Author of Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women and Unkind: How Kindness Culture Punishes Women Agent: @LittleHardman Email: glosswatch @ gmail.com

Cheltenham
5th March is paperback publication day for Unkind - on how #BeKind might not, in fact, be making everyone more kind. Order it here! geni.us/UnkindOrder
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I'm sensing women should be too poor to defend their rights, or if they're not poor, they're too privileged to need any rights
Scottish nurse Sandie Peggie is taking action against her own union, the Royal College of Nursing. She says her union reps didn't support her when she was suspended for complaining about using the same changing room as her transgender colleague Dr Beth Upton. This is her second tribunal. Previously a judge upheld a harassment claim against her employer NHS Fife arising from the same facts. Her team said they can’t tell Channel 4 News who is funding the case for legal reasons but they did say it was a 'left wing individual'. JK Rowling's office won’t confirm if she is financially backing her.
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Replying to @KilledWomennw
'He is capable of learning' and the judge decided to teach him that he can get away with extreme violence so long as the victim is female 🤬
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‘I don’t know where to begin…’ Shelagh Fogarty reacts to the sentencing of a 14-year-old boy who stabbed a girl multiple times after she rejected his advances.
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UK women are simply not going to see our rights, including single-sex spaces, trampled for the benefit of a tiny sub-set of men (and their allies) who think their wish for inclusion should trump everything else. Sisterhood is powerful and this is a cross-party issue👇
Zoe Hollowood is incredibly brave to challenge her party in this way. I know what it’s like to state biological sex is real and be attacked for speaking common sense and telling the truth. She is not on my side of the political spectrum, but courage calls to courage everywhere. Zoe should be supported in trying to get the Lib Dems to stop being silly, follow the law and respect the supreme court judgement.
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"He's still young. And he is capable of learning..." that girls don't matter in the worldview of some men with high social standing Some of our judges should never set foot in a court again
And as the judge sentenced the boy with a three-year restraining order for stabbing the girl multiple times (which he called "a very troubling event"), he said that he did not think the boy was a "danger", and that "He's still young. And he is capable of learning". bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxq6…
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Here's a Gender Critical Booklist for anyone that might find it useful. To be expanded at some point when I have the time. Hope it's useful. Link here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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My survivor grandfather accompanied the England players on that trip to Auschwitz in 2012. He loved how interested Rooney and Hart were in it all
The Rooneys on taking their sons to Auschwitz: Wayne: “It was part of his education. He was doing world war two at school.” They are seen in the show passing Auschwitz, and stopping to look at the cattle cars the Nazis used to transport people to their death. Wayne: “It’s really important to learn about history, good and bad. Sometimes with your kids, you only want to tell them good stuff, and I don’t think that’s good for them.” Coleen: “We knew we’d be passing Auschwitz, and we wanted to stop.” She looks at Wayne. “You’ve been before, haven’t you?” Wayne: “I went at the Euros in 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. The FA asked us who wanted to go, and four or five of us went. It put a lot of things into perspective to see what had gone on there.”
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This still makes me laugh six years on!! 🤣🤣🤣
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All done, if not in my best time (knee started hurting midway through, which feels a bit 'beginning of the end'. Still, worse things could have happened!)
Kind of wishing the Cheltenham half marathon wasn't coming straight after a week of news stories claiming it's "common" to soil yourself in such events. But it's not too late to sponsor me on behalf of @nia_endingVAWG ! (Just for running) justgiving.com/page/victoria…
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𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝗼 & 𝗗𝗲𝘅𝘁 Wishing two of our very own all the very best today as they run the Cheltenham Half Marathon in memory of our beautiful forever Friend, whilst raising money for Sunflowers Suicide Support 🌻. #CTFCFamily ❤️🤍 gofundme.com/f/cheltenhamhal…
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Kind of wishing the Cheltenham half marathon wasn't coming straight after a week of news stories claiming it's "common" to soil yourself in such events. But it's not too late to sponsor me on behalf of @nia_endingVAWG ! (Just for running) justgiving.com/page/victoria…
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If ever you look at the trans Reddit uk forum it’s full of young people who are obviously vulnerable and mentally fragile. I worry about them. Jolyon used them as weapons in his mad war. He’s a danger to trans people not JK Rowling. Don’t use suicide as a weapon. Basic safeguarding principle.
How the Supreme Court tipped Anna over the edge Billionaires like JK Rowling have funded a blizzard of legal attacks on the trans community – and her allies in the rightwing and far-right press have pursued a campaign of trans hate goodlawproject.org/jo-maugha…
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There’s a bizarro manoeuvre where a writer will insist they’re not anti-porn — in fact, will be derisive of anyone who is anti-porn — then enumerate all the ways porn is terrible without conceding the point. And this book is a prime example: thetimes.com/article/4fbd055…
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I wrote about Lena Dunham, millennial feminism and surrogacy. It seems both ironic and obvious to me that a privilege-obsessed movement would end up ignoring this massive example of rich women getting to act like men glosswitch.substack.com/p/mi…
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Barbara Katz Rothman, 'Beyond Mothers and Fathers: Ideology in a Patriarchal Society'
Replying to @BradfemlyWalsh
It’s not purchasing a baby. If you’re the genetic parents, it’s not purchasing a baby. You’re paying someone to grow your baby, and you’re paying her to give up any claims to parental rights. You’re not paying for your own parental rights.
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Suffragettes: “We want the vote” “You’re going to be old and ugly”
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The logic of "defining women by gender stops people being defined by stereotypes" seems to be "insisting all women - as female humans - are a bunch of feminine stereotypes is bad, but obviously women *are* a bunch of feminine stereotypes so we'll say women aren't female" >
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And all female humans are supposed to be grateful for the opt-out of being a walking stereotype this offers, even if it robs them of a collective language and politics around which to organise. As if no one could possibly contemplate women not being a bunch of stereotypes instead
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You don't challenge repressive sex stereotypes (ak gender) in the workplace by basing your policies on repressive sex stereotypes (aka gender) in the workplace. That such nonsensical, dim, misogynist cult think is still being propagated everywhere is insanity. Ppl have gone mad.
A brief overview of the TUC‘s motion on gender self ID. They want to base gender on social constructs of gender rather than biology and somehow think that this is going to challenge regressive stereotypes. I thought gender and sex were different for a start….
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