Can we stop referring to the victims as John Hunt's wife and daughters, please? I know he will be suffering immensely, but the victims' names were Carol, Hannah, and Louise.
They weren't just somebody's wife and daughter. They were women, murdered by a man #kyleclifford
Before everyone starts suggesting that maybe Kyle Clifford was ‘suffering from mental health issues’ which ‘caused him’ to tie up and shoot three women, let me shoot some facts here:
1. There is not a single mental disorder listed or described in the DSM which states that it causes murder
2. Not a single mental health charity would put their name to a public statement which stated that MH was associated with committing murder - in fact they would probably do the opposite
3. Men kill women because they want to
4. Men kill women because they get something out of it
5. Men kill women because of their misogyny and male entitlement
6. Men kill women because they enjoy it
7. Men kill women because we do absolutely nothing about the toxic, abusive, misogynistic, pro-violence and pro-abuse society we raise them in
8. Men kill women because there are virtually zero consequences and less than 2% conviction rate for domestic and sexual violence crimes
People only claim men who murder are mentally ill for TWO reasons:
1. To defend the suspect legally, in order to claim insanity, so charges or sentences can be lessened
2. To psychologically distance ourselves from their actions, so no one has to accept that this is a social and systemic problem of violence and abuse - and we can all go on pretending that it was another ‘one-off’ caused by ‘mental illness’
End.
Trying to deal with a refund due to @KLM changing my itinerary twice within a 24hr period to an unsuitable time, and they have the audacity to only refund the taxes!
If you're writing a book set in rural Scotland and all your characters go by their given names, I hate to break it to ya, but you're doing your readers a disservice.
Here's some examples of real people all from one village around 1900-1930: 🧵
#OldWeirdScotland
Bernadette Devlin's reply to being dubbed "unladylike" for punching Reg Maudling in protest of Bloody Sunday:
"Unladylike? There's a young girl whose body was carried out of the Bogside this morning. She was shot in the back by the Paras. They didn't ask her if she was a lady."
It feels like one day you're young and able to party all weekend on the 3 hours of sleep you got on a hardwood floor, the next you're crippled for a week because your ergonomic pillow was two degrees away from optimum.
Since she was a little girl, men have been making “jokes” about wanting to rape Greta Thunberg. These “jokes” are rape culture. Men use sexual violence as a threat and a punchline when women and girls do things they don’t like.
Disappointed to learn that @TheDeersHead1 is no longer dog-friendly; so that's put an end to Sunday lunch outings unfortunately. We need more dog friendly places in Belfast.