A Bindoff @a_bindoff
(The Dark Blue Bird by Edward Lear) Joined September 2015-
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Very grateful to Steve Whitaker at The Yorkshire Times for this look at my poem 'Marky'. The Irish proverb epigraph translates as 'It is often a man's mouth broke his nose'.
@peterjukes @AudreySuffolk What rights are granted to the group of humans who are female, collectively known as ‘women’, under the EA?
@MForstater Ironically, isn’t biology the ultimate ‘backstop’?
@sueveneer He hasn’t quite mastered call and response here, has he 😉
@peterjukes @uppity_witch @ukvillafan ‘If you’d ever paid any attention…’ I can only speak for myself, but when I first encountered your views some years ago on Twitter it was obvious at once that your bog-standard misogyny wasn’t worth my attention. I expect other women rapidly reached the same conclusion.
I think people who've rocked up ten seconds ago on an issue that stealthily made its way through everyone's workplaces, entire sectors, and - even *if* one used 'preferred pronouns' or whatever - absolutely destroyed some people's lives if they showed an inch of opposition to it, should show more understanding and empathy - particularly of the disparity between the treatment of women vs men who oppose all of this. Not everyone is particularly political; some people were attempting to find a way to oppose this without making it their entire life; some were - rightly - terrified. I know I was. I wasn't wealthy. I didn't have a huge safety net. I was single, solo, and in the sodding arts, which in many ways was ground zero of all of this utter bullshit in Scotland. Some were indeed trying to 'be kind', or just find some way through this, because, prior to this issue entering their lives, they trusted people wouldn't be SO mental to actually believe those who identify as 'trans women' are literally women. And most people really, really just wanted it to goooo awaaaaay. I was one of the latter. I always thought it fucking insane and just really, really wanted it to stop - wrongly assuming our legislators would do that, and wrongly assuming that, as soon as people knew what was happening, there would be so much opposition that it would. I don't recall using 'transwomen,' but I did use 'male bodied' and all the bullshit ways we tried to placate these terrifying activists in our lives (I was in the arts, there were a lot of them, and in my inbox with frequency) and at one point I used some people's preferred pronouns - usually if I'd only ever known that person as being referred to as 'she'. (Meeting trans widows stopped that, and I wouldn't do so now.) We don't need lectures from men on how much these pricks have 'won' from us, and we always knew they were men. They didn't 'win' what they did (temporarily, I wager) because some occasionally called them 'transwomen.' They did so because extremely powerful people LET them, and watched us be hounded to within an inch of our sanity for standing against all of this. Cheers for the belated snide though, sir.
The massive mistake many of you made and still make, is to call them transwomen. The second you use that word to describe a bloke who’s wearing a dress, he’s winning, because you’ve used the word woman in relation to him. He’s not a transwoman, he’s a bloke. Call him a bloke
@msjlindsay @AudreySuffolk Nice and safe to speak up now. He’ll have absolutely no clue what things were like at the beginning (by which I mean 2015 ish - I know some brave lesbians spoke out sooner) and by the way many of us understood language was central to the issue from the first.
@RosieDuffield1 @lnmackenzie1 Anything that intensifies visibility is a good thing, I think.
Early Day Motion on the Amnesty report, tabled by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…
@SarahCorbe87537 @ForWomenScot @latsot JKR once said in passing, ‘women are very well protected at Beira’s Place’ - that’s all anyone who cares about you needs to know.
Euan @euanmccolm is right, Amnesty is wrong. The (mainly) women in movement are nothing like passive and indistinguishable bits of snow being rolled into a ball by some external designer. Perhaps the most fundamental failure in all of this has been how powerful organisations have discounted the agency of ordinary women, as they sought to give our rights away.
@jk_rowling @JamesWong66 @JohnJamesNI And the Supreme Court said we were allowed to.
@holland_tom That would have been great but some of us will never be happy until you can get Tom Hollandest on too.
@WomensSpaceIre @5uffragette @WomensRightsNet @amnesty You should read what @bindelj has written about them. The other thing to note is that of all the charities and organisations my charity works with in Afghanistan - NOT ONE of them has ever had any help or contact from Amnesty - not so much as a peep
Well said by Kate.
And here's a letter from Kate Coleman, Founder and (Former) Director, Keep Prisons Single Sex asking for an apology and an explanation.
Sexual assaults on women are committed at a rate not seen in Scotland for 50+ yrs. Amnesty International’s response-Beira's Place, a support service for female survivors of male violence, declared a place of hate.👀 Is Amnesty now run by incels?🤷🏻♀️
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