2026-06-04T19:00:42Z https://yabu.me Victoria Smith https://yabu.me/npub1ecm44qtdtnmhp5z2ps0mlcy4ukpg2spesh3fngtvsnmudddhh4ds4jkeew https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1854859077295235072/eMgzz7cF.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1854859077295235072/eMgzz7cF.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxsdmk0z95ca3km92f52jxhtzwdf4adyrpafg93vus4thxuemjaxczyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kej0y24 Maybe now would be a good time to speak up for all the women being blamed for (hypothetical) male violence against other males due to women having their own spaces<br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/hannahmargbrown/statuses/2060039371986727368">https://bird.makeup/users/hannahmargbrown/statuses/2060039371986727368</a><br/>nostr:note1wyd6dtpkzhfhklyw5run824uwhzf7g358reyrqrakpk7vtc3r7xsdkyd4z<br/> 2026-05-29T09:29:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfkz05dv5tcsze294v0mz9nt3q0nwg90tuemsq997hfjy24has0rszyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774klqexnm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr5pn75y2jjcwx7wxz2jeap5fk47zpqj4x7x5vfmyc7rs9awfznqq94xwwz'>nevent1q…xwwz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Would it not be equally clear to say any man is entitled to think he&#39;s a woman on the basis of sexist stereotypes but to repeatedly force others to affirm it is gratuitous, disrespectful and unnecessary? 2026-05-17T09:50:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv9kkqm7ymf0lchjx6v6gp6jqemh90sq7hymtmgwfrjpejt0hj3dgzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kkxwka9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9jqmgagxfemzkmlp6vn6uf4crlfzhlhxz250x36q8wfcfeay550g7gscm0'>nevent1q…scm0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s like having a harassment case in which the victim is asked, for the sake of &#34;politeness&#34;, to refer to her harasser as &#34;the falsely accused&#34; 2026-05-17T07:40:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9jqmgagxfemzkmlp6vn6uf4crlfzhlhxz250x36q8wfcfeay550gzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k47usjr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvwzy08rx7fskfjl3jnceyw4l7kufx3j8pypuzndm9844dz6y5pqqcps6ks'>nevent1q…s6ks</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A man bullying a woman is very different to one woman discriminating against another woman because reasons. How is it polite or fair to force the woman in the first scenario to speak as though she&#39;s the woman doing the bullying in the second? 2026-05-17T07:37:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvwzy08rx7fskfjl3jnceyw4l7kufx3j8pypuzndm9844dz6y5pqqzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k4pud9u If your case is that someone male shouldn&#39;t be allowed in a female-only environment, it seems pretty necessary you refer to them as male consistently. Otherwise you will be made to look like you, too, believe in singling out a particular type of woman. 2026-05-17T07:33:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst7jn3p4n6sxqpncjwmtlsfl8r4jhds58cxpmyn5q4ly4yuf3lumqzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774knjerg3 Sad how no one ever credits Gazza for his services to binary-smashing gender-fluid self-expression<br/> <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HHU6hW2XkAAmopX.jpg"> <br/> 2026-05-02T16:13:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy59h8e0yrlu5kasr3e3s6wulz8wxe5620uj0jy0zktaemtczs06gzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kxucve5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxgy4w6jw7pjzwpew0rkr0cpjsldd30e3jyad3yez3cffcta7ucpgcyuh8g'>nevent1q…uh8g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;If you&#39;re against misogyny and bigotry, you have to be against noticing sex difference&#34; is such a bigoted, sexist, homophobic position. But those holding it really don&#39;t seem to notice. 2026-04-20T08:49:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxgy4w6jw7pjzwpew0rkr0cpjsldd30e3jyad3yez3cffcta7ucpgzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kap4pwl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8wglsjgky3ayqanuf5jpwc2rl42hh84qsearyudmyqz8sqa0yl6sc6d5q8'>nevent1q…d5q8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Would add &#34;all people who use gender ideology as a term are the same&#34; also emboldens those who are very much in favour of sexism and homophobia and want to suggest opposing these things necessarily leads to denying reality 2026-04-20T08:48:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8wglsjgky3ayqanuf5jpwc2rl42hh84qsearyudmyqz8sqa0yl6szyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kytv9qq Helpfully, I&#39;ve just written about why this argument is bollocks <a href="https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-guardian-is-late-to-the-party-on-sex-based-reporting/">https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-guardian-is-late-to-the-party-on-sex-based-reporting/</a><br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/theatrespoonie/statuses/2045897658963816857">https://bird.makeup/users/theatrespoonie/statuses/2045897658963816857</a><br/> <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HGVaowdXsAAROO7.png"> <blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1fxuvez8rk659ch7zfjpyjuppxka80ek8693ct9xjfvwhyrjlejwsa9n8w8" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1fxu…n8w8</a></span><br/> </div> Just a reminder Gender Ideology isn't real. It's a term that exists to attack women's rights, bodily autonomy, and LGBT+ rights. Anyone seriously using Gender Ideology as a term is showing they are part of the far right working to remove human rights.<br/><br/><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2017/12/11/gender-ideology-tracking-its-origins-and-meanings-in-current-gender-politics/">https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2017/12/11/gender-ideology-tracking-its-origins-and-meanings-in-current-gender-politics/</a><br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/jamesesses/statuses/2045781750274568196">https://bird.makeup/users/jamesesses/statuses/2045781750274568196</a><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note10kt0mp3gxt85qq2x7d3mtf4n59jq2uyvnl8hp7dklqnlrn306tksrf4zd3" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note10kt…4zd3</a></span><br/> </blockquote> 2026-04-20T08:18:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyqmp7yyyscxv26eecldf3t6zdjt6uqaflvsfl38fgy5ue20vg23qzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774ksuuhzm I wrote about this a while ago. It is really damaging to anorexia sufferers to be told &#34;you must gain weight or you&#39;ll die&#34; if no one ever seems to comment on the models and actresses who look just like them <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/glosswitch/p/how-should-we-talk-about-ultra-thin?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=7y1g1">https://open.substack.com/pub/glosswitch/p/how-should-we-talk-about-ultra-thin?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=7y1g1</a> 2026-04-09T17:29:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspdrzsc8eula2wvqht9u8xhna5s0v6gdvcxqfcwh79lspudw2zk9qzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kk04r5a The reasons why women want single-sex spaces should make men ashamed. Instead, women are shamed for wanting single-sex spaces.<br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/mforstater/statuses/1989001943193428202">https://bird.makeup/users/mforstater/statuses/1989001943193428202</a><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1t6j2zflyrmwfmc5shznnnewe47phs40lp2fpp7dc53ne8p6vrn3sw7w3nu" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1t6j…w3nu</a></span><br/> </div> Michelle Shipworth's evidence <br/><br/><a href="https://sex-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Michelle-Shipworth-witness-statement-in-GLP-v-EHRC.pdf">https://sex-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Michelle-Shipworth-witness-statement-in-GLP-v-EHRC.pdf</a><br/> <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5pauGUW4AEz8q_.png"> <br/> </blockquote> 2025-11-14T13:29:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9uhtvvhcfydlvpnajug2dgytx3jvfl0xjy0eh5hnrjhp8ws8y53szyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kx24dz3 Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse<br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/ripx4nutmeg/statuses/1978787317176242404">https://bird.makeup/users/ripx4nutmeg/statuses/1978787317176242404</a><br/> <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3ZG0t3WEAE_p6p.jpg"> <blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1apswg4ae3h7sahrpgmauwggaljltqccmkyzwzh9ay6ndkfe36h8sc2pf85" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1aps…pf85</a></span><br/> </div> A report has found the National Library of Scotland's decision to ban a book of gender critical essays was 'based on inadequate evidence'. BBC Front Row discusses the story with... the librarian who excluded the book, who talks at length about the book's "violence and aggression"<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1978787194773884928/vid/avc1/1280x720/zDUoOHi5KqbKU8YL.mp4?tag=14"></video><br/> </blockquote> 2025-10-16T16:35:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqlrla2ws32lt6ary85kem4fgetjxq9ymfk2fx5surhcpf0cnc6yszyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kdwprdm I wrote about the age-old &#34;better feminists (who make no demands) will replace the old hags/terfs/shrews&#34; narrative that benefits - only temporarily - the likes of Emma Watson <a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/watsons-elementary-mistakes/">https://thecritic.co.uk/watsons-elementary-mistakes/</a> 2025-09-29T12:35:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf58n6xcwhun5mrkp8guyqrrmcuxzyp7ce258qd2m6chfykxju7hszyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kmnnteq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp8d6ks3ytygnn8r60ky9hg9e6vm5t7yfwz4hpd9893x6tq8zh37q4aetxy'>nevent1q…etxy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have been banging on about this for years, tbf. But it is absolutely infuriating <br/><a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/sex-denialism-helps-nobody/">https://thecritic.co.uk/sex-denialism-helps-nobody/</a> 2025-09-22T15:55:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp8d6ks3ytygnn8r60ky9hg9e6vm5t7yfwz4hpd9893x6tq8zh37qzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k528xn9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs87397dutprvzteaslfx3we2m548mwvq8rzuq2wlnfwvgc0capzqgnx9689'>nevent1q…9689</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And it&#39;s such a tiny thing. Give up a teeny tiny bit of your &#39;progressive&#39; misogyny in order to stop the other side in their tracks on this issue. But no. 2025-09-22T15:44:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs87397dutprvzteaslfx3we2m548mwvq8rzuq2wlnfwvgc0capzqgzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kgvdfxn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs88nxc36sk5fwcj7a89fdfr4ghvz4w7wkxf7se2ysyzn9s50vj30sdp46ua'>nevent1q…46ua</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Arguing for the integrity of women&#39;s spaces and sports has always been there for the taking for the left. If you couldn&#39;t be arsed to argue for it - and mean it, unlike those who&#39;ve taken the argument from you - it&#39;s not other people who&#39;ve helped the right here. 2025-09-22T15:41:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs88nxc36sk5fwcj7a89fdfr4ghvz4w7wkxf7se2ysyzn9s50vj30szyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k3hp2dv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxq6ftyssswcpqt4nudlqw5maxmhq5u6wuusz07hvepu3szmkkh7gaexmsy'>nevent1q…xmsy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, honestly. You don&#39;t think the threat of Trump is serious enough not to gift him the open goal of sex denialism, but women who want their own spaces and sports - which should be a progressive principle - are the &#34;enthusiastic foot soldiers&#34;? 2025-09-22T15:36:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxq6ftyssswcpqt4nudlqw5maxmhq5u6wuusz07hvepu3szmkkh7gzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kjfd9fd Alternately, one might argue that anyone who gifted the right &#34;women having their own sports&#34; as a principle can&#39;t have cared very much about fighting fascism<br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/erikmbaker/statuses/1969223898110599603">https://bird.makeup/users/erikmbaker/statuses/1969223898110599603</a><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1e0egkt36fnp2cw6ve55rlnmletlz0kjgeyzkzua8aqx02s74tedqss9e34" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1e0e…9e34</a></span><br/> </div> Everyone who gave a single inch to the "protecting women's sports" attack should be remembered as an enthusiastic foot soldier for American fascism<br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/kenklippenstein/statuses/1968908586773299312">https://bird.makeup/users/kenklippenstein/statuses/1968908586773299312</a><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1yaa3spgy9hluqe5hcdmfn38d8uj204v87ccfu86srl8f26a8le6qj5dpyd" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1yaa…dpyd</a></span><br/> </blockquote> 2025-09-22T15:29:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy3en8cdy4lfu4shcdkun8hl3z9gaae52wsgfjg77grm6dwzuvzmszyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k64nnpj If you were scared to speak the truth, then you already knew the price being paid by those who were doing so - and still chose to add to it. Why does Gladwell think the pressure needs explaining? We&#39;ve all felt it.<br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/benryanwriter/statuses/1963015126573056209">https://bird.makeup/users/benryanwriter/statuses/1963015126573056209</a><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1grqtwlz5hf22ksuu8yt8s07k2vnzwr4fvdczxyhdsgn8e6slsv3qk2k4ny" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1grq…k4ny</a></span><br/> </div> Malcom Gladwell says he is “ashamed” of having said in a previous panel discussion that trans women have a place in women’s sports. He says he was “cowed” into saying so. <br/><br/>“Trans athletes have no place in the female category,” he says.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1963015069769351168/vid/avc1/696x960/fd5mM1KhDIBxUO8K.mp4"></video><br/> </blockquote> 2025-09-03T17:59:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9w9slkrdwty2faxjhqyepy0pwyufhznn53yzcrvhmlpq46zmnm4gzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kq0r8qa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrvrvfe8awt6pnlxje9x2q84ue2jnm4z3g7utfkg6dhj77p4sy55geqm9dd'>nevent1q…m9dd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Terfs - middle-aged women - have been treated as cannon fodder in the gender wars. Let them take it till it&#39;s safe for everyone else, then later we can imply it was a great moral challenge for us, whereas they were just stopped clock bigots 2025-09-03T17:05:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrvrvfe8awt6pnlxje9x2q84ue2jnm4z3g7utfkg6dhj77p4sy55gzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kdjk00k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy3en8cdy4lfu4shcdkun8hl3z9gaae52wsgfjg77grm6dwzuvzms2auqm7'>nevent1q…uqm7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I really struggle to feel generous towards this. I&#39;ve had years of people telling me they&#39;re scared, as if the women I&#39;ve seen having their reputations trashed aren&#39;t. It always starts to sound like &#34;you don&#39;t get it, I&#39;m important. I have something to lose, unlike you lot!&#34; 2025-09-03T17:03:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqsck55kapzuyca8k3mn6630sfpy6pv48ssawtv842hg7wppapnlgzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kyvh4q4 Every abusive man belongs to at least one group - a family, a religion, a class, a claimed identity - that his victim will be accused of unfairly smearing / shaming / singling out by pointing out he&#39;s an abusive man, same as all the others<br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/lbc/statuses/1958639155795095880">https://bird.makeup/users/lbc/statuses/1958639155795095880</a><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1kphtv99rtuv5z53nwlngjywpsd9wpsdajf9cps9mpnm2gfnjedfs88x83q" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1kph…x83q</a></span><br/> </div> ‘Trans women are not inherently dangerous to women, abusive men are dangerous to women.’<br/> <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ttqxk0j4talm3c4jcn6xzxa0nln5rvxh4vn3azsrqnpelv45vw5slfp3j0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Nicola Sturgeon</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ttq…p3j0</span>)</a></span> admits she failed to ‘communicate properly’ on the Isla Bryson case as First Minister.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1958638853113176064/vid/avc1/1080x1080/2P_6zOAFSEZN7w4h.mp4?tag=16"></video><br/> </blockquote> 2025-08-22T18:57:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsprspdkqrvtllqv4vl8fjhecrhvafq86fdpx0qq8cgmuqzere9ewczyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kw6wxza In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2l7a392y8wm9xteypcvjljrdl2rm56klarg0uadk3jzmu78tgf0glev0cz'>nevent1q…v0cz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The bullies don&#39;t make you feel bad or uncomfortable because they haven&#39;t actually been wronged. They&#39;re powerful people who let you win their approval (for now). 2025-08-05T16:51:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9ayzmqnj5xfx5pnq55l5ymrjdljvyu49cm3yelvh7ce8rz5r6q2szyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kue76uu When people refer to bullies as &#34;joyful&#34; and their victims as &#34;divisive&#34; it reminds me of Judith Herman&#39;s observation about bystanders siding with perpetrators because they ask nothing of you.<br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/msjlindsay/statuses/1952663019021832572">https://bird.makeup/users/msjlindsay/statuses/1952663019021832572</a><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1vz2u59guk6u7ztcent9g3m3mlk8d3h9dlqwr0mgznwn7qpnhgljqhmys6u" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1vz2…ys6u</a></span><br/> </div> Would like Jenny Niven and Ed Book Fest to stop calling my, and other women's, abusers and hounders "joyful " anytime soon now. And not be gaslit in the press. Just admit cowardice. Ffs. </blockquote> 2025-08-05T16:44:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2l7a392y8wm9xteypcvjljrdl2rm56klarg0uadk3jzmu78tgf0gzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k22vx6u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9ayzmqnj5xfx5pnq55l5ymrjdljvyu49cm3yelvh7ce8rz5r6q2sfckfsg'>nevent1q…kfsg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The divisive, complaining women, making everything so polarised, even risking making you feel bad! The joyful, charming bullies who ask for nothing but your adoration!<br/> <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GxmW1FTWEAAGs8O.jpg"> <br/> 2025-08-05T15:46:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg02a4fx8z5034r8darx2w4u76vfywgsw5xt6eksln5fmwh2j0v5gzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k79aslx Trans activists are never accused of creating toxic divisions just for saying what they want. They have to make death threat placards, and even then it&#39;s considered a &#34;both sides&#34; issue. All feminists have to do is sign a letter saying &#34;I want to speak without being threatened&#34;. 2025-08-04T18:44:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxgfkunzjhh4hn4prc9qnp3cvut83z52rvw9mudq2dajg2yq75j2gzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kaartcp &#34;We decided to make &#39;caring about women&#39;s rights&#39; mean &#39;not caring about other rights&#39; because we can&#39;t literally write &#39;we just don&#39;t like that she cares about women&#39;s rights&#39;&#34;<br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/tomgordonld/statuses/1951001687617052767">https://bird.makeup/users/tomgordonld/statuses/1951001687617052767</a><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1hs4uu3useaeg4huh2fwv4f96fu0gvmkkwgpmv3zdgm9t96useqjq6re3fq" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1hs4…e3fq</a></span><br/> </div> As the letter from both the JCHR AND WEC said: Dr Stephenson was rightly commended for her work on women’s rights. But she did not demonstrate sufficient understanding of issues facing other protected groups - including race and disability. That’s a serious concern.<br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/soniasodha/statuses/1950999950894174603">https://bird.makeup/users/soniasodha/statuses/1950999950894174603</a><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1jfruh3r27d6ztf0she56kvnxq8rr5ul39cqd4dp09enwzgdpq6cssn0g7l" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1jfr…0g7l</a></span><br/> </blockquote> 2025-08-02T13:50:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfzp60e4u5s9aygtf2ywzlnvrlwygacahzs34fht7hgwh0u47j4kszyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kaum5jy Amazing how often &#34;let people be who they want to be&#34; translates as &#34;let men do whatever they like&#34; 2025-07-01T15:00:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvt3hwyu9g8qcq5du6wlns77wx2rt25axqrukldn8ecw46zv78q6szyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k9m9cf5 When the Khelif row erupted last year, I wrote about the way in which it revealed an utter trivialisation of male physical advantage and how it relates. in much broader terms, to female experiences of violence and threat &gt; <a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/the-olympic-boxing-row-isnt-just-about-sports/">https://thecritic.co.uk/the-olympic-boxing-row-isnt-just-about-sports/</a> 2025-06-02T10:18:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2yd8j9jnkpql0z9svghtzll9gwvv3x353zpj6shuwnk8ukmxf76szyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k05d5ya Men who feel the category woman is in some way degraded or reduced by applying to only female humans reveal so much about their views on female humans<br/><br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/@forwomenscot/1926930086218887240">https://bird.makeup/@forwomenscot/1926930086218887240</a> 2025-05-26T09:25:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstf7qj8fswge0gx8sam9xxwan7ktzf4yy4hyht5s4439thqnq85wqzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kp9zy4y &#34;Men do not get to use sex as an axis of our subordination for millennia &amp; then turn around when it suits them &amp; tell us it&#39;s just an abstraction &amp; we&#39;re pervy weirdos for not complying with male demands for access to the spaces where we go to undress or talk about being raped.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/@janeclarejones/1925092225693684080">https://bird.makeup/@janeclarejones/1925092225693684080</a> 2025-05-21T17:09:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd3flfpjhpaj84g3zlptgdvs95jsuwshu0w22e9gukcvgf7l8awrczyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kxmzmyk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2f088xduzv66wx6kjshexsc9c2ddharuvxksxsezrd4zt3pdjznqkam0hz'>nevent1q…m0hz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I feel so angry that a man - a man in a profession that once excluded female people due to their &#39;inferior&#39; brains and *still* neglects the specificities of female bodies - will ask, all false belilderment, why we should value &#34;genitals&#34; over &#34;brains&#34; &gt; 2025-05-20T15:57:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2f088xduzv66wx6kjshexsc9c2ddharuvxksxsezrd4zt3pdjznqzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kupr5pe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq8878cskeht7nkhnyxzzhzu2pfw4p0lyzpxt8p2mxjecfajj95gs2mgz3u'>nevent1q…gz3u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>E.g. Augustin Fuentes (quoted in Unkind), and the Lancet piece published in response to the supreme court ruling. Noughties neurosexism was meant to make you feel too stupid to argue back; today&#39;s version is meant to make you feel stupid *and* a bigot if you do &gt;<br/> <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrZ2gFtWwAAuFXJ.png"> <br/> 2025-05-20T15:55:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq8878cskeht7nkhnyxzzhzu2pfw4p0lyzpxt8p2mxjecfajj95gszyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774ka73mq0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdx429g2w43v54pp0ncj06ctyf2n57fvylqfkvmp3y2wppt5cwersuwv260'>nevent1q…v260</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Only silly GCSE-science people, or feminists who distinguish between sex as a biological reality &amp; gender as a social hierarchy (so passé). And it is still being done now, under the guise of showing not &#39;why women can&#39;t read maps&#39; (v. 2000s) but &#39;why terfs [feminists] are wrong&#39;&gt; 2025-05-20T15:53:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdx429g2w43v54pp0ncj06ctyf2n57fvylqfkvmp3y2wppt5cwerszyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kk2hscy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy64u5pds2dfxuwm8rv4kyq2nr5mypsj408y2h57ra6ftvwt4mdpc78tnj6'>nevent1q…tnj6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s as if you won&#39;t notice, or will feel so intimidated by the complexity of &#39;the science&#39; that you won&#39;t dare say &#34;obsessing over football results or dressing up in pink isn&#39;t the same thing as having a penis or a vagina&#34; - because only silly GCSE-science people think that! &gt; 2025-05-20T15:50:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy64u5pds2dfxuwm8rv4kyq2nr5mypsj408y2h57ra6ftvwt4mdpczyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774khj9jvy One thing I looked at in Unkind was the way those trying to give &#39;scientific&#39; justifications for gender stereotypes throw in the stereotypes in the midst of lists of biological markers related to reproductive difference e.g. Baron-Cohen in The Essential Difference &gt;<br/> <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrZ09UeW8AAlrzW.png"> <br/> 2025-05-20T15:48:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9clz8y63etk3txts05hv46l30xszm9fg38kndpyfknq7lmlzln7qzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kzufjgj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswcpdyuwkpecvv7k5tp4q657zh8d3tcyeanfqwnmy2662yuxadgmq58gzf4'>nevent1q…gzf4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s so frustrating to see women undermining their own arguments and shying away from stating the principles that you can still see lurking somewhere in the background &gt; 2025-05-18T11:00:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswcpdyuwkpecvv7k5tp4q657zh8d3tcyeanfqwnmy2662yuxadgmqzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k2y3php In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyqcqst4eee48gxwwymnhzj360vq5jeespcaeh3vxyfz5u39yxyugc08t2y'>nevent1q…8t2y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve not read Girl on Girl, but the review suggests it&#39;s caught in the same trap as Kate Manne&#39;s Unshrinking re body modification and plastic surgery ie terrible, unless it&#39;s framed as gender affirmation, then totally fine. &gt; 2025-05-18T10:57:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyqcqst4eee48gxwwymnhzj360vq5jeespcaeh3vxyfz5u39yxyugzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774kw9hymv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2axdwsfer0qyg4u7udacu7n92g33503zry86maauffxr2leyk3tqemss37'>nevent1q…ss37</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There are many feminist books right now where you know there&#39;s another book trying to get out - one which doesn&#39;t pause to qualify and apologise and backtrack in case an idea offends lovers of porn or deniers of biological sex &gt; 2025-05-18T10:54:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2axdwsfer0qyg4u7udacu7n92g33503zry86maauffxr2leyk3tqzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k42kkk3 &#34;Gilbert stresses that she is not anti-porn, or “interested in kink shaming.” She can’t even completely condemn child publicity or plastic surgery&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://bird.makeup/@thecriticmag/1923981879809638584">https://bird.makeup/@thecriticmag/1923981879809638584</a> 2025-05-18T10:52:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd7j2u2n278wez5al78363as9v8ne8tdad49j6z5pr9w6tctefcaqzyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774k8a3rwf I am so sick of women&#39;s past traumatic experiences being used to suggest they have &#39;issues&#39; which mean they&#39;re not capable of judging what reasonable boundaries are in the present &gt; 2025-05-12T11:36:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswhuvcm9gzat0tzen8tmmnh35aacq9ze3uxwh0fx4wfspaqp2mrkszyr8rwk5pd4w0wuxsfgxpl0lqjhjc9p2q8xz79xdpdjz00344k774km2l8pf It&#39;s funny how women don&#39;t get credited for their contributions to, say, the moon landings or discovering DNA, but it&#39;s widely accepted that we invented biological sex five minutes ago, just to be mean 2025-04-26T22:13:17Z