Ruth Sullivan @rubyrocks76

Foley Artist, Theatre Practitioner, Knitter. #Woman of a Certain Age. Also Feminist, Reader, Procrastinator. Anosmic. #sexnotgender ruthsullivan.co.uk London Joined June 2009

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Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders

4 days ago

No, Mr. President. The 2020 election that you lost was not "rigged" or "dirty," handing out $1.776 billion to violent insurrectionists is not a "good idea" & reporters who ask questions about your bogus claims are not "crooked." You are a president, not a dictator. Act like it.

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6 days ago

@EightiesFan73 @helenstaniland Love this!!

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a week ago

Whoa...

Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature

2 weeks ago

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign. Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately. Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the

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a week ago

@LeftieStats Er, no.

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2 weeks ago

Word 💪

ukvillafan @ukvillafan

2 weeks ago

@Alonso_GD Being a civil-law-trained lawyer (no capitals required) does not necessarily make you a competent lawyer. Allowing ideology to cloud one’s critical faculties, as you clearly do, is anti-intellectual in the most basic way. Your post makes a generic claim that lacks any precision,

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2 weeks ago

@jk_rowling @IWF This is horrific. What this poor young woman has to deal with on a daily basis... Well, I can only imagine. How brave of her to share her story; it's important for us to read it.

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2 weeks ago

@salltweets @dimorphiclife @MRobertsQLD @SenKatyG @PaulineHansonOz "this is a medical question..." jfc

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2 weeks ago

@norfolkmum1 Oh, logic 🤷

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3 weeks ago

@RachaelWongAus @amscanlon @The_Nationals Amazing news! Is the tide turning...?? 🙏🤞🙏

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Trevor Phillips @TrevorPTweets

3 weeks ago

My thoughts on the @EHRC guidance laid yesterday; this is not about non-existent "rights". It is about the safety of women - mothers, sisters, wives, daughters. We men need to hear their voices. Virginia Woolf : "Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes". My intro on @TimesRadio yesterday: Where I live there are two different routes to and from the tube station. One, let’s call it Acacia Avenue, is quiet and residential. The other, London Road, is a busy major route with lots of traffic. At all times of the day, I automatically head for Acacia Road. It’s just much nicer. The women in my family, on the other hand, will never willingly make that walk after dark. They live with an anxiety that most men find it hard to imagine, and frankly, rarely think about unprompted. Last year 739,000 women were sexually assaulted in Britain. Virtually all such assaults - nine out of ten - are perpetrated by men. One in four women have been attacked at some time in their lives. Acacia Avenue is exactly the sort of place in which most women fear that they become vulnerable, and they are right. As the author Virginia Woolf once wrote " Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes". I think this is the right context in which to understand the furore over the guidance being laid today by the government, over the meaning of the words man and woman when it comes to providing services and facilities in workplaces. Many men think this is about a rather arcane dispute about who gets to use what loo. For their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters, it isn’t. In a previous life, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, I had a hand in writing this country’s equality laws, in particular the 2010 Equality Act. It never occurred to any of us that there could be any confusion or dispute over the meaning of the words man and woman. But it has taken a decade of campaigning, a Supreme Court judgement and now hundreds of pages of guidance to settle the issue. This is not about so called trans rights, which are completely unaffected by this guidance, since no-one has ever had the right to walk into a changing room reserved for teenage girls. What it does mean is that women and girls are guaranteed the protection they deserve, and that their safety, which we spent half a decade drafting law to ensure, is protected. But the whole business illuminates some serious issues in our politics. First that many of our institutions, in spite of the fact that they always knew what the right thing to do was, decided to ignore the fears of their women customers and employees, under pressure from noisy pressure groups. Instead, the people who were supposed to be the grown ups behaved as though the law said what campaigners wanted it to say, rather than what it actually said. They settled for what they hoped would be a quiet life. In a democracy, there’s little point in Parliament deciding anything if the law is then made an ass by activists intimidating bosses in companies, schools, universities and the media into doing something different. Second, at the heart of the campaign to undermine the Equality Act is an idea that we specifically rejected in 2010, so called self-identification. That is to say, that it should be up to the individual to decide whether they have what’s called a protected characteristic - are you male or female, are you black or white. The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination. Look, it would almost certainly have been to my advantage as a young man to self-identify as a handsome, white public schoolboy. None of those things is true of me. And at various points I am pretty sure it’s been to my disadvantage. It is certainly statistically likely to have been to my disadvantage. But according to the logic of those who say that self-ID should be the rule and that anyone should be able to decide for themselves whether they are male or female, black or white or Asian, were I to complain about racial discrimination, it would be difficult for anyone prove that I’d been discriminated against because of my race since anybody to whom I’d lost out could just tell the courts that they too were black. I know that sounds like Alice in Wonderland but you can google the case where a chap, both of whose parents are white, insisted he should get money from the Arts Council because he so identified with the black struggle that he considered himself black, and everyone should accept his point of view. In the United States and Brazil exactly such outlandish claims have been made and people rewarded to the disadvantage of people actually born into minority families. I have even been told about firms who, when reporting their gender pay gaps have put men who just happen to like wearing dresses at weekends - nothing wrong with that, let me be clear - into the female column and told their women employees that they really haven’t got anything to moan about because statistically they are paid equally, and they should get back in their box. So today’s guidance isn’t just another tiresome chapter in culture wars. It is , I hope, a halt to the efforts to undermine one of the most important pieces of legislation on the statute book, by people who, for their own reasons, would prefer us to be living in the 1950s world of Mad Men.

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4 weeks ago

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Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83

4 weeks ago

#IStandWithSallGrover Pass it on.

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4 weeks ago

@theasewell05 @MaeveHalligan @BuckAngel Wow, fabulous 💪

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a month ago

@hothingsgirlsay Bravo 🙌

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a month ago

@OliverKamm Oh wow. I'm no expert but I have often cited her as an excellent translator and interpreter of some extraordinary books, none of which I would have read if it wasn't for her.

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a month ago

@Chesschick01 Off of, though...?! 🤭 #sorrynotsorry

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a month ago

@BradfemlyWalsh It's brilliant. I still have two more episodes left - it's a hard watch so I'm rationing it 😎

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a month ago

@BluskyeAllison @SexMattersOrg Fantastic! 🤩

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a month ago

@bindelj @betsvigi9 Yes! 💪

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a month ago

I've just voted 💪 Despite our current political turbulence it still gives me a thrill to put a ✅ in the box. The polling station volunteers are always so friendly and I always leave with a smile on my face. Yay 😊