Hope1313

Woman. Busy Mum (find me one who isn't!) Loves blue skies, trees, living by the sea, making things, watching sport and escaping in our 'van'

[Hope1313 @Hope1967]

@markasenior29 @troonytoons I'm a woman and don't understand what it means to feel like a woman. I only know how it feels to be me. I am an individual human being whose sex is female just like half the population of the planet. No male can claim to feel like a woman.

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

Look at the state of this🤦🏼‍♀️

Describing this man as a ‘woman’, talking about ‘her penis’ etc🤢

@barrydistrict you should be embarrassed.

Btw, these are the kinds of men that people like @EmilyThornberry want to be allowed to share a female single-sex space with women & little girls

Full story: https://t.co/FDnjykK77u

[Hope1313 @Hope1967]

@M4tet @BBCBreakfast You've made my point exactly. You introduce safety measures, you don't ban things outright. Parental controls exist, platforms can control what output children have access to.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

"Protect the Dolls";
"Most marginalised community"; "Vulnerable".

Open your eyes.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Stories like this make me think that somewhere along the line, I actually died and went to hell. How did so many of my old colleagues and friends stand for this man against their own daughters? How could they happily see my career destroyed on his behalf?

[Cervixen of the Clitorians @cervixen]

Equality is not sameness.

Many confuse the feminist demand for equality with the idea that feminists must believe men and women are the same as, or interchangeable with one another.

But equality has never meant sameness or interchangeability.

Two things can be equal in value without being identical in form. 2 + 2 = 4. So does 1 + 3. So does 3.99 + 0.01. So does 7 - 3. So does the square root of 16. And on and on with near infinite variation in the number of combinations that can be used to generate "4". They arrive at the same value through different structures. Equal value does not mean identical equation.

Men and women are equal because they are equally human. They have the same moral worth, the same claim to dignity, and the same right to freedom, safety, opportunity, privacy, political representation, bodily integrity, and legal protection as any other human being.

But like all humans are not the same in every respect just because they are human, men and women are not the same in every respect. Human female and human male bodies are organized differently. Those differences are not proof of superiority or inferiority. They are not defects. They are not destiny. Sex is not a pathology, a disease or a medical condition. But it is also not imaginary or irrelevant. Sex is an innate, inherent, immutable human condition and difference. There is no default sex in humans. There is no alternative sex. There is only sex, and there are two.

The feminist project, properly understood, is not to deny the reality of sex. It is to reject the hierarchy of power and control socially constructed as a layer of meaning or stereotypes attached to sex, treated as evidence that women are not of equal human value to men, and commonly referred to as 'gender.'

Women are not oppressed because people noticed that women and men are physically different. Women are oppressed because those differences are treated as evidence that women are not of equal worth to men, and therefore inferior: less capable, more fragile, less intelligent, more emotional, less suited for public life, more suited for a support role, less entitled to property, more like property, less entitled to political power, more suited to prostitution and/or motherhood, and less entitled to self-determination or the same choices men are entitled to make. The problem is not noticing women are a different sex, the problem is treating women as inferior on the basis of their sex.

A similar moral error appears in race discrimjnation. The problem is not merely that people noticed visible differences such as skin colour. The problem was that those differences were turned into a hierarchy of human worth based on skin colour. Skin colour, like sex, was treated as evidence that some people were less intelligent, less civilized, less capable, less authoritative, and therefore less entitled to freedom, property, voting, leadership, safety, and self-determination.

That is the distinction: noticing or recognizing difference is not the same thing as mistreating or dehumanzing people because of that difference.

Those are the histroical and present day errors feminism and civil rights movements exist to correct.

The answer to “women are different from men” is not “no, they aren’t.” The answer is: “so what?” Difference is not inferiority. Difference is not subhumanity. Difference is not a license to dominate, exclude, exploit, patronize, or erase.

[David Collier @mishtal]

Dear @ZackPolanski

Is it true that if you become PM, activists will be able to smash up factories, attack people with sledgehammers and break the spines of police officers - and your government would consider them heroes rather than put them in jail?

Asking for a friend.

[MakingSense @MakingSenseInfo]

This law will fundamentally alter the character of the internet. It will eliminate anonymity not just for teenagers, but for whistleblowers, political dissidents, journalists, victims of abuse and for anyone who relies on pseudonymity for safety.

The internet will now be closed as an avenue of communication for these uses.

It will hand governments and platforms an unprecedented map of personal behaviour - a massively retrograde and invasive development.

Parents need support, obviously. But they do not need a surveillance infrastructure that forces the entire population to authenticate themselves to speak, read, or participate online.

That’s not child protection.

What you’re endorsing is unnecessary, disproportionate, authoritarian and contrary to the values and principles that unite civilized societies : freedom, democracy, equality and human rights.

[Hope1313 @Hope1967]

@ChronicTerf @redheadranting My hair was poker straight until my 50s. Then I started growing random dark and white hairs that are curly. If I let my hair dry naturally it now has beautiful curls 😁

[Hope1313 @Hope1967]

@redheadranting About 9 I think. Must have been late 70s. My hair was so naturally straight that it didn't last more than a fortnight.

[Hope1313 @Hope1967]

@authorgarystamp @SimonHarrisMBD Actually my kids were allowed to have a small drink before they turned 18. They are all now adults, drink very rarely and the youngest doesn't drink at all. If you ban things they become appealing and kids will want them.

[Hope1313 @Hope1967]

@authorgarystamp @SimonHarrisMBD I've had to talk to my children about distressing items they've seen/heard on the news. Growing up is about learning about the world and parental controls exist. We don't need a government imposed ban especially when kids are no doubt going to get round the ban!

[Hope1313 @Hope1967]

@soniasodha Its a daft policy. My kids have seen worse stuff on the 6 o'clock news than they have online. Do we ban TV for under 16s? Do we ban books?

[Hope1313 @Hope1967]

@Keir_Starmer Why not ban books, radio and television too while you are at it?

[Hope1313 @Hope1967]

@Opiumbrella Used to live near some Hell's Angels and one of them had a magic touch with plants. He would rescue the saddest looking plants and turned their back yard into a beautiful garden. Totally unexpected but lovely.

[Hope1313 @Hope1967]

@Jonathan_K_Cook If they had chosen to picket outside the factory that would have been legal protest. They chose to enter the premises, cause damage and physically assaulted police officers. Of course they are terrorists who should go to jail.

[MrMenno 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🎶 @MrMennoTweets]

If any movement has proven how fragile gay rights are it’s the T. Lesbians are in court defending legal protections for homosexuals only because of ‘trans’ activism. Homosexuality is being reframed to include those of the opposite sex because of the T. Who said that in a world of ‘gender’ homosexuality doesn’t really exist / is redundant? Joy Everingham, a ‘trans’ person. Who wrote in the 90s that in a world of ‘gender’ homosexuality would lose all meaning? Martine Rothblatt, a ‘trans’ person. Who said being gay was a ‘consolation prize’ for those who didn’t have the balls to ‘transition’? Juno Dawson, a ‘trans’ person. Who are running workshops for gay men to learn to pleasure female genitalia? ‘Trans’ people. Who are running workshops for males to convince lesbians to date them? ‘Trans’ people. Do are advocating for a sterilising medical pathway for youth, most of whom would simply grow up to be gay? ‘Trans’ people

So don’t be baffled, educate yourself - it’s 2026 and you have no excuse for being this ignorant anymore

[Marika Cobbold @Marikacobbold]

This is Samuel Corner, sledgehammer raised, ready to strike the police woman lying at his feet, arm held out in a vain plea for mercy. Samuel Corner is not a martyr nor a "young activist", he's just a common-or-garden thug.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

A number of far left politicians, commentators & other useful idiots seem to have a very hard time understanding that fracturing a policewoman’s spine with a sledgehammer isn’t magically transformed into some beautiful act of protest because it was done for the Palestinian cause.

[Stu Holbrook @lutzebroom]

@ZackPolanski So if I want to protest against the Green Party, you’re saying I can take a sledgehammer to your spine?

You really are a grinning idiot.