@jk_rowling@FFriedan Sadly, I have to admit that I am a fundamentalist atheist.
There isn't any conceivable evidence that would convince me that God exists. The idea of God doesn't even have a meaning.
@rustynew386 If you expect people to work out that it's satire you have to actually say so ... and very often even that doesn't work either.
Check out @RAF_Luton for an example.
SECTARIANISM- Is a growing problem in the U.K. This is Jess Philips being abused by a Pro Palestine mob.
Multiculturalism has failed and opened the door to Islamic sectarianism, where abuse of women is the norm.
Expect much more of this.
“The arts have truly fallen victim to this set of beliefs, which is deeply saddening for me, who believed that to challenge orthodoxy, dogma and groupthink was an essential quality of being an artist. There is a new set of blasphemy laws within the arts, and woe betide you if you speak out, deliberately, accidentally or if you are just perceived to not believe. The punishment is swift, brutal, total and in perpetuity; the punishment does certainly not fit the crime.”
Me today in @TheCriticMag
Tennant is one of Labour’s celebrity supporters.
This is an early example of what life will be like if they win.
Keir Starmer stood by while Rosie Duffield was hounded. He and his supporters will do the same with the country.
Do not let the bigots and bullies win. (2/2)
I will not shut up. I will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from Stonewall over the safety of women and girls.
A rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can’t see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end…..(1/2)
A challenge to those seeking refuge in "both sides" lie. This is S.J. Baker. Turned up at LetWomenSpeak this weekend, was at launch of The Lesbian Project, told Pride crowd to punch terfs, made sign saying "Kill JK Rowling". Condemn his behaviour publicly. https://t.co/n5PIuBMiMJ
I try to remain reasonable in an unreasonable world. But if one more politician resorts to the "both sides... baffled at toxicity... culture war" rhetoric I may go postal. In the last few years I have:
- fought through hostile crowd to get to Brighton meeting, been struck on back of head as I entered, with protestors kicking the windows til our ears rang
- co-organised a research event on lesbian life (nothing to do with trans) where protestors closed the road outside, set off smoke bombs
- spoke at Cambridge Union, where every time I spoke, protestors drummed louder to drown me out, and where a male transactivist covertly infiltrated my own debate team in order to then denounce me to audience
- had protestor glue herself to floor in front of me at Oxford
- had masked men come to my workplace every day making threats and harassing me til I resigned.
- now require extra security for every public appearance I do
- have been verbally abused in the street by total strangers several times.
Please do tell me, with evidence, how I personally have contributed to this "toxic" state of affairs, other than not shutting up and not going away? I am deeply interested to find out the answer.
I have the same question. All I do is stand up for women's rights and child safeguarding. In return I get followed down the street by a baying mob shouting "fuck Helen Joyce". Students banged so loudly on the doors when I spoke at a Cambridge college that I was inaudible despite being mic'ed up. A trans-identifying man recently pleaded guilty to tweeting that he wanted to carve up my face and rip out my eyes. I've needed a police escort to leave a pub through a crowd of transactivists chanting about me. More transactivists tried to break into a venue where I and other people who share my positions were discussing the medical scandal of paediatric transition. Other things are not in the public domain at least for now. I'M SICK OF BEING TOLD THIS IS "BOTH SIDES".
Exactly this. 'We will protect single sex spaces on the basis of biological sex' isn't true if men with a gender recognition certificate can access them - and Labour intends to make it easier to get a gender recognition certificate.