@WingsScotland It's also unnecessary. He could perfectly reasonably meet with them then say afterwards they found no areas of common ground, if that was so
This is just performative posturing
@WingsScotland I've said from the beginning, if Reform are so henious there's no place for them in a democracy then proscribe them. There's an established mechanism for that
Short of that they need to be treated with the legitimacy of any other party, even if he violently disagrees with them
The fact that the admitting nurse in the women’s shelter was like, “why are we admitting a male serial killer of women into a women’s shelter?”— and was overruled and punished, and then the man murdered his roommate, is so horrifying.
He wasn’t even dressing as a woman when he got admitted. He just said he was a woman.
@HiddenYorkshire I've not been to Dublin in many years, and it was oppressively busy then!
In the run up to taking my daughter to London I heard so much about how it had sunk into a frenzy of filth and violence I actually, despite myself, got quite nervous about whether we'd be safe. We had a
@wmarybeard@NewStatesman I fell into a thread of responses to you last night and was horrified. People being so personally vile, I'm sorry you had to put up with that. I don't even know what the argument was but they certainly weren't making a convincing case!
When people with penises stop using their genitalia as weapons of sexual violence, we’ll stop being obsessed with keeping them out of places where we’re easy prey
@bencooper I really, really wanted the 20 year SNP hegemony broken. It's not healthy, regardless of allegiances
Unlikely I know, but still I'm disappointed
@GerryHassan@JohannLamont @VoteAshRegan Nastiness is always lighthearted if you are nasty. And you've certainly proved yourself that over the years, Gerry
@angijones At my kids' school there was one single-use disabled toilet per floor. Girls would queue to use it every break, often missing lunch. I don't know of any who willingly used the mixed-sex toilets
And what about the disabled students?
Everybody suffering for a stupid stupid idea
@J_offtheRocker@MeghanEMurphy All the men who are not involved in the production of food, water & electricity are also dependent on those services
(Also I know several people who work for Scottish Water and it's not a noticeably man-only employer)
@MeghanEMurphy In the UK, at least, the rate of people who 'live as a couple' has been pretty stable - a round 4-5% higher in the 70s than now. Basically most people choose to marry or long term cohabitat at some point in their life, the choice has just swung somewhat from marriage to
@PunishedAG Your argument is reductive, could apply equally to any punishment, and completely underestimates the manipulativeness of abusers, who often already tell their victims they'll be killed, or kill themselves, if the child tells
These are kids, they're not reading legal small print