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A reminder that for the 'hate crime' of sharing photos sent to us of Women = Adult Human Female protest stickers in Belfast, @SDLPlive Councillor @seamasbelfast defamed us as a hate account. @columeastwood do you think it's hateful to defend sex-based rights & language? #AE22
@SDLPlive @SeamasBelfast @columeastwood UUP's @BeattieDoug thought so too at first, 'til women from the network we belong to (& @DreyfusJames!) told him why #peacefulprotest like stickering is the ONLY way for many women to protest the erosion of our rights, spaces & language, thanks to the #chillingeffect created
Here's Seamas's defamatory tweet, trying to stifle debate on women's rights, calling our followers bots. When they replied #notabot, he blocked them! #seamasblockswomen What will you do about this, @columeastwood? Voters are angry & want to know. #AE22
This a/c was created from a large group of NI people of all backgrounds & sectors of NI. Many anonymous for fear of job loss, bullying at work, their kids being targeted. @ClaireHanna your comms officer is blocking women for speaking up #SeamasBlocksWomen
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We know only too well the horrific, misogynistic abuse our female politicians get. We have women in our network in very senior positions at work who feel they have too much to lose to put your name to it. But we are going to need more politicians to listen to us and to speak up.
The story being told is that fighting for males in women's spaces and the erosion of the specific language necessary for robust laws is 'progressive'. It is not. We have LGB people hounded out of groups for their 'genital preferences'. NI is experiencing an overcorrection
