Posts by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
(DIR) Post #9xFJHVgu1kDvB8mU0e by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-19T09:41:48Z
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Typical Ireland - why make decisions and provide controversial services when you can put your head in the sand and hide behind inefficiency, and shur isn't England just over the water? I suspect that in the absence of peer-reviewed medical guidelines, they are waiting for this all to blow over. This also means no one can sue the HSE for unintended consequences from self-medication with hormones.https://gcn.ie/trans-people-self-medicate-long-waitlists/?fbclid=IwAR3HaG0wnW464Wng6-2UCwprWrEWIxQo4WbHgLFKH9UMwkv_nsbqbYTTQp8
(DIR) Post #9xFJHYo6RQlWqLAm9I by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-19T13:45:18Z
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@ChristieFox @AnneBevan The trouble is that in Ireland, we have to wait for every health service, sometimes for years. So the waiting isn't actually prescribed for the patient's benefit; it's because the system is overwhelmed. I think the HSE might see this as a happy coincidence.
(DIR) Post #9xFJHb7JqxKE0WB9NY by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-19T14:00:32Z
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@ChristieFox @AnneBevan @HebrideanHecate Of course they don't want to compare waiting times for transitioning medication with waiting times for cancer treatment or anything serious like that.But what they are reporting is illegal activity - no one should be smuggling drugs into the country, or obtaining drugs for self-medication, or advising people - usually young and ill-informed people - how to do this and encouraging them to take these drugs without medical supervision.
(DIR) Post #9xHiw0lgmwdYJgLh32 by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-20T17:47:32Z
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@Ladyfat I imagine 'neutrois' is pronounced as French to rhyme with 'moi' as Miss Piggy would say it, or 'mwah' like the most irritating and insincere air kiss.
(DIR) Post #9xHk3YV7rvVEuzlLt2 by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-20T18:12:34Z
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@Fullycaffeinated @Ladyfat 😆
(DIR) Post #9xHu7VexNGJgo0swXA by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-20T20:01:01Z
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@AllineCormier @Fullycaffeinated I never noticed the female body-count or lack of agency in the films, because I was too amazed at how well they *got* Europe. The set-pieces weren't filmed at major landmarks or tourist traps, and the background was true to rainy, wintry, European cities and landscapes. They have a realist style, unusual for Hollywood,* that fooled me into thinking it was representational in other areas. Going to have a think about other aspects of film-making that blind me to lack of female roles and representations. Films that make me laugh are definitely on that list.*I realise you are both Canadian. 😀
(DIR) Post #9xHuZN4WtbvSHR8Ff6 by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-20T20:10:20Z
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@Fullycaffeinated @AllineCormier True. It's just Bond in another style.
(DIR) Post #9xNDsZ1aJBsoZ8tXRA by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-23T09:40:18Z
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@Camille OT but Lori Lightfoot is a glorious name! If anyone can face down Trump, it should be a woman with a heroic name like that.
(DIR) Post #9xNENar9Y2kJDwoNIO by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-23T09:45:55Z
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@Camille I went to school with siblings called Thunder. It was unfortunate for them that AC/DC released Thunderstruck at that time. 😆
(DIR) Post #9xP42nA9zFjW5M42SG by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-23T19:03:07Z
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The Irish Green Party leadership vote was won by the current leader Eamon Ryan, who fell asleep in the Dáil (Parliament) the other day. But even a doddery old fool like him is better than his challenger - a woman who will not acknowledge women. On World Menstrual Hygiene Day, she tweeted: " #PeriodPoverty is an issue affecting many people in Ireland & around the world We must continue to educate, empower and end the stigma attached to menstruation & work to ensure access to period products is available for those who need them"
(DIR) Post #9xP4aBlzVXx5y7gToG by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-23T20:11:05Z
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@HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake And isn't that such a shame? Don't they know we live on MOTHER Earth?@PennyLope I would love to hear more, after you have had a stiff drink or a deep breath to calm those rolling eyes!
(DIR) Post #9xPNYKwcKtpmxmU7qS by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-24T09:54:30Z
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@Camille @HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake That's interesting, thanks @PennyLope !I do tend to support women in politics, but only if they support women too. The social justice element does not surprise me with the Greens. I've always wished they would stick to their own point, but they do attract all the nutters - in the past it was anti-vaxxers, anti-fluoride in the water, homeopaths etc. It sounds like Martin's faction is similarly crazed, just along TWAW lines, and they seem to have had more than a 48% influence on the policies.
(DIR) Post #9xPOfuQstFkp0cohJg by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-24T10:50:42Z
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@Camille @PennyLope @HebrideanHecate @JackyHolyoake Rural Ireland has been destroyed by ridiculous planning. We never got over sub-division of land, so we have spatterings of remote houses instead of villages and towns. The Green ideal of villages connected by public transport won't work without knocking down all the far-flung McMansions and starting again. (I wouldn't be opposed to that, but I have no idea how we would be able to pay for it.)
(DIR) Post #9xcU9zhFYu8p2EHXJA by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-07-30T18:14:30Z
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@PennyLope @DoctorDee A friend shared this today. I had never heard it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jxjXpJSk5sPour @Fullycaffeinated et nos soeurs francophones!
(DIR) Post #9xiBvjXoBccOeufwvI by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-08-02T09:57:31Z
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@Ladyfat They seem to enjoy the self-flagellation, like some masochistic Catholic monk with a whip and a hairshirt.
(DIR) Post #9xiEVqnet4kLUlRHLE by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-08-02T12:56:13Z
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@Fullycaffeinated @Ladyfat "Blessed art thou among individuals with cervixes." 😀
(DIR) Post #9xn5uTy0j6yLyGa1ce by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-08-01T09:03:42Z
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@AllineCormier @AnneBevan I never looked for groups to join. I'm not much of a 'joiner'. The campaign to repeal the 8th Amendment to the constitution, which was effectively a ban on abortion, comprised lots of different groups working toward a common goal. So I went on protests since 1992, when I was 17, but I never marched under anyone's banner.I looked up to individual feminist women, like the journalist Nell McCafferty, who is brilliantly outspoken and courageous, but she is getting on in years now, and I think her mind is not as clear as it was. Our first female president, Mary Robinson, became my absolute hero when I was 15. I just looked up the National Women's Council of Ireland - and under their feminist constitution they wrote "By ‘woman’ we refer to any person who identifies as a woman."The Rape Crisis Centre have done outstanding work for women in Ireland.The Irish Countrywomen's Association is often dismissed as farmers' wives gossiping in the kitchen. But the natural 'conservatism' of rural women - by which I mean the tendency to think before they speak, not to follow fashion, and to work slowly and steadily and quietly toward change, is actually a secret weapon. They support the Rape Crisis Centre, the campaign against sex trafficking, and they quietly supported the movement to Repeal the 8th without alienating their traditional base. So of all the feminist groups, even though they might not call themselves that, I would say they are the most effective.
(DIR) Post #9xn5uUSqsRdtVv0eh6 by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-08-01T09:05:45Z
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@AllineCormier @AnneBevan I would be interested to hear @Camille and @PennyLope 's opinions too!
(DIR) Post #A25xxzaYnZodOhBvOq by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-12-11T12:16:48Z
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@Chronic-Yonic @mk I am still locked out, and very glad it's nothing sinister, and that I kept my Glindr open when I migrated to Spinster! Log-in won't recognise my saved password, or let me change it.
(DIR) Post #A25xy0Aid8jtCq6nlA by Maud_Gonner@glindr.org
2020-12-11T12:32:20Z
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@Chronic-Yonic @mk We can have a neighbourly chat over the wall till the glitch is fixed!