Catrioco

One of those invisible middle aged women. Interested in everything. Science, engineering, tech, literature, politics.Always a trad feminist but increasingly so

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@heraldscotland Urgh, when will she just go away? No-one is interested in her irrelevant musings

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@alexmassie "No better or worse"??
It's probably worse for women that's for sure.

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Today is Kvennafrídagurinn and the Women of The Day are the 25,000 women who gathered for a rally in the centre of Reykjavik OTD in 1975 in support of a national strike to protest at sex inequality.

Kvennafrídagurinn or Women's Day Off, led by women’s organisations, meant that they did not go to their paid jobs and did not do any housework or child-rearing for the whole day. Ninety percent of women took part, including women in rural communities. The fish processing industry was one of those that ground to a halt because it was heavily dependent on female labour.

The women listened to speeches, sang, and held discussions about what should be done about sex equality in Iceland. For context, Iceland than had a total population of 220,000 people so the rally had attracted about 25% of the country’s women. The last speech of the day was by Aðalheiður Bjarnfreðsdóttir, who "represented Sókn, the trade union for the lowest paid women in Iceland".

Fathers had to step up and take their children to work instead. Employers laid in stocks of sweets, colouring pencils and drawing paper to keep the children occupied while their fathers worked. Bearing in mind that this was 1975, isn’t it funny how accommodations can suddenly be made when men are suddenly made responsible for the care of their own children?

The Althing, the Icelandic parliament, took heed and passed a law guaranteeing equal pay the following year. Kvennafrídagurinn was also credited for paving the way for the election of Vigdis Finnbogadóttir in 1980, the first democratically elected woman president in the world.

Every ten years on the anniversary of Kvennafrídagurinn, women stop work early to go on partial strike, staying for one extra minute each time to mark the progress made, but in 2010, they increased the frequency of the partial strike to every year.

Three years ago - 24 October 2023 - the second all-day women’s strike in 49 years took place to highlight the pay gap between the sexes and male violence against women and girls. Around 100,000 people took part. The mass protest that followed in Reykjavik was attended by the prime minister at the time, Katrín Jakobsdottír, who was determined to achieve full equality in Iceland by 2030.

Over to you, Andy Burnham — once you’ve finally worked out that no woman is bepenised, of course. You can start by telling your Cabinet today to stop prevaricating and instruct the Civil Service to start implementing the Supreme Court ruling in its entirety. Today. Don’t you think enough time and money has been wasted tiptoeing around the hurty feelings of men in dresses?

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@MattPinner_ Absolutely not

[Shamboooooolic Woooooootral🎃👻💀🦇🕸️🧟⚰️🧙 @BradfemlyWalsh]

Even people who have been dead for thousands of years have their rights considered before women do in Scotland

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@TheAttagirls Afternoon Lily. Another enraging post ! My blood pressure can't take it!🤣🤣🙄🤬

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@GussieGrips My eyes have rolled so hard they've fallen out of my head. What a joke 🙄

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@cassiemoans_ That's because they know you are a man and are scared to confront you.
Tell me you're not a woman without telling me you're not a woman 🙄

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@R3belDiamond She's not talking about herself which you would know if you actually READ her essay. She knows she is privileged fgs.
She is talking about the millions of working class underprivileged women whose hard earned rights you trans iding men are insistent on trampling all over! 🙄

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@hellomoe123 @jk_rowling In what way is your average middle aged cross dressing man poorer than a working class woman who is forced to share a work changing room/ hospital ward/ prison/ rape crisis service with aforementioned average middle class cross dressing man?

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@leo_leo_X Because she cares about giving those voiceless women she talks about a voice because of her current privilege. Jfc it's not hard. Are trans activists like you so wrapped up in your luxury beliefs, you can't for a second understand that some people care about underprivileged folk?

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@JennyAscendant We don't want to erase trans women but they are male & as such need to stay out of women's spaces, prizes, sports, prisons, hospital wards. They are free to live their lives as they wish but they are not female & therefore not free to override our rights because they are men

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@bluzoan You are male, a man regardless of your feelings or synthetic drugs or surgery you've had. You cannot be anything other than a man no matter how much you wish you were a woman
Sorry about that, but thems the facts. No human has ever changed sex.

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@Natasha_etc_ I could've written that myself Natasha. Bravo! Totally agree.
(Well except I'm significantly older than you!)

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
https://t.co/BfxVLo0AD1

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@blairanderson35 #studentpolitics Importing gas & oil actually increases greenhouse gases even more...doh! We've not moved over to a fully carbon free economy yet mate. The greens are full of dangerous ignoramus lunatics.

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@ruth_wishart Well you've wated almost £1M defending the right for men to be in women's changing rooms & prisons for a start. What a joke

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@JohnSwinney Thought you were all sworn off X? What happened?

[Catrioco @Catrioco]

@TheAttagirls Absolutely. It's bloody maddening