Whatever my internal sense of self, I have never been able to identify out of being the subject of sexism & misogyny, or sexual assault and abuse. I want single sex spaces where women are vulnerable.

When I am filling in a survey, form or questionnaire, if there is a question which says "gender: male/female/non-binary/other- please specify" I tick "other" & write them an essay about why they are stupid

So no, 15-minute cities are not restrictions of any sort Restrictions on car use are entirely normal and have been in place for decades in one form or another A scheme to reduce congestion is NOT the same thing as a 15-min city The ability to DRIVE wherever you please, whenever you please is not an inalienable human right👍🏼 24/

Oooh I like this

If you are afraid to take on bizarre and organisationally compromising behaviour by your own staff, definitely find a different job.

RT @beffybadbelly: Actually blows my mind that the people who are jealous of DISABLED PEOPLE have caused this change. What a bunch of utter…

A motto for the ages: "... it's hard not to dislike people just in case..."

Just wait till the market in cheap, low mileage second hand luxury cars dries up in say, exactly three year’s time. Serves you all right for the politics of spite and ableism.

And Russell-Moyle, with his obvious lack of judgement about what is appropriate for young people is current Chief Executive of the Woodcraft folk!!! Why?

Last night's #thearchers I can't help it, birthing scenes always reduce me to puddles of sentimental tears. Human birth, that is hahah

Now, by the current rules Hitler is TQI

Yes. That non-monogamy stuff, it's because he never dated before or hung around in a friends group that did when he was in his teens, isn't it? Most of us get that stuff worked out by seeing ourselves & our friends going through relationship stuff, cheating, etc etc

Men who buy babies are evil, straight up. I don't WANT those kinds of men to be fathers. 😱

Do you know what “queer” means? To some gay men, it was a term of abuse hurled at them just before they were beaten up. To Tilda Swinton - a heterosexual woman who has given birth to two children with one of her male partners - it means a “sensibility”. How dare she. “I was just looking for my queer circus, and I found it," she says, in a cheerful, offhand slap in the face to everyone who cares about gay and lesbian rights. Gay and lesbian rights are about homosexuality. Which is a criminal offence in some 68 countries worldwide. Those who stole our movement, with their “gender identity” jargon, their “edgy” straight sex, and their “queer circus” make my blood boil. For years we fought for the rights of people who are sexually oriented towards others of the same sex. And now - even in countries that have same-sex marriage - we have to do it all over again. @AllianceLGB @lgbinternationl

Is it just me? Not just what appalling person French has revealed herself to be, but I feel itchy about the appalling character she plays in the ad, tapping into the most horrible characterisations of us menopausal women eg greedy bigots hoarding our rights... is that a theme?

I don't care if people with an interest or commitment to being able to masturbate to images of abuse want to call me "joyless".... abuse of women and children isn't fun

Lots of people pointing out that feeding your children is not "being our of pocket" but I can see this message is v much aimed at the types who resent any help towards poorer people: "they get it all for free, but us hard working people have to pay"

The only thing that explains this is *drugs*

I find it very difficult to retain my respect for people who airily refer to "the genocide" in Gaza, as if it's been proven (or is simply obvious) that a genocide has been taking place there. At the very least, it's far from obvious. If anything, it's obvious that what we've been seeing is a brutal urban war carried out on terms dictated by Hamas, in which Hamas has adopted a strategy of maximizing the number of deaths and injuries of its own civilian population for propaganda purposes. This is a well-known tactic that has often been successful in the past in gaining international support and succeeding politically against militarily stronger enemies. I think it's fine to criticize Israel for adopting a strategy of entering into a full-scale war when it might have had other options, although it's also fine to question whether any of those other options, whatever they were, were genuinely viable. It's also fine to make allegations that Israel has committed war crimes during the process of this war - it has undoubtedly committed breaches of international humanitarian war, and some of those breaches might well rise to the level of war crimes. This happens on both sides in almost any war, so it wouldn't be surprising (but of course, that doesn't make it excusable). But not only is not simply obvious that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza; it's obvious that it wasn't - at least if we stick with the definition of genocide in the Genocide Convention as interpreted by international criminal courts and tribunals to date. Israel has clearly had strategic and military aims - defeating and destroying Hamas, getting the hostages back, etc. - rather than a specific intent of exterminating an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group as such. It was always possible for its enemies to get Israel to stop simply by laying down their arms and surrendering. It's also increasingly obvious that a lot of people, perhaps including some jurists in the international courts, want to expand the concept of genocide so as to include Israel's actions in Gaza. Perhaps they'll succeed, but you have to wonder why they have that ambition. If war crimes are going on, and a lot of people are dying, why not just say that rather than insisting on expanding the meaning of the word "genocide", which refers to something beyond even this and has a reasonably precise meaning? Arguments about whether the current concept of genocide should be expanded can become pretty esoteric. We'll doubtless see those arguments play out in the courts over the following years. But at least some people who are sophisticated enough to realize that this is what is going on are being dishonest. They seem to want to expand the concept of genocide precisely for the purpose of demonizing Israel and making it look like Nazi Germany - and thus trying to do their bit to bring about Israel's defeat and destruction. For these people, it's not good enough to criticize (and debate) Israel's decision to embark on a full-scale war that would inevitably kill a lot of civilians, partly because of the very nature of urban warfare and partly because of the way Hamas embeds itself in population centers and within, around, and underneath civilian infrastructure. It's also not good enough, from their perspective, to accuse Israel of war crimes (which is itself a very serious and emotionally powerful accusation). They want to be able to portray Israel, falsely, as a force of evil comparable to worst the regimes in history, and to tar it - falsely - with a label that suggests the most extreme depths of horror and depravity. Obviously, a lot of people don't understand any of this at all and are just parroting what they hear (in which case, they have freedom of speech to say these things, but they're not worth listening to on this topic). But there are others who should know better, in that they do know something about international criminal law, and who are deliberately engaging in what they know is a program of hate propaganda against the state of Israel, with an inevitable risk that the hatred they're whipping up will go beyond Israel and its people and extend to the Jewish people.

Feminists did such a good job that: Most young women in western countries (of a certain class) have never experienced sexism or sexual harassment. That’s why they don’t see the need for sex-based protections and spaces. What they know as “sexism” is manspreading and something called “period poverty” And those are the women who are in management roles in elite institutions now. Hard times create tough women Tough women create good times Good times create coddled women Coddled women create hard times. or: Sexism creates feminists Feminists create egalitarianism Egalitarianism creates #BeKind women #BeKind women recreate the patriarchy.

All the people I love are in this mindset. It breaks my heart; every one of my family and all my friends bar one