Posts by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
(DIR) Post #9sTGUwyhm9QpqkRyeO by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-02-27T18:17:26Z
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You were there? I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for Canadian women right now- full steam ahead! A question for you: I’m a British Canadian, none of my Canadian friends seem to be against this. One is coming over from Toronto and wants to meet up, I’m wary as she’s quite political- is there an understanding of the debate at all or will it be like having the conversations I was having in London 2 years ago? @theAVclub
(DIR) Post #9sUvWjfsV3ByRmZeM4 by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-02-28T13:31:52Z
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I feel like this lady is more on the TRA side... sounds like you’re having more luck with common sense people than I am here in London @theAVclub
(DIR) Post #9sWfw2HLFytKR73jzE by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-02-28T23:20:15Z
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Really frustrating letter from the ministry of education banging on about how gender reassignment is protected under the 2010 equality act (and how is that relevant to children?!?!?!) doesn’t mention sex also being a protected characteristic at all!!! Very fucking worrying! Does say the CPS guidance is an online guidance for schools and there is no plan to put it in the curriculum.... I’d urge U.K. people to write- they make it hard as it’s all in the online form and you can’t reply directly but they need to be shown they can’t just misrepresent the law like that.
(DIR) Post #9vyqHWviL3rVGgefBI by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-06-11T17:26:33Z
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Thanks for sharing this- this is such a visceral explanation of dysphoric feelings, It's really moving. If only people would listen @Rogue_Koala @Camille
(DIR) Post #9wa7EeTdjtaKd25i52 by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-06-29T16:53:50Z
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With the exception of close family, I am still yet to meet a single acquaintance of mine in real life who is willing to stand up against or even talk openly about The TWAW madness. With so many vocal women online now how can this be?! I’m surrounded by woke ass fliberdygibits Without critical thinking ability- it’s exhausting!
(DIR) Post #9wgIpXLJUZC9f1kLvU by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-07-02T16:32:51Z
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I just had another argument with a friend who’s going out with a midwife. It all got incredibly heated ‘people have the right to be referred to how they like’ not if it then gets legislated in law and ‘men can give birth’ becomes legitimised. What about everyone else’s right to say no? I fucking dispare- I cant believe I’m having a baby into this utter bullshit and a daughter no less. It’s so fucking regressive, I can’t deal with it anymore. There must be so many midwives who disagree with this shit being forced to refer to women as men... what about them????
(DIR) Post #9wiOMTxfyM2moj8h4C by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-07-03T16:43:27Z
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It’s time to change my search engine and possibly my gmail too (though that sounds like a right fucker)... so my question to the new And OG Spinsters is- who are not deplorable? Is there a reliable search engine that doesn’t twist history and hate women? @mk might you and the techs be able to point me in a good direction?
(DIR) Post #9wiOjDTzPG5wMy5tYG by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-07-03T16:58:44Z
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Thank you, getting some good duck duck go feedback and will have a look at proton mail. Feels like such a big upheaval but that’s how they get us; It’s crazy how dependant we get on these massive A.C.M.E. Companies!@mk
(DIR) Post #9wiOxtLyWqOGHdLLOq by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-07-03T17:01:22Z
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Christ! I’ll give it a go- I’ll be perpetually lost for the next few weeks without google maps but I’m breaking the chains 😂@mk
(DIR) Post #9wiRIvOiK7TCc3mV4S by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-07-03T17:27:36Z
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On my iPhone (I’m sure Apple are no better really) but it seems like it’s been an easier process... done computers and phone- it’s just email to change now, dreading that really! @mk
(DIR) Post #9wm3tbvy1zeEh78S9I by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-07-05T11:21:32Z
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Is it just me or do the words ‘vile’ and ‘hateful’ really lose their oomph when levelled at women calmly stating thier position? The overuse has rendered these words impotent and the people that liberally fire them appear petty and manipulative- seen a lot of it last night and today- I’m not sure calling someone’s oppinion or manner ‘vile’ Is the touché people think it is
(DIR) Post #9xG6GZcEqRrwocmZ3Q by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-07-19T23:02:02Z
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Another day (Night) another letter... this time Liz Truss——————————————————1/2 Dear Liz Truss, I am a woman, soon to be a first time mother of a daughter. For the past four years I have become acutely aware of the damage being done across the board by trans activism in this country and across the world. I know the government is aware of the inconsistency in this ideology and the institutional capture that has lead to the nhs, the education system and the police capitulating to an ideology that promotes the assumption that ‘trans women are women’ and promotes this idea in public institutions, schools and politics. As you are well aware- and as has been calmly and rationally pointed out to you by feminists, journalists, biologists, socialists, centerists and conservatives; mostly women, mostly horribly abused, as I have been, and labelled TERF- this dangerous and blatantly untrue mantra and the obscuring of the reality of biological sex are doing untold damage to women and children in this country. It is an ideology based solely on sex based stereotypes and is deeply regressive as well as demonstrably untrue. For this reason it is imperative that the legal fallacy that a man can ‘become a woman’ is addressed fairly and honestly. Women’s safety and the advancing of women’s rights in this country depend on the government showing once and for all that it has enough respect for women to refuse to entertain the notion of Self-ID and to start an honest dialogue about the reality of biology regardless of how someone ‘identifies’. The internationally funded corporations and lobby groups promoting this ideology for their own gains; particularly Stonewall, who’s influence over British politics is truly shocking, need to be held to account as do international corporations such as google and twitter, who’s influence on British politics is also incredibly worrying. There are many, many women who feel like me, as you well know, we are silenced, abused, accused of hate by the very institutions we rely on to protect us and our daughters. The charities we created and fund to defend our hard won rights have been confused and manipulated into erasing the very language necessary to name the oppression they were created to combat- UN women, amnesty and action aid to name just a few. Children are being harmed and medicalised in the name of 1950s values of what a boy is ‘like’ And what a girl is ‘like’, good teachers are enabling terrible abuses by ‘transing’ children in the name of nothing more than baseless ideology and a want to be kind and progressive. Cont...
(DIR) Post #9xG8iHm2yQazUriDDs by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-07-19T23:03:01Z
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Another day (night) another letter Liz Truss———————————————2/2Continued... Some of the leading feminist voices in our country are in despair at the free reign that this misogynistic movement has had to abuse and undermine women and the very language we use to describe our unique biological reality. At 8 months pregnant this is very personal to me. As a child of the 80’s I find it incredible to fathom that my daughter is being born into a world where the very word woman is considered offensive, where the rights of a tiny minority of dysphoric men and women and the organisations that benefit from the Ideological chaos, have overshadowed the years of work my mother and grandmother put into create a fairer world for women of my generation and beyond. It is truly shameful that to acknowledge truth is considered transphobic. We must reframe the conversation from that of debating ‘trans rights’ to address the very real threat to the rights of woman. The government has a responsibility to us all and we are the silenced majority.Yours,
(DIR) Post #9xHldlEK7V2Wm9jPYu by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-07-20T18:30:10Z
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How miserable do those children behind them look 🤦♀️@Nemesis_Nyx
(DIR) Post #9xXeAWKADTMcuXG7ii by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-07-28T10:22:00Z
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🙄🙄🙄🙄@Glinner
(DIR) Post #9ya6Z9qHRW0ZVjbP4S by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-08-28T10:09:11.744163Z
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I’d like to talk about Canadian men. My dad is one. My ex-step dad of 25 years (abusive fuckwit) is one. I have cousins galore who are them and multiple ex’s. I think the world has been conditioned to think of Canadian men as kind, rational, not American-so-therefore-superior, intelligent and above all NICE.I think the reasonableness bestowed upon Canadian men in myth and legend has actually done great damage and lead to the shockingly misogynistic state of affairs in canada- where groups of these supposedly kind and reasonable men can shit all over women, not just with impunity but also with their permission. I see the casual arrogance of these ‘nice’ men commenting on my female Canadian friends posts with entitled disregard, I see how my cousins treat their partners, I see the patronising indifference to how so many treat their mothers (and the worship bestowed on them by thier mothers). I see the over inflated sense of riotousness that meant my step father got away with it for so long with women from all over the world fawning all over him because Canadian men are SO NICE. I think their prime minister epitomises this with his multiple racist soirées and militant ‘feminism’ imposed on the actual women of the country. I’m sure this is my Toronto-Vancouver-Ottawa centric view and that there are decent Canadian men the length and breadth of the country who are horrified, if they know, at the behaviour of their brothers but I can’t help thinking Canadian men aren’t the ‘Due South’ gentlemanly mounties we’re lead to believe but rather an arrogant, self deluded bunch of wankers with an inflated sense of self akin to the puritanical priests and patriarchs of yesteryear! Oh canada indeed!
(DIR) Post #9ya6bWsUle7nXAlkQq by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2020-08-28T10:17:42.598555Z
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@Justbrowsing fair point… but canada has had a very good PR machine for a long time; much of it resting on not being American! 😂
(DIR) Post #A4u57cZNf6CyKdugfw by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2021-03-05T14:06:56.282138Z
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Another day another letter... Clue Period Tracker——————————————————-Hi there,As there is no direct contact for customer services on your website I am contacting the press office and hope you will pass this on.I’m sure your inclusion policy means you will disregard my genuine concern and you will no doubt be fine with losing a user. Please do not use my name outside of this email as I have a baby daughter and I’m sure you are aware of the vitriol, threats and harassment people receive for stating my concerns. This is a statement of documented fact and there is no point denying this is the case.I would like it on record that i have stopped using your app because I feel betrayed that Clue, the period tracker that helped me conceive my daughter, would hold the position that not only women menstruate. This is biologically and medically inaccurate and part of a disingenuous trend to appear inclusive while excluding the very people who actively need your contraception- biological women. Transmen are biologically female, the removal of the word women plays into the idea that ‘some men menstruate’ and ‘some men conceive’ they don’t and never have. To suggest otherwise is a betrayal of the many thousands of women who have suffered and died in pregnancy and childbirth and as a result of their reproductive potential.I will be using a service that is prepared to categorically state that only women menstruate regardless of how they identify and not play into regressive stereotypes of what a woman should be.Yours,
(DIR) Post #A9pVPgjFjjLIN4KJrU by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2021-07-30T22:00:51.268280Z
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I havnt posted in ages but I am so fucking disappointed- my 1 year old bloody loves Aussie kids band The Wiggles... they have provided me with a well needed 15 min breather everyday and our whole family sing their songs. Today I watched a newly released song about the pronouns of the baby unicorn being ‘They’! So why the fucking why must the always suspicious unicorn character ‘Shirley Shaun the Unicorn’ be non binary? None of the other characters have ‘identities’ we have no idea if Dorothy the dinosaur is Bi or if Wags the Dog is Polyamorous because it doesn’t fucking matter in a kids band for infants!!! I just can’t take the fact that even my one year old is being drip fed the sexist nonsense that how you identify means your not a he or a she. Why Wiggles Why?! I fucking trusted you and your harmless, catchy tunes for babies you utter bastards.
(DIR) Post #AC1WKeH8Am9mgGMheK by WrenWinx@spinster.xyz
2021-10-04T14:11:04.180035Z
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Ugh! Just had to fill out a referral to the physio at the hospital and they asked for my gender and then what sex I was assigned at birth. (Followed by a waffly paragraph apologising for asking but trying to say that sex is important for muscular skeletal diagnosis 🙄) so cringe... then a bit about how discrimination will not be tolerated.My question is how have other people in the U.K. filled out these forms? I put a sentence in the ‘other’ box saying I find the question misleading as a gender critical woman with a protected belief but I am female. Does this then put me in the discriminatory category and will I receive less attentive care?