Caroline Wills

Fine art graduate rockin' out in the world of food retail

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

@A_Cullen_ @TicketmasterCS Did you have to do something else to get to put a code in or did it eventually load to let you in?

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

@TicketmasterCS Have done now thanks

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

@TicketmasterCS @A_Cullen_ I'm having the same issue, used the link from the email, nowhere to input code and same image as above

[Andy Murray @andy_murray]

Never even liked tennis anyway.

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

You made us dream.
You made us believe.
You made us cry.
And you made us proud.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

BR Operations Support team enjoying the evening! #rwawards23 @BlakemoreRetail @AF_Blakemore

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

Feeling pretty proud of Brum right now, looking forward to the games next week! #CommonwealthGames22

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

Exactly how sad is it that I'm beyond thrilled to discover I can turn a slide deck into an animated gif #nerdy #essaywriting

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

@ladydelaney1 @decadeoldtweet @midgeunique @southseadamo @AnnMSinnott Great news then, I hope it receives as much media attention as the women's Day did this year.

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

@JackTraktiv @southseadamo @decadeoldtweet @AnnMSinnott Urinals essentially you have to stand in their space to see anything? It's not just about physical attacks, there's unwanted attention(e.g perving) that a woman might receive with a man in that vulnerable space? Men don't have to go near a woman to cause discomfort (& vice versa)

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

@midgeunique @southseadamo @decadeoldtweet @AnnMSinnott But presumably there are just unisex toilets and that's it, not a separate one for men? It's the sacrifice of women only here that's the issue. I don't have a problem with unisex toilets if that's all that's on offer, many cafes etc do this and that's fine. But not unisex and men

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

@southseadamo @decadeoldtweet @AnnMSinnott Why do men get to have privacy and women don't? It's not just about a cubicle. But aside from ladies' being sacrificed, this allows any man to enter that room as well as transgender & from a safety perspective it's just not on (plus there goes any chance of a clean loo seat!)

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

I don't understand this, girls and women may as well give up on any dreams for competitive athletic now if this situation continues.

[suzanne moore @suzanne_moore]

Ask some actual questions...

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

@jk_rowling "Female is real, and it's sex.
Femininity is unreal, and it's gender.
And for that to become the given identity of women is a profoundly disabling notion."

— Germaine Greer

#IStandWithJKRowling

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

This BBC interview with @Stako_tennis is heartbreaking. Feeling pretty useless just watching the war unfold #Ukraine 🇺🇦

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

Brilliant evening watching @watsoncomedian at Bilston Town Hall! Great to be out and about again, I think I gained a few laughter wrinkles!

[Caroline Wills @carolinewills]

This sounds like a fantastic service, so sad that it is needed

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