@PeteUK7@InspiredAquaCA They appear neither to value their staff nor their customers - and treat all as commodities who are valued just enough to keep the business afloat.
@Read_Meee Cutting people off from their families is a tool of cults & and co-ercive controllers. And there are also people who have to cut off from malevolent relatives.
@roisinmurphy@jan_murray And all folk tales & fairy stories across cultures tell us "be carefull about the wishes we want granted- there may be unanticipated costs"
@jenatlionra Yes, I had a similar experience when working with ai about women finding ways to manage coercive control. A huge amount of bias that when you call it out it says "oh yes" but essentially is it programmed in a particular way - and scours the internet so reflects what is out there
@sappholives83 AND in the 60s and 70s muslim men in these countries were quite able to manage themselves and live and work alongside women who were not obliged to cover themselves from head to toe. Was it the men that changed or the regime - genuine question.
As a lesbian, Pride used to actually mean something to me.
It was about women who liked women, men who liked men, and those who liked a bit of both… it was about normalising, rather than othering us… and somehow that was enough.
All gone. Gender ideology stormed in and torched the whole thing.
Now same-sex attraction makes you “problematic,” biology is a hate crime, and every pride event is filled with mandatory pronouns, lesbian erasure, the destruction of women’s rights, and cult chants demanding you bow to the full LGBTQIA+ circus. If you don’t, you’re a nazi bigot.
I hate saying I’m a lesbian these days. I flinch waiting for people to lump me in with that lot, the parades, the sexualised drag around children, the corporate rainbow vomit, the endless reality-rewrite bollocks.
Nah. Not for me. I’ve found my actual tribe in brilliant women who fight for women’s rights instead of that deplorable drivel.
Pride Month? What is there to be proud of when it comes to Pride Month in 2026?
If anything, it makes me feel shame.
Our child got a phone age 11, in 2020 when she was SO lonely and isolated. We'd just moved countries and the local kids were being shits. Within 10 days she "came out" trans. We didn't know WTF was going on but when the school found out they sent us for mandatory "counselling". The 2 psychs (wearing masks on zoom) spoke with such thick Cork accents we didn't understand most of it. They then asked to speak to her alone. I listened at the door. They didn't even ask about the horrible bullying the local kids had put her through, and she spent 15 mins saying "pardon" because she couldn't understand them. Then they told us she was trans and we had to affirm or she would khs. Sent us breastbinding info and sent our GP a letter telling him to refer us to the gender clinic. They put our name down for some bizarre "Big brother" type programme where an adult trans person, a total stranger, with no clinical training, was going to pick her up and take her for an ice cream so she could talk about her feelings. We of course refused, but as the Irish CPS has a horrific reputation for removing kids whose parents don't toe the line, we were deeply uneasy about all of it. We left Ireland shortly after that, returning to South Africa, where the govt does NOT trans your kids.
We found out that she had been groomed online, on her phone on tiktok and other social media, lovebombed by ADULT groomers like Fuzzz99, Jacob Tobia and Jeffrey Marsh (If you think you might be trans, YOU ARE TRANS! Cut off any family that doesn't affirm the REAL you... etc). She begged for blockers and T, which we refused. We did the pronouns and the name change but were very firm that hormones etc were NOT on the table. Natural puberty hit like a freight train. She started wearing push up bras for the breasts she used to tell us she wanted amputated, nails, hair, make up became super NB. Noticing boys, falling in love with her body.
She's now the MOST FEMME creature imaginable, has a long term boyfriend, is fantasising about the names she wants to call the children she told us she was never going to want.
Of the 14 trans kids in the support group we joined in 2022, only ONE is still "trans" and he's a super femme, super autistic "aromantic" and "asexual" gay boy. One of the other girls now has a deep voice and facial hair and is furious at her parents for puttin her on the T she begged for - that she had said she would khs without.
We have been through absolute hell. But thank the Goddess I trusted my instincts and KNEW MY CHILD. It was a trend, a gaslighting cult, an inhuman attack on the family. We were told we were bigots for daring to question any of it. Affirm, affirm, affirm was the only avenue allowed. The mothers have their voices back now and we are NOT GOING TO SHUT UP ANY LONGER.
Day 11 of the One-Month #OpenSchoolDoor Campaign
Invitation to the World: End the Nightmare of Afghan Women 💔🙏
@WDIAfghanistan1 and thousands of other voices shout this message every single day:
“Dear World,
For over 1,700 days, girls in Afghanistan have been banned from secondary school and university.
Women are forbidden from working, traveling without a male guardian, visiting parks, doing sports, and even raising their voices in public.
Child marriage (even for 9-year-olds) has been legalized, and beating women without breaking bones has been declared a “husband’s right.”
This is Sex-Apartheid — a crime against humanity.
If you remain silent, you become complicit in this nightmare.
It’s time for real action.
Please Wake up, world, before an entire generation of Afghan girls is silenced forever.”
#OpenSchoolDoor
@WDIAfghanistan1