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Ms Grumpytrousers

@becklaxton

Sweary feminist with a low boredom threshold. Also UX/information designer; writer and editor; amateur musician. All strong opinions my own.

Sawston, Cambridgeshire Katılım Nisan 2008
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Ms Grumpytrousers
Ms Grumpytrousers@becklaxton·
* how stupid sexism is – and why is autocorrect so bloody useless?
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Ms Grumpytrousers
Ms Grumpytrousers@becklaxton·
So if you were actually parenting, you’d be explaining to your child how wrong those stereotypes are. Even a four year old can understand how stupid sexual sm is if you actually take the time to explain it.
Herstory - destroy the cage@eilidhfife

@HJoyceGender @tlitb This from another of the father’s medium pieces - “The discomfort I saw wasn’t coming from her; it came from the rigidity of the boxes placed around her.” - so, ignore the stereotypes, don’t tell your child they’re actually a girl 🙄🙄

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Speckled Jim
Speckled Jim@speckled_jim2·
@philmcraig @jan_murray @NeurolawNerd From a different angle, 450 signatories from 80,000 volunteers is described as an "exodus". 0.56% of volunteers have signed a letter about their *threat* to leave, not actually left. As exoduses go, this seems like a bit of a slow burner...
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Jayne ✝️🇬🇧🚜
Jayne ✝️🇬🇧🚜@MollyP25131886·
@chris_kratovil He has a fine intellect and intelligence. Such a pity this didn't go hand in hand with the real desire to truly save our country and protect our people.
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Christopher Kratovil
Christopher Kratovil@chris_kratovil·
It’s not every day that one gets to listen to a former British Prime Minister recite from memory the opening passages of The Iliad in Ancient Greek, with no notes, in response to a random question from an undergraduate—and all while wearing what appear to be Thomas The Tank Engine socks. But today was one such day. My thanks to my good friend Brad LaMorgese for the opportunity to see the colorful and comic Boris Johnson speak tonight at the University of Dallas.
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Nigel Parker
Nigel Parker@parke65055·
@HJoyceGender Why don't all the female athletes strike on mass until all this madness ends?
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Ms Grumpytrousers
Ms Grumpytrousers@becklaxton·
@Richard18618097 @realAtlasPress I live in a house without a damp proof course. Many houses don’t need them. Mine is timber framed and lime plastered: that’s a completely different construction method.
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Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis@Richard18618097·
@realAtlasPress I don't they're mutually exclusive. What matters most is good design. Scrotum didn't have to live in a house without a damp proof course.
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Atlas Press
Atlas Press@realAtlasPress·
“My father observed that most buildings, and most buildings that we truly love, are not the work of architects. The agreeable settledness of the old English town, he reasoned, was the work of local craftsmen…” —Sir Roger Scruton
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Bo
Bo@Bozenka_2023·
Funny how allowing men to compete in women's sport was never made into 'a landmark decision' and women athletes were never consulted. But the righting of that wrong necessitates interviews with the men and a lot of chest beating from male sports journalists on their behalf 🧐
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Nicole Lampert
Nicole Lampert@nicolelampert·
Daily Mail journalists aren’t going after your family (as you are aware, there is more we could write if we were). I’m a freelance journalist who spoke to your family members who are frightened by the Jew hate in your party. They are frightened by what you have given the green light to. While you once fought Jew hatred, now you indulge it because, as we both see, it is popular. Other political groups have discovered this in the past. Shame on you @ZackPolanski Shame on you.
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski

This is why Daily Mail journalists are going after my family now. The right wing propaganda machine will not work on the Green Party. We're ready to end Rip Off Britain, end the cost of living crisis and make hope normal again.

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Sarah Phillimore
Sarah Phillimore@SVPhillimore·
Maugham’s reputation is long gone; he will be using other people’s money that he has extracted on false pretences. He perceives himself as righteous. I will do this for the last shred of respect I retain for my profession: that an independent Bar still matters. He does all of this while King’s Counsel and I cannot sit back and let this happen. If the courts declare his behaviour acceptable then so be it.
Charles Terf 🦖💜🤍💚🏴‍☠️@CharlesTerf

@SVPhillimore @londondb Sarah, your assessment is remarkably accurate especially about one party being too mad to reach a sensible compromise. Having looked at the defamatory comments, I doubt your house is at risk, but the Fox Killer’s reputation and assets are. There is always litigation risk but ….

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Dr. M.F. Khan
Dr. M.F. Khan@Dr_TheHistories·
When bicycles appeared in the late 19th century, they collided perfectly with the growing women’s rights movement. For the first time, women could travel alone without needing a carriage, a chaperone, or a man to escort them. This wasn’t just about convenience, it was about autonomy. Susan B. Anthony famously said the bicycle had “done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world,” because it gave women literal mobility at a time when society tried to keep them physically and socially confined. Cycling clubs, women’s riding groups, and long‑distance female cyclists became symbols of independence, challenging Victorian ideas about what women were “allowed” to do. That freedom forced fashion to change. Traditional corsets, bustles, and floor‑length skirts were dangerous on a bicycle, they snagged in gears, restricted breathing, and made riding nearly impossible. So women began adopting bloomers, shorter skirts, and looser clothing, sparking outrage from conservatives who saw these garments as scandalous. But the shift stuck. By the early 20th century, the bicycle had helped push Western women toward more practical clothing and more public visibility. It wasn’t just a mode of transportation, it was a quiet revolution on two wheels, reshaping gender norms long before women won the vote. One fascinating detail often left out is how fiercely the bicycle was attacked by the establishment. Doctors warned that cycling would cause “bicycle face”, a fake medical condition claiming women’s faces would freeze in an unladylike grimace. Clergy preached that bicycles would lead women to moral ruin because they could travel unchaperoned. Newspapers mocked women who wore bloomers, and some cities even tried to ban women from riding altogether. The backlash was so intense precisely because bicycles were working: they were giving women independence, physical strength, and public visibility in a way society had never seen. That resistance and women’s refusal to back down is what makes the bicycle not just a tool of mobility, but a symbol of early feminist rebellion. #drthehistories
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Angela Linton
Angela Linton@Ajl1959xy·
@annbauerwriter That wasn't my take. I felt he had narried her for her looks and became bored with her.
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Ms Grumpytrousers
Ms Grumpytrousers@becklaxton·
@LucyHunterB Give an abusive, manipulative man a sense of entitlement and you’ve got a shitload more problems than you started with. Which you would have thought that people who deal with abusive, manipulative men on a daily basis might have spotted.
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Lucy Hunter Blackburn@LucyHunterB·
“Staff had to calm him down... There is concern they may placate Green by allowing him association with women in the female estate at Greenock. But any other inmate with a history of violence would not be treated with such kid gloves.” thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16094149/…
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Ms Grumpytrousers
Ms Grumpytrousers@becklaxton·
Genuine stupidity or performative stupidity? Is someone actually giving money to this moron to write this nonsense?
Rolf Degen@DegenRolf

Male refugees from Afghanistan and Syria in Germany show a keen interest in forming relationships with local women, but the local women show little interest in forming relationships with them. Germany, in particular, received over 1,4 million refugees between 2014 and 2016, predominantly from Muslim-majority countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. The majority of these arrivals consisted of young, single men within prime marriageable age brackets. This study examines partnership preferences of male refugees from Afghanistan and Syria who arrived in Germany between 2014 and 2016 and female residents of similar age. Overall, our results indicate a high level of openness among male refugees towards partnering with female members of the resident population, but a comparatively low level of openness among the latter towards partnering with recently arrived male refugees. This implies a substantial incongruence in partnership preferences among the two groups. Regarding the educational level of a potential partner, we found that all respondents prefer highly educated partners over those with lower levels of education. This suggests that, for refugees, securing a highly educated partner might serve as a means of upward social mobility and integration into higher-status networks in the host society. Furthermore, it is possible that highly educated women, due to their greater exposure to diverse social environments and potentially less discriminatory attitudes, are perceived as more open to intergroup partnerships, making them a more attractive choice for refugees seeking acceptance and social integration. On the other hand, the reluctance of resident women to accept partnerships with refugees is largely explained by their rejection of the ‘imported’ religious Islam. It is possible that resident women perceive the religious practices of newly arrived refugees as different from their own, reinforcing a social distance that limits intergroup partnerships. Moreover, this reluctance might not only reflect religious differences but also concerns about gender norms or perceived lifestyle incompatibilities.

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Daniel Hannan
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan·
Be honest. How many times have you seen an actual full-on burqa on a British woman? It is extraordinary how much political energy is expended on an issue whose real-world impact would, to a first approximation, be zero.
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cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic·
Andrew Garfield says he recently watched the Harry Potter films for the first time, but added: “we shouldn’t be putting money in the pocket of inhumane legislation right now through she that shall remain nameless.”
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