Isla 🦕

She/her - Heptathlete

[Glasgow University Athletics Club @GUAC_1881]

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Reminiscing on this years @BUCSsport Outdoor Athletics Champs two weeks ago in Cardiff 🤩

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[positivity moon @arrtnem]

Someone always asks it like a joke.
“Why don’t women get addicted to gambling?” said with that half smirk, like women are too sensible, too boring, too busy knitting and paying bills while men ruin their lives at poker tables.

The real answer is ugly and simple: who told you they do not.

You just see male addiction more because his fall is allowed to be public. He gets the smoky casino, the dramatic all in, the story at 3:00 about how he lost the house. A woman is more likely to be losing in silence on her phone in the kitchen while the pasta water boils over. Same nervous system, different socially acceptable scenery.

Picture her at 22:47, kids finally asleep, sink still full because there is always one more dish. She sits down “just for a second”, opens that bright slot app on her phone. It does not say casino. It says something like Lucky Farm or Star Paradise so it feels childish, harmless. She spins. Four dollars. Seven. Twelve. The dopamine hits the same way it would in Vegas. Her heart does the same little jump when almost all the cherries line up. No cigarette smoke, no neon, just fridge hum and the sound of the washer in the next room. Still gambling.

Or she is in a supermarket at 11:32 on a Wednesday, buying the boring list. Milk. Bread. Laundry detergent that never goes on sale. At the checkout she adds three scratch cards “for fun.” The cashier does not blink. A mom with a cart and scratchers is invisible. She will scratch them later in the car, key pressed between her teeth, crumbs of silver dust on her black jeans. For a moment her life is not coupons and appointments. It is possibility. Then it is nothing again. She crumples the slips, drives home, tells no one.

The addiction is not missing. It is disguised as something cute or practical or feminine.
“Girls trip to bingo.”
“Grandma loves the lottery.”
“Mom just likes her little games.”

Men are allowed to have vices. Women are supposed to have quirks.

People think gambling is only about chips and cards. Women are taught to gamble with different currency. A lot of them learn early how to bet their body, their safety, their whole future on a guy who “just needs support.” That is a slot machine too. You pull the handle every time you forgive. Maybe this time he will change. Maybe this time he will really mean it. Your heart spins like reels, and you keep feeding in years.

Why would she need blackjack when she has a relationship that pays out once every ten arguments.

Ask the girl who keeps refreshing her banking app at 03:12 because she moved money from the rent to an “investment” her boyfriend swore would work if she just trusted him. Ask the woman who married into someone else’s chaos and is now betting her credit score on his business. She might never have touched a poker table in her life. She is still addicted to risk, just socially approved risk. The kind that gets called loyalty.

NO, it is not that women do not get addicted. It is that their addictions are easier to applaud.

Be thin. But not too thin. Eat. But do not enjoy it. Spend on your looks. But never admit how much. That is gambling too. Every diet is a roulette of health. Every “just one more round of fillers” is a bet that your face will translate as youth instead of desperation. Nobody calls that addiction. They call it discipline, self care, staying competitive. Entire industries sit on top of that female urge to feel like they have one more chance to fix themselves.

If a guy spends three nights a week in a casino, his friends say he has a problem.
If a woman spends three nights a week alone with her phone, spinning digital slots while everyone thinks she is scrolling Pinterest, people say she is tired. Or “mom deserves her wine and her silly games.” The problem does not ring loud enough to be named.

[Keith Webb @1p4YourTruth]

Glastonbury @wolfalicemusic

[re: emma @evemmore]

broke, addicted to heroin, stealing from old peoples homes, child died of neglect…. But he was using his purple shampoo

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

🇮🇪 🤝🇵🇸

Israel is committing genocide.

[Gators Daily 🐊 @GatorsDaily]

Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)

[scottishathletics @scotathletics]

THROW FAR
#SALtogether
Another @Bobby_ThatOneMo GIF from Grangemouth last Sunday
Into the circle now for shot action
@AliGrey73 @Sam0kane @SAL_Coaching @iriaveel @_caitlinww @SophieAllan20

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

The USA just vetoed a ceasefire resolution to deliver humanitarian resources to Gaza at the UN.

[EAC Active Schools @ActiveSchoolsEA]

Excellent Achievement. Well done Isla.

Past @KilmarnockAcad student.

[Isla 🦕 @islaraeburn04]

@kenallan123 @KillieHarriers @70happyheart @RobertonBilly Thank you so much Ken! 😆

[Kilmarnock Harriers @KillieHarriers]

It’s GOLD for Isla Raeburn in the U20 Heptathlon, absolutely fantastic results from years of commitment and dedication - lovely to see it all coming together at the National Champs 🌟🙌🥇 @70happyheart @RobertonBilly

[laurinha 🦠 @ecto_fun]

absolutely not

[Nikita Bassi @NikitaBassiSNP]

‘What did Nicola Sturgeon do for Scotland during her time as First Minister?’

👇🏽

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I just voted against the Tories' new anti-worker laws, which would see nurses sacked for striking for fair pay.

Disgracefully Tory MPs voted it through, but the fight isn't over.

Let's now build a movement to defend the #RightToStrike and build a Britain fit for workers.