Goody Vickers UA #8228

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[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

The code applies to all males in female spaces, Oaksie. That you belong to the cohort that wish you weren't male is kinda irrelevant.

And in particular, given the high propensity of that 0.5-1 % to be incarcerated sex offenders (1 in every 325), yeah, it's WELL worth the effort.

[Marianne Oakes @OakesMarianne]

EHRC guidance on “single-sex spaces” runs to 340 pages. Yet in a typical shared women’s toilet (5–10 people), the chance of a trans woman being present is roughly ~0.5%–1% per visit (very rough estimate). Is this really where the effort should go?

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@TheTransTroll @SVPhillimore Your books don't matter.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@nyaraVT You indulging your sissification fantasy again, I see.

You are not, and are not viewed as some sort of exotix sexualised 'othet'. You're just a fella, and a somewhat distateful one. No more.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@B4B4BlkShp @BevJacksonAuth @stellacreasy @NadiaWhittomeMP @akuareindorf @Scott_Wortley ...it's a marked declaration of self infatuation.

But time is catching up with Stella (50 next year), and her career is broadly speaking at a dead end with no prospect of ministerial preferment.

That's an unhealthy combination of vanity, aging and thwarted ambition, there.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@B4B4BlkShp @BevJacksonAuth @stellacreasy @NadiaWhittomeMP @akuareindorf @Scott_Wortley Little things sometimes say a lot. Your analysis of Whitless is absolutely bang on, but Stella is a more interesting case.

The key to understanding Creasy? Look at her twitter banner...a huge soft focus professionally posed photo of her own face. Barely a mention of her party..

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@Cathcupoftea357 @wiseintheways @quietlyaway @BevJacksonAuth @stellacreasy @NadiaWhittomeMP @akuareindorf @Scott_Wortley True Believer.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@wiseintheways @quietlyaway @BevJacksonAuth @stellacreasy @NadiaWhittomeMP @akuareindorf @Scott_Wortley True Believer.

As In, 'mad as a box of frogs, while dumb as a box of rocks'

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@PictishOne @E1Ahrairah @joannaccherry @bbcdebatenight People aren't presuming anything. They are coming to conclusions based on what they see and hear. You keep conflating criminal legal standards and things that aren't criminal legal standards.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@PictishOne @E1Ahrairah @joannaccherry @bbcdebatenight ...in between. Even if we take the balance of probabilities indirect standard of defamation there's plenty of room.

There's no way around that, and Sturgeon is not entitled to any more.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@PictishOne @E1Ahrairah @joannaccherry @bbcdebatenight Indeed. Because if we proved it, in a court of law, she'd be a convicted criminal. It wouldn't be suspicion. It would be conclusive proof of guilt.

There's a very wide gap between proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and entirely exhonerated. Plenty of justifiable suspicion

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@PictishOne @E1Ahrairah @joannaccherry @bbcdebatenight More to the point, in this case there is a very obvious problem with taking Crown Office's word for it. The police forwarded a file, they did NOT conclude there was no evidence. The decision came from Crown Office, and there is a clear conflict of interest problem there.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@PictishOne @E1Ahrairah @joannaccherry @bbcdebatenight Sometimes it should, yes.

You are aware Savile WAS investigated and not charged, yes?

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

Careful, Jamie, you'll pull a groin muscle with that stretch.

Noone 'blamed' the victim, because it was not her job to keep herself safe in that environment.

The blame for the rape lies 100% with the rapist.

The blame for creating the opportunity lies 100%with the institution.

[Jamie Strudwick 🏳️‍🌈💚 @JamieStrud]

So, we’re all okay with @JournalistJill just blaming the victim of rape for being raped, and not the rapist? Man, TERFs really are something else.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@PictishOne @E1Ahrairah @joannaccherry @bbcdebatenight And sometimes, it's right that they do. Or else pretend Jimmy Savile, never convicted, was therefore a paragon of innocence.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

Souls. FFS

Still, at least it makes clear the quasi religious claptrap being the movement. https://t.co/jKUXrjupCF

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@KirstieMAllsopp This debacle has claimed the health, sanity and life of many troubled young girls, but the movement is broadly led by, and designed for, middle aged men with a fetish.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@KirstieMAllsopp Yes, but 5'4 bearded ladies with croaky voices and no penis are rather less a concern in safety terms than 6'4" 'Fiona' wandering around the women's changing room with his/her wang out.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@PictishOne @E1Ahrairah @joannaccherry @bbcdebatenight Perhaps, but the predominant purpose is to keep people out of jail unless convicted on proof of guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Reputation is a matter for defamation law, not criminal procedure.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

As I was saying....

[Gerry @GerryKeogh_]

Remember the Weir millions? The lottery windfall that “funded the dream”… until it didn’t.

2011, Colin and Chris Weir from Largs, Scotland, won a record £161 million EuroMillions jackpot one of the biggest in UK history.

Lifelong independence supporters, they poured millions into the SNP and the Yes Scotland campaign:

Over £4.5 million directly to the SNP.

At least £3.5 million to Yes Scotland making up the vast bulk of its funding in key periods.

This was meant to deliver the big prize: Scottish independence.

But Colin Weir grew increasingly unhappy. Reports emerged that he believed the funds weren’t being used as intended.

Before his death in December 2019, Colin complained to the SNP and wanted his money back, as the SNP could not show him where his money had been spent, basically it disappeared into a black hole.

[Goody Vickers UA #8228 @goodyvickers]

@PictishOne @E1Ahrairah @joannaccherry @bbcdebatenight The law presumes. We don't.

The presumption of innocence is a legal mechanism not an all purpose suppressant of sceptical opinion.