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Caitlin Logan Carter

@_CaitLogan

3 years

It's interesting how many takes on the Alba Party don't make a mention of the role of reactionary "anti-wokeness" among its presumed support base and defectors so far. This feels like a pretty central piece of the puzzle and possibly the most worrying aspect of this development.

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After the media’s handling of Graham Linehan’s “comedy” cancellation, I’m left wondering what separates news from trashy reality TV. At a time when identifying reliable info is harder than ever, this is a dereliction of duty. My @ScotNational column:

Do news reporters from multiple media outlets typically gather at a 'comedy show'?

ONE involves some very privileged people with posh accents making lots of money by spotlighting desperate attention-seekers and sensationalising the…

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1 year

When all is said and done, it’s going to take a lot more than passing this bill to pick up the pieces of the shattered illusion of Scotland as a progressive utopia.

It will take lots of work to revive the image of Scotland as a progressive utopia

THE numbers are such that we can expect some form of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill to be passed by the Scottish Parliament today, yet for those…

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3 years

Constantly debating over whether there is even a point in commenting on all of the infuriating awfulness of Scottish politics and associated media and social media, but I have, again, been pushed to the point where I feel the need to say something. A thread.

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3 years

I've been thinking for a while about how to articulate exactly how and why the current situation around the "gender debate" is so concerning for women's rights. Unfortunately, in the time it's taken me to think there have been a string of new examples to prove the point. /Thread

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1 year

Those who choose to repeatedly undermine the vital work of women’s charities and feminist activists are doing the patriarchy’s work for it, whether they want to accept that or not. My column in @ScotNational . Because I had to say something about this.

Interrupting a speech on violence against women only serves the patriarchy

WE are six days into the annual 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, and sadly this period of awareness-raising feels no less relevant…

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3 years

It brings to mind for me a Toni Morrison quote about racism, but which I think is equally illuminating about the tactics of those who want to sabotage work towards equality in other areas. The endless, circular arguments we find ourselves in are not an accident, they're the goal.

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1 year

The way trans people have been treated & spoken about in our media, our Parliament, our courts, & on social media is beyond disgusting. Framed as predators, perverts, liars; taunted daily basis by people who act like school bullies; and forced to defend rights they already have.

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3 years

Remember that time Stuart Campbell actually sued someone for saying he said something homophobic because that was ~damaging his reputation~? You literally could not get any more homophobic than his latest blog. I hope the organisations in question are speaking to their lawyers.

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Caitlin Logan Carter

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3 years

Robin McAlpine’s horrible article makes me embarrassed by association of having worked for him. I’m tired of staying silent out of respect for other people. It’s too serious for that. “My silence would leave me feeling complicit. I can’t live with that” says Robin. You & me both!

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Caitlin Logan Carter

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2 years

If the EHRC doesn't make absolutely clear it does not support these proposals and undergo some serious structural change, there will be no coming back for it as an organisation worth respecting or engaging with by anyone in the field of equalities or progressive policy.

Ben Hunte

@BenInLDN

2 years

“They just want to exclude trans people" Exclusive: Leaked guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) shows it plans to exclude trans people in Britain from single-sex spaces unless they have a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

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1 year

For clarity and for any SNP members who care. Under no circumstances and in no election will I vote for a party or government whose leader is: > Opposed to trans rights > Anti-abortion > Refuses to say whether they support equal marriage. I know many who feel the same.

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2 years

Some say any suggestion we need to be worried about going the same way as the US is melodramatic. Then our public broadcaster invites on a spokesperson of an international organisation led by the US Christian Right which exists to legally challenge pro-choice & pro-LGBT policies

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2 years

“We already live in a country where harassment is illegal” ADF UK’s Lois McLatchie tells #TheNine she thinks the introduction of abortion clinic buffer zones would "disproportionately" ban "any charitable help or silent prayer... to women who might want to hear it".

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1 year

I’ve had to justify my support for reforming the GRA in the face of claims that my rights as a woman and a lesbian are somehow threatened by trans people. The irony is that the most vocal trans allies have been LGB people – because we know it’s never “just” about one issue.

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3 years

Meanwhile, people who call themselves "gender critical" are increasingly advocating ideas that are extremely essentialist around gendered expectations and roles, suggesting that biology is the primary and only cause of gendered differences (and by extension inequalities).

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1 year

In 20 years when we look back on this, I expect it will be with the same revulsion that we now reflect on the debate around Section 28. The question is whether the people who really needed to feel shame about their treatment of LGBT people ever truly did.

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Caitlin Logan Carter

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2 years

“What Scotland's gender recognition reform bill will mean for the lives of trans people.” My new feature in @ScotNational , in which I speak to 5 trans people about how they’re feeling about the Bill’s introduction to parliament today.

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2 years

I spoke to 3 women who work as dancers in Edinburgh strip clubs about what the council’s ban on the clubs will mean for them, and what could really make things better and safer for them. In @ScotNational today 👇

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Caitlin Logan Carter

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3 years

It seems to me that anti-trans voices have been allowed to set the terms of the conversation from the outset. The "debate", in my opinion, is the distraction from the work. And... I ran out of thread for the first time, so I'll leave this here!

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3 years

And the thing is, this was always where this was headed. There could never be some magical barrier between trans people and LGB people, or between LGBT people and women, that would protect people against attacks which are rooted in a deeply conservative ideology around gender.

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Caitlin Logan Carter

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1 year

It’s mind blowing to think the outgoing First Minister attended the first same-sex weddings in Dec 2014, and that by the time I get married 8.5 years later it’s a real possibility we could have an FM who doesn’t believe I should have that right and would have voted to stop it.

Conor Matchett

@conor_matchett

1 year

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Forbes would not have voted for Holyrood's equal marriage bill "as a matter of conscience", she tells @TheScotsman She will keep the co-op agreement with the Greens but said it would be up to them to 'live with' her economic plans Story:

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3 years

With particular reference to the section of Stuart Campbell’s blog which invoked Neil Mackay’s daughter’s sexual assault as a means of attacking him. Now deleted but with the opposite of an apology. Before that, it was already shared by Kenny McAskill and liked by Joanna Cherry.

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3 years

Nothing could be further from the truth. In many (even most) cases the very people being targeted - trans people, all LGBT people, feminists - are among those who are *most* critical of gender and all the associated stereotypes and societal norms.

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3 years

Are we supposed to be untroubled by the knowledge that people working to support women and end gender inequality are having to spend so much time, resources and mental energy (all of which are in short supply) on countering misinformation and blatant lies about their work?

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3 years

It’s ridiculous if you imagine that Campbell and his followers really believe that totally unrelated accounts of sexual offences are part of a conspiracy against Alex Salmond. But it makes more sense when you understand they’re really just worried about a conspiracy against men.

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3 years

In an apparent *defence* of women's rights just weeks ago, people were arguing that anyone who's pregnant should be referred to as a "mother". If you ever read any anti-choice literature you'll notice they LOVE using the word "mother" in this context - another rhetorical device.

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3 years

The term "gender ideology" is now being bandied about by people (including in the media) in Scotland like some terrifying spectre, with seemingly no regard for how this exact terminology is being used across Europe by the far-right in pushing for a roll-back of women's rights.

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3 years

Ideas around sex and gender have always been complex and subject to debate among feminists, but I have recently watched far too many people expressing explicitly anti-feminist ideas and calling it feminism to not be seriously worried about where this is headed.

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3 years

The people who devote themselves to opposing any and all rights for trans people - while simultaneously spreading malicious misinformation around just about any organisation, initiative, or legislation intended to support women - commonly refer to themselves as "gender critical".

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3 years

I should be 100% clear: even if trans people were the only people affected by all of this, it would be alarming. But in reality, undermining trans people's rights is a drop in the ocean compared to the scale of what the real opponents of "gender ideology" want to achieve.

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3 years

And of course, the go-to favourite is calling trans-inclusive feminists "Handmaidens". In other words, calling women victims of state-mandated rape... as an insult. Nothing could sound more chillingly anti-feminist, yet people calling themselves "gender critical" are doing this.

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3 years

Should we be unconcerned that any time a social media post goes out from an organisation, government or other public body which mentions the word "gender", the replies fill up with angry accusations of erasing biological sex?

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3 years

Is it a coincidence that the people constantly having to defend themselves and their work are women who have dedicated their lives to making Scotland a safer and fairer place for women and girls?

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3 years

Too many people, including those in opposition to them, have accepted that label as if it has any bearing on reality. This is a problem because the label itself is a rhetorical device with the purpose of inferring a binary in which anyone who disagrees is "uncritical" of gender.

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3 years

That’s a genuine question for some people. But it’s clearly well beyond that point with elected representatives who are pushing both these seemingly contradictory agendas simultaneously. Nobody can be taken seriously as an advocate of women’s rights who endorses Stuart Campbell.

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3 years

That was already obvious before today but in case anyone has missed some of this, maybe now is the time to start making clear that it isn’t acceptable that any elected representative in a progressive party should be sharing content from this website, least of all writing on it.

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1 year

Perhaps most sickening to observe has been the way a mixture of fear, misunderstanding and bigotry have been cynically exploited by people who have seen this as nothing more than an opportunity.

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3 years

It is hard to know quite how to address it but the one thing that's certain is it can't be ignored. Scotland's women's services and decades of work to build consensus on the progress needed to end gender inequality and violence against women are being systematically undermined.

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1 year

If progress is won for trans people today, take heart, but remember this is only the start. If there’s one thing the last few years have taught us, it’s that anti-LGBT campaigners are a lot like Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers – they always come back. Next time, we’ll be ready.

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1 year

It’s very telling that the people who are “concerned” and “troubled” by the focus on Kate Forbes’ personal views, as expressed in her own words, are seemingly perfectly happy to see Humza Yousaf repeatedly grilled over what he might secretly be thinking.

Connor Gillies

@ConnorGillies

1 year

NEW: SNP leadership contender Humza Yousaf hits back at @SkyNews exclusive with Alex Salmond who claims Humza organised a meeting to avoid final equal marriage vote due to religious pressure. Former FM recalls getting a phone call ten days before the vote. Latest interview👇🏽

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3 years

But the extra insidious layer to all of this is that there is a huge overlap, at least within the independence movement, between people who subscribe to these beliefs and those who are equally up in arms about trans people on the basis that their inclusion is a threat to women.

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1 year

Kate Forbes is in with a real chance at becoming First Minister of Scotland - after getting her political start through anti-abortion Christian Action Research and Education’s (CARE) leadership programme. @AdamRamsay + me in @openDemocracy .

Anti-abortion group funded Kate Forbes’ first political job

Exclusive: SNP leadership candidate previously worked for shadowy Christian right group that doesn’t declare funders

www.opendemocracy.net

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3 years

Right now, so many of us are distracted. I am distracted, and I don't want to spend much more time allowing myself to be drawn into the arguments we never asked to have, but I think there are a few things that need to be made clear before that's possible.

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3 years

A few years ago, I couldn't have guessed the events which would transpire with Alex Salmond, but I could have predicted that failing to address the vocal minority of reactionary, anti-feminist & anti-equalities independence supporters would come back to haunt the SNP leadership.

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@_CaitLogan

3 years

Months ago I spoke at length with various women on this with a view to writing something which didn't quite transpire, but with events like the recent wave of attacks online and in the media on Rape Crisis Scotland and specific rape crisis services, it feels increasingly urgent.

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@_CaitLogan

3 years

The time surely has to come when genuine feminists who have gotten themselves involved with this can take a step back and recognise the dangerous direction of travel here.

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@_CaitLogan

1 year

After witnessing the behaviour of some elected representatives over this time, I hope none of us will forget that just because they smile & hold your sign for the cameras doesn’t mean they won’t look you in the eye and stab you in the front the minute it seems pragmatic to do so.

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3 years

For Alex Salmond, this is very obviously about ego and personal grudges. But the conditions in which he actually stands a chance at getting some support for this project are much bigger than one man, and the list of people with blame to share for this situation is a long one.

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3 years

All of these issues are intimately interconnected, whether we like it or not. This is something feminists in this country need to be thinking and talking about now (and lots of them are!), not only to be inclusive of trans women, but because of the ramifications for all women.

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@_CaitLogan

3 years

To return to that Tori Morrison quote, the lesson I'm trying to learn every day is how to channel my energy and frustration and sadness in ways that are productive and constructive. To not get caught in a maze that regressive forces have built for us to play in while they laugh.

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3 years

I still believe it's possible to come back from this and move forward together, if more people can come to understand the very real threat that currently exists to women's and LGBT people's rights, and that dividing us is part of the plan.

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3 years

The whole premise of Me Too was that women could speak up, they didn’t need to stay silent, & they would be taken seriously. The fact that those issues were receiving heightened attention was part of that. Now that’s being framed as part of an impossibly wide-ranging conspiracy.

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2 years

“The Scottish Human Rights Commission wishes to make clear that the EHRC has not sought our consent in relation to its recent commentary and interventions on the human rights implications of reforming gender recognition processes.” 👀👀👀

Scottish Human Rights Commission

@ScotHumanRights

2 years

Statement: Clarifying the mandates of the Scottish Human Rights Commission and @EHRC in Scotland ➡️

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3 years

And I haven’t even mentioned the sectarianism! Which, by the way, is still there.

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3 years

For me, that means focusing on what needs to (and can) change for the better for women and LGBT people in practical terms, and on flipping the script from the endless negativity that we are expected to immerse ourselves in.

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@_CaitLogan

3 years

This has come to a head in the past couple of years with the focus on trans rights, hate crime legislation, etc, but it's not as though that came out of nowhere - the Wings loving group of "independence now!" types were always hostile to women and LGBT people.

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3 years

There are so many factors at play that it can't be oversimplified, but my feeling is that this has come about through a combination of some wilfully bad faith actors (with different motivations) and many more people lacking awareness of the implications of what they're repeating.

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3 years

What fucked up worldview do you need to have to think defending a man who *admitted* inappropriate behaviour towards female staff while in a very powerful position is the hill you want to die on? Did I miss the part which acknowledged that? I just read “women are liars” x 1000.

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1 year

No clever branding or justification is going to change the fact that these people are campaigning to strip back LGBTQ people’s hard-won rights, nor can it obscure that women are put at risk by the very same ideologies. My column in @ScotNational today 👇

Arguments against drag events in Scotland mirror America's Christian Right

LAST week, I wrote about the worrying trend of women’s organisations in Scotland being maliciously targeted because of their support and inclusion…

www.thenational.scot

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3 years

It’s that much broader belief system which drives the obsession with proving a conspiracy against Alex Salmond. You don’t need to search far to find plenty of comments from this faction saying it’s a terrifying time to be a man, that “these women” are discrediting all women, etc.

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@_CaitLogan

3 years

If this party does enjoy some electoral success, this is bad news for the state of political discourse in Scotland, and virtually every political party (and a good few journalists/political commentators) have a lot to answer for in how we've got to this point.

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@_CaitLogan

3 years

The timing of that article was October 2018. Within a year of the Weinstein allegations and the rise of the Me Too movement. If there was a connection between entirely separate cases/allegations of sexual assault and harassment being reported during that time period, that was it.

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3 years

Of course, Nicola Sturgeon pissed off these people even before the whole Salmond saga because she focused more on appealing to the wider population than to the same group of guys whose entire lives consist of talking about independence (when they're not snarking at women online).

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@_CaitLogan

3 years

And this is not the first occasion on which Campbell has tried to cast aspersions on reports about harassment by spuriously connecting it to the Salmond issue. There’s something so deeply pernicious about that because it’s about trying to taint all allegations by association.

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3 years

The paragraph in question said the report had been published “coincidentally mere weeks” after the Salmond allegations were reported. As if to imply some form of suspicious connection between the two. I feel like this is important to understanding the mentality & agenda at play.

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3 years

So, I have some big life news to share: at the end of this week I will sadly be leaving the lovely people @OPFS , but happily starting as the new Communications Officer @LGBTYS . I’m so excited for this next chapter in my weird and wonderful journey through time and space. 🎉 🏳️‍🌈

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1 year

This is me in @ScotNational today - forgot to mention that part!

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3 years

To be clear: there are also people in that 2nd category who don’t belong to the 1st. But I wonder if it doesn’t give them pause that the first group is taking up their cause with such enthusiasm or if they might understand in this context why it makes some of us so deeply uneasy?

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This took place at an event where the focus should have been squarely on challenging misogynistic violence by men. Just another day when women’s opportunity to speak on these subjects is cut short by the unending distraction of an issue which has been wildly misrepresented

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3 years

Some of the comments on this are complaining I’ve been too mean about Alba. I shouldn’t ~hurt their feelings~, I suppose. But it hurts my feelings - it hurts a lot of women as a matter of fact - that people are willing and eager to be led by Alex Salmond at this point.

Caitlin Logan Carter

@_CaitLogan

3 years

“The entire thing came across like the last vestiges of a dying era, the final gasp of yesterday’s men as they cling, white-knuckled, to the past at the expense of a future they claim to care so deeply about” Me in @ScotNational on Alba & its conference:

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When the Salmond allegations emerged and noises were made about the impact this would have on support for independence, I think most of us knew the biggest threat would come from certain sections of the "movement" showing the absolute worst of themselves in response.

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Many people have pointed out the problematic behaviour of some of these people for years, only to be ignored by those who were actually in a position to do or say something meaningful about it.

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‘Fighting for new freedoms: 40 years on from the decriminalisation of homosexuality’ For the start of #LGBTHistoryMonth I spoke to 4 activists across generations about the lasting legacy of criminalisation, which ended 40 years ago today via @ferretscot

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And before any pro-union parties start thinking they are blameless in this: the events of the past few months have shown just how willing many opposition politicians have been to use a subject as serious as sexual harassment as a political football, so 0 points for effort there.

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No part of me has been in the slightest bit surprised by the people who have absolutely revelled in attacking women who have made allegations against a powerful man who they clearly idolise. This is just the same behaviour we already saw for years on social media/pro-indy blogs.

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From the second Alex Salmond launched his crowdfunder for legal fees in which he invoked the cause of independence, he knew he was exploiting exactly this group of people and he knows he is doing the same again now.

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And a partridge in a pear tree...

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All of this would be all well and good - inasmuch as the wilful spreading of misinformation about sexual violence cases and the virulent misogyny which underpins it can be “all well and good” - if nobody who claims to care about women’s rights and safety was endorsing it.

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The idea that a correlation can be drawn between how much a person tweets about a thing and how much they care about it, or how much work they’re doing to support it, is pretty much everything that’s wrong with the world today. And it’s not at all reserved to this issue.

Good News Scotland

@SunScotNational

3 years

REVEALED: How much each SNP politician has tweeted about independence

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There are so many issues that we – as women, as feminists, as people who care about equality – should be uniting around during this 16 days and beyond, many of which were the focus of this event. Yet this has been overshadowed by someone heckling the FM about trans people.

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Obviously I can say all this because it doesn’t affect my job, although it might make some people hate me. I just think if I’m going to speak about issues in the abstract I should at least have the nerve to say what I mean when it relates to people I (kind of) know.

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But the SNP leadership has also turned a blind eye for a long time to behaviour within their own ranks - the fact that people are even able to defect to Alba when it's been blatantly obvious what they were about for so long raises serious questions about why that was overlooked.

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FYI I doubt a single person who’s spent any time in Robin McAlpine’s presence could be surprised this is his “take” on the issue. I was told this awful story when I worked at CommonSpace & it was entirely in keeping with everything I ever heard him say

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Robin McAlpine once argued with me at a @Common_Weal Christmas lunch that sexism was exaggerated and to prove his point, asked me 'Well, have you ever been raped?' I was shaken & astonished that my boss would treat me like this, left the do and soon after quit my job. I was 24.

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Beyond that, many in the opposition have also been happy to weaponise and intensify divisions over LGBT rights and to muddy the waters on discussions of women's rights so it's become infinitely harder to have good faith, nonpartisan conversations on these topics.

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I doubt there is a single person outside of that particularly hostile circle of people who have not paused before writing something on social media, a blog or even a newspaper and feared what the backlash would be from them and if it would be worth it.

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If we suspend our disbelief and accept that Douglas Ross is truly oblivious to the implications of the words “anti-families” and their potential potency at this specific moment, is that any more encouraging than the alternative? Me in @ScotNational

Douglas Ross's excuse for 'anti-families' dog whistle just doesn't cut it

THE thing about dog whistles is that only the dogs are meant to hear them. But when it comes to their political equivalent, the use of particular…

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Caitlin Logan Carter

@_CaitLogan

3 years

While some opponents of the SNP may be happy to see this 'split' (which is likely to amount at best to a breaking off of a very predictable minority of people), nobody who considers themselves progressive should celebrate the circumstances in which this is happening.

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@_CaitLogan

3 years

I honestly can’t imagine being a man and thinking I was the right person to write approximately 43 different versions of the same column on the subject of “women’s rights”, while countless women tell me how wrong I am. Must be fun to go through life with that level of arrogance.

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This presents a serious challenge to women’s organisations over how to continue to speak as loudly and as passionately and as often as they should be, while keeping themselves and the women they represent safe. That should be of concern to *all feminists*.

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@_CaitLogan

3 years

The 'point', it seems, is to play to the base, and if that means leaning into this anti-political correctness impulse and alienating large parts of the wider electorate, who cares? These people are happy to pay/be paid to boost each other's egos and persuade exactly nobody else.

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Caitlin Logan Carter

@_CaitLogan

1 year

The sad truth is that it’s entirely unsurprising if women’s organisations hosting an event in 2022 enter into the proceedings with more than a little trepidation given that they have been continually subject to harassment and abuse online for a period of years.

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Too often, from where I'm sitting, those who had the power to decide it was worth it did the opposite. Assuming, I suppose, that they had more to lose than gain from actually challenging these attitudes and behaviours.

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@_CaitLogan

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Unless he really is delusional, he also knows this group is a minority of all Yes voters, and an even smaller minority of the population he should be hoping will vote for independence if that was really his concern. But like a lot of pro-indy grifts, that isn't really the point.

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Caitlin Logan Carter

@_CaitLogan

3 years

The idea “Me Too has gone too far” was the subject of several long rants. This included the claim “toxic femininity is as bad as toxic masculinity” which apparently is when women “use” their sexuality for their benefit. That’s the context to this, outside the (obvious) politics.

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@_CaitLogan

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For a glimmer of hope, I’d reflect on all that has been achieved since Zero Tolerance launched in 1992. Feminist activism has a long history of breaking ground and changing minds. Changing the world for the better isn’t easy, but it’s been done before, and it will be again.

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“We do not need UK Government appointees telling us in Scotland how to legislate in devolved areas.” Strong words from Scottish Trans and Equality Network. 👏

Scottish Trans

@ScottishTrans

2 years

We have just issued the following press release: The Equality Network @LGBTIScotland , a national LGBTI organisation in Scotland, and its project Scottish Trans, have responded to a letter sent today by the GB Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) (1/6)

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Since we are apparently having this conversation again, here’s one I made earlier: “The greatest risk to LGBTQ youth is pretending they don’t exist.”

The greatest risk to LGBTQ youth is pretending they don’t exist

WHAT age were you when you had your first real crush? Was it before or after the first time you had a “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” for two…

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Caitlin Logan Carter

@_CaitLogan

2 years

How embarrassing and shameful is it that: a) the UK has reached a point where we’re being condemned internationally for anti-LGBT (particularly anti-trans) abuse b) UK representatives tried to get this removed from the report? I think b) goes a long way to explaining a).

Steph Paton

@stephenpaton134

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Very interesting news today. The Council of Europe has voted to adopt a report on rising anti-LGBT abuse and sentiment around Europe and beyond - and it includes some very interesting points. 1/

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Honest to god, how is this NOT a parody account? And there are SNP MSPs and MPs following, presumably for such astute observations and questions as this 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@_CaitLogan

2 years

Just read an anti-trans “feminist” dismiss creepy comments made by a man to a woman because “Honestly-he knew you were a lesbian so it wasn’t a come on.” and now I am going to leave the internet forever. (I wish.)

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