Barefoot In The Grass

The follow up questions are:

• Do you think this is an isolated incident?

• If it is, how would you know for sure?

(Use the word for what they really are - children - no one wants to admit to being a pedophile and when they realise they are you either stop them or show them for the pedophiles they really are.

The pedophiles will always try to explain away how teenagers and ‘almost-legal’ girls are basically the same as legally aged women. Follow this up with: So if 17 is okay because it’s almost 18 does it follow that 16 is okay because it’s nearly 17 which is basically the same as 18? Then 15 is basically 16… 14 is basically 15… 13… 12… 11… where does the line get drawn if crossing the line is okay? And if crossing the line is okay when it is close enough - then wherever a new line is drawn will it also be okay to cross? Where does it stop? Where is your actual bottom line of what’s okay?

Do you think sex trafficking in porn is an isolated incident? If it is, how would you know for sure? If it’s not, what is the acceptable number of forced and raped women and children you would accept in your porn?

The collision of India and Eurasia, which started about 50 million years ago and continues to this day, formed the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.

As if Joanne couldn't get any shittier, she misgendered and insulted a woman who called for support, all because the woman had PCOS/PMOS and "didn't sound feminine enough."

Fuck her.

Some man rang a rape crisis hotline with bad intent and implausible story to harass rape crisis hot line workers and troon losers are framing this as some poor victimised baby who was trapped and violated (his details are not published dumbasses) and of course he would hang up (when he figured out she was already onto him) and how dare a rape crisis hotline record calls like it isn’t standard practice to record phone calls

PCOS does not make women look and sound exactly like men (I would know I have PCOS)

I find it extremely offensive that you are using my medical condition in your shitty gender identity ideology

Stop wasting time on services for rape/abuse victims

These services exist to help female rape victims not for your weird gotchas

We had to be extremely careful because on *several* occasions this individual turned out to be a male who was extremely angry that our workers had assisted his ex-wife or girlfriend in leaving or divorcing him. One woman in 2006 was badly injured in this exact ploy. When we got to the point of stating that we would provide pickup services with a female police officer present, suddenly those calls ended.

Yes, there are many men who ring up and masturbate while describing sexual violence, and there's many men who ring up and just try to waste the time of the women running the phone lines. But there are also men who will try to manipulate workers into a physically unsafe situation.

A woman cannot put the phone down on someone who sounds clearly male because we can't trust what we hear. A woman cannot turn down someone clearly male asking for help because we can't trust our eyes. So it logically follows if one of our drivers went to pick up a male sounding caller who also looks like a male, they would still have to step out of the vehicle and offer assistance - TRAs would argue that male could actually be a woman (TWAW argument, withholding assistance is bigotry), or "Maybe they are intersex, you can't always tell!!" - despite the fact the vast majority of the time we can tell and shelter workers have the right to prioritise their own safety and should be empowered to follow their instincts.

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

literally….the idea that having your father’s last name is ~just as bad~ as having your husband’s last name has always been wacky as hell to me because regardless of where it came from, that’s the name I’ve been called since birth. it’s not any less “my” name than it is my brother’s name just because I’m female. I reject the idea that I don’t truly belong to my family of origin just because of my gender. If anything, that reinforces the idea of daughters as expendable possessions to be sold into marriage.