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@jameelajamil Spout nonsense/mute replies. Sigh. We'll be here spreading a sense of reality.
Men have never been and will never be at the forefront of feminism. That includes men who say they are women. Claiming men can be women transgresses every single boundary women have ever fought for.
Men have never been and will never be at the forefront of feminism. That includes men who say they are women. Claiming men can be women transgresses every single boundary women have ever fought for.
@jameelajamil How many men were banned from voting because they said they were women? Or because they dressed or acted femininely, or believed to have a female soul? Zero, that's how many. Why? Because they're men.
@jameelajamil Women are subjected to violence from men because we are women. Not because we perform some kind of stereotypically feminine role. Imagine claiming it's men who pretend to be women who expand those stereotypes. Not women.
FYI the reason Twitter silenced me again for 12 hours was calling this man - Scottish politician - a man. 
He was calling women ‘cis’ which I and a good number of other women objected to. Because we do not identify as women, we are women. It’s our biological reality and it exposes us to the risk of male violence, discrimination and exclusion every day.
We don’t choose that nor does denying that physical reality - literally our skin, blood and bones - change any of these conditions. Because men. Men do this to us. They rape and kill us in huge numbers. So much so they’ve built entire societies around it.
Producers demand rape scenes and sex industry friendly story lines (e.g. a stripper girlfriend) are added to scripts. It's all part of a pattern.
I was happy to see 2 more seasons of @modernfamily added on @Netflix. Problematic in different ways (e.g. homophobia, horrible adoption jokes)
but it was still funny enough to enjoy (sometimes you just want to chill & be entertained). But the producers have apparently decided to up the ante.
