Jame Dudey Dench

I didn't leave the Left, the Left left me. 😢

#yesdebate

Proverbs: Many a mickle makes a muckle/All's well that ends well

Pronouns: Nah

[Jame Dudey Dench @fellowfallopian]

Charming graffiti I encountered in the womens' toilets of a London pub recently 😶

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

This man was feted within the SNP while those of us who complained about his violent threats against women were demonised. For years the leadership have turned a blind eye to men abusing non-compliant women. This culture must change. https://t.co/P0sKZhnaxV

[Jame Dudey Dench @fellowfallopian]

TRAs:

There is no adequate definition of a woman. Who cares? Why are you so hung up on language?

Also TRAs: Getting someone's pronouns wrong is genocide. 🤪

[Andreia Nobre 💚🤍💜 @Andreia_O_Nobre]

However, less than 4% of girls aged 10 to 14 who are pregnant due to rape have access to legal abortion in Brazil. We need to pressure the authorities so that "Julia" can have a legal and safe abortion. Please sign and share widely! https://t.co/eFNP1jEBLf

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

Can we once and for all dispense with this tedious "But he always took the bins out and said hello" commentary, as if there was a contradiction here that needed explaining.

Violent men ARE "nice guys".

They're nice to everyone but the women they abuse. That's the whole point.

[David Challen @David_Challen]

A police manhunt is underway for man who may have crossbow after three women were found killed yesterday. All three women are related.

Hertfordshire Police believe the man is Kyle Clifford, 26. He could be in Hertfordshire or Enfield area, police say.
➡️ https://t.co/hPhwwuFyrp

[Renee @eeners]

@salltweets @sharrond62 I loved legos and cartoon shirts when I was 4. I thought boys jeans were more comfortable when I was 5. I’m a grown woman and proud of it. I’m glad nobody labeled me!

[Téa - the Empirical Armadillo @empirical_Tea]

@WomenReadWomen I am constantly humbled by brave women throughout the Middle East who put their lives on the line in the struggle to be treated humanely. We need to be stronger advocates. We shouldn't partner with countries who hide behind oppressive religions to excuse abuse & control of women.

[Kathleen Stock @Docstockk]

I try to remain reasonable in an unreasonable world. But if one more politician resorts to the "both sides... baffled at toxicity... culture war" rhetoric I may go postal. In the last few years I have:

- fought through hostile crowd to get to Brighton meeting, been struck on back of head as I entered, with protestors kicking the windows til our ears rang
- co-organised a research event on lesbian life (nothing to do with trans) where protestors closed the road outside, set off smoke bombs
- spoke at Cambridge Union, where every time I spoke, protestors drummed louder to drown me out, and where a male transactivist covertly infiltrated my own debate team in order to then denounce me to audience
- had protestor glue herself to floor in front of me at Oxford
- had masked men come to my workplace every day making threats and harassing me til I resigned.
- now require extra security for every public appearance I do
- have been verbally abused in the street by total strangers several times.

Please do tell me, with evidence, how I personally have contributed to this "toxic" state of affairs, other than not shutting up and not going away? I am deeply interested to find out the answer.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“You get to work & he’s standing there in the change room…”
“…you’re in a state of distress from having to change in front of a male.”
“We just want a safe space for us, a female only space…”
“I don’t want to get changed in front of a man.”

How many women have to say this?

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

Why not make Paralympic sport inclusive? A thread, and a modest proposal:

Paralympic sport is great. By inventing new types of competition, like wheelchair racing, it provides opportunities for success for athletes with a wide range of impairments. ...

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

Women are not a country that people can immigrate to.

Women are human beings.

Both you and the populist right share the same assumption. That women are territory, to be either protected against invaders or to be given away.

When both of you start realising we are people, and start treating us like people, we might get somewhere.

[Maia Poet🦎 @thepeacepoet99]

Far too many parents worry that their child’s gender nonconformity is a sign of a future catastrophe and that in order to avoid this catastrophe, their kids must be shoved into a box of extreme gender conformity.

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[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

It doesn’t matter how many photos you pose for ostentatiously drinking a pint of bitter. You are a Dulwich educated poshboy banker twat using racism to further the interests of your class and deflect attention from the asset stripping of this country. And anyone who can’t see that is being played.

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

THIS THIS THIS THIS A MILLION TIMES THIS!!!

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

The advertising watchdog banned the bikini ad in 2015, concerned about the body image message it was sending out to women.
The other advert, from this week of a woman who has had both breasts surgically removed because she identifies as they/them is endorsed by the London Mayor

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Can you see what's driving this movement yet? Or is it still more comfortable for you to pretend we're talking about a few vulnerable people with gender dysphoria?

[Jame Dudey Dench @fellowfallopian]

@clownworld Bowl + mullet. Bowlet?

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

And as I have also said repeatedly over the last two or three years, I am particularly angry with how people on the left simply refuse to understand that it is them, and their complacent arrogant refusal to listen to women, that has created the space for this to be turned into a culture war issue.

We warned for years that they were leaving a massive open goal for the right and the hard populist right to exploit, and that is precisely what has happened.

There is indeed a culture war being played here, between the identitarian progressive ‘left’ and the identitarian populist right. Many women over the last few years have been dragged into the framin, in good part because the only media that would platform women’s concerns were from the right. That does not mean that this issue is just a whipped up culture war outrage. Gender critical women made a reasoned, evidence based, genuinely progressive political argument for YEARS, and the left had plenty of time to listen and take what we said on board. Some did. But Starmer couldn’t have shown himself more clueless about the political landscape, and how this issue needs to be dealt with if he really does want to stop feeding it into a culture war machine.