waggermama.bsky.social
Short, AuDHD, pet keeper (she/her/they)
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Right, back to pasting more signatures that have come in overnight into our open letterđđ. We have over 500 now!!! I am now hoping we can double this in the next week as thatâs going to be even more useful for refusing
âits in their interestsâ arguments. sites.google.com/view/openlet...
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So ready
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We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today đđłď¸ââ§ď¸
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I did love the odd occasions when I got to wash my hair in soft water, but I wouldnât want to live with it full time.
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Indeed! Folk forget that too
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So what can we do? I can't believe that the current approaches re both trans healthcare & the cutoff of support for disabled people aren't major human rights issues. BOTH are "protected categories" under UK law.
Can we do a class action?
Two class actions? ECHR?
This govt intends to kill people.
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I hear you â¤ď¸
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I know itâs just a comedy, but women did not have that era. They had to make the best of things. They may have had similar or the same aspirations as their husbands, but they were still living within the confines of what their husbands could achieve.
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Within the context of the 1970s, when women were only just re-entering the workplace. She has very little power. If sheâd said no would she have had to live with an unhappy disillusioned man for the rest of her married life? Would they have divorced?
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It really does. As a child I just enjoyed the shenanigans. As an adult, Riaâs situational depression is appalling.
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I suspect youâre right in that respect. Margo was written on the fly as she wasnât envisioned as a main character at the start of the series - whereas Barbara was likely embedded in the male writers fantasies of womanhood.
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Yup. They came for the disabled first, and people signed their family members over willingly
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Both Jerry and Tom seek a certain life style, and both Margo and Barbara have very little choice but to support that.
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Hmm. Sheâs a wife in 1970s UK so I have to give that some weight. BTW have you revisited Butterflies - thatâs a raw eye opener in some respects. The suffocation of the 1970s house wife is scary to witness.
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And congrats on your diagnosis
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The titration wait is something else :(
Iâve been lucky that my brain and body like Elvanse (and in relatively low doses), so Iâve been an easy titratee
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Iâd also add that some books hit differently at different times of life, a book may seem heroic as a teen reader and insufferable as a middle aged reader (or vice versa)
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And the real heroes are Margo and Barbara
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Richard Briars is on record saying he disliked the characterâŚ
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You read my mind. I was just pondering that lettuce
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As someone whoâs just finished ADHD titration, this is useful to know. I think my ADHD diagnosis has already been more impactful than my autism diagnosis a decade ago.
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@waggerman.bsky.social âs sinuses are in hell right now, and have been for days (possibly two weeks, on and off)
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Hah! But theyâre too old. Santis wants fourteen year olds doing this work (smaller hands for a lighter touch)
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You can help by using @trusselluk.bsky.socialâs handy tool to email your MP and asking them to call on the Work and Pensions Secretary to rethink the governmentâs cruel & irresponsible planned cuts to social security
action.trussell.org.uk/disability-c...