Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),
As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.
I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.
Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.
They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.
Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.
Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.
If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.
I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.
What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.
I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:
Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.
Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.
For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Murray
I wanted so much for President Trump to put America First.
That’s what I believed he would do.
All I heard from his speech tonight was WAR WAR WAR.
Nothing to lower the cost of living for Americans.
Nothing to reduce our near $40 trillion in debt.
Nothing to save Social Security, which goes bankrupt in just a few years.
Nothing to lower the cost of insurance.
Nothing to address jobs for Americans.
Nothing about education for our children.
Nothing about our children’s future.
Nothing for America’s future.
I’m so beyond done.
I pray for our military and their families.
I pray for innocent people all over the world.
I pray for peace and prosperity for all.
Kristi Noem wants us to pray for her now?
The heartless, evil, dog killing bitch who wouldn’t apologize to the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti?
She wants us to pray for her because her cuck of a husband got caught wearing women’s clothes?
Yeah, I don’t fucking think so.
I'm so sick of him. I'm sick of people pretending he's not an idiot. I'm sick of his lies and his disgusting amorality. I'm sick of his face, his voice, his smirk. I'm sick of his inability to say even one thing remotely kind or humble or appropriate ever. I'm just so sick of him
This woman has seen the videos of young girls being r*ped and s*xually assaulted.
This woman has seen the faces of the victims,
And their abusers.
This woman has read thousands of documents identifying the victims and abusers by name.
Yet she’s done nothing.
This is the face of a soulless fucking ghoul.
There's no CEO or university president in America who would keep their job if they posted something like this.
America will one day need to have a reckoning over this era.
мне кажется, что мы как общество ебейше недооцениваем такой феномен как стишки-пирожки
это русскоязычные хокку
непонятно
1)как они появились
2)как люди смогли уместить столько боли в паре строк
3) как они исчезли и где новые
Did the UN ever say his name?
Did the Red Cross ever say his name?
Did any world leader ever say his name?
Did any mainstream media ever say his name?
Did any human rights organizations ever say his name?
His name is Kfir Bibas. The world must remember him.
Забавно, что женщинам рекомендуют не ходить никуда по ночам, не шастать где-попало, не одеваться откровенно, но на самом деле для того, чтобы мир стал безопасным для женщин местом нужно только одно - запретить выходить из дома мужчинам 🤡👌🏻
I’ve posted this before. I think it bears repeating.
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I’ve noticed a lot of comments lately from MtF trans people saying that those of us who refuse to call them women are hateful bigots who just want to bully trans people.
Since the people making those claims seem totally disinterested in putting themselves in women’s shoes in any non-literal sense, I’ve tried to reframe it in a way that doesn’t ask them to try.
Imagine a group of white people saying that they know what it’s like to “feel black,” and that because of this feeling, and their enjoyment of stereotypically “black behavior,” they are now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized and vulnerable type of black person.
Imagine them insisting that they should be the main focus of all activism meant to help black people. Imagine them having operations to darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features.
Imagine them walking around in blackface, and saying it’s the same thing as being black.
Imagine them being honored as black citizens at the White House and supported by celebrities, with laws passed to make white people who identify as black a protected class.
Imagine these people demanding membership in black organizations, insisting that they receive a share of the reparations that CA is about to pay, and demanding they be given awards created specifically to honor black achievement.
Then imagine them getting their way.
Now imagine mobs of them showing up to black events that don’t include them to drown out any speakers with noise, and coming up with slurs for any black person who doesn’t accept that white people are black if they say they are.
Imagine them calling for the rape, torture, and mass murder of any black person who disagrees with them. Imagine them getting black people doxxed, harassed, assaulted, fired from their jobs, and investigated by the police for saying that you have to be born black to be black.
Now imagine the government supporting their demands.
That’s exactly the position that women are in right now, with a few extras, like being locked in cells with dangerous men, the sexual predation of lesbians via coercion, and the increased risk of sexual assault in formerly female-only spaces.
Our greatest oppressors are now claiming not only the right to oppress us in whole new ways, but the right to erase our identities as women and rewrite the meaning of womanhood in ways that suit - and include - them.
If you wouldn’t support this kind of behavior towards black people, you have no business supporting this kind of behavior towards women.
#TransWomenAreConMen
1 No.
2 No.
3 No.
4 Yes.
5 It’s women’s business when we’re told to surrender single-sex spaces, fair sport and sex-based rights, then threatened with violence, defamation and career loss when we protest.
@elonmusk We need more peace in the world.
Less war.
There’s a 1 in 400 trillion chance of being born to Earth.
Why do humans do this to each other?
We need more love in the world.
We should be happy to be here.
❤️❤️❤️
We're at a tipping point in this country, and we are not going to play nice anymore. We're taking full control of this narrative and will call it what it is.
It's not "Drag Queen Story Hour" — it's a children's strip show.
It's not "Gender Affirming Care" — its child mutilation and sterilization for profit.
It's not "inclusion" — it's porn in schools. PORN. IN. SCHOOLS.
This is a crisis and social epidemic. It is the largest child abuse scandal ever seen in America. It's time to treat it as such.
#GaysAgainstGroomers
“Sex is not the same as gender.”
But it’s not your gender that gives you the physique to tower over woman athletes & break their swimming records. It’s your sex. It’s not your undressed gender that upsets women in changing rooms. It’s your sex.
You can’t eat your cake & have it.
This is haunting: A doctor at a major children's hospital explains how puberty blockers shut down a child's hypothalamus, which controls emotions, sexuality, and the aesthetic sense.
"To shut down that system is to shut down what makes us human."
https://t.co/ou8dL1PesG
@dannybatista Number 2! Seeing more of the body makes the photo complete. The legs create a pleasant diagonal line from head to toe. For me, it's a more visually pleasing image.