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Freelance writer/editor. Won’t engage with bad faith anon X accounts. Unless I’m really, really bored.
Oct 7, 2024 11 tweets 4 min read
Now we know that men often walk free for viewing child sex abuse images and for violently assaulting women, I thought I'd take just a quick look at some of the non-violent crimes women have been sent to prison for in recent months. In this thread, I am in NO WAY suggesting that.. these women should NOT be punished. I'm merely highlighting that the courts often seem able to give custodial sentences to women who - while criminal, do not seem a threat to life/children - but violent or sexual male predators are free to roam our streets.. First up...
Jun 7, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
🧵 THREAD: Another female patient - Lucy* - has contacted me to say that a man claiming to be a woman was present at her internal vaginal exam. Her email to me is at the bottom of this thread. Must warn you, it is very upsetting. But with Lucy’s full permission I am sharing… …not only what she said in her email but in subsequent phone calls and WhatsApp messages. She has also provided me with proof of this appointment at this particular clinic. I realise there will be people who argue that she agreed to this man being in the room. Not the point…
May 22, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
🧵This is the reply that Mridul Wadhwa sent to rape survivor P, who had emailed ERCC to express her pain after hearing THAT Guilty Feminist podcast.
P contacted me. She was ‘overwhelmed, a bit teary and now full of rage’ following Roz Adams’ tribunal. (Roz had asked to see
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this reply btw during tribunal but was denied)
P asked if I could share it publicly. She said that when it landed in her mailbox originally, it took her a week to open it. She was afraid of its contents.
‘I only fully read it in January this year, but picked up the gist at…