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aspiring scientist and caffeine queen. feminist, pre-raphaelite lookalike & chlamydia extraordinaire. 🦇 I study host-adaptation & all things nasal microbiome.

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Fear And Loathing In Hanne Stawarz

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what a terrible year

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@brittain53367 @ImWatson91 @BBCScotlandNews ‘Backed up by data’ depending entirely on the study you read (some of which suggest public opinion is in favour of gender-neutral options, particularly amongst younger generations). But ok.

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@ImWatson91 @BBCScotlandNews massively prefer gender neutral loos myself for many reasons. disappointing decision

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@ddhitchens preferable for me

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@coldhealing nobody ‘has’ to do anything, you are simply describing patriarchal expectations

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@bathmatt how do you propose we respond to severe, treatment-resistant mental illness? palliative care not an option for everyone.

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I figured out all the cosmic mysteries of life but unfortunately I forgot the next day, and I will spend the rest of my years chasing the memories

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@Polly67890 I’ve had two and they were fine. This is not a sex thing, this is a ‘personal level of discomfort’ thing. The physical exam by my (female) GP was way worse lmao.

[Aidan James @mcandidate]

might get heavily into the genre known only as "music you get hit with on instagram"

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@Heather_pw @MunozSaiz @janeclarejones Being led into the dichotomy that same sex == safe, opp sex == unsafe obscures the complex realities of mistreatment. Have often had worse experiences with female doctors (rougher exams!) but would not blame their sex. Important to share pos experience for balance + reducing fear

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@Heather_pw @MunozSaiz @janeclarejones I think that a lot of the scaremongering that we have seen in recent days certainly doesn’t help re: fear. Am of the mind that actions to diminish rape culture (& offering female option or chaperone eg for survivors, religious req) is more productive

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@Heather_pw @MunozSaiz @janeclarejones My mammograms were part of the breast cancer scare mentioned. (also physical exams, biopsies & MRIs). I am extremely familiar with the process. I am saying that we ought to be able to place professional trust in doctors regardless of sex & this is borne out by personal experience

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furore over male HCWs is the latest step in an insane, regressive attempt to further segregate society by sex. I have had male gynos, male consultants examining me during a breast cancer scare in 2023-4. was fine & I hate how the narrative is ‘ALL women hate this’

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colleagues were shocked when I said I don’t use chatGPT for my code, wait til they find out that my ocd means I can’t even copy & paste anything

truly, this is hell

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@historykev A lot of the discussion around this bill has focused on the safeguarding (good) but decided the logical consequence of that is to quash it in entirety (bad). This is largely pro-life rhetoric cloaked in faux concern for disabled people. Infantilising to suggest we cannot choose.

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@historykev There are a couple of safeguarding issues with the bill which I have raised with my MP but broadly speaking, yes. If you have not lived it, you won’t get it. You are more committed to some ephemeral idea of life than autonomy & preventing suffering. Suicide is not inherently bad.