Tel

A woman who’s quite attached to biological reality and women’s sex based rights. I know…..what a bitch! 💚🤍💜 Retweet/Likes ≠ Endorsement

[Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 @DawnButlerBrent]

I'm a signatory.

This case is sickening. My thoughts are with the victim following this sexual assault.

We need urgent answers from @TravelodgeUK who did not take VAWG seriously.

What are their security procedures? How do we stop this happening again?

[Helen Barnard @Helen_Barnard]

Weird thing about Travelodge comms:

‘They followed procedures correctly’ = WORST possible message.

Implies anyone staying in any Travelodge can expect staff to hand out room keys in the middle of the night to anyone who knows your name.

Doubt that was the crisis comms goal.

[Emily Darlington MP @emily4MK]

It is pretty simple. If you book a hotel room, they shouldn’t give your key to anyone else. Protecting women customers is bare minimum to get our business @TravelodgeUK

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Travelodge offer woman 'insulting' £30 refund after staff gave sex attacker a key to her room.

https://t.co/sfZGCZ7oTy

[Alison Moore @alijanemoore also on Bluesky @AliJaneMoore]

Glad to see pressure mounting on @TravelodgeUK - such a pitiful response to this appalling incident.

[Ruth Swailes @SwailesRuth]

This is shocking. The response from Travelodge means I’ll not be using them when travelling in future.
How Travelodge in Maidenhead gave sex attacker key to woman's room - BBC News https://t.co/XQubBbReIG

[Natalie Fleet MP @NatalieFleetMP]

Hey @TravelodgeUK

🚨A Travelodge let someone into woman’s room to sexually assault her, then offer her £30 compensation & defend their actions!🚨

Outrageous.

Review your security procedures.

How can women stay safely in your hotels otherwise?

https://t.co/8flAiIu6lt

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Tel @WTFAWD2022]

@francesweetman You are spot on. Officers are a hurdle in many cases to councillors getting anything done. Elected officials are told “we’ll get back to you within 10 working days”. The resident expects an answer instantly. It’s insane.

[Bring Back Safeguarding @KatyDidKatyDnt]

Afghan women are forbidden to speak in public, not allowed to show any skin, even around their eyes, are barred from education and unable to access healthcare, but Gary Lineker thinks men who are told to stop cheating in sports are the 'most persecuted people on the planet.'

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Superb interview with @sharrond62 on #bbcPM “I’m just really pleased that women & girls are getting their sport back at last. But this has been an incredibly excruciating journey which has taken nearly ten years” 💜

[Tel @WTFAWD2022]

Support women’s right to play pool against other women, not men!!

https://t.co/OBThhsdNJr #GoGetFunding

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

PC Rick Prior's case is one of the most important we've taken on. If officers fear enforcing the law to avoid being called racist, it's a problem. And if their elected representative can be gagged for saying so, the chilling effect is clear. Donate here.
https://t.co/8YscjIIhnv

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

In the context of public concern about the systematic exploitation of young girls by rape gangs, and of the horrific story of Gisele Pelicot, raped by large numbers of her neighbours, it is astonishing that these unions are making this call and, to add to the insult, to the Women’s Committee. This motion is in direct opposition to their stated aims of ending ‘gender based violence.’ 4/11

https://t.co/C4TjS4UaTQ

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Prostitution is exploitation of women by men. It is men using (usually young) women as objects, for their own pleasure, demanding that whatever they want be provided, regardless of how unpleasant, degrading or harmful that is for the woman. Please see our blog Prostitution and it’s impact on women. 3/11
https://t.co/tjAiyvpMMJ

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

The two unions calling for this motion to go through are the @GMB_union and @ASLEFunion. The GMB is of course the union described by a former regional president as “riddled with misogyny”. ASLEF is the union in which only 6.5% of train drivers are women. It seems no coincidence that these are the unions to call for legalisation of sexual exploitation of women. 2/11

https://t.co/8QZtrjw6Wm

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

WRN has been alerted by several of our members to two draft motions intended to go to the @The_TUC Women’s Conference in March, calling for the complete decriminalisation of the sex trade. Although the exact wording is not yet public, we understand that this means that ALL aspects of the industry would be legalised – pimping, brothels, advertising, trafficking. No age limits are specified.
1/11

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

BREAKING: Sex Matters sues British Transport Police over its policy of allowing male officers with a gender recognition certificate to strip-search women.

https://t.co/q9Gm74TsAf

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Glad to see this.

Britain's equalities chief intervenes after Labour insisted tightening law to protect single-sex spaces would be unnecessary | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/MOoC2veEEZ

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Women of WRN send you all a Christmas message, courtesy of this wonderful poem by @MagiGibson.

This poem is for YOU.