JKR exposing Scottish hate crime laws for what they are

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https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1774747068944265615?s=61&t=NHDSDk1MaF98_GOtcuLi0Q

I'm not Mishy WTF 😁

I don't think you are Mishy, @GoodAfternoonGoodEveningAndGoodnight but not sure why you would find it so weird that someone would?

You know, we don't have to explain ourselves to any creepy men in female only spaces or, in fact, in any discussion about it.

We don't have to justify why we get a creepy vibe from them. Maybe if they were women they'd understand.

Either way they don't care and are just attention farming imo.

Yep, 100%. And that's not directed at anyone in particular. It's a general observation about women, boundaries, and women's spaces.

Attention farming is a great phrase Wallace.

There are so few female sex offenders, that we know almost all of their names and the details their horrible crimes.

There are so many male sex offenders that they could list them like one of the big, old-fashioned yellow telephone directories, and their crimes are so many and varied that only the most appalling ones hit the headlines. All the rest are just same-old-same-old - except for the victims.

Hands up everyone who's ever been or felt threatened by a lesbian sex offender...

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This. The publicity around the world on the stupidity of this law will be huge.

I believe the phrase is actually engagement farming @LarkLane but I prefer my version of it as there often really isn't much engagement going on.

What some people do not seem to understand is that single sex spaces are a preventative measure.

Once a woman has been sexually assaulted there is no going back to before it happened.

It is literally life changing. One can “recover” can move forward, “survive” but life is never the same again.

Not distinguishing Biological facts up the risks all over the place, and those who come here with made up experiences about what women who have been raped, think, boils my blood.

Totally agree. I hugely admire her. In fact she is the only ‘celebrity’ I do really admire.

for all those victims of violence and sexual violence on this thread.

I'm old. Lots of unpleasant situations with men. Including assault as an eight year old by a group of young men.
Had a man in a frock threaten to thump me in Liverpool at LWS. There's video footage of him roaming around making threats. There's a link on FWR somewhere.

Never ever been threatened sexually or physically by a lesbian.

Might do, kind of illustrates the problem perfectly. Great idea!

This. The rights belong to all women. Individual women saying, "Well I'm not bothered", so what!

Never been threatened by a lesbian, not that one can just tell anyway.

Funny how women-only spaces are only an issue when people object to transwomen in them, but outside of that, no one seems to have a problem.

Where is the campaigning to get rid of all single sex spaces if it is so irrelevant, old-fashioned and bigoted to sometimes separate men and women?

You are so right. Engagement is an honest dialogue between people who might disagree.
Your phrase is more accurate on this board.

There are 6245 comments on the article about this in the Telegraph and 1500 in The Times

Nothing useful to add, except that I admire JKR so much.

The only threatening 'lesbians' i've seen are the self identified heterosexual male ones, they like to threaten to choke women with their lady dicks. There are a fair few of those hanging out on twitter abusing women.

Same old male violence.

Apologies if this has already been posted and I have missed it. Justin Webb interviewing the SNP on Today this am.

https://twitter.com/leng_cath/status/1774715137829511404

Ah was that the event when the infamous band 'Frog Dylan' had to delete all their social media because of their actions?
See how it all went quiet for them yet women speak up and they get cancelled and pilloried foreeeevvvvvveeeerrr?

Jo has zero fucks left to give!