Its not as though torture has gone away. By trashing the reputation of organisations such as Amnesty, trans rights activism prioritises the campaign for men to enter women’s spaces over the campaign against torture. I find that astonishing.
My favorite nature fact is that somewhere in the world, there's a tree that sprouted the same day you were born and has been growing alongside you ever since.
A deer seen taking shelter under an umbrella on a hot day. A gentle reminder that when wildlife has nowhere else to go for shade, we’ve probably taken too much away from them.
Yesterday I pointed out Amnesty International’s hypocrisy.
On one hand, they condemn sex-segregated rape shelters as “transphobic.” On the other, they published a report recognizing that refugee women need sex-segregated toilets for their safety.
Some of you treated that as an opportunity to debate whether white men or brown men pose a greater threat to women. That misses the point entirely.
The point is that everyone already understands the relevant category: male. That’s why societies across the world have long recognized the need for women-only spaces. It doesn’t matter what race a man is or how he identifies. If you refuse to acknowledge that sex is the factor driving the need for those protections, you’ve missed the entire argument.
“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”
Rewatching Ann Widdecombe’s Celebrity Big Brother season, and god she was brilliant.
Those who have made appalling, vile comments about her have demonstrated that they don’t possess an ounce of the decency or dignity that Ann carried throughout her life.
A potentially overlooked point about @amnesty labeling Beira’s Place an “anti-rights group” is that it stigmatises the women who *use* it. It implicitly frames traumatised rape victims doing nothing but seeking solace and support as deserving of shunning in “polite society”.
Morning folks. This is Olivia. She lives in the corner of my kitchen and eats the annoying flies. As it’s hot I’ve been giving her water on a soaked cotton bud. If you have a friendly house spider you’d like to take care of, it’s a quick and easy thing to do. She’s very grateful.
I rarely post on here anymore, but I have to say to @PeterTatchell:
It shouldn't take the news that an elderly woman was murdered rather than dying of natural causes to change a post from revelry & name-calling to 'R.I.P. Ann.'
The sheer hypocrisy of that cannot be lost on any person of good character.
This is why so many people - gay, straight and anywhere in between - find your rhetoric misogynist, divisive & hateful. People are allowed hold different opinions. We can disagree with them, we can even judge them, but every life is of value and we all leave loved ones behind.
A little bit of kindness, compassion and, quite honestly, basic human decency can go a long way.
Plastic grass, paving and tarmac can't feed insects, birds or hedgehogs and will kill all soil dwelling organisms and will make the neighbourhood hotter. Please grow plants.
@pittworldwide Yep, women started out being kind and accommodating then, as usual, men took the piss and tried to tell us it was transphobic to exclude tw from rape crisis services and nailed dead rats to the doors of centres that refused to accept men. That's what first peaked me anyway.
Ruth Hunt once disgracefully lied to a room full of people and said 50% of children denied puberty blockers attempted suicide.
That alone should frankly disqualify her from public life. She is a key architect of the gender ideology movement in the UK and an absolute disgrace.
@robbiebone@SerioJoshehe Your sexuality is dictated by who you are sexually attracted to. If you are attracted to men and transmen, you are bisexual. This isn't an opinion it's just a fact.