Manchester Feminists

Women need women only spaces! Anyone harassing women running a single sex group for traumatised women should be ashamed of themselves.

@VirginaRay57067 @LesMs38 @novaramedia @OwenJonesStan @AaronBastani @kieran_andrieu Don’t be ridiculous. ISREAL is committing a genocide, not ‘Jewish people’. Conflating the two is what feeds antisemitism. There are Jews who stand up for Palestinians, there are Muslims who fight for women’s rights, and there are maniacs of all religions and none.

It is antisemitic to push the lie that Jews committed genocide. Jews act to defend themself against homicidal muslims and their allies. There are fake group fronts the left claims are made up of Jews but that ONE group has been exposed as a front for said homicidal muslims. You know nothing about feminism and have never won any rights for women yet you feel free to claim intelligence on the subject. What you know about feminism is the bull shit you learnrf from your left teachers who also never worked for women's rights. Talk to your muslim friends about rights for women. When things change for muslim women because of what you did, then I will listen to your opinions about feminism.@Phyllischesler

"You are Jew hunting!" Peaceful protesters knocking on doors to promote a boycott of Israeli goods were questioned and filmed by people who accused them of antisemitism. On Novara Live, @AaronBastani and @Kieran_Andrieu discuss the psychology of guilt that leads genocide apologists to lash out at others.

@LesMs38 @novaramedia @OwenJonesStan @AaronBastani @kieran_andrieu It’s also pretty antisemitic to imply that all Jewish people support Israel’s genocide! And patently untrue. Astute point re DARVO. Do you wonder if these genocide supporting women are also covering up their own guilt and shame? That’s where a lot of DARVO comes from of course

@novaramedia @OwenJonesStan @AaronBastani @kieran_andrieu This ‘Jew hunting’ claim is as ridiculous as someone accusing those that boycotted South African goods during Apartheid as ‘Afrikaan hunting’ - an absolute inversion of power relations, complete DARVO.

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated. Here is Epstein's executive assistant, who sent >100k emails to him and was shielded from prison via a 2007 non-prosecution deal.

@carolecadwalla on Epstein and how we all already knew that the world had a dark, sickening world of power hungry paedophiles. open.substack.com/pub/broligarch…

Read this. Read everything you can about the Epstein files. ‘It’s sickening’ is not a reason not to read. It’s the reason we should all know more about it and hold them to account.

The rich have always abused the poor. It’s how they get rich and how they stay rich. The rich men in the Epstein circle believed themselves above the law, and poor girls below contempt. We should all be shocked by recent revelations but it’s no surprise.

When someone says surrogacy was the “safest option,” what they usually mean is safest for them. That word is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Pregnancy doesn’t become safe, it just gets transferred to a poorer woman whose risk is treated as acceptable.

Saw that Dylan Mulvaney is playing Anne Boleyn 🙄. What a performative piece of casting Not being able to produce a living heir for Henry V111 was such a tragic part of Anne Boleyn’s story and it was a huge part of why she was killed by him If she had been a man, no one would have killed her for not bearing the King a son And the saddest thing is she miscarried, likely a son. So she had to suffer that loss Her whole history, her context, and the impact of her sex on her life, is completely collapsed if she’s reimagined as a bloke in a frock And her daughter Elizabeth 1 was not only one of our greatest monarchs but also had her life entirely altered by the fact of being female It’s interesting to see how often a lack of desire to understand history is present in people who lack empathy for others. Especially empathy for women. Seems like you need to actually care about people to care about the people of the past If they can rewrite women of now, of course they won’t feel much shame about rewriting the women of back then But it’s as stupid as it is sad

Several studies have shown that, if the word ‘rape’ is not used, a significant proportion of men will admit to being rapists after reading descriptions of various rape scenarios.

MYTH: Prostitution stops men raping women “Do we really accept that men can’t control themselves? Do we believe that when a man sees a woman or a girl, he can’t control himself and he has to rape her? Do we really accept that? No of course we don’t believe that. That is infantilising men. It is insulting their humanity. Like rape, prostitution is not only about sex. It is also about power and men using sex to gain personal power. Punters tell us this in their own words on websites such as punternet where they can rate the women they buy. It is chilling and disturbing to read their accounts and to see each punter’s lack of awareness that the prostituted woman is a human being with the same needs and hopes and dreams as he has; to see how he never questions his right to expect and demand that she should be ready to satisfy his every whim regardless of her own feelings. This is what prostitution teaches punters. It feeds their narcissism. Prostitution survivors tell us the same story. In her powerful speech at Feminism in London 2015, prostitution survivor Rebecca Mott said that punters think their violence is not real violence because “they view the prostituted as sub-human sexual goods. IT IS NOTHING HAPPENING TO NOTHING.” Where do the punters go when they leave the prostituted woman at the side of the road or they walk out of the brothel? They go back to their homes and jobs and leisure activities, carrying their prostitution-inflated sense of narcissistic entitlement with them. Along with their sense that women are other, sub-human. Together these attitudes make it more likely that they will harass, abuse or rape the other women they meet in their lives. Not less likely. So it is not true that prostitution stops men raping women. In fact the opposite is true. Prostitution makes the rape and sexual abuse of women and children MORE LIKELY.” Link to full article with further information in the next tweet.

There is going to be a lovely, supportive online women’s group from @sisters_heal starting in Jan next year exploring themes like self-criticism, boundaries, guilt, and worthiness. Single sex support groups for women are so rare, please sisn up / share! 🙏tickettailor.com/events/sisters…

Wonderful news as the Palestine women’s national football team are through to the West Asia Championship final after winning on penalties against Saudi Arabia. Massive!

“One might argue that puberty suppression should never have been made available to young people outside of a clinical trial some 10 or 15 years ago, and the most ethical thing would have been to do a trial” clinical psychologist. You think? theguardian.com/science/2025/n…

Why do women & girls want & need single-sex spaces? A quick glance at today's @brightonargus 1- Ex-PC Ryan Busby, 26, committed the offences on December 20 last year at a social event while he was off duty. theargus.co.uk/news/25606621.…

BREAKING: Israel has dropped a new type of bomb in Gaza. Palestinians claim it’s a “mini nuke,” but analysis suggests it is likely a thermobaric (vacuum) weapon. Thermobaric bombs detonate by dispersing a fuel–air mixture, producing a high-pressure shockwave and intense heat. This can collapse structures and cause blast effects similar to a nuclear detonation in terms of overpressure, but it is not a nuclear weapon.

Israel's genocide in Gaza never stopped. But UK media have enabled this latest lie. ‘If the Israeli fire has not ceased, by definition there can be no ceasefire. It is the media’s job to accurately and objectively relay this fact.’ By ⁦@Hamza_a96⁩ middleeasteye.net/opinion/there-…

As El Fasher falls, our thoughts are in Sudan & with our Sudanese Salon Sisters in our community. Learn more about the situation in Sudan, take action & raise awareness you can visit our page: brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-eleven-…

The percentage of child dead in the Ukrainian conflict is 0.3%. Zero point three per cent. The percentage of child dead in the Gaza conflict is 37.7%. Thirty seven point seven per cent. In a single statistic, there you have the difference between a war and a genocide.

@CoveCooper @SistersSalon2 If we benefit from colonialism (which everyone in Britain does, like it or not), we have a duty to examine what that means and work to dismantle inequality and address its damage. Just like ALL men benefit from patriarchy and should work to dismantle it.

@SistersSalon2 @MancFemNet "Our" role? Who is the "our" you're referring to? I certainly never had a role in establishing a religious fundamentalist government.

“Well done to the women at FiLiA who, each in their own way, made it clear that Palestine liberation is a feminist issue... Hold your heads high. You are truly on the side of humanity.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palest…