Bryan Jones

Winging it...

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

To @TomSteyer --

What about the girls? Don't they matter?

[Brett Craig @bac37]

Are we winning yet?

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

This. If it was about wanting somewhere safe and private to pee, third spaces would be fine. It’s not. It’s about claiming territory, validation, and winning.

Dominating, intimidating and humiliating women is the point.

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

Burnham says he wants his views on this subject to be known. We should all help him out, because #BeKind

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

When boys’ feelings matter more than girls’ rights. Choose Podi-him!

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

VAR

I enthusiastically welcomed it. Was sold on the higher percentage of right decisions so we could all go home knowing football justice had been done and we could concentrate on which player was crap instead.

But I was wrong. Woefully and completely wrong.

Waiting 5 minutes for a decision to be made alone means the system isn't fit for purpose. Why? Because I sat with TV producers who said everything would be wrapped up in 10-30 seconds. It has literally taken the spontaneous joy from the most important part of the game. A goal.

Then, one thing completely blindsided me and many others.

Subjectivity.

I thought there would be science and a nailed on guarantee of a successfully and universally accepted decision. How wrong we were. Instead, arbitrary lines are drawn that simply can't with any certainty say whether a player is offside or not. So a human in a portacabin, 200 miles away only does what the referee can do, make a best guess.

Likewise handballs, dives, any penalty decision to be honest. A subjective decision decided out of stadium allowing an increasingly small and poor refereeing pool a get out of jail free card. Instead of them making a shit decision and owning it, they just pass it on 200 miles away so 3 men in a portacabin can make a shit decision instead. Lunacy.

For the love of the game, let's go back to investing in getting more referees, respecting them so that they join the trade and don't feel constantly abused. In short, treat them like rugby referees. Ultimate respect.

Then, fuck VAR off, it's ruined the game, made it petty and chaotic, and taken that one ingredient that you simply can't replace, instantaneous joy.

As a player and fan I accepted a referee making a bad decision in a game in the same way I accepted fucking up a shot or pass. We're all human.

Let's get back to that, humans doing their best, everyone walks away from the ground accepting that and less unrealistic pressure put on officials to be perfect when perfection doesn't exist in any walk of life.

VAR stinks. A system designed to help is a massive hindrance and it's about time pundits, fans, players, referees, clubs put pressure on authorities to get rid of it. We only need goal line tech, the rest can and should be refer refereed by humans making their best judgement. A best judgement that was over 98% right( audited fact pre VAR).

Enough is enough, fuck it off.

[ddsnorth ™ @ddsnorth]

@boswelltoday @JaneLockwood18 @AndyBurnhamGM The man punishing a woman for saying no 👇

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Here’s where you can donate to @salltweets

If you aren’t able to chip in, please share.

Thank you. 🙏

[Cee D. McHughes🫧 @WanderedOut]

The law in Australia is very clear, men can force themselves into female spaces and then bully women into financial devastation for objecting. You’re just another misogynistic man who enjoys controlling women and seeing them cry. It’s a male power play as old as time. You’re no different from Andrew Tate, you just wear different clothing.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Bravo, @Keir_Starmer, for getting in an Adviser on Women and Girls who thinks the definition of women and girls includes men and boys. That'll definitely win back people who believe Labour's a party for smug, lanyard-wearing, luxury-belief-espousing cultural elitists. 1/2

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

@1730 As Serena says, the men & womens comps are practically different sports. This can be applied across sports. Different skill set.

[Make Europe Great Again - M.E.G.A @ScaryEurope]

The Green Party Leader Zack Polanski said men have every right to be in women’s domestic violence shelters. As long as they say they’re women⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

YOU ARE INDEED A LUNATIC ‼️

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I fight for women & girls rights in sport, to get fair & safe sport, at all levels, in all sporting activities where there is a winner, winning team, record or official placing. Female rights in female sport. Not anti anyone. Simply Pro females.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

My wonderful choir has been decimated.

People have been hurt in the process - people who did absolutely nothing wrong.

My integrity has been questioned.

All to appease an ideology that denies biological reality - and has no place anywhere near a charity that claims to support some of the most vulnerable women in society.

Women and girls with disabilities deserve better than this.

They deserve organisations that recognise sex exists - and respect their right to single-sex care.

So no - I won’t “let it go.”

Not when the damage was entirely avoidable.

When they were given the chance to fix their mistake - privately, without any public attention.

But actively chose not to.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Scope cancelled a whole choir who simply sing up beats songs at events for fun, booked for tomorrow’s marathon. Because one female member was targeted by an ‘anonymous’ trans activists for believing in biology. This is a charity that supports disabled people. Many will be women who want same sex intimate care! Cancel culture in action. Stop bowing to these women hating bullies.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

So @parkrunUK got rid of course records (supposedly) to show they weren’t competitive, then brought them back in quietly on the Parkrun app. Over 200 1st places in the women’s category have gone to men. And over 20 women’s records are held by men! Either remove all elements of competition or protect the female category.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

First of all - for all those men frothing at the bit about parkrun. If @parkrunUK posts places & times, it’s competitive. Simply add extra categories;Transmen & transwomen, & why not bring back records? Why shouldn’t women, as defined by Uk law, have their own category? And finally 5 million pounds of tax payers money, who by the way, support fair sport for females, went to parkrun, in part to grow female participation, which with no female only category has zero way of showing it is doing so! Simply run in a category of your biological reality. It’s not rocket science. Everyone runs together anyway. But stop letting males displace females. And boys grow up, stop being idiot misogynists! No one wants to stop Parkrun. We simply want fair finishing places for women. Even you can grasp that, surely?

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

BREAKING NEWS! 💥The Women’s Sports Union, founded by @TracyEdwardsMBE and @sharrond62, is taking legal action against 10 sports governing bodies that have continued to deny women and girls their rights to fair and safe sport.

Sports governing bodies may be forced to comply with the Equality Act 2010 and protect the female category. EVERY sport that allows males to self-identify into the female category is flouting the law.

We are particularly pleased to see that @parkrunUK is on the list for legal action. We started our parkrun campaign in 2023. Since then, the organisation has refused to restore the sex categories to its race lists. Only last week the parkrun CEO told us ‘nothing had changed’ since the Supreme Court ruling last year and that they were ‘waiting for guidance’… maybe this legal action will concentrate minds.

Also on the list for legal letters are:

✅ FA Wales
✅ The Irish Football Association
✅ British Powerlifting
✅ Swim England
✅ British Gymnastics
✅ Royal Yachting Association
✅ British Baseball Federation
✅ BaseballSoftball UK
✅ Rounders England

Our Sports Listings have tracked policies since 2023. When we first started only SIX sports funded by @Sport_England excluded males from the female category from grassroots through to elite. Today, 32 sports are listed as fair and safe. We look forward to the day when fairness and safety is restored to every sport and fitness activity from recreational through to elite and at all ages.

Those sports that aren’t on the list for legal action but continue to flout the law should get their house in order… it’s only a matter of time!

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

@campbellclaret @jk_rowling @RestIsPolitics @SarahEMcBride Why would women listen to three men talk about what they think women should be allowed?

[♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ @fem_mb]

@campbellclaret @jk_rowling @RestIsPolitics @SarahEMcBride Three men discuss why it's not only okay, but morally correct, for men to take women's rights away. Incredible.