I’ll never forget taking an iPad to the bedside of a young mother in intensive care. On the FaceTime call were her three young children, all shouting 'mummy, mummy, wake up, you’ve been asleep too long'.
At the same time, Downing Street held parties. It is unforgiveable.
@ArchRose90 I don't see that anything is gained by revenge killing someone, however vile their crimes, so put me in the 48%. I also don't see this MP asking a question, just stating it as fact that death would be the best penalty. That is the problem.
@JeremyI36267426 @inkjetlabel@nypost Women have been shouting about it for years. Getting anyone to listen and stop telling us to shut up and be kind is proving to be a problem.
I didn’t know of #KathleenStock until her tar-&-feathering prompted me (among many, as sales figures show) to read Material Girls. So far excellent. Refreshingly sensible. Superfluous debunking of ludicrous anti-scientific philosophies, but she has to because surrounded by them.
Excellent set of responses here to yet another weapons grade idiot thinking our private homes are the same as publicly accessible spaces. Unbelievable how often that crap, pun intended, gets wheeled out.
@GooglyeyedLlama That's one of the mad things about all this. Women have to fight for years to get sterilised because doctors think they might change their minds about kids. Yet, kids are put onto blockers and wrong sex hormones with no consideration of whether they might grow up to want kids.
So, the next time someone thinks they're being smart by telling you they "should have stayed in France"...
here's the @JCWI_UK 5-step guide to responding, which doesn't involve pointing out how deeply they are lacking in either humanity or imagination...
This year, for the 9th consecutive year, I will commemorate all UK women suspected killed by men since #IDEVAW last year at @CountDeadWomen.
Starting with Hansa Patel, killed 25 Nov 2020,and every 5 minutes naming another woman and where poss her photo, I'll still be going at 7pm