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Business and sustainable development. Accountability. Tax. Feminist test case. Media: Tom Gardner at Slater & Gordon 0207 657 1690 press@slatergordon.co.uk

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    1. Janice Turner‏Verified account @VictoriaPeckham Aug 8
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      Janice Turner Retweeted Owen Jones 🌹

      Great piece by @OwenJones84 about how gender isn’t some inner essence but socially constructed sexist bullshit, which everyone, especially men, should fight. 👏https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1159395510110871553 …

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      Owen Jones 🌹Verified account @OwenJones84
      In playgrounds across Britain, boys are bullied into thinking that real men get into fights, say demeaning things about women, don’t do anything to display supposed emotional “weakness” and prioritise competition over cooperation. It damages men for life. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/08/man-straight-recycle-men-environmental-gay-homophobia …
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      72 replies 88 retweets 489 likes
    2. Toby Young‏Verified account @toadmeister Aug 8
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      Replying to @VictoriaPeckham @OwenJones84

      The problem with believing gender is just a social construct and has no chromosomal basis, Janice, is that it leaves women defenceless when trying to protect women-only spaces. See this piece by Michael Biggs in @Quillettehttp://bit.ly/2ZIBR4K 

      35 replies 20 retweets 81 likes
    3. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Aug 8
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      Replying to @toadmeister @VictoriaPeckham and

      I think you are confusing gender (as in gendered roles) and sex there Toby. Yes behavioural traits have a genetic basis - overlapping bell curves between the sexes. But we don't literally divide the world into 'ladylike' & 'macho'. Male and Female (when sex matters) will do fine.

      1 reply 6 retweets 196 likes
    4. Crunchy Red Apple‏ @CrunchyRedApple Aug 8
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      Replying to @MForstater @toadmeister and

      I rather think you have MASSIVELY missed the point, Toby! Janice has been spot on and supporting women on this for many years.

      1 reply 0 retweets 75 likes
    5. Toby Young‏Verified account @toadmeister Aug 8
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      Replying to @CrunchyRedApple @MForstater and

      I know she has and I think she is often right on this issue. But I also think she has a blind spot about the links between Blank Slate-ism and transgenderism.

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned+silenced‏ @jemimajones68 Aug 8
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      Replying to @toadmeister @CrunchyRedApple and

      There are 3 positions aren't there; 1-we all born as blank slates, 2- we all born with a gendered/sexed temperament and 3- we all born with a genderfree/sexless temperament.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Aug 8
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      Replying to @jemimajones68 @toadmeister and

      We are all born w sexed bodies & personal temperaments. Heritable behavioural traits can be more common by sex (because: evolution). Human beings are v. flexible & differences in practice are influenced by socialisation. Sexed bodies, heritable traits & human societies co-evolved

      2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    8. Leek & Spud Soup Dragon‏ @SoupieDragon Aug 8
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      Replying to @MForstater @jemimajones68 and

      Flexible & plastic brains must be necessary for humans to have been able to create so many societies and thrive in so many environments.

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      Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Aug 8
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      Replying to @SoupieDragon @jemimajones68 and

      Right, but flexible and plastic brains depend on long and dependent childhoods, which depend on long parental investment, and the evolutionary incentives for this to male and female parents are different...

      3:53 PM - 8 Aug 2019
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