Fringe Owldark

My life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it's hateful to say so. Feminist, Atheist, Survivor. Adult human female.

[Fringe Owldark @FOwldark]

"Join together, for there is hope in two women, help in three women, strength in four, joy in five, power in six, and against seven, no gate may stand."
ST 1996

[𝑮𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𓍢ִ໋♡ @CopperCation]

More shocking police failures in the murder of Michaela Hall.

Lee Kendall assaulted her after drinking five bottles of wine. Fearing for her life, Michaela phoned a friend, who heard her screams and called the police. Body worn camera footage captured an officer saying: "I've got visions of her lying there with him covering her mouth."

Yet they drove away saying, "But what can you do? She doesn't help herself." 😡
Believing they lacked power to force entry, they simply left.

What can you do??? You're the POLICE!!

This was preventable. Kendall had 47 previous convictions for 78 offences, including SIXTEEN assaults on Michaela before he murdered her by stabbing her in the eyes.

Her own father found her body the next day.

Why are women not taken seriously when they report their abuser?

What exactly do you have to do to get help?

Poor Michaela. 💔

High risk serial domestic offenders MUST be managed in line with other dangerous criminals. Her family are currently planning a legal challenge against the police and probation service, in the belief more should have been done to protect her.

In the meantime, if you agree with this, please sign the petition below to help them. 🙏

https://t.co/p3JSZbs0iR

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“A woman should not need to recount the worst day of her life at the hands of a man simply to say this space is for us. No means no, remember? That principle applied to consent. It applies here too.”
https://t.co/iBKG5jWhLm

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

At some point individual ministers must be personally held responsible for not insisting Uk law is followed. How have the SNP in particular been allowed to ignore court cases they constantly lose? The gaslighting & deflecting language has got to stop. Humans cannot change sex.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

This is ‘Paula’. Every one of the 130 MPs who signed the EDM to reject the guidance on single sex spaces in the UK wants men like Paula to be allowed in female-only facilities.

[Fringe Owldark @FOwldark]

@campervanwoman I've had to get some starling proof feeders. They arrive on Monday. Wish me luck.

[Steve Walker: #NAFO #KPSS #FBPE #Smokefleet @tweetdodger]

@unisontheunion @AndreaEganGS Lol, nope. If a workplace cannot provide legally required facilities for the dignity & safety of female staff, then it should be closed down.

I never thought I'd live to see a trade union with 70% female membership arguing that those workers should be denied their rights.

[Kat 🟩⬜️🟪 Women Matter ♀️ @socksknitter]

Andrea, the reason you think the code of practice is unworkable in the workplace is that it isn't intended for employers and workplaces, but for service providers and associations. Workplace facilities are covered by the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.

[Sonya Douglas @SonyaDouglas]

Gender ideology is a sickness infecting individuals and institutions alike

Look at him

It is an insane act of self-delusion and criminal neglect to put him in a women’s prison

The lie spirals outwards until it consumes everything and everyone

There’s only one way through this

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@stellacreasy @EHRC Using an Early Day Motion to pave the way for a far-reaching substantive change is not a transparent way of going about things.

Women and LGB people deserve an upfront account of how their MPs plan to dismantle their rights.

[Helen Nettleship @Nettleshippy]

Do you remember a short 4 years ago an independent review found that the fire service was institutionally misogynistic?

Progress is slow apparently

https://t.co/6yo9eudRwa

[Fringe Owldark @FOwldark]

@thefempire50 @ThriftyHedgehog Sorry, finger slipped. Should have been yes.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

YOUR REMINDER THAT ONLY 3% (AT BEST) OF RAPES RESULT IN AN OUTCOME.
No wonder rapes are underreported. These girls have a life sentence of trauma, but how nice of the judge to commend them for coming to give evidence. How about their courage in coming forward in the first place?
Here's what we conclude from the judge’s sentence in this horrendous case:

Teen Girls - you don’t matter enough. Your suffering and the crimes don't merit a prison sentence.

Teen Boys - be nice in court, provide evidence of ADHD and low intellect (we’ll ignore the ‘gangster’ pretensions, the use of a knife, and the sharing online of the filmed rapes) and you’ll be as inconvenienced as little as possible.

If you share our disgust and disbelief at the leniency of the sentence, please consider expressing your feelings here and ask for the sentence to be reviewed:
https://t.co/1eNyForSIO

https://t.co/yG50Bkb7W9

[Fringe Owldark @FOwldark]

@QcWynter @WrathQueenof I missed the post entirely but I'm up for some Mini Cheddars if they're going spare.

[Cervixen of the Clitorians @cervixen]

Women and girls are individual female human beings, not anyone’s performance of femininity.

“Femininity” does not define women or girls. The social expectations, projections, aesthetics, and behavioral codes imposed on female people do not define women or girls. These expectations are subjective, culturally unstable, heavily commercialized, and always shaped by sexism.

A human performance is not a human being. Defining any individual or class of human beings as a performance interpreted by others is profoundly dehumanizing. The conceit that any man, or any class of men, possesses such special insight into the inner reality of female human beings that his imitation or performance can reveal the essence of women is not merely absurd; it is offensive.

To define women by “feminine expression” or role is to reduce female human beings to costume, mannerism, or stereotype, while reinforcing narrow ideas about what is definitively “feminine” and expected of women and girls. That is dehumanizing. It treats women as products of perception rather than as actual people. Women are not characters performed by others. They are not social scripts. They are not roles available for adoption.

Women are not constructed by society. Sexist societies construct stereotypes about women. The more sexist the society, the more aggressively women are reduced to those stereotypes, as if they are innate to her essential humanity, and deservedly punished for noncompliance.

Widespread stereotypes do not become morally meaningful, academically definitive, or universally true just because they are common. Sexism is common. A woman in a patriarchal society is not a different kind of human being from a woman in a freer society. The difference is not her nature, but the degree of oppression imposed: the discrimination, humiliation, coercion, and loss of opportunity inflicted on human beings for being female.

Being female is a human condition. A woman’s humanity is not conditional on her acceptable performance of femininity. The real moral test of a society is whether women and girls are recognized as fully human and equal in dignity to men and boys, while also recognizing their distinct sex as an innate and immutable human condition.

Human beings come before human beliefs about human beings.
Female comes before feminine.
Sex comes before gender.
Women and girls come before society.

There is no femininity, gender, or society that precedes the existence of human females. It is all derivative. Sex is essentially human. Being female is one way of being human.

The human being comes first. Social narratives come later. Male and female are human conditions, not identities conferred by stereotypical associations and fallible perception. “Femininity,” “womanhood,” “girlhood,” and similar abstractions are interpretations, prescriptions, and expectations imposed on people; they are not the people themselves. They are projections about what women and girls are expected to do in male-dominated societies, not descriptions of what women and girls are: human beings equal to men and boys, distinguished by sex.

Women are not a set of instructions predicated on pre-approved socially constructed traits. We are not a sex object, appearance, affect, clothing style, marketing category, LARPing option, or human performance. We are human beings of the female sex. As individuals, we are as varied in personality, interests, conduct, and capacity as men and boys.

A woman is an adult female human being. A girl is a juvenile female human being.

Everything else is stereotype, ideology, marketing, or submission to sexist framing.

[Cervixen of the Clitorians @cervixen]

What does a man's internal sense of himself in relation to gendered social constructs have to do with my innate, immutable sex?

Why would anyone think my sex and his feelings about my sex are in the same category? Why would his feelings about the female sex that can only be derived from sexist social constructions, entitle him to associate himself with female citizens and enprivilege himself with access to female-only spaces and services?

Why can none of the institutions professing a policy or law that deems some men to be women for 'reasons' capable of answering these questions or providing coherent reasons to actual women?

[Nomcebo Mkhaliphi @nomcebo_mkhali]

PADS means freedom to us.
I just want to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU so much to ALL for your continued support ❤️
Remember that PERIODS are normal and nothing to be ashamed of

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

While @NHSuk bosses knew maternity deaths were approaching a 20yr high they were wasting time and money writing women out of maternity policies and spending money on Stonewall training

If you aren’t angry, you should be

@wesstreeting

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

Women in prison are amongst the most vulnerable in society,many have a history of male violence
It is impossible to know how consensual a relationship in prison is when we don’t know how scared she may have been to say no
Why does @JohnSwinney not care about women’s human rights?

[Fringe Owldark @FOwldark]

Check to see if you qualify for the Countryside Stewardship grants. May be helpful. Possibly also see the Local Recovery Strategy, there may be access to assistance and/or advice. If the County has an Ecologist they can have loads of useful info as well.

And do enjoy it. Bats are ace!

[Tribunal Tweets @tribunaltweets]

NC: And if women had not read the policy closely, they wouldn't know they might be surprised naked in the shower room by a male colleague?
VH: Potentially.