I've asked this question once or twice before. I make no apology for doing so again now.

How in the world are there so many men on this platform who think of themselves as progressives or socialists, yet try and dictate to women what being a woman means and involves?
How in the world are there so many so-called 'progressive' men on this platform who:

- Denounce and demonise rape survivors like JK Rowling

- Fail to see that when male-boded athletes compete in women's sports, that is an absolutely appalling injustice and total nonsense
- Think describing rapists with penises as 'women' if they happen to self-identify as such is normal, and that anyone who objects is a danger

- Honestly appear to believe they know everything there is to know about being a woman... when in practice, they know literally nothing?
It just boggles my mind.

I know too many men mansplain. I know too many men talk over, patronise and condescend to women. But this is something else. Something else entirely.
The women you witchhunt, you condemn, you denounce and excommunicate are your mothers, your grandmothers, your great-grandmothers, your aunts, your wives, your girlfriends, your partners, your friends, your sisters, your daughters, your nieces, your cousins, your grand-daughters.
Do you go through your lives treating them like this? Do you listen to them at all?

What next? Are so-called 'leftie' men going to start pretending like they know what it truly is to go through pregnancy or an abortion, to miscarry, to be a single mother on the minimum wage?
To be sexualised as a child, to be trafficked into sex slavery, to live in constant fear of violent, sexual and/or psychological abuse?

And sure, part of the above *does* happen to men and especially boys too - but it's not our spaces which are under threat. It's women's.
Every single time a man says to a woman on here that she doesn't know what she's talking about, she has nothing to fear, she must stop focusing on 'extreme' examples and all the rest of it, it's a man who will lose nothing hectoring a woman who could lose *everything*.
"TERF! SWERF! Fascist! Bigot!", from a sex class who will not be affected in any way whatsoever by this ongoing madness.

And when a non-binary or trans person employs such abuse, I get suspicious. VERY suspicious. Because women just do not behave in such a way.
Women are fierce, tough, stronger than we ever imagine. All over the world too: if only it was remotely true that hard work paid, then African women would be the richest people on the planet.

But women DO NOT BEHAVE LIKE THIS. In such an obscene, disgusting, monstrous way.
All entirely in plain sight. A bunch of men who clearly do not have the first clue what they look like - and haven't even paused for a second to think about it either.

You know that line about "the confidence of a mediocre white man"? It's true. Proven as such on here every day.
Repent motherfuckers! REPENT MOTHERFUCKERS!

No. Fuck the fuck off. And keep fucking the fuck off while you're at it until you learn, finally, to start listening to women.

Solidarity with @jk_rowling, @FemmeLoves, @MForstater, @Docstockk, @joannaccherry and many many others.
Women standing tall against this absolutely grotesque, despicable nonsense.

#IStandWithJKRowling
#WomenWontWheesht

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13 Dec
Er, yes they should.

Unless you're a hateful misogynistic bastard who doesn't have the first effing clue about the trauma and life sentence suffered by victims of rape.

Or the first effing clue about violence against women and girls.

Get the hell out of here. You make me sick
Strange how it's never women who think rapists with penises should be called 'women', isn't it?

Strange how it's always men who spout this disgusting dehumanising women-hating shite, isn't it?

And about a rape survivor too. A RAPE SURVIVOR.
Tom will now fuck off to Afghanistan to tell all the women and girls whose lives are being destroyed by the Taliban that:

1. The Taliban don't hate them for their bodies, but their gender 🙄🙄🙄
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13 Dec
Not exactly the shock of the century that the most cossetted, privileged, self-aggrandising, oblivious centrist in the known universe apparently didn't even know what work experience is.

That's what happens when everything in life is handed to someone on a silver platter.
FAO the people of North Shropshire: yes, please DO vote Lib Dem on Thursday.

But don't kid yourselves that someone like the above is a 'progressive'. She's a walking, talking, so vacuous it's unbelievable advert for everything that's so wrong about me me me centrism.
She's absolutely one of those responsible on here for demonising Corbyn, worshipping her fellow narcissist, Swinson, and thereby devastating the UK by ushering in hard Brexit.

She's never taken one look at herself in a mirror. It's just constant ill-informed hot air and drivel.
Read 4 tweets
12 Dec
Could anyone who thinks Formula 1 isn't WWE for cigarette companies speak now please?
Verstappen confirmed as Champ. Which is surely preferable in the FIA's eyes to a last lap of the season overtake in front of the world being overruled by people in smoke-filled rooms.

What won't be preferable in their eyes is when Mercedes take them to court.

Some 'sport'.
I am, more broadly, in two minds.

On the one hand, Verstappen is a complete prick. Reckless too. On the other, he's led the Championship virtually all season long and is certainly a much improved driver.

Also, Mercedes' dominance has been astonishingly tedious.
Read 7 tweets
12 Dec
Is it really awful and infantile of me to want Johnson gone not immediately, but by a thousand cuts?

For this to be dragged out as long as possible, day after day, week after week?

For his smug countenance to be replaced by certainty of the total historical ignominy he faces?
I know, I know - the country needs leadership, especially at a time like this. But I want him to suffer. REALLY suffer.

The longer this goes on, the more he will. Nowhere to run, no fridge to hide in.

This has turned into purest morality play now. Shakespeare would be proud.
This is someone - the ultimate gaslighter - whose entire life has been one gigantic fraud committed against just about anyone he's ever come into contact with.

But he's always got away with it. What does such a massive narcissist do when the entire country sees through them?
Read 9 tweets
12 Dec
Really unfortunate day for Premier League referees yesterday. Of the five penalties awarded to four huge clubs, NONE of them were stonewallers at all. My take on them?

- Liverpool v Villa: yes, penalty
- Norwich v Man Utd: yes, penalty
- Man City v Wolves: are you kidding me?
- Chelsea v Leeds: both pens incredibly soft. I don't think either should've been given.

So that's two yes, three no. And Ronaldo's at Carrow Road was pretty iffy too.
Incidentally, on Liverpool-Villa and the Alisson incident late in the game - I've seen people moaning about it, but it *wasn't* a pen.

It bordered on the miraculous that Alisson somehow got the ball given how fast it all happened - but he did. No foul.
Read 4 tweets
11 Dec
With Labour unquestionably at least back in contention now, here's a brief rundown of my three golden rules in British electoral politics.

1. Far and away the most important polling measure is always "which party do you trust more on the economy?"
Black/White Wednesday put Labour in the lead on that essential issue in 1992.

Blair pledging to maintain Tory spending plans for the first term was all part of reassuring the public; Kinnock lost the 1992 election mostly through John Smith's Shadow Budget.
Because that reopened fears around the Winter of Discontent. Never has the power of the British media been greater than that.

On the morning of the 1992 election, my Mum - who'd voted SDP in the 80s - and her fellow dogwalkers were ALL terrified of Labour winning.
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