Vitruvian Badger

Remain voter; Labour 2017/19 manifesto supporter; mum to 1 7yo & 3 cats; RTs & likes are RTs & likes, not endorsements. Mostly.

[Vitruvian Badger @dippitybix666]

I am 26% addicted to Twitter https://t.co/8qbdn8eTI5 from the delicious @oatmeal

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

I’ll never forget finding Iris on the chain here in Thailand.

She had no shelter from the sun or heavy rains and she was deathly thin.

I was just sent photos of her from her her owners and it doesn’t even look like the same dog… (1/4) 🧵

[Introvert Problems @IntrovertProbss]

Why do people act like fun only counts if it’s parties, trips, or busy plans? I can stay in bed with snacks, binge random shows, scroll through playlists, stare at the ceiling for hours, and still feel like I’m living my best life

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

Two headlines, two papers

@Independent blames a mother for her toddlers death while the father was looking after him

@DailyMail frames a man raping his daughter as ‘romping’. She tragically went on to kill herself

The British media is in the gutter @IpsoNews @MichelleDewbs

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

There are men who rape mentally unstable girls and leave them to deal with the consequences. I never want to hear about “what was she wearing” “why was she out” “why was she drinking” “why was she dancing with him” etc etc just shut up

[Meghan Murphy @MeghanEMurphy]

Trans activists are the radicals and extremists, for the record. You simply don't ever hear about so-called "Terfs" sending death threats. Trans activists do it all the time, though https://t.co/BFKffBK5Bj

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

14 men including her husband raped this poor woman after drugging her.

Men between the ages of 28 and 73!

The husband is in his 60s -
So this is probably not a young woman.

As we saw with Gisele Pelicot there is no age boundary or demographic excluded when men are invited to rape women by each other.

I’m glad one has pleaded guilty already to spare her at least one small ordeal of facing his defence team. The others should burn in hell. https://t.co/X3EMML0swx

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Oddly, this ‘artwork’ celebrating a woman’s double mastectomy, fails to also ‘celebrate’ her likely vaginal atrophy, osteoporosis, distressingly enlarged clitoris and other irreversible health conditions.

May the artwork stand as a reminder of how so many were complicit in the mutilation of young women, and are accountable. Keep the receipts.

https://t.co/Ia4uPPeRzX

[Progressive Misogyny @JustMisogyny]

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS LOGIC 🏳️‍⚧️

Gender can be changed and it's a spectrum: but a trans woman's gender is permanent and 100% female.

[Anna Maria Junus @JunusAnna]

When men enter a women's locker room - it's then just a locker room that serves no purpose. You might as well change out in the hallway or right beside the pool.

Because the purpose of a woman's locker room is to be able to change without men.

[Introvert Problems @IntrovertProbss]

Them: what are your hobbies?

Me: I love coming home and being at home and sitting inside my home and staying home.

[Buck Angel Transsexual @BuckAngel]

No one is eradicating trans people. You have health care. You have access to everything you need. What you do not have is access to lying and tricking children into believing a fairy tale. YOU FUCKED UP WHEN YOU ADDED CHILDREN AND LIED ABOUT WHAT GENDER DYSPHORIA IS.
Your post is the problem.
I transitioned over thirty years ago.. trust me you have everything.
Now just stop bitching about a toilet and take a shit before you leave the house.
Have a nice day❤️

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

That’s literally not what I said nor where I was, but once a man tells the lie that he is a woman don’t expect him to tell the truth about anything else.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

Three years, for the worst child sexual abuse material investigators had ever seen.

I’ve worked sex crimes. I have my own worsts, and I can tell you this — no mentally normal human being can truly understand how bad this stuff gets without seeing it firsthand. You just can’t imagine it. It sears into you. It changes who you are on a fundamental level: it changes how you see the world, to know that people can not only do these things to children, but have an eager audience.

For this man to get just 3 years for the types of things he would have been sharing, in a country where you can get two years for a tweet — it’s madness. He victimized untold numbers of children in such vile fashion as to traumatize experienced investigators. The people who went through his collection will almost certainly be offered psychological counseling, and they’ll need it.

Three years.

It’s a joke, a slap in the face to victims and investigators alike, and the judge who sentenced this monster needs his own hard drive examined.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Government has cancelled plans to have Solar Panels over outdoor car parks.

Despite finding they could generate £28,000 a year each and pay for themselves many times over.

They have simply been thrown in the bin.

Fossil Fuel says no, no doubt.

[Claire 🦎 @burnyourbinder]

“most kids who are medically transitioned don’t detransition/express regret to their providers”

I’m from a small town in Texas, and there was a girl who graduated from my highschool a few years before I went there, who had a sexual relationship with her step-father starting at age 15. she never viewed this as abusive, and nothing was ever done about it because she and her family would not cooperate with the police. she is currently in her late twenties, has married that man, and has several children with him. the point of this anecdote is that it does not matter if a child identifies a situation as abuse, or never grows to see it that way as an adult. child abuse remains child abuse.

[goma @soigomaa]

Fun fact (or rather, a depressing one):
Have you ever realized how deeply rooted misogyny is in our everyday slang?
When you want to insult a woman, you call her a bitch. But when a man does something terrible and you want to insult him, you call him a son of a bitch.
Think about it. Even when a man is the one who screwed up, the insult is STILL directed at a woman (his mother). A man can't even take full accountability for being a terrible person without society somehow finding a way to blame a woman for it. it's always women taking the hit, even in language meant to target men. It's a constant loop of holding women responsible for men's bad behavior. Make it make sense.

[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

Men are often raped in prison. That is wrong and it should not happen. The solution is to address male-on-male violence in prison; the solution is not to treat a subcategory of men--trans-identified men--preferentially and give them more protection by shifting the burden of protection to female prisoners.

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

We work so hard at @Reduxx

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

One of the loveliest stories ever.

We got a call about a dog in Thailand who was suffering in the heat. He had been kicked out in the streets.

Never did we think it would end like this… (1/6) 🧵

[Chris Wild @ccwild79]

I've had hundreds of conversations with survivors of sexual abuse in children's residential care. The heartbreaking reality is that so many of these incredible people are still too afraid to come forward and tell their stories. They're terrified they won't be believed, won't be taken seriously, or that speaking out will open a can of worms they simply can't face.

I know that fear because I've lived it.

My own experience in care was horrific. Skircoat Lodge Children's Home was run with an iron fist, and paedophiles destroyed children's lives. Some of those responsible are still walking free today because victims and survivors haven't had the support, protection, or justice they deserve.

That has to change.