Jenn Selby

Editor + journalist 🔍, writer📝, women’s rights campaigner ⚖️, law changer. Views are my own.

[Jenn Selby @JennSelby]

Incredible day for UK women. Our #ICBill to timetable the gov. to ratify the #IstanbulConvention has passed into law @ICChangeUK

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@owenjonesjourno When you have 1.9 million Arab Palestinians living as Israeli citizens, in the IDF, in government, as court judges, almost as many as in Gaza, with full rights, it is hard to describe it as genocide. Any civilian death is one death too many. But if we’re picking over words…

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@DrProudman When Iran heads up your human rights division and the Taliban gets to speak out on climate change… when do we start to question the legitimacy of the UN?

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@owenjonesjourno You should question what you think qualifies you to say as a non Jew what is and isn’t antisemitism. Whether it’s a pogram or not is not the point. You should be clear that any violence against specific ethnic groups based on where they are from is wrong.

[Jenn Selby @JennSelby]

@KiraBrook @BrendanMcGeever No it couldn’t. In most Muslim communities, other Muslims are the oppressors, including in Gaza where they live under the thumb of Hamas

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@BrendanMcGeever What a shame this thread is being used to justify violence metered out not by rival fans, but by organised gangs of masked men picking off fans travelling home, asking to see passports and if they were Jewish before beating them up. still antisemitic violence not mentioned here

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@mariaesanchez That middle quote is still antisemitic.

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@mariaesanchez @reginalddhunter I watched this guy make a joke about raping Harper Lee at the Fringe about 7 years ago. He’s a disgrace, truly.

[Jenn Selby @JennSelby]

@AyoCaesar Robert Harris’ Cicero series is a must. Very easy reading, but so entertaining. Make the Roman Empire your Roman Empire this summer

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

If you’re a ‘feminist’ celebrating the fact that schools will be banned from delivering direct sex education to under 13s just because you disagree with views around gender, it’s time to admit this was never about ‘feminism’.

You cannot ignore the rest of the guidance just for the bit you agree with.

Girls start their periods anywhere from 8-17 years old. They need to know everything. They have a human right under UNCRC to be informed about issues that impact their body and their personhood.

1 in 4 girls will be sexually abused before the age of 12 in the UK (according to NSPCC stats)

Girls are bombarded with sexualised imagery from birth, meaning that research demonstrates that they self-sexualise from the age of 7, and see themselves as sex objects/via the male gaze according to APA Taskforce on Sexualisation of Girls.

50% of 10 year olds watch porn regularly according to NSPCC data, and Pornhub openly admit that at any one time, 1 in 10 of their DAILY 115 million visitors are young children.

The proposed ban on teaching under 13 and 14 years old about porn, abortion, sex, STIs and other ‘explicit’ issues is wrong. It’s a huge mistake.

Children are being sexually abused in childhood. They are watching their mums being subjected to domestic abuse. They are being groomed online. They are being blackmailed and bullied with sexual images and sexting.

We have the highest rates of rape and assault of children occurring ON SCHOOL CAMPUS we have ever seen, according to stats from 2023. That’s predominantly boys raping and sexually assaulting girls AT SCHOOL.

Teachers are dealing with this every single day, with little training or support.

No feminist should be supporting or celebrating this new guidance.

[Seb Ate @Mrbaiti]

2mins of Hashi Mohamed absolutely smashing the Conservatives Rwanda policy to bits.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

‘Our learned judges said the Home Office hadn’t even assessed that policy before adopting it

It’s unviable, it’s expensive & the only people it’s going to work for is the Rwandans’ #BBCQT

[Dame Nicole Jacobs @CommissionerDA]

I am shocked by new @brainkinduk findings that 55% of domestic abuse survivors may be living with a brain injury.

This topic needs to be further explored so that the link between brain injury and domestic abuse can be fully understood.

Read more⬇️
https://t.co/BweNyPLVw1

[Jenn Selby @JennSelby]

@HadleyFreeman The worst part is she says Chapelle wrote The Office and Extras. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Dr Charlotte Proudman @DrProudman]

Having suffered the horror of being spiked, I’ve spent years campaigning to make it a specific criminal offence. The Home Secretary has undermined our work when he laughed at spiking — giving perpetrators a green light. RT if you agree he should be fired.
https://t.co/yGu1qQ2c64

[David Challen @David_Challen]

James Cleverly making a joke about spiking his wife’s drink and controlling women not only shows the Home Sec doesn’t take his role in tackling violence against women and girls seriously, it exposes that he holds misogynistic views.https://t.co/BB7i7JxO5R

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@CaraLisette @_AnxietyJosh

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@brokenbottleboy The most misogynist thing Caitlin Moran has ever written.

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@AyoCaesar We have strict rules and laws, like ABPI, that prevent us from promoting prescription drugs like they do in the states.

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@SuellaBraverman Muzzle them and have them on leads. Don’t ban them, it’s the owners at fault, not the dogs.

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@AyoCaesar @breadandposes It’s usually more about the owners, and the types of breeds they go for, than the dogs and the breeds themselves. It’s already law to have dogs chipped and traced to a person, which is like licensing.

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@AVintenAuthor Most of us are pretty responsible so I think the fine system and council tax is high enough for that.