Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will douse them with petrol & burn them alive or drug them till they're unconscious & invite strangers round to repeatedly rape them.

Dolores O'Riordan would have turned 53 today. Happy heavenly birthday. Here is Dolores with The Cranberries performing "Zombie" in Paris, 1999. Her voice was truly unique and her powerful presence on stage was unforgettable.

Incredibly excited by a Call for Manuscripts: "TBI in Women and Girls" for a topical Issue of Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation@JHTRonline I am honored to be serving as topic issue editor with Dr Lisa Brenner, VA Clinical Research/CU Anschutz Prof journals.lww.com/headtraumareha…

Look at the power and height of this Male Player Blaire Fleming - from today's Iowa Hawkeyes vs. San Jose State women's volleyball game. Is it fair for these women who have worked so hard to be dominated by a mediocre male player? NCAA Women's Volleyball ICONS WomenAreReal

Not just unfair but dangerous and not sustainable. At this rate so many women athletes will be erased

Excellent as always from ⁦Janice Turner⁩ Why is there no boycott against Afghanistan’s men’s cricket team while Afghan women and girls are silenced and imprisoned at home? thetimes.com/article/5b3d4a…

'Boycotting the Afghan team would not be a peevish act but the deployment of a rare political lever against the Taliban, which permitted the men’s game when it forbade all other pastimes. Its leaders both love the sport...' thetimes.com/article/5b3d4a…

What the Taliban is doing to women and girls in Afghanistan is so unbearably bleak - and the international response has been far too weak thetimes.com/comment/column…

Labour members - Plse ask your women's conf delegates to vote Louise & Lynne onto Women's Conf Arrangements C'ttee on 21st Sept labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/dr-louise-irvi… A powerful women's conference, supported by a strong network of women's branches, is key to our party's role in women's

"the Afghan men’s cricket team will play South Africa. A bitter irony. Throughout the apartheid years, sporting boycotts were used to pressure Pretoria to end violent white supremacist rule and to punish its bar on black cricketers. The world took a moral stand..."

Male multi-millionaire Will Farrell gets a Netflix doc to highlight the ‘plight’ 🙄 of his male multi-millionaire friend who claims to be a woman. Meanwhile this female filmmaker can’t even get YouTube to pay her for a film showing the hurt these men cause…show your support ⬇️

Look at these Afghan men who are idolised, photographed and celebrated, while Afghan women are denied every human right Time to boycott Afghanistan in international cricket

Q: Why do you care if a trans woman (i.e. a man) takes a women's record that has no trophy and no prize money? A: Because these records mean a lot to the women who attempt them. Record rides lead to articles like this👇, sponsorships, and opportunities. theradavist.com/a-conversation…

We have been making the case to Government that the aggregate term LGBT should be dropped. We are delighted the DfE has acknowledged that sexual orientation and gender identity should not be conflated. We look forward to other departments following suit. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66d7301b…

Freda and Nicola, former Co chairs of The Green Party seniors. Both suspended for allowing discussions on women's rights and democracy in the Greens on an informal seniors Google list. Nicola was in the party for 40 years.

And finally, announcing our #Lab24 conference stand.. Daily q & a's on sex & gender - in sport, law, lesbian rights, schools, LAs, NHS, TUs, free speech, our Party.. Plus fringe meetings 1330 Sun 22 Sept "Where next?" 1900 Mon 23 "Unions for Women" See thread↓ #LWDLiverpool2024

This male ran again in the Female category today in parkrun Australia: - 1st Female, bumping down >90 females; - beat all men in same age category by >3 minutes; - he already held the Female age category record acc to 5km app & improved it further so it is now even more…

'Davis, an NHS consultant radio­logist, challenges the union’s leadership to “embrace democracy” and put its stance to a consultation of its estimated 185,000 members.' theguardian.com/society/articl…

Lots from me today, sorry. First, my The Times and The Sunday Times column is about the horrific Pélicot case, and why ignoring relatively small crimes against women always leads to worse ones The French rapist began small. They always do thetimes.com/article/53b8d2…

For News Review I’ve written about the older woman / younger man trope in cinema, and how the reality measures up to the fantasy Young men, older women: it works for Hollywood, will it work for me? thetimes.com/article/15550c…