SaraGD

Murciana de nacimiento, Australiana por adopción 🇪🇸🇦🇺

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

To be clear consent is NEVER the reason why child sexual abuse happens in families historically. Children must be taught BOUNDARIES and BODY AGENCY, before age of consent. Otherwise you imply that if a child consents to an adult sexually touching them, that's ok.

[Enda O'Halloran @EO_Halloran]

If you truly believe teaching kids about consent in low stake situations is pointless and "anti-family"

And that everything was fine just doing what we've always done

Why do we have a history of family members abusing children?

You can disagree with the methods of improving things but do you really think the old way was grand if kids still got abused?

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

It beats me how nuanced and knowledgable people are analysing language and images meanings and messages when it's about "trans", and how the same people are absolutely oblivious to any analysis when it's about children safeguarding.

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

coercing a child to sit on his lap because "notallmen" or because it would be offensive. Also, the language is important: if CSA is centered on consent, what does it happen when the abuse child was "consenting"?

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

Only that this is not what we are saying. Sexual abuse, particularly CSA, is not stopped by the child not consenting. Grandmas are not the "usual suspect" of CSA. If they wanted to portrait the potential of SA, maybe a grandad sneakily forcing a child to sit on his lap would+

[ruth allum @mgtruth]

I’m shocked at how many people think a child shouldn’t be able to set the same boundaries as adults do, when it comes to hugging.

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

work much better and would be much more accurate. But guess what, I bet all of the ones who defend protraying old women as the precursor of sexual abuse because they ask for the hug of a child she has probably raised would be outraged with an ad portraying old men+

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

@Chloe_chanlon The MEN they are related to. Somehow theis advert represents grandmothers as the top risk for perpetrating child sexual abuse, right? Maybe if they had depicted a grandfather insisting to get his grandchild on his lap when no one is watching...But no, a grandma greeting her

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

@angijones I think many (if not most) men only are really able to grasp women's humanity when they get to love a girl or a woman to the extent they would be hurt if that girl or woman gets hurt. I find this terrifying.

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

Don't let the dangerous grandma who helped you raise your children to hug them. It is only safe if the hugger is a BDSM leathearly half-naked grandad

[Deirdre @intheWildHalls]

Phew. I've found grandads who can be hugged. Children's Books Ireland gets about €400,000 annually from government funds & they had Harry Woodgate at their International conference in 2024, & promoted Harry's book for 3- 8 year olds, which has grandads hugging. Thanks, Harry.

[Deirdre @intheWildHalls]

Phew. I've found grandads who can be hugged. Children's Books Ireland gets about €400,000 annually from government funds & they had Harry Woodgate at their International conference in 2024, & promoted Harry's book for 3- 8 year olds, which has grandads hugging. Thanks, Harry.

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

Yep, and also the one representing the problem of sexual abuse 🙄Loke grannies are the group presenting high risk right? Old witches!!

[WheeshtCraft @Dis_Critic]

What pisses me off about that advert is the fact it's the granny who gets foregrounded in the make-old-people-as-grotesque-as-possible shot.
'Eww, old women, aren't they ugly and bothersome'.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

We have been warning this is what would happen. We said it clearly: women’s rights are under attack, if you don’t accurately define a woman you cannot protect any rights specific to women. We were called bigots. Received countless death threats from trans activists. The prime minister dismissed it as a “culture war”. But we were right.

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

@gorettihorgan It's the grandMOTHER who they are representing here.

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

@forestofcake What makes people mad is that this is a campaign against child sexual abuse, they could have target pornography, pornographers, digital space, pedophiles, public toilets... all the possible high risks under the sky. But they choose, wait for it... grandmothers.

[Olivia Maurel @maurel_olivia]

Buy one surrogacy journey, get $5,000 off the second.

Yes. Really.

Miracle Surrogacy is now offering discounts to intended parents who commission TWO surrogacy journeys AT THE SAME TIME.

Two pregnancies. Two women. Two babies.

Apparently, when you’re shopping for human beings, buying in bulk gets you a better deal.

Welcome to the baby industry where even human lives come with promotional offers.

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

Are Afghan Women and Girls Not Human Beings?

Today, at a park, I watched women jogging and riding bicycles freely. 💔

As I watched them, a deep sigh escaped my heart, and my eyes filled with tears of pain. I looked at them and thought, What a different world we live in!

While women in many parts of the world can exercise, ride bicycles, study, and enjoy the freedom of everyday life, girls in my homeland, Afghanistan, are denied even the most basic right to education simply because they are girls.

They cannot even walk through the doors of a school to build their futures, let alone enjoy the freedom to exercise outdoors or ride a bicycle without fear and restrictions.💔

[Cuidadora sin relevo @mamaresiliente]

@spikedonline Polarizante es el debate de la pizza con piña o sin piña. Reconocer que el sexo de nuestra especie existe es de sentido común.

[SANHOMOSEXUAL_NOQUEER @SANDRANOQUEER]

Otro paciente transexual operado por el mismo cirujano que me hizo la vaginoplastia, ha tenido la complicación de fístula, es decir, las heces salen por el hueco que nos hacen. Tiene que llevar una colostomía hasta que cicatrice la fístula. Horrores que los médicos no dicen.

[SaraGD @EnMantis]

I'm all for children expressing whether they want a hug or not and respecting their boundaries, but this is ridiculous, in no time in history grandmothers have been a high risk of sexual child abuse.

[Ken O’Flynn TD @kenoflynnTD]

I've watched the new We-Consent ad, carrying the Cuan logo and the State harp.

Grandparents arrive at the front door. Granny goes in for a hug and a kiss. The granddaughter cringes. The message: "Not everyone wants a hug. Even from the people who love them."

Nobody should force a child to hug anyone. Parents know that. But this is a campaign about sexual violence, and it has no business casting an Irish granny at the front door as the problem. That blurs two very different things and insults a lot of decent families.

I'll be asking the Minister for Justice what this ad cost and who signed off on it.

[Rebecca Barrett @RebBarrettNSP]

I’m taking a break from my break on here to say that the reason this ad was made, was to put the idea in people’s heads that consent is the ONLY thing that matters.
It was made to imply that a child can consent to things that they do not have the capacity to actually consent to.
It is directing the general public’s thoughts towards accepting pedophilia. Start with child not consenting so it’s not ok, and then as long as the child ‘consents’ -there is nothing wrong with it. This is Peter Tatchell level stuff.

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

Irish government strategy meeting:
Chair: “Hey folks. We need to look like we're doing something to tackle sexual violence”
Comms intern: "I was told at uni 'consent' is a magic word that stops rape."
Assistant paper shuffler: “Great, shall we tell people not to use pornography? That messes up sexual scripts & normalises violence.”
Awkward silence...
Chair- “Right. So it's agreed. Let's warn older people not to hug their grandkids without asking.”