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11 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It’s amazing how little ‘prevention advice’ and ‘safety advice’ is given to men and boys and yet for some weird reason, they seem not to be raped or murdered whilst doing their day to day tasks.

It’s as if... the advice we give to women and girls is total bollocks.
Like, I don’t get it. How are all these dudes going jogging and walking home from work with NO SAFETY ADVICE?
They must have some sort of innate characteristic or quality which protects them... even without all that safety advice.
Are they... born with it?

Guess we’ll never know.

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12 Mar
All this is just reminding me of how many cases of male violence I’ve worked on where men got excused for the most fucking ridiculous reasons.

One guy had loads of Cat A images of babies and was spared a custodial or suspended cos he wanted to emigrate to Australia!!
Another guy had sexually abused his infant daughter and filmed the offences and was also spared a custodial because he said he only did it because he was depressed

I mean. What the fuck.
The countless cases I worked on where men had beaten and abused their wives and girlfriends because ‘they pushed their buttons’

Honestly I used to just sit there SEETHING
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12 Mar
Just got reminded that when my kid’s teacher retired he made them a card saying BEST TEACHER YET!

When they asked if he meant ‘best teacher ever’

He said no, and said because he was only in year 4 and he hadn’t met all of his teachers yet, he couldn’t make that decision 😂
To anyone thinking this is funny or cute, the reason I know about this is because the teacher called me in about him being ‘rude’ when he said that he hadn’t met all the other teachers yet.
You’ve just reminded me of when I got called into school for his ‘inappropriate behaviour towards a teacher’ and then I found out it was because he asked her ‘what did you do on the weekend? Have you had a nice weekend? How are you today?’ and they said it was ‘too adult’ lmfao
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9 Mar
As a psychologist, as someone who specialises in trauma, as someone who can pick out what people are not saying, and as someone who can see abusive family dynamics - everything playing out around Meghan is deliberate, & designed to destroy her because she is a whistleblower.
So many women will relate to this:

She is the whistleblower in her family
She is the whistleblower in his family

She points out when something is wrong, oppressive, abusive or harmful - and then she is attacked for it, vilified and positioned as the abuser
She’s an authentic speaker surrounded by power hungry narcissists.

This is exactly what happens to thousands of women when they try to speak out and then get away from their abusive families.

Notice the language ‘cut off’. This is commonly used when victims walk away.
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7 Mar
So sick of the normalisation of the phrase

‘Can’t make a wife out of a hoe’

Funny there’s no equivalent about men. Let’s make some.

Can’t make a husband out of a rapist

Can’t make a father out of a loser

Can’t make a boyfriend out of a bellend
Can’t make a partner out of a perpetrator
Can’t make a fiancé out of a fuckboy
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6 Mar
A thread on consenting to sex & what we mean by enthusiastic consent.

Consenting to sex is a very personal choice every time.

Consent does not extend past the one act you agreed to, which means someone cannot assume that because you said to this, you also mean yes to that.
Consent is actually based on three concepts:

You are informed of what it is you are consenting to
You are free to make that choice to consent
You are willing to make that choice to consent

So if you are being emotionally coerced or expected or feel obliged, it’s not free
For example, if you think ‘I don’t wanna do this but feel like I should’ then that’s not consent - and certainly not enthusiastic consent. You should really want to do it, and really want to engage. Your partner shouldn’t want sex with you if you don’t really want to
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6 Mar
Spent nearly an hour being interviewed about why radfems never supported the term ‘womxn’ in the first place, and how blatantly sexist and racist it was, and then it got pulled completely lmfao

Anything to pin it on the bad feminists lol
Both me and Jaimi were invited to projects and organisations who used the term ‘womxn’ and when we asked what it meant, we were both told last year that it’s ‘to include transwomen and Black women’

Ya what?

Black women? Didn’t they just come under ‘woman’ in the first place?
I rejected every single piece of work that referred to ‘womxn’ last year for this reason.

Amazing how this is now being pinned on women like me who challenged it from day 1.
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