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Sep 13, 2020 13 tweets 7 min read Read on X
The other important anniversary for U.K. feminists happening today: it’s 3 years since the assault on Maria McLachlan, at Speakers’ Corner, in London #MariaMcLachlan
Maria was standing with a group of women, waiting for instructions of how to get to the secret venue where a feminist event to discuss proposed GRA Reform, was being held. They were being protested by a rowdy group of trans activists #MariaMcLachlan
The trans activists were chanting; Dr Julia Long was singing through a megaphone. #MariaMcLachlan, whom had never attended a feminist event, and simply wanted to understand the arguments surrounding GRA Reform, decided to take a picture of the crowd of transactivists
This infuriated the transactivists. One of them tried to steal her camera, but it was attached by a wrist strap. #MariaMcLaclan tried to get a clearer picture of the transactivists that had just attempted to mug her
The transactivists returned to try to steal the camera, and destroy the evidence of his criminality. #MariaMcLachlan held onto the camera, and struggled with the transactivists. The camera was thrown to the ground and destroyed
Another transactivist, Tara Flick Wood, a slim, Male, 6’ tall 26(?) year old, had already expressed he wanted to “f*ck up some TERFs”, on Facebook. He lunged at #MariaMcLachlan, and thumped her
Tara Flick Wood was convicted, after a travesty of a trial, where #MariaMcLachlan was informed that her refusal to pretend her attacker was female, meant she was not awarded higher damages dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…
#MariaMcLachlan has documented the entire episode on her blog. Start here: peaktrans.org/blog-the-osten…
Being told by the Judge to call her attacker “she”, in line with the recommendations in his Bench Book, highlighted the threat to free expression inherent in gender ideology. It woke many of us up #MariaMcLachlan telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/1…
The other two Male persons that attacked #MariaMcLachlan were never identified, charged, or convicted. But the violence of the attack shocked the entire community. Listen to Maria talk about it, today, on the S4W YouTube channel dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…
Tanis/Tara Flick Wood/Wolf, is often seen on anti-fracking demonstrations, or anywhere he can cause conflict. He was diagnosed with “Oppositional Defiant Disorder” as a child, and grew up into an Antisocial Personality diagnosis. #MariaMcLachlan
I’m convinced that the attack on #MariaMcLachlan won’t be the only violence against women that he perpetrates. Feminist analysis of that violence is impossible, if we are forced to conceive of him as ‘female’ fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/
It’s important that women have regard for their personal safety. If you ever see Tanis/Tara Flick Wood/Wolf, my advice would be to get as far away as possible. #MariaMcLachlan will be talking about her experience from 2pm today

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.@AlessandraAster has consistently argued for women’s rights, and for #RepealTheGRA. She exposed the misogyny of Government decisions to grant an “F” marker in passports, under self ID, and suggested a legal route to be reverse it. I’ve never witnessed her being homophobic
I have bought (and read) Andrew Doyle’s books, and think he is a clever and thoughtful gent. He really didn’t enjoy feeling so many women expressing disagreement with his position on feminine pronoun use for men. Who would? It must feel discombobulating, on that scale
I didn’t witness Alessandra behave inappropriately during that conversation. Indeed, I’ve never seen her behave inappropriately in any online conversation. It’s possible that Andrew’s perception of her comments was influenced by his experience of wide-scale disagreement
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Ok. I’m going to do a thread on this ridiculousness, because perhaps it might explain how very fucking tired we are of all the bloody excuses #LabourLosingWomen theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
First thing that raised my hackles:
“Responsible politicians would understand that this isn’t a debate to exploit, it’s people’s lives. Who they are and who, all too frequently, they suffer violence for being.”
Men kill 2 or 3 Uk women every week, along with 1 in 4 women experiencing domestic violence
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There’s so much naked envy of KJK. Envy that she is beholden to no employer, no profession, and (recently!) no mortgage provider. It’s a truly privileged position to be in: that’s true! But the proof of the pudding is in the eating…
What does KJK do with the freedom from job, regulator, and bank? How does she choose to spend her time? She works for women. Every day. She doesn’t engage in direct service provision for abused women: that’s not her skill set. She markets ideas. And she’s genius at it
I can tell you, from experience, that building a YouTube channel takes daily grind. The filming is the least of it. I am in AWE at the work that KJK is doing, to create so much YouTube content, every week. Most of it speaking off the cuff. Very few people can do this
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Brilliant thread talking about how feminism failed to really consider how Mothering is so essential for Early Years development. Sorry, but State run 24 hr childcare will never be able to replace it.
This creates real challenges to the feminists that emphasised how women should have their own economic power through workplace participation. Because we cannot both provide this Mothering, and be out of the home for 9-10hours a day.
It serves Capital to treat us as autonomous workers without family responsibilities for children, the Disabled, and the elderly, but this is an artefact of our culture and time. Other times, and other cultures, have tried different ways of doing things.
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Mar 18, 2023
Reading this thread, which I agree with, I wanted to share some thoughts about gender non-conformity 🧵
Feminist analysis holds that traditionally “feminine” clothing served to impede normal movement, to indicate submission. See high heels, pencil skirts.
It served also to emphasise the secondary sexual characteristics that heterosexual males/potential mates find attractive.
Traditionally “masculine” clothing is (under feminist analysis) designed to enable movement and activity, as befits the dominant sex.
It’s more practical, hard-wearing, and often better value for money. It may reflect status, as status matters to potential sexual partners
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As we know, predators are looking for three things:
1) access
2) opportunity
3) social cover
If you’re running an organisation that provides any of these elements, predators will be trying to use you to get to kids #Mermaids
#safeguarding works if we disrupt these three ways that predators use organisations:
1) access: ensure adults don’t have unsupervised access to minors: no private one-to-ones, no use of unregulated chat services/platforms, no mingling of minor and adult services
2) opportunity
Are you making it clear that adults and minors aren’t mixing? Are you ensuring no adult is working/talking to individual/groups of minors without a second adult being present? Do you ensure that unsupervised contact with minors is impossible?
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