Summer Secrets by Jennifer Levine. A emotional & suspenseful fast read. Breckenridge family torn by date rape & inappropriate sexual realtionship. What does a mom do? https://t.co/k05AWdUbcn via @amazon
@LauraLoomer Apparently you have never had babies nor have you heard of headphones. How about feeling bad for the parents who are, without question, trying their hardest to calm the baby. (And yeah, there are many things worse than a baby crying on a plane)
@MAGAVoice Sending troops to our cities is not peace. Further, renaming the Dept of Defense to the Dept of WAR… yeah, that’s not peace by its very definition.
@Irish347128@LeadingReport So, just to be clear, you are OK with shootings every single day. And, background checks/licenses for guns is somehow bad… I suppose in your world we should get rid of driver’s licenses. (For the record, Im not part of the left… but our current President could push me there)
There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate.
1. You're a man and I'm a woman.
2. You've been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn't become well known until I was well over 30.
3. I've never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain.
4. I believe in freedom of speech and belief.
For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person. Some of those years were spent in poverty. That's why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who're reliant on state-funded services. That's why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That's why I have a problem with men 'identifying' into women's rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex. I don't stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don't have the money/influence I have now.
You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That's why I don't want to see men identifying into women's prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.
Lastly, I'm a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you're doing: parrot TWAW and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn't have become more predictably or more tediously conformist.
@jk_rowling If only people would not care about my novel as much as they didn’t care about your books. 🤷🏻♀️ (Summer Secrets by Jennifer Levine - Amazon has them #ShamelessSelfpromoFriday )
@andrewrsorkin your interview with @SamAltmann1 was great. The questions you asked were thoughtful and IMHO pushed an important conversation about the next big thing forward. (Like fledgling satellite communications in the early 80’s) #ChatGPT#openai