This is my parents cat. He has just sicked on the carpet. Earlier he pissed in the hall. His name is 'Mighty' but he's terrified of tin foil.
He is the world's crappest cat. Bless.
In the style of Attenborough's Dynasties:
This is Mighty, fighting to survive in the wild. Unfortunately, Mighty has seen a small mouse and become startled. He is hiding now.
Mighty is hungry. But can a cat find a single morsel of roast beef flung from a humans dinner plate in this bloody forest? A cat cannot. Mighty decides to lay down and die.
Mighty needs a shit. Unfortunately there are no bath tubs in this forest and so he is at a loss.
Then some leaves rustle. Mighty dies of fright before he has a chance to breed. Probs for the best.
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Can I say I don't feel inclined to celebrate just yet? That I feel strangely deflated and would rather hold fire and take a let's wait and see approach? Of course I'm delighted that women only spaces will continue to be protected in law...
(and that this will form part of centralised policy) but honestly, I mostly just feel tired and gutted that the Tory Party are the only ones prepared to acknowledge that female people exist as a distinct category of disadvantaged human and are entitled to their own spaces and
resources. The tory party are not a feminist organisation and they don't care about women's oppression. But it's still good news, I know.
What I do want to say is that the women who have organised, written articles, put themselves in the firing line, endured rape and death
Catching up with the politics of today and this is where I'm up to. Please correct me if I'm wrong:
Three female Labour party leadership hopefuls sign a pledge stating that women who believe in women's sex specific rights should be expelled from the party. Women who campaign for
women's sex specific rights can now consider themselves part of a 'hate group.' My goodness.
@RLong_Bailey states on the telly that she will make utilising the single sex exemptions illegal. She will abolish women only refuges. Except wait. Now she is saying she wants to keep
@RLong_Bailey the single sex exemptions. So does @RLong_Bailey wish to dismantle the Equality Act or doesn't she? And more importantly, is she going to expel herself from the Labour Party for now wanting to keep the very same exemptions she wanted to abolish just days ago?
My take on the election result, for what it's worth, has taken up until now to formulate.
1. Because I am so so devastated by the result.
2. Because I had to go to the council for an interview about my housing benefit.
This is because I am an actual poor. A single parent on
a low, self employed income. This means I get some help towards my rent. But this comes with incessant reviews and demands to see bank statements going back months and constant mistakes made so the benefit gets stopped, which then stops all the other benefits, and means I am
without income. Which is so deeply stressful I am on edge whenever the postman puts anything through the bloody letter box.
So you can imagine I was so desperate - like many others - for a government that would implement decent socialist values and improve the lives of women
The man who hired Munroe Bergdorf has uploaded a video of himself to a porn site, wearing rubber under his work clothes, masturbating in @NSPCC toilets.
The attempt to paint women who think his actions constitute a sinister + sackable offence as "homophobic," as though this
@NSPCC has anything to do with who he chooses to love, or have sex with, is deeply cynical.
I agree that people are entitled to a private life. I accept that people are allowed to like what they like as long as everyone involved is an enthusiastically consenting adult.
But filming
@NSPCC oneself masturbating in the toilets of a childrens charity, wearing fetish gear, crosses a deep red line that has nothing whatsoever to do with sexual orientation.
We believe the use of violence against women who will not accept that sex is no longer any kind of significant social or political category is entirely justified, and we refuse to condemn it.
We have neither the honesty nor integrity to say this explicitly and so we will
instead blame the victim and attempt to portray the perpetrator as the real victim.
This is what society has been doing to female victims of male violence since forever but the significance of this is completely lost on our misogynistic, authoritarian, ahistorical selves.
Here is what some of our allies had to say. Behold the masterclass in denial, minimisation, and victim blaming as experienced by any woman who has ever been victim to male violence or abuse.
Exactly this. And when I see friends tying themselves in knots trying to "bridge the divide" and "focus on what we share" and "both sides, both sides," my head goes into my hands.
Because your calls for compromise will not protect you. It is full capitulation or die in a fire.
And when one day those same friends come to me bewildered (and they will) saying: 'But I used the preferred pronouns. I said trans women were women. I didn't complain about gender neutral toilets. All I said was that I could understand why some females might still want *some*
sex segregated spaces *sometimes*. And now someone has called my boss trying to get me sacked and my inbox is full of death threats, I will resist the childish urge to say, "Ah well. Both sides, both sides."
Because I am bigger than this. I really do hope I am bigger than this.