldn't beat the man you allowed to race in the female category, for obvious reasons. But she is the legitimate winner. Stop turning cycling into a bad joke.
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@ripx4nutmeg So he does know he's a man. All of the male privileges, none of the anti-female discrimination. Win-win!
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@BeckettUnite "evil transphobia" = saying women sometimes need single sex spaces.
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@illdoitanyway @sussexucu It's a tragedy that picking sides has taken over from building solidarity and finding common ground. But sometimes you have to. I left UCU last night in shock at its complete failure to support academic freedom, or even humanity towards our peers.
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Mate, the 1st thing I'd say is "get off my doorstep" and the 2nd is "why is Johnson spunking money at his pals while disabled people are having their motability cars taken off them?" I'll leave you to guess what the 3rd is. #ConservativeConference2019
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@suzanne_moore It's been a huge eye-opener for me. Watching supposedly progressive men look away while women receive a tsunami of death and rape threats. Their often undisguised contempt for women who have spoken up. It's really changed my whole politics.
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I hope Tim Brooke-Taylor knew how loved he was. My whole generation sat with our parents and howled at his joyful silliness. Which is a priceless gift. Thanks, Tim.
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Farewell, Tim Brooke-Taylor: you were literally one of the goodies...
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@JenWilliamsMEN This happened to my mum, and I have never been so incandescently angry. They are vile. Please encourage your mum *not* to be embarrassed and to talk to her friends. It's more common than they know and they can support each other. Also, log as a crime.
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@SexMattersOrg @LSEGenderTweet @LSEnews Oh my goodness. This is straightforward violent misogyny. What on *earth* is going on at LSE?
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@Wifty8 @ucu @DrJoGrady The right of any man to do anything he wants whenever he feels like it, and be applauded for it.
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@TimesRadio I find it wholly depressing that people are going round pretending that sex does not exist, nor does male violence. Men cannot be women. Women's experiences of life are different. The WI was established for women to share those experiences. The end.
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Cheering. Remember this moment. Then get rid of every last rotten one of them.
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OMG!! Tories cheering firefighters nurses police and armed forces pay rise rejected after everything that's happened
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@guardian_sport @seaningle It will certainly make history. And hopefully lead to a more sensible debate about whether male bodies should be in women's sports, or whether fairness for female athletes is now subservient to inclusion.
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@polblonde This is just ridiculous. We're now in a position where men will not allow women to advise on women's issues unless they say that men can be women. Insanity.
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@HJoyceGender The replies are just straight out of Tumblr fandom culture. She "owned him" mic drop!!! No, she looked angry childish and petulant, as well as nonsensical. They *cannot* see it.
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@OwenJones84 @stonewalluk Or, and here's a thought, Stonewall could review its legal advice and the impact of its policies on women, and we could discuss it together rationally and in a spirit of solidarity.
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@JeanHatchet I would love a terfs and old bags category! We'd have so much fun. X
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@s_youngblood_g @Cosmopolitan No we're not doing this nonsense any more. Women said no (though no one ever asked our consent, which is how you know we're women. ) so, No. Go away and stop bothering us.
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@Emmabarnett @Docstockk @BBCWomansHour Take back my criticisms of your era of Women's Hour. You are playing a blinder putting Prof. Stock on air. She has been treated shamefully, & is such an important voice. Thank you - & for all the other thorny issues you've been getting to grips with.
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@HolyroodDaily @JoanMcAlpine Give a man power over women, he will abuse it. Every time. I didn't want to believe it, but it's true. Every. Time.
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@britishmuseum Oh what a shame! A once proud institution, brought so low. Feel so sorry for all the brilliant experts and staff who will now be led by an amateur.
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@chasestrangio And yet every single one of us on the planet comes from a woman and a man.
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@StevenRJ1993 @AuroraNewDawn @ShonaghDillon Hi Steve. Thanks for popping by to tell women who they can have running women's services for women. Congratulations, you're a misogynist.
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@ScreamOfficial Everyone supports trans rights. They're not controversial. It's the silencing, bullying, threatening, disciplining, firing and prosecuting of women for protecting women's spaces that is the problem.
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@danny__kruger We are all human beings. Many of us have small children. The rest of us have been unable to see our families as they died. We all kept the law. Your friends refused to share our sacrifices, lied, and treated us with contempt. Find better friends.
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@MerpolLGBT Unless you're one of the 2 women murdered each week in the UK by their current or former male partner, often after begging the police for help. In which case, you're dead. #doyourjob
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@SwipeWright @redbull How absolutely ridiculous. Good on her for speaking out.
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@shengokai And yet every single person on the planet comes from a male and a female. And nothing "cultural" will ever change that.
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@SwimmingWorld @Hogshead3Au @Martina @Championwomen @WomensSportsFdn @coachblade Yes, that's what happens when you put males in the female category. Utterly ludicrous.
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@jetfury To be honest, what's been really life-altering is realizing how many men just really loathe women. A proper eye-opener.
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@JeanHatchet The capture in the NHS is honestly astonishing. Churning out unscientific garbage and punishing staff who speak the truth. It's massively undermined my faith in the institution, but then transgenderism always does - it divides and destroys everything.
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@EmmaKennedy I think "not many people have asked if I'm ok" may be the saddest thing I've ever read.
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@RainbowToffees @IndiaWilloughby Ah, male aggression. A tale as old as time.
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@MayorofLondon One thing I've realized recently: there's no such thing as a male feminist. Feminism is a practice of self-determination by women. You can be an ally if you like. You get the kettle on, and we'll get on with making our spaces safe.
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@DrJoGrady Leave women to live in peace, Jo. Your constant demands that they redefine themselves to include males are also intimidatory, and constitute harassment. You want to know who disturbed the serenity? You did.
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@RainbowNHSBadge @LaDolceRosa @mimmymum What on earth is an NHS account doing using a misogynist hate term? Have you lost your minds? Grotesquely offensive! How are women supposed to trust health providers when you use that language about them?
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@WomensSportsFdn @Penn @IvyLeague Do you not have competitive women's sports in the US now then? This is so absurd. You cannot have male bodies in female sports and have fair competition. You are going to have to listen to the women themselves, eventually.
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@UKLabour This is very well meaning, but no trans people have been murdered in the UK for 3 years. If you really want to help, you need to campaign for better healthcare and safety for those turning to prostitution to fund their transition in Latin America, where most murders happen.
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@bindelj It's repulsive. That's me as well that @guardian is describing as an "ugly stain." I am so so sick of this relentless abuse of women.
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@AriDrennen No, it's about women's and girls' rights to self determination and safeguarding. Maybe try listening to them and compromising instead of spouting ludicrous hyperbole.
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@PatsyeStevenson Not me, love, I blocked you a while ago. There's only so much sanctimonious self-promotion and spite I want in my life.
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@mara_yamauchi Ah yes, classic gaslighting. Absolutely Victorian! If you don't accept male domination, you must be ill and will be restrained for your own good. They're going to have to walk out. Every one. Total refusal. Take back the power.
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@ObserverUK Thank God for some compassionate, reasoned sense which still upholds child safeguarding. I wish we could say the same of your sister paper.
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@LGBTLabour She liked a tweet written by a gay man who objects to the word "Queer". Not exactly a crime, is it?
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@ReduxxMag Oh that's nice. Lovely people. I can't wait to share my most intimate spaces with them.
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@shivanisharmaaa @LBC Great, we can drop attempts to enshrine self id in law, let women have single sex spaces, and get back to leaving each other alone, which was how we went on happily til about 2015. Sorted.
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@alisonphipps I'm not far right. I've been on the left my whole life. I still know what a woman is though. Your demonisation of those who disagree with you is dangerous.
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@CamberwellGnLab 1. He was voted in comprehensively by the membership. 2. Your socialist policies were comprehensively rejected by the British electorate in Dec 2019, landing us with a huge Tory majority 3. If you want a far left leader, find someone to challenge him. Otherwise, be quiet.
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@runthinkwrite @lisanandy Funny, because I start from the position that Labour are Unelectable.
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@RosieDuffield1 @UKLabour Oh Rosie, no, I'm so sorry. I was hopeful Starmer would get a grip on this hateful nonsense but he has failed so far. You have so much support, but the Party is losing it, fast.
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@HJoyceGender This is a big part of the problem. Many women instinctively recognize male rage when it comes our way. Men often cannot see the dynamic, hence the well meaning but entirely misguided "be kind". No woman has an obligation to be kind to an aggressive male.
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@PaulBrandITV Both still singing from the Stevie Bannon Racist International hymn sheet, then?
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@MatthewRozsa @Salon And yet every single one of us on the planet comes from a man and a woman.
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@siennamarla They should probably also look into the vexatious bullying of women MPs.
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@spikedonline Well I listened to a phone in on my local radio station afterwards, lots of people sharing their sadness over losing babies, and it was really moving. If it helped them, what's the problem. Not everything has to be contrarian you know.
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@DrJoGrady @JamesSBeal How's the strike going? Because I'll be honest, I have zero confidence in your leadership, and I think that's reflected in your terrible ballot results. You've turned UCU into an irrelevance. Well done.
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@TheLancet Do tell Richard that I'm sorry, I can't hear him, my vagina got in the way.
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And thank you to the wonderful Danish doc who patched me up (and dried my tears) last year. #Onedaywithoutus
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RT if you know the NHS could not cope without staff from across the EU (and indeed the rest of the world) #Onedaywithoutus
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@RadFem_KatH Reminds me of a student who was v cross with Mary Wollestonecraft for not being a radical feminist lesbian. I think I may have pointed out that was a bit ambitious for 1792.
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@ftlive @MunroeBergdorf Honestly? I'd quite like to live in a world where women were able to speak for themselves about the discrimination we experience without certain parties trying to bully us into silence. But we will persist.
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@OzKaterji Everywhere i look on the left, raging misogyny. This is dangerous levels of hate. I'm done. Get help.
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@HadleyFreeman She was great. Honest about her own feelings, and very fair to him. Love that she took control of her own future, and let him take control of his. Good outcome all round. It's the radical notion again, isn't it? Women are people.
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@ClareJenkins13 @joannaccherry @JustinOnWeb @BBCr4today @Docstockk Me too. I can't be in an organization that endorses women being bullied.
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@ripx4nutmeg I still don't get it. Why do people's brains, self respect, professionalism and moral compass go completely missing when faced with the obviously weird demands of the Pride networks? Does no one have the gumption just to say no?
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@MForstater @Girlguiding This is insane. Why is Girl Guiding preaching this weird religious nonsense?
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@stonewalluk You're being held to account by a grassroots movement. Get used to it.
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@NadineDorries You can try calling the police, but your government's massive cuts mean there are almost none, so you might have to wait. And then be done for wasting police time.
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@MattHancock @englandcricket Aw. Is that what you get up to while all the GP surgeries close down?
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@TimesRadio @mariellaf1 Well women are being bullied out of their jobs for knowing sex is real. But let's just call it what it is then: bullying and discrimination.
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@HarrietSergeant @SunPolitics Very much look forward to your children working 10 hour shifts picking potatoes on minimum wage. : )
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@hrw Maybe if you shout it a few more times in women's faces, we'll forget that it is actually a debate about conflicting rights. Or be too scared to raise it. It's what abusers usually do.
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@EmilyGorcenski I'm sure that will come as a surprise to all the black and brown women who don't need to be told what to think.
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@jjhorgan Thanks for popping by to centre males on international women's Day. That's smashing. Your contempt is showing, mate.
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