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Suffragent

@Suffragent_

Journalist/author/meme ▪️NY Times and Sunday Times best-selling writer▪️Nope, not a misogynist▪️

London Katılım Eylül 2012
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@euronews Then blame older women for not buying tickets for films with strong females.
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euronews@euronews·
An anti-ageism campaign in the UK has uncovered that top-grossing films over past three years are more likely to star an actor named 'Chris' or a talking animal rather than a female lead over the age of 60. What gives? #Cinema ➡️ l.euronews.com/Uvio
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Gad Saad@GadSaad·
Dear @nikitabier, why is it so complicated to upload videos on this platform? It either takes forever to do so or the upload gets stuck in an infinite loop. My two latest uploads were stuck at 87% processing forever.
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Daily Mail Sport@MailSport·
Gabby Logan picked ahead of Kelly Cates and Mark Chapman as BBC's new Gary Lineker for the World Cup final: INSIDE SPORT trib.al/wEqs9xY
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Former Olympian and women's rights activist @sharrond62 explains what is so disappointing about the Government's news trans guidance. "It's ridiculous - we have to deal with reality! "We can't base laws for anything on feelings!" @CharlieRowley18
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"There is a very big side of misogyny to the trans movement." Former Olympian and women's rights activist @sharrond62 explains why it is only women who miss out when it comes to the ongoing trans debate. @CharlieRowley18
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Suffragent@Suffragent_·
@horton_official Super-excited for your outrage when female teachers groom/rape young boys.
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Helena Horton
Helena Horton@horton_official·
Hideous piece in the Mail questioning whether a woman was raped, because she agreed to appear on Married At First Sight : "one can’t help but wonder why a woman who didn’t want to have a full sexual encounter would volunteer for a dating show" dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/arti…
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Suffragent@Suffragent_·
@thetimes Ah, another hit piece from the man-hating feminists at The Times.
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Clavicular says he knows how to attract women. But his methods attract men #Echobox=1779454933" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/us/news-today/…
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Suffragent@Suffragent_·
@CamillaTominey Why are women treated with such undeserving reverence? They’re nothing special.
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Trevor Phillips
Trevor Phillips@TrevorPTweets·
My thoughts on the @EHRC guidance laid yesterday; this is not about non-existent "rights". It is about the safety of women - mothers, sisters, wives, daughters. We men need to hear their voices. Virginia Woolf : "Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes". My intro on @TimesRadio yesterday: Where I live there are two different routes to and from the tube station. One, let’s call it Acacia Avenue, is quiet and residential. The other, London Road, is a busy major route with lots of traffic. At all times of the day, I automatically head for Acacia Road. It’s just much nicer. The women in my family, on the other hand, will never willingly make that walk after dark. They live with an anxiety that most men find it hard to imagine, and frankly, rarely think about unprompted. Last year 739,000 women were sexually assaulted in Britain. Virtually all such assaults - nine out of ten - are perpetrated by men. One in four women have been attacked at some time in their lives. Acacia Avenue is exactly the sort of place in which most women fear that they become vulnerable, and they are right. As the author Virginia Woolf once wrote " Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes". I think this is the right context in which to understand the furore over the guidance being laid today by the government, over the meaning of the words man and woman when it comes to providing services and facilities in workplaces. Many men think this is about a rather arcane dispute about who gets to use what loo. For their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters, it isn’t. In a previous life, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, I had a hand in writing this country’s equality laws, in particular the 2010 Equality Act. It never occurred to any of us that there could be any confusion or dispute over the meaning of the words man and woman. But it has taken a decade of campaigning, a Supreme Court judgement and now hundreds of pages of guidance to settle the issue. This is not about so called trans rights, which are completely unaffected by this guidance, since no-one has ever had the right to walk into a changing room reserved for teenage girls. What it does mean is that women and girls are guaranteed the protection they deserve, and that their safety, which we spent half a decade drafting law to ensure, is protected. But the whole business illuminates some serious issues in our politics. First that many of our institutions, in spite of the fact that they always knew what the right thing to do was, decided to ignore the fears of their women customers and employees, under pressure from noisy pressure groups. Instead, the people who were supposed to be the grown ups behaved as though the law said what campaigners wanted it to say, rather than what it actually said. They settled for what they hoped would be a quiet life. In a democracy, there’s little point in Parliament deciding anything if the law is then made an ass by activists intimidating bosses in companies, schools, universities and the media into doing something different. Second, at the heart of the campaign to undermine the Equality Act is an idea that we specifically rejected in 2010, so called self-identification. That is to say, that it should be up to the individual to decide whether they have what’s called a protected characteristic - are you male or female, are you black or white. The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination. Look, it would almost certainly have been to my advantage as a young man to self-identify as a handsome, white public schoolboy. None of those things is true of me. And at various points I am pretty sure it’s been to my disadvantage. It is certainly statistically likely to have been to my disadvantage. But according to the logic of those who say that self-ID should be the rule and that anyone should be able to decide for themselves whether they are male or female, black or white or Asian, were I to complain about racial discrimination, it would be difficult for anyone prove that I’d been discriminated against because of my race since anybody to whom I’d lost out could just tell the courts that they too were black. I know that sounds like Alice in Wonderland but you can google the case where a chap, both of whose parents are white, insisted he should get money from the Arts Council because he so identified with the black struggle that he considered himself black, and everyone should accept his point of view. In the United States and Brazil exactly such outlandish claims have been made and people rewarded to the disadvantage of people actually born into minority families. I have even been told about firms who, when reporting their gender pay gaps have put men who just happen to like wearing dresses at weekends - nothing wrong with that, let me be clear - into the female column and told their women employees that they really haven’t got anything to moan about because statistically they are paid equally, and they should get back in their box. So today’s guidance isn’t just another tiresome chapter in culture wars. It is , I hope, a halt to the efforts to undermine one of the most important pieces of legislation on the statute book, by people who, for their own reasons, would prefer us to be living in the 1950s world of Mad Men.
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Suffragent@Suffragent_·
@ajusted @TrevorPTweets @EHRC Women will need to urinate in the Garrick. Hope this helps. Also, msn-hating feminists demanded access to men’s locker rooms in the 1970s and have been invading them ever since. Where’s your outrage?
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David Beckler
David Beckler@DavidBeckler1·
@Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC If you can't see the difference between women objecting to being excluded from positions of power and men being a threat to women, you're an idiot. If you feel you need to state that you're not a misogynist in your bio, maybe you are.
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Suffragent@Suffragent_·
@MsKarenMason @TrevorPTweets @EHRC So men are only a ‘threat’ when it’s politically convenient to your feminist ideology? It’s puzzling that you need this explained to you.
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Karen Mason
Karen Mason@MsKarenMason·
@Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC Because women want a fair chance of making contacts that advance their economic wellbeing but don’t want to be in situations where they are vulnerable to attack. It’s puzzling that you would need this to be explained to you.
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ThornyBint
ThornyBint@ThornyBint·
@Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC A bit of a whataboutery question but I'll bite. Men only clubs like the Garrick were primarily where men would network and promote others like them to positions of power. Now women have more access to such positions it's not so important. Obviously threat is not an issue here.
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Jimmy D@JDelpine·
@Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC If you had a room where it's documented that 50% of people will die within 10 seconds of entry and put up a sign that said "Men only", women would protest until they gained access.
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