Kate 💜🤍💚

Person, woman, wife, mother, nurse. Bit of a lefty. You don’t get to tell me that I hate you.

[Kate 💜🤍💚 @KateHaus11]

My GIF of the day..everyday.

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

Two headlines, two papers

@Independent blames a mother for her toddlers death while the father was looking after him

@DailyMail frames a man raping his daughter as ‘romping’. She tragically went on to kill herself

The British media is in the gutter @IpsoNews @MichelleDewbs

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

When I was a child, my mum told me not to speak to strangers or go anywhere with them.

I asked what I should do if I got lost.

She said I should find an adult, explain that I'd been separated from my parents and ask for help.

Ideally, she said, find a woman.

Even better, a woman with a baby or small children, who could stay with me and ask another adult to help.

This was long before anyone talked about "safeguarding". But my mum instinctively understood that I was far less likely to come to harm from a woman than from a man.

I've since heard countless women say they were given the same advice and have passed it on to their own children.

Which is why I find some of the responses to the cancelled Camborne library drag story event so extraordinary.

Much of the discussion on the public posts about it focuses on the feelings of the performers, Ginger and Roxie: how hard they've worked, how well-intentioned they are and how upset they must feel.

In other words, putting the feelings of adult males first, without really engaging with why some parents are uncomfortable with men dressed as women reading stories to young children or performing at children's events.

Saying that drag performers are not appropriate for children's libraries or parties is not a judgement on any individual person or their intentions.

Even aside from concerns about adult entertainers performing for children, there are legitimate concerns around the messages we give children about sex, boundaries and risk.

Children trust adults.
They believe what adults tell them.

If children are told that Ginger and Roxie are a type of woman, or that men who wear women's clothes and make-up can literally become women, many children will simply accept that as true.

Especially if children find them entertaining and fun - as I'm sure they do.

That strikes me as a confusing message to give young children, particularly when, in other contexts, we teach them that sex matters when understanding the world and keeping themselves safe.

What I struggle to understand is why raising these concerns so often provokes outrage rather than reflection.

And why protecting the feelings of adult males is so often treated as more important than helping children develop the clear boundaries and understanding they need to keep themselves safe.

[Kate 💜🤍💚 @KateHaus11]

@princeayyo Fuck the macho fighting over a bag and the thief. Get the pregnant women off the rails first! Get you priorities in order.

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

Today in Berlin there is a men only event on ‘what being a lesbian means to you’

Fuck every last one of these men

[Tock @yvan_theriault]

À ceux qui refusent de louer un logement à cause de la présence d’un chien… j’aimerais simplement dire ceci :

Je ne peux pas l’emmener à la plage, parce que ça vous dérange en vacances.
Je ne trouve pas de maison à louer, parce que “on ne veut pas d’animaux ici”.
Je ne peux pas prendre le bus ni le train, parce que “les chiens, ça embête les gens”.

Et pourtant…

C’est à lui que je pourrais demander de traverser des décombres après un tremblement de terre pour vous retrouver.
C’est lui qu’on envoie en montagne ou dans les bois quand quelqu’un est perdu sans réseau.
C’est encore lui qui plongera dans une eau glacée pour venir vous sauver, là où personne n’ose aller.

Oui, pour certains, ce n’est “qu’un chien”.
Mais si un jour vous avez besoin d’aide… ce sera peut-être ce chien-là qui viendra à votre secours.
Et il le fera.
Sans jamais vous demander si vous l’auriez laissé monter sur le canapé. 🐾

[Green Feminists UK @GreenFemsUK]

Women incarcerated by the Scottish Prison Service with men any time since 2006 have 1 year to opt in to a class action for damages funded by @jk_rowling.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Trees. Trees. Trees. They matter. Plant them. Protect them.

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

I wrote about the 13 men who have allegedly raped, drugged and encouraged another man's wife at his invitation in and around Stockport, Manchester.

Link in reply below.

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

I am absolutely disgusted by The Daily Mail’s headline.

They didn’t “romp”. He plied her with alcohol and raped her, and she took her own life.

The headline is as disgusting as the sentencing.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

All these men chose to rape an unconscious woman because her husband invited them to do it.

They didn’t say no.

They didn’t get her help.

They violated her instead.

Name and shame every last one of them.

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

❗️ A calf is gone forever. Cause of death? A discarded poo bag. Please think before you leave one behind

📸 Weaver Dairy House

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

To the man who zoomed in on my body and pointed out my stretch marks ...this is how a real woman looks.

This is how a REAL WOMAN looks like - loose skin, saggy, stretch marks.

Ladies - we are PERFECT 👌

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Great news. The Labour Party has finally found a woman they fancy as leader. It's a man who'll be 'a female PM in all but sex.'

A senior figure in the party actually thought that was a good thing to say out loud.

✍️ @ShippersUnbound

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

I'm sorry to say this latest craze is harmful.
Please DO provide clean water.
But please DON'T fill the dish with stones.
And certainly not marbles - glass will reach fatal temperatures within minutes of being in the sun, and will kill any insect landing on them.
Water needs to be fresh and clean *every day*.
If you put a lot of stones in it, they can harbour all sorts of dangerous water-borne pathogens and bacteria build up.
It will also make the water a mosquito breeding ground and the stones will harbour deadly parasites, like fluke.
Plus bees can get trapped and drown between the stones.
So please just provide a clean dish of tap water, with *one* easy to clean half submerged stone for the insects, or a few floating leaves, or a half submerged stick which can be replaced daily.🥰

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

14 men including her husband raped this poor woman after drugging her.

Men between the ages of 28 and 73!

The husband is in his 60s -
So this is probably not a young woman.

As we saw with Gisele Pelicot there is no age boundary or demographic excluded when men are invited to rape women by each other.

I’m glad one has pleaded guilty already to spare her at least one small ordeal of facing his defence team. The others should burn in hell. https://t.co/X3EMML0swx

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

ExposeTrophyHunters Mike Deasey hunted this elephant in Namibia. He exclaimed that, 'Hunting this magnificent creature was tremendous.' Yeah, he was magnificent, now he is just dead, Mike. #BanTrophyHunting

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

All these coverings are evil and all about control. Also fairly new in our world…and this burqa bullshit is the worst one of them all. Dehumanizing and that’s the least of it…

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

The East German state already did this experiment… it ended very badly for every single one of those young girls, some as young as 11.

[REDUXX @reduxx]

🚨The first openly transgender person elected to a US state legislature has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for child sexual exploitation.

Stacie Marie Laughton's defense had argued for a lower sentence on the basis of his possible "retardation."

https://t.co/Ak4eMzwJAk

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

She was 12yrs old but @JohnSwinney called her a young woman. Why do so many men struggle to acknowledge girls are girls when they are abused?