Why do the British press hate people like me and my friends so much?

Pastry making requires a light feminine touch. And very cold heart hands.

I think I just have a touch that is too heavy. Mine is tough and brittle.

I don't make it above the dishwasher (???).

Pastry is easy. As long as you don’t use the counter top directly above your dishwasher 😖

I came for the feminism and stayed for the cats.

I also like almond tart. Can't make pastry to save myself though.

Childless postmenopausal woman here, no chance of grandkids. I want all girls and women to have privacy and safety from men, especially the ones for whom womanhood is a fetish. I also want the almond tart recipe.

Deal with the hatred and contempt men have for women - hatred expressed on a daily basis - and then we'll talk.

AAK you should have been one of these

Poor little brainwashed fools.

treaclesoda Yep, me too. I don't care how nice a man is or how much he really really reckons he's a woman, I don't want him in my sex-segregated spaces. I could not care less about any gender norms he may want to transgress regarding appearance, behaviour, hobbies, anybody has my full support in that. I strongly disagree with the idea of innate gender identity but I disagree with all kinds of faith-based ideologies and am perfectly capable of being friends with people who hold them. Live and let live, right up to the point where someone wants to impose their beliefs on me.

But sex segregation is about sex, full stop.

Ah fer fecksake.

I try not to hate anyone.

Understanding that male and female are distinct biological categories isn't hate. It is quite likely to be an understanding found on a site aimed at parents, though. Can't think why.

I shall get back in the kitchen now and make some soup in shame...
And wait for fekko's almond tart recipe.

All hail
All hail

Come ye to mothersnet and see the weak and frankly feeble minded lady brainers!
They have been taken in by the rational arguments of a Over Promoted Penguin and a Vicious Young Cat (and the rest.)

We MUST protect feeble lady brainers from this plague!

SHAME
DONG
SHAME

No problem with TW - grown up rubbing shoulders with some.
No problem with trans kids
Not expecting grandchildren... dd has a disability
BIG problem with adults pushing an agenda of medicalised, sterilised lives on children
BIG problem with adults ignoring safeguarding
BIG problem with erasing the word WOMEN and include blokes who say abracadabra
BIG problem with the treatment of lesbians - the canaries in this mine

My mum used to say that you should give everyone the benefit of the doubt (except Rolf Harris). And this was in the 1970s.

Grandchildren? I’m getting to the end of my babysitting duties now, if I never have to do it again that’s fine by me. Not all of us are maternal clucky hens. also I shave my head and don’t wear makeup, so what else am I supposed to talk about, the weather?

If some people can’t tell the difference between saying something they disagree with and hate that’s really not my look out. I’m female, I’m a lesbian, I’m disabled, I’ve had loads of hateful things said to me. I’m still here.

I know you really don’t want balls, but you can’t grow a pair of ovaries so you better work on what you’ve got.

Sorry not sorry.

I don’t hate religious people but I demand the right to criticise the oppression of women, the attempted ‘conversion’ of homosexuals, the abuse and sexual mutilation of children, bullshit taught as science, blasphemy laws, and the use of violence to promote an ideology.

I reserve the right to hate individuals within that religion on a case by case basis.

What's that? Been raped/assaulted/abused by men so are fearful of male bodied people? No! Thou art TERF!!!!!!

They don’t care about us being raped and assaulted because they live on a diet of porn so they think that men rape us because we are sexy and desirable. They want to be seen as sexy women too. They think it’s a compliment and deep down we want it as an affirmation of our womanhood.

They believe that sexual harassment and discrimination is that slight raised eyebrow they get or the sniggers behind their backs from kids. They think they know all about it and that have it a lot harder than us.

Zero understanding. Giving zero fucks.

For a bit of a lift google the full routine:

Katelyn Ohashi gymnast perfect 10

I love gymnastics.

Codeword meowmeow?

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Because there is a large section of British society that remains sensible and free thinking?

And there is a cat link!!!!

See...see

Let's face it, most of us don't even have a problem with TW or sharing spaces with them

I don't hate trans women, I don't wish them harm. I don't want them to be denied medical treatment or discriminated against at work.

But actually I do object to sharing women only spaces with them, no matter how genuinely they believe themselves to be women.

I want privacy and dignity when I'm getting undressed or in a hospital ward (although every time I've been in hospital it was a mixed ward anyway ). I can't have that privacy and dignity if someone is stripping off beside me has a male body, no matter how sincerely he rejects that body.

Another pesky woman with opinions here who doesn't hate anybody but is really concerned about the social contagion aspect and also obviously the possibility of predatory male taking advantage of self ID.

And I'm an adorable kitten. Who could be scared of a kitten, even a very pissed off one?

(My lack of opposable thumbs provides an excellent excuse for my lack of inclination to bake.)