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1 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Every day that Ford Nation ruins this province, I think of how much better our lives would have been if Ontarians didn't hate women leaders so much.
Men mansplaining me in the replies :
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3 Apr
I'm 35.

Until my 20s, EVERYONE I knew smoked. You could smoke wherever. There were smoking sections in restaurants & hotels.

Now you can't smoke anywhere & I know 3 smokers.

I think of this every time someone tells me that culture can't change or that it can't change quickly
When I was a kid, parents simply cracked open a window when they chain smoked in a car with us in it.

Now you can't even smoke at the beach.

So, no. I don't believe skeptics for a second when they say culture change is an impossible dream.
This is a post about hope because to be progressive is to believe that the world can change, so I am profoundly uninterested in snarky "Well, actually..."

That shit is stale, boring and counter productive.

Either move towards progress or get left behind, my dudes ✌🏻
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24 Mar
Men defend other men accused of violence against women because they think "What if I was accused, too?"
Men identify with other men - always.
The solidarity that men show other men is almost admirable.
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23 Mar
Just to be crystal clear : This email was sent me last year & @OttawaPolice did not deem it criminal.

If the Ottawa police are charging JJ Clarke with multiple counts of online stalking & harassment AND seized all his firearms, they have pretty damning evidence!
I appreciate everyone's kindness here but to reiterate, I'm using this concrete threat as an example of how the threshold for criminal harassment in Canada is HIGH. So, for JJ Clarke to have been charged with SEVEN counts, means there was A LOT of very credible evidence.
But yes, Ottawa Police are not my friend and I could write a whole other book on my experiences of reporting online harassment to police.

Please trust me when I say that if Ottawa Police had enough evidence to charge 'Ottawa's favourite weatherman', then the evidence was damning
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23 Mar
I've been harassed online by men for almost 2 decades. Trust me when I say that criminal harassment charges for online activity are EXTREMELY rare.

This dirtbag is as guilty as the day is long. Trust - if he's been charged, there is AMPLE evidence.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
Also, this is absolutely shameful reporting by the Ottawa Citizen.

"Ottawa's favourite weatherman" is not a fact.

I shouldn't be surprised, though. @OttawaCitizen gave convicted killer Basil Borutski a platform to blame women for causing him to commit a triple femicide.
Canadians love to get outraged about American white men who go on rampages, and then bend over backwards to defend our own white men who are accused, in this case, of threatening the lives of women ON CAMERA, to a degree where cops took away his guns.

Shameful.
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22 Mar
I am often privately called upon by military members, campus employees, government officials, etc. to go public with something because it's "safer" for me.

I cannot emphasize enough how painfully inaccurate that assumption is.
Why ask someone who is entirely self-employed with no team, no budget & no infrastructure, to take one for the team while you have a permanent job, health insurance, paid holidays & a union? Not to mention public support on your side.
Are there advantages to being an underdog? Yes!

I can, & do, lecture on the benefits of going hard in the paint because there's no bureaucracy to hold you back.

But the idea that people like me have "nothing to lose" while we're getting 1000s of death threats is insulting.
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17 Mar
A thread for Canadians looking to channel their heartbreak into concrete action :
Want to support Asian sex workers in Canada?

Donate to @ButterflyCSW here : butterflysw.org/donate
Thanks to @CAN_Femicide tireless work, we found out today that Canada had 160 cases of femicide last year.

Go to ShelterSafe.ca to find your local shelter, share their contact information on your socials and then make a donation.

Shelters need your financial support.
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