@HebrideanHecate She says in this interview that she's also received multiple abusive tweets from angry Muslim men. LWS at the end of June is going to be VERY interesting. Please come if you can, and invite any politicians and journos you know.
There are millions of non-religious women who are afraid to show their faces and speak in public about our rights. How much harder it must be for them.
@HebrideanHecate Kellie-Jay was piled on by the Head Girls 3-4 years back, when she opposed young British girls in Primary School (either Muslim or white converts) being put in these garments by their performative parents. Even in the strictest Shariah countries, it starts at puberty, not before. She's been called racist, because calling out men's oppression to our sisters in other cultures is racist, apparently.
@SomaliRose@AnungIkwe Men in dresses (or any other "women's" clothing) are scary because that's their intention. Its exactly why Clowns are scary, the Clown face (especially to children) is not immediately identifiable as a human being. The appearance says one thing, everything else (voice, height, actions, pheromones) says another. Historically, men adopted women's dress to show positions of power, (Priests) aggression (armies, ie Roman, Scot, Indian) and to confuse (spies, fugitives, suicide bombers).
Being confronted by a cross-dressing man is instantly scary, even a picture - that's why it works.
Historically we made fun of them as a way of defusing the fear, even took kids along to Panto to laugh at the Ugly Sisters (always played by men) and the Circus,to laugh at the Clowns.
Nowadays, laughing is forbidden. The "Trans" movement is a societal attempt to stop us using the mechanism of laughter (and teaching children to laugh), to expose their masquerade.
House Martens for example, their natural behaviour is to scoop up mud in their beaks and make numerous journeys back & forth from the water, to build their nests. If you provide an imitation nest, they may well use it, but you have made their nest-building behaviour unecessary. The natural nest is designed to fall apart with the wind and rain of winter, so that in the Spring, the birds build a nice new clean one. If they don't pass the behaviour on to their chicks, that's the end of House Martens.
Yes, migratory bird colonies on our buildings are noticably collapsing in recent years. But I seriously wonder if "taming" them by providing boxes (which the human installer has to clean out every year because of the build up of poo, fleas and old nest material) is the answer. I follow Bristol Swifts Blog. The guy has tamed a swift colony, he provides clean boxes around his house year after year. So what happens if he moves or dies? Is the next owner seriously going to go up the ladder every year to maintain the boxes? His Swift colony is only viable as long as he and his wife live in that house.
Nest-building is also part of the bird's bonding behaviour with their mate. If we make that unecessary, by providing artificial nests, what do we think will happen? I do wonder if this is part of the reason for the collapse in numbers of garden and migratory birds - those are the ones we interfere with the most. Installing bird boxes is encouraged by primary schools, telling children it's a normal thing to do.
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