@Mr_Husky1 you don’t need a new dress, you need a new friend!! honestly it’s beautiful and so are you. it’s your day, not your so called friend. it if was too tight and unflattering, i’d say. but it’s not. i think your friend is being mean.
I've been thinking, and I believe I've worked it out.
The main difference between me and "Job Centre Jane™️" isn't the fact that I went out and got my first proper job at 12 (a paper round) while she still hasn't had one at the wise age of 50.
No, it's not that.
It's also not the fact that I got off my arse and moved out of the family home (and have been self-sufficient ever since) in my early 20s, just after my mum died, whereas JCJ was bought a flat by her parents.
No, it's not that.
It's not the fact that she charges women £500 a pop to hear her opinions, whereas I use my body for free to allow other women to speak.
No, it's not that either.
And it's not the fact that she's the queen of anti-racism, whereas I'm an actual brown woman who has faced racism.
No, it's not that.
The main difference between us is that she's a theoretical feminist, and I'm a practical feminist.
Like chalk and cheese, or oil and water, we will never gel.
@SerioJoshehe I call it the dog tax. mine has to have one piece of everything i eat, one seat of the sofa, and will only sleep in the crook of my leg or lay across me like a bumbag. Invades my personal space at every opportunity and if i dare stop stroking her, my arm gets nose flicked.
Twitter, I need your help!
Tower Hamlets has a critical shortage of specialist school places for children with autism. I would like to urge local leaders to expand provision now.
Please can you take 30 seconds to sign & share this petition:
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If you want to know what type of person @AjaTheEmpress is, this pic is a good start. For the last 5 years she’s been a ‘boots on the ground’ kind of woman, travelling up and down the country to help raise the voices of other women after she found her own. She’s not a loudmouth or a ‘big character’ - she lets her poetry do the talking; and her words are as fierce as she is composed. She has no qualms about facing the mob so keen to silence and intimidate women - and always does it with a calm dignity and class, no matter how intimidating and unhinged they are. She never centres herself but chooses to put others first. Hers is a rare kind of strength and it’s been a privilege to get to know her these last 5 years
The version of Aja that @millihill appears to have invented doesn’t have much to do with the real-life Aja. Milli, it is deeply irresponsible to publish a piece indulging in your fantasy version of Scary Aja while acknowledging this spectre is nothing but a manifestation of your own paranoia
I know that Aja works hard for her money. She would’ve saved up for her Filia ticket, her train ticket and accommodation. She would’ve looked forward to coming. And here you are painting her as some petty antagonist who would show up *just to have a go at you*
I don’t know you from Adam so I can only speculate why you’re depicting Aja being at the Filia disco as if you were being thrown to the wolves. Like… what???
If anything Aja is a lioness
Please stop smearing her
#IStandWithAja
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.
@georgegalloway@Jessrocks71@Itoldyouso2023 Sorry but the only image that comes to mind when you mention george galloway is that weird as fook man pretending to be a cat licking someone’s hands on his knees in a red leotard 🤮🤮🤮 Dapper? 😬😂
What Islamists did to Yazidis in Iraq was so much worse than what’s happening in Gaza.
Elderly women buried alive for being too old to be sex slaves.
Mothers forced to eat their own babies.
Young girls locked in iron cages and burned to death.
Yet not a single protest! Everyone who is now protesting for Gaza was completely silent. Why is that?
Unlike the people of Gaza, the Yazidis never started a war!
BREAKING: UPenn has agreed to APOLOGIZE for allowing male Lia Thomas to compete on the women's swimming team. They will also vacate all of Thomas' "records" and restore them to the women who rightfully earned them. https://t.co/tERHYdt3Ip
The impact that this magnificent woman has had, and continues to have, on the fight for women’s rights cannot be overstated.
Let’s all raise a glass (and light a cigar) for @jk_rowling
https://t.co/cxbOOWUcv4
@stingerdelux All available studies show that trans-identified men commit sexual offences at the same, or higher, rates as non-trans identified men. Please explain why women and girls should let them into their spaces regardless.
@LegalGengar Well She writes fantasy and we all know that you haven’t done anything of the sort. I feel for you, she’s protected her account in keeping with her @. Proper weasel thing to do, to run and hide.