Melbourne Minerva

Mother, Wife, Raging Feminist (in that order). #istandwithjkrowling 💚🤍💜

[Melbourne Minerva @melbminerva]

@morally___grey Why is it insulting for women to describe other women as ‘buff’? You are assuming derogatory gender stereotypes that say women can’t be strong and fit people who enjoy sports or working out.

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@salltweets It’s literally a mouth cotton swab. 🤷‍♀️ any real woman would know that we go through much worse at the gp regularly.

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@jk_rowling @CormStrikeFan Only books with commas in the title have Robin and Strike kiss?!? 🤷‍♀️🤣🤞

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Finished #TheHallmarkedMan finally. Wow! What an emotional rollercoaster. Listened to the spoiler half of @TheSEFilesPod predictions ep and could help but laugh. Cant wait to relive the book with the podcast! 🥃🐟🌉🦢

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@TheSEFilesPod I’m 10 chapters in! If only I didn’t have tiny humans I need to care for I could be half way already! 😂

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@Ash_Lee_IRL @jk_rowling And the real difference is that women are in danger everywhere they go, especially their own homes. Which is why we so desperately need to protect our spaces and sex based rights.

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@Phoebe2403 To me this nonsense is as laughable as flat earthers.

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@TheSEFilesPod @jk_rowling The way this made me actually cry real tears…! I really hope Jo gets to listen to this small snippet of people who have been touched by her work 💙

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@damekatydenise_ Why do we have to conform to a derogatory stereotype to be considered a woman? 😡🫠

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@Serena_Partrick The elephant in the room when it comes to trans culture has always been that it amplifies and perpetuates the worst gender stereotypes in our culture.

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@LindsayMLand Landslide 💔 great song about growing and changing regardless

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@Gaynotqueer1 Should read ‘Man thinks he knows more about being a woman than woman does.’

[Melbourne Minerva @melbminerva]

@IanJaeger29 I hope they are also refusing to sell books from every single other author who had views they disagree with.

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

"Erasing women and women-specific language and needs based on their sex is not only wrong, but also demeaning, regressive and constitutes one of the worst forms of violence that women and girls can experience," @UNSRVAW Reem Alsalem told the @UN Human Rights Council.

#HRC59

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Sex is anatomical. 'Womanhood' and 'femaleness' are not metaphysical or mystical states. I am a woman by virtue of my anatomy.

Clearly, if I woke up tomorrow with a male body, I'd have had atypical experiences for a male, because I'd have experienced what it is to exist in the world as a female. I've given birth three times, a spectacularly life-changing experience no male has ever experienced. I've also been treated in specific, sometimes harmful, ways, because I have female anatomy.

One major difference between trans activists and me is that I believe society needs to change, whereas they believe the individual should alter themselves to fit a societal notion of what men and women are. I don't believe in codifying and reifying gendered expectations, I believe in breaking them. I'm appalled that minors are being medicalised, sterilised and deprived of sexual function because they feel discomfort with the roles they're expected to play as boys/girls.

For centuries, women have fought to be full human beings in societies that demand they demonstrate the behaviours expected of them because of their anatomy. Liberation for women does not lie in saying 'if I don't want to fulfil those expectations, I must be a man.' Liberation lies in saying 'I'm just fine as I am, and fuck your sexist notions of what a woman should be.'

[Melbourne Minerva @melbminerva]

@TheSEFilesPod 1. Robin and Strike will have the ‘we can’t risk ruining the agency by having a relationship’ convo then spend the rest of the book pining for each other. 2. Rokeby reveals something about Leda that is painful for Strike. 3. Parenting is a central theme.

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@LindsayMLand I just saw another post from him saying ‘why do so many hide who they are?’ Then this…?! I wonder why? 🤣

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@jk_rowling Who would have guessed I would be a Slytherin who would prove to be the bravest and most loyal of them all! Chookas @TomFelton 🐍

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Luckily, science doesn't give a fuck what you believe.

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@RedTory2016 Admitting he lied to doctors and wasted public resources.