Linda McQueen

Editor, copy-editor, proofreader, typesetter. Reactivated radfem after years of sleep. GC. Women first, forever and always. #TogetherAgainstAntisemitism

[Linda McQueen @wordwatching]

@skahtboi @WomenAreReals Oh, do stop with that ridiculous argument that you think is such a gotcha. One is family you know and trust, the other is strangers.

[Esmerelda @ClaireAFarr]

@canthelpmenow7 Everything they say and do proves they are not women.
Their demands prove they are not women.
Their expectations prove they are not women.
Their attitude to women proves they are not women.
Yet still they want us to believe they are, just because they play dress up.

[Linda McQueen @wordwatching]

@BaskinsSarah @babybeginner It has to be magnesium glycinate, though, specifically

[Linda McQueen @wordwatching]

@hkhayford @TaniaAMarshall It's contempt. Slight lifting of one side of the lip.

[Linda McQueen @wordwatching]

@RichardDawkins I much prefer this, and have actually worked on books as an editor and typesetter that follow this arrangement. The only down side is that you can't tell, while on the page, whether something potentially confusing or interesting has a note or not. Perhaps do this at chapter ends?

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

Unlike your privileged, spoiled ass, I actually lived in Iran under the Islamic Republic. My everyday life was shaped by the Supreme Leader and the brutal regime he runs.

You will never understand the feeling of seeing the man who helped destroy your life finally gone. You only read about it. I lived it.

So sit this one out, kid. You have no idea what it means to live under people who rule your country while treating your life as disposable. You have never experienced oppression, you little brat. You just love to cosplay it..
And that is our difference.

[Nicki 🫧🪷 @nickimoraa]

If you tell women to change their behaviour to avoid being raped, what you’re really saying is, “make sure he rapes the other girl instead.”

There will always be a woman who is more vulnerable less sober, less confident, with fewer friends around her, or walking alone in a darker part of town.
She deserves to be safe just as much as I do.
Safety shouldn’t depend on which woman was easier to target that night. The problem isn’t women’s behaviour. The problem is men who choose to commit rape as an act of violence.

[Bramm @BrammLindentree]

@Megan_With_No_H

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A large number of people (mostly men, in my experience) who're sympathetic to some of women's opposition to gender identity ideology, nevertheless think it's cruel to point out that a trans-identified man looks like a man, and unkind not to 'respect' his pronouns. They think these are 'compromises' women should be prepared to make. 'What does it matter?' they say. 'How does it hurt you?'

The psychological effects of being coerced, manipulated or pressured into doing something that is against a person's own beliefs or values are well known. 'Moral injury' occurs when a person is forced to betray deep-held convictions, or stand in silence while those convictions are being betrayed. The individual feels transgressed at a core level. The inevitable consequences are stress, anxiety and anger.

Workplaces across the west have imposed a Kafkaesque situation on women. A belief system most people consider nonsensical, but which, in elite circles, has become almost a religion, has been imposed from on high. Women are being persecuted and punished for not pretending they think men can change sex. The policing of pronouns, and the harassment and shaming of women who won't pretend they can't recognise a man when they see one, is merely the tip of genderism's gigantic, threatening iceberg.

Any man who seeks to force women to play along with the fantasy that he's female is engaging in a typically male power play. At worst, he will suffer narcissistic injury from her non-compliance, but that doesn't make him objectively vulnerable. The non-compliant woman, though, suffers lasting moral injury by being forced to participate daily in a lie - a lie, moreover, that constitutes a fundamental threat to her own rights to privacy, dignity and safety.

It has been profoundly illuminating to see how many people - possibly because their own values spring, not from a place of rationality or true conviction, but from fashion and self-interest - see male narcissistic injury as so very much more worthy of compassion than the moral injuries suffered by women.

[Linda McQueen @wordwatching]

@usernamecoffee Foot injury. Didn't get better after a week's rest.

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

I spoke to a woman yesterday who went to the GP repeatedly for a year until they bothered to look for her tumour. This is another story of how the NHS has let a woman down so badly. This is a direct way to help a woman in need.

Urgent Hysterectomy Due to NHS Delays https://t.co/dRf48q4ML7

[DamnedNation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @ToBeDamnedOrNot]

Good morning, today is a good day to show some kindness. To all of you who have so far. Thank you.

@banbadmen could really use some hope and kindness. For her family, for her child. She would never have dreamed of asking,but I will. She can't go to work and earn it, the money she needs. She's too sick and she can't afford to stay sick.

What a situation to be trapped in with no end in sight. So we're here asking for help. Help she herself has given without even thinking about it. Whilst many of do this without expectation, she needs your help now. So if you can please donate to her fund

https://t.co/LrM5VjRS1R

[Linda McQueen @wordwatching]

@banbadmen @ToBeDamnedOrNot @MalleyNotagain @Isla_macy @RobbieTravers @TheOnlyGuru @artistofpeeps @kebabwhisperer @HellNoItsJudith @Pookeynoodle1 I just tried again and it worked. Best of luck!

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

The point of declaring words violence was always to be able to use violence against words.

[Linda McQueen @wordwatching]

@CarerUnderCover @Foxglove2026 Yes.

[UnHerd @unherd]

‘The human conceit that personal feelings can change reality signals an extraordinary elevation of humanity in a kind of species-level solipsism.’

[Linda McQueen @wordwatching]

@Gazrj01 It's just winged its way!