Ex-Irish Air Corp member contacted @LeoVaradkar asking for help to reduce suffering & save lives. Unlike with @DrZeroCraic he cited Cabinet Confidentiality as his reason for not engaging with him.
A cluster of scandals here:
* @IrishAirCorps endangering member’s health.
* The State (@LeoVaradkar, @simoncoveney, etc.) ignoring pleas for help with legacy of dangerous work practices
* Varadkar, as Taoiseach, being partial about who he’ll engage with. #CabinetConfidentiality
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Bizarrely, there’s now an urgent need to Save ‘Woman’ And ‘Mother’ from being erased from the English language. Am I naive in hoping men on Irish Twitter might take an interest in these worrying developments?
‘Woman’ & ‘Mother’ are useful words that have served us well in describing, well, women & mothers. They should not be scrubbed from usage especially by organisations established to support women & mothers, such as @HSELive, @AIMSIreland, Abortion Rights Ireland.
It’s not just a linguistic concern. If organisations, as a matter of policy, deny the words ‘woman’ or ‘mother’, what then becomes of the human beings who come under those categories? What are the consequences for females when their linguistic existence is scrubbed?