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#MothersDay
A thread 🧵
This week @Oxfam went on @GMB to explain why they were being inclusive by removing the word mother from their policy and guidance.
They are not the first organisation to do this as we will show in this thread.
#MothersDay /1
A thread 🧵
This week @Oxfam went on @GMB to explain why they were being inclusive by removing the word mother from their policy and guidance.
They are not the first organisation to do this as we will show in this thread.
#MothersDay /1
Does it really matter if gender inclusive language is used?
Women are often told "don't be silly" "get a grip" the word mother isn't being erased. But if you look more closely it is & we believe that is a problem.
It is a fact that only women give birth & we all have a mother /2
Women are often told "don't be silly" "get a grip" the word mother isn't being erased. But if you look more closely it is & we believe that is a problem.
It is a fact that only women give birth & we all have a mother /2
Our experience of that will be different because not all mothers are the same.
A version of the word mother, mum, mom, ma etc is often the first word a baby will say. Mothers & motherhood are rooted in thousands of years of society.
#MothersDay /3
A version of the word mother, mum, mom, ma etc is often the first word a baby will say. Mothers & motherhood are rooted in thousands of years of society.
#MothersDay /3
The @Tate recently invited a “storytime drag queen” to perform a half-term show for children. Here is a short thread 🧵explaing why #WRN think drag queens should not be performing for children, with links to articles in support of the arguments
#NoToDragQueenStoryHour
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#NoToDragQueenStoryHour
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The Women’s Rights Network has sent this letter to The Prime Minister @UkDowning Ministers at the department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports @DCMS and to the Trustees of the @Tate Galleries
#NoToDragQueenStoryHour /2
#NoToDragQueenStoryHour /2
Drag queens should not be reading or telling stories to children. The performances are touted as being family friendly, but this article by Emma Thomas sets out why this is not true:
womensrights.network/post/the-famil…
#NoToDragQueenStoryHour /3
womensrights.network/post/the-famil…
#NoToDragQueenStoryHour /3
This weekend we're going to turn our attention to the bulletin boards. We'll look at one example of a disturbing profile that posts some pretty vile and possibly libellous attacks. Perhaps with 500+ of you on the case we can work out if it's connected to @shareprophets 🤔
If there is, it would raise serious questions over market abuse, as the profile in question clearly seems intent on sowing confusion and fear with investors. And associates of @shareprophets are known to short companies being written about in Shareprophets @thefca @CityPolice
We've asked before for @shareprophets to confirm whether or they use aliases to post on bulletin boards (BBs) to attack companies or sow fear or confusion. No reply. But we can see that previously @TomWinnifrith has said they don't use BBs.
