Lee Fischer

Mother. Writer. Facilitator. Mediator. Designer. Project Manager. AirBnB Super Host. Foreigner. Seeker of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[Chantelle Alicia @ChantelleA33696]

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[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Women’s sports are under full assault.

Biological males are stealing spots, titles, scholarships & safety from actual female athletes—and the establishment calls it “inclusion.”

Martina Navratilova just said what every woman already knows.

The ignorance and the damage is off the charts.

[🇺🇲Ultra MAGA Dean🇺🇸 @dean_mays11]

@AlinejadMasih And the Democrats want to bring this to the United States of America!!
The same women who say Republicans are against women's rights are voting for this in NYC and Michigan and other places in the USA!

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

When I was a little girl, they told me showing my hair in public was a crime.
But hanging a man in public? That was called a blessing.

Today they want to execute Mehdi, Alireza, Shervin and many more innocent protesters on death row.

Same regime. Same logic. Different victims.

https://t.co/GMMJzbhiQJ

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

This was me as a little girl, forced into hijab. And this is me after I broke free.

In Iran, I was told: wear the hijab or be kicked out of school. Resist, and you can be arrested, beaten, lashed, or imprisoned, or killed it in the hand of morality Police.

Then I came to the West and was told: be careful telling your story, it might cause “Islamophobia.”

I am a woman from the Middle East. I have lived under Islamist ideology. I have every right to fear it, criticize it, and speak about it.

Don’t silence us in the name of tolerance. Let us talk.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Right on

[⚢amora⚢ @maleexclusionte]

This is my favorite response to Drew’s video. You explained it all so perfectly!!

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Portugal is banning burqas and niqabs in public places, with fines up to 4,000 euros.

Muslim men who force their wives or female relatives to wear one will also face 3 years in prison.

Burqas were described as a ‘symbol of women’s oppression and a threat to public safety.’

[Lee Fischer @outlandishlee]

@YosephHaddad Makes me cry every time I see this speach!! If they can’t shame you, they have already lost! Thank you for speaking up!!

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Ok y'all are nice saying we should run our new ad REAL GIRLS ROCK on the Superbowl... you do realize a :30 second ad during the Superbowl is $8M!

We're a start up! We need viral views!

So share it please. Don't just like. Share!

[Lee Fischer @outlandishlee]

“Women have had a gutful. of the gaslighting!” Yes, yes we have!

[New Zealand First @nzfirst]

It is a modern form of misogyny to cancel women for speaking up about our biological reality

[Lee Fischer @outlandishlee]

@nzfirst Absolutely brilliant!! Yes to every word! Enough of the gaslighting!

[Lucy Ward 🇺🇦 @lucymirandaward]

Good to see @cambridgeunion host this debate. Proud of my daughter.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

#IStandWithSallGrover

Pass it on.

[Lee Fischer @outlandishlee]

@salltweets @cawsbar This is heartbreaking! What an insane world we live in!

[Lee Fischer @outlandishlee]

Soo good!!

[Lee Fischer @outlandishlee]

@sexystarwalker @salltweets Men should also not only not appear in the feeds, but also not see/access any feeds of the women who don’t want it. They will still claim exclusion! I don’t see these men going for that, since their whole schtick is to make women uncomfortable, intimidated, and feel inferior.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Exactly right

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, the people who call themselves 'trans' exist and they deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else, which, fortunately, they already have in the UK. It would rightly be considered discrimination if a person was refused employment, housing or the vote because they identified as trans.

'Trans women are women' is a thought-terminating cliché. Men are not women. That doesn't mean they're not allowed to present themselves however they like, call themselves whatever they like and believe whatever they like about themselves. It means they haven't changed sex.

If we replace the objective, observable characteristic of sex with the unfalsifiable concept of gender identify, women and girls lose, among other things, their right to fair and safe sport and women-only spaces, including changing rooms, prison cells and rape crisis services.

Women and girls are provably more vulnerable to forms of abuse including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism in mixed-sex spaces. There is no evidence that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same rates of criminal offending as all other men.

Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.