husband of a colleague of mine did the training & test to be a tram driver and it was something like you had to do a manoeuvre with 180 different actions, 0 mistakes allowed.

they constantly misunderstand women’s sports & women’s spaces because their entire imginations fail the bechdel test: the idea of women just choosing to hang out or play sports together bc they like each other is so far out of the frame of reference they haven’t even dismissed it as a possibility.)

(I 100% believe that the vast majority of anti-trans vibes are from people don’t like women so much that they haven’t even noticed they don’t like women.

For women’s and girls‘ sport especially, more people doing the sport = more sport to do! more sustainable teams, more sustainable clubs, more sustainable leagues! Nobody anywhere in women’s sport is going, “the big problem here is too many people doing the sport, we have to get rid of a few”.

what I can never get over is that they never address *fun*. They treat all sport as if it’s elite sport, and the *only* reason to participate is to win. But for the vast majority of sport, the point is to get exercise, have fun and hang out with your mates!

Actually amazed they didn’t call the anti-transgender activists women’s right activists! they usually do.

this might be a UK/US difference, but there wasn’t nearly as much furniture available secondhand, because people didn’t replace things so often. my parents bought a lot of solid wood furniture secondhand, but not appliances or soft furnishings. But even good secondhand stuff was ££.

(Plus, we’ll never have the pension he got.)

(We do have a house on a mortgage, we’re not generation rent. But my dad’s house now needs someone on a top 5% household income, not top 20%.)

Now that room has armchairs, standard lamps, bookcases, knick knacks etc. Me & my partner have all that stuff, but we can’t afford my parents’ house on two professional salaries (my partner has exactly the same job as my dad, my salary is 70% of hers.)

The most accurate thing I heard was “space was cheap and stuff was expensive”. My parents had a mortgage on a 4bed house on a single (professional) salary, but the photos from when I was little show big rooms with one sofa, one old wooden chest with a tv on it, an overhead light. >

I feel the same way about having a PhD on 1920 & 30s Germany.

I keep seeing people saying, "ironic" and no! it's not ironic! it is knowing full well which women you can attack and get supported for doing it!

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In 2016 the FCO issued travel warnings to LGBT+ people about the "trans bathroom bans" being introduced in the US. Now we're supposed to believe that that has actually always been the rule in the UK.

It's also one of the things most likely to stop girls and young women telling their parents if they experience SA. "I'll kill anyone who hurts you" = "if I tell my dad, something even worse will happen".

Happy women's day if you're a woman

if you're not there's always next year

The drug users and drunks mostly leave you alone if you leave them alone. Don’t drag them into it!

I’ve never seen it because I stopped watching tv with male main characters in about 2005. I told my brother this and he was absolutely scandalised and told me I couldn’t do that, so I asked him which women-centred tv series he watched and he couldn’t think of one.

It’s Southwell/Southwell all over.

I mean, at least now they know what their mums/dads/supporters go through? /reluctant football mum

Big dilemma during the national anthem as I do not believe in the monarchy but I extremely do believe in communal singing. Compromised by singing “the qu-ing” instead of “our qu-ing”.

We went to see England v Iceland! It was very good! ⚽️

(There are capybaras at Lotherton Hall, which is owned and run by Leeds Council, which means that somewhere on a council spreadsheet somewhere there are capybaras as a line item. And flamingoes. And bats. And penguins. I find this delightful.)

I tried to explain to my children thst I didn’t know capybaras existed when I was their age and it did. not. compute.

This is why I’m always so annoyed by the people who claim to be leftwing but still want leftwing votes to support Labour. If you’re genuinely a leftwing voice inside Labour, we’re your best asset! You point to us and say, “I see where you’re coming from, but I’ve got to keep those people happy.”

The unions meant they were decently paid, which meant they could support families and communities. The right destroyed the unions and the industries, and is now pretending there’s something inherently noble and manly about those jobs whilst fighting any attempt to unionise in the existing economy.

Someone pointed out that the all the noble manly working class jobs that the right get excited about (mining, manufacturing) were only good jobs because they were unionised. They were never inherently well-paid or decent they just *had unions*.

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