Solidarity in Aldi today!

About that trans definition t-shirt, upthread a longish way: the online dictionary I use gives this.

trans woman or trans-wom·an, trans·wom·an
[ trans-woom-uhn, tranz‐ ]
noun
an adult who was assigned male at birth but whose gender identity is female

www.dictionary.com/browse/trans-woman?s=t

Too long to fit easily on a t-shirt, perhaps.

Aw, that's sweet! I would've wanted to make friends immediately, hahaha. And when is the next march?!

I would get beaten up or at least shouted at here for carrying that around. Trans stickers everywhere - 'trans is beautiful', 'punch a terf', 'some women have penises'

I’m going to have to start taking my bag to Aldi when I do the food shop! Would love this to happen to me.

@Want2beme just ordered one, thank you

And for your daughter moodymarshal campaign in to get a plaque 💪💪💪👏

Oh thanks for book link. 👏👏

Thank you Want2 - I’ve just placed my order - woo hoo!! Just planning how I can do some covert stickering (I’m terrible at that sort of thing - fear of getting caught)

Are the shirts 100% cotton?

Just got an email. The tote bag is NOW back in stock!

www.standingforwomen.com/product-page/tote-bag-with-logo?utm_campaign=74c66f78-6843-4332-8f3a-c5f9fff8b21c&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=0fc4e5b7-bb34-4e9e-ab28-ff5e3d03c00f

The v neck is a fitted style t shirt - M is 12-14 I think. So S 8-10 and L 16? I’m a 14 and got a M which fits (snugly). I think the round necked ones are more man- fit style.

KitchenFairy - I have just bought the same t-shirt in black. Too cold at mo, but I bought the hoodie as well. It feels silly that I’m a bit scared to wear out! I’ll wear indoors to start and build up ......

Does anyone know the corresponding sizes of the t shirts? About to make an order

Haven't rtft so it may have already been said but this is really quite unhelpful. Why not just explain in a few words. It doesn't take much.

'It doesn't take much' depends on how often you have to repeat it. It's quite poor of people to ask for explanations of things that actually have been explained, without having bothered to RTFT. If you want an explanation of an acronym then opening the thread in a browser and doing a text search is maybe the best thing to try first. You may be the first to ask, but if the thread is too long for you to have read it then there's a fair chance your question will already have enough asked and answered. Just a thought.

Otherwise there are a fair few explanations up thread but you need to find them.

I'm fully aware of the issues involved and 100% on the GC side but .....

There is a video link up thread which explains it ⬆️

Haven't rtft so it may have already been said but this is really quite unhelpful. Why not just explain in a few words. It doesn't take much.
If someone wants to watch a video for a deeper understanding all well and good but as a first port of call... no .... I don't want to spend time/data attempting to access a video which may not have subtitles so I need to fetch my earphones etc etc.

If you're linking a video, please always explain as well.

Just a thought.

Lockdown would be such a good opportunity for people, especially teenagers, to read 1984 and maybe the Diary of Anne Frank. Instead of inane SM.

@littlbrowndog, that is really interesting!

Just wanted to go back to the ‘Thought Criminal’ reference upthread. I didn’t know why that sweatshirt was called the ‘Emily’ so was interested to read that.

In general, it is a reference to Orwell’s 1984, where citizens were constantly monitored for signs of ‘wrong think’ and ‘thought crime’. This has relevance in this debate because some of the more extreme TRAs have sought to control what others think as well as what they say. For these TRAs, it is not enough to simply say ‘TWAW’, you must also believe it. Quite how they expect to be able to detect whether someone really means ‘TWAW’ or whether they are just saying it, is another matter.

I have to assume that the majority of the people who say TWAW either don’t really believe it, or have a definition of ‘woman’ that differs from the dictionary one.

I realise none of this is new information for most of us, but just wanted to say it as it seems we have a number of newbies on the thread who are still getting up to speed on the ins and outs of this debate.

@TartanLassie The colours are the colours of the suffragettes.

@littlbrowndog

I bought this book for DS1 (8) who has ASD and ADHD: A Kind of Spark https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1913311058?ref=ppxpoppmobappshare

It's written by an autistic woman from the viewpoint of an autistic girl who realises that the witches that were murdered in her Scottish village were probably also autistic women. She campaigns to get a plaque to remember them.

It is so lovely.

What is the significance of the ribbon colours, I've googled but can't find anything.

Thanks for that, littlbrowndog

www.witchesofscotland.com/about

I was listening to a talk on the radio this morning about the witches of Scotland

And hearing the fear here about how scary it is for it just to wear a T-shirt that says women are adult females

It seems we have returned to these days especially in my country Scotland

A quote below from the website witchesofScotland.com

They have a petition running for the thousands of women and some men who were executed to be pardoned

“The signs associated with witches (broomstick, cauldrons, black cats, black pointed hats) were actually things those of “alewives” – women who brewed weak beer in medieval times, as a method of combatting the poor water quality at the time. The sign above their door was a broomstick to let people know they could buy beer, they used large cauldrons for brewing, cats were kept to keep the mice at bay and the black pointed hats were used to make themselves easily identifiable at market. Brewing was seen as “women’s work” it was not until the craft of brewing became a profitable business that women were ousted from the role. It may have been the very process of removing women from that role by making people suspicious of their “brews” that caused the link to be made with witchcraft and the brewery symbols to become those of witches. “

Daugher love that ribbon but I can't see what the note says (gorgeous hand writing though) can you tell us what it says?

I've gone through it with a FB acquaintance, something they posted about evil Tory scum. I commented that I didn't know who to vote for as no one seemed to know what a woman was anymore.

It's amazing how many supposedly otherwise intelligent people have unquestioningly drunk the gender koolaid. And you can tell they haven't given it proper thought because they're never able to answer the hard questions.