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In the 90s, I worked with older people, mainly women, to support them to continue living independently. These women all lived in one area of the city and had all grown up in another. During WW2, they all lived within 2 city blocks of each other. There was a group of men who had been miners and because of lung disease couldn't sign up to fight. When mothers went to work in the ship yards and the foundries, they looked after the children and had sexually abused all the girls in the area, from the age of 2 up to teenagers. The Orkney sex abuse case was all over the TV, and these 14 women all told me their stories. A huge burden to bear for them but also for me. After a lot of frustration and little understanding from social work, I managed to get all into counselling. This abuse and the secrecy had blighted their lives for 60 years and affected their marriages and relationships with their own children. It was like a dam bursting when they let it go!

There is nothing new in this world, but you would think by now, we would get it right for victims and potential victims no matter where they are.

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That’s an horrific story. I will look up the Orkney sex abuse case. Just goes to show how easily boundaries will be broken as soon as there’s an opportunity and a group.

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I spent 40+ years working with vulnerable people, the majority being abused in some way, but also with those who abuse. Interesting work that I would fo all over again if I had the opportunity. But grooming and sexual abuse is not new and so many women and men are living with the consequences of what men and the odd woman did to them for pleasure. None of those abused found it pleasant or wanted the attention. And few abusers thought of the pain they caused the people they abused.

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Just before he blocked me on Twitter, Joshua Holland of AlterNet sniffed that this was all just repackaged homophobia and no one is actually trying to advance pedophilia with "gender" gibberish. I showed him the queer theory jeopardy video and that was it, my former comrade and generous editor was my ardent foe. One of many who will find out the hard way.

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very sorry to hear that Matt.

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We've all given up some things and some people, haven't we

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but not the truth.

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They can't make me give that up

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I've been reading your substack pieces Matt, and want to thank you. I keep having to return to bookmarked places and thoroughly recommend them.

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Thank you for reading :)

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we were going to have a chat, weren't we? Really sorry I didn't get back to you. Been really nuts recently. maybe this week?

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No worries, I have been neck deep in a tough semester and also monitoring a live war. I only just emerged from 700 pages of Ibn Ishaq last night. I'll hit you up by email :)

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As they say there's no rest for the wicked or college professors.

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My bad, I thought that was intended for me.

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I, too, have lost friends over it.

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Just had a Green councillor at door. He answered the Staniland Question correctly and without any hesitation. Not up to speed about the Health Secretary’s enquiry into Transing of children yet. Suggested he gets up to speed and sorts out the people at the top.

Shame couldn’t show him this

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Do you remember Mini pops on C4 in the 80s? Children dressed as adults singing about sex? It was largely condemned as in appropriate. Eight year olds in mini skirt crop tops and full make up. That kid on the mermaid advert looks like something from that show but as he is actually a boy this is some how empowering for him?

Along with the idiotic hipsters of TFSS I can't decide weather these people are misguided idiots or there is something sinister going on.

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Where are parents in all this gender trickery wokery? If your school sends your children home with stories about trans children speak up. There are no trans children, only children confused about their development.

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April 24, 2022
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You might be right Liam but I reckon there is a lot of parents plumb ignorant. They were brought up in what? The eightes/nineties/noughties where all the protections and safeguarding in schools/sports etc were already in place (bitter lessons already been learnt). They've likely no idea these protections are being dismantled. Everything is being done under the radar.

It's horrifying. There is nothing new under the sun, we've seen it all before but surely we've reached a point we can recognise grooming if you just take the time to look hard and take action.

What the Fk was the Labour party doing cosying up to PIE. Its unfathomable.

The Scottish Nonce Party with their Schools Trans Inclusion Policy is just the first step.

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Yes, I suspect a lot of parents don’t know what’s going on.

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Some comments on the

Non-binary assistant professor at Old Dominion University is trying to normalize the term MAP (Minor Attracted Persons) video @libsoftiktok

"This is where gender ideology is leading they want to lower age of consent and they want paedophilia normalised. It will never happen. I am old enough to remember PIE. Many people and orgs. were conned in 70s we will not be conned today."

"What is an acceptable term for a murder? I want to be polite."

“Pedophile” is constructed from the Greek-rooted morphemes “pedo”, meaning “child”, and “phile”, meaning “lover of”. It essentially means the same as “minor attracted person” but is shorter and already in common use. No need for “M.A.P.”, “pedophile covers it.

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The very people who have been describing you as a fire-breathing actual OMG Nazi somewhere to the right of Atilla the Hun are freaking out on a level never before gauged that you are accurately calling them groomers.

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Let me guess... on Twitter?

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That Irish Teacher's Union vid is so illogical and dangerous - 'challenging gender stereotypes'???? It's doing the exact opposite.

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Is anyone getting a child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey vibe from any of this? Do they still hold kiddie pageants or did that transmogrify to whatever this is? Wanting to dress up like Barbie as a small child is in a sense understandable as that's the image of female beauty and perfection drilled into us for generations, but that photo and that it is being used to sell whatever Mermaids thinks it's selling is highly disturbing.

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It looks very fetishy

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Enough is enough 😡

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-61207083.amp

Has anyone seen this article yet? I thought Jamie Wallace had been covered in another post on the sub stack. The BBC has just written an article on him that appears to have many factual errors.

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I’d love to know what was in the ‘pictures’ which were the attempted blackmail - and where they came from. It can’t have been gay sex, ‘cos that’s proud, and not just wearing women’s clothing, because that’s stunning and brave. Presumably it wasn’t children, even the police might have turned round on that. Animals? Is that a crime? That’s my best bet, anyway.

I have a feeling that Jamie is being hassled into actually doing something about ‘transitioning ‘, because his statement that he was going to continue to be he/him and indeed not take any physical steps towards transition ‘yet’, received widespread mockery. Perhaps the Whips ( unfortunate terminology) are suggesting to him that he has to substantiate his bravery?

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This will be milked for a very long time to come. And it's no bloody surprise it's all 'still under investigation'. No shit Sherlock.

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Horrifying. Living in today's world's becoming more and more like living in a sewer. For centuries ,the abuse of women and children was kept hidden and nobody talked about it, but it became more acknowledged in the 20th century ,so now government policies are promoting and facilitating it and they're trying to silence us again. What a shameful world we live in but this time we won't wheesht.!!🤮🦖👎

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My Dad managed to reach the age of 26 without being aware that paedophilia existed. I don’t think anyone could do that now.

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Me too . I was married with children before I ever heard the word and that was from a newspaper report which said that the paedophile information exchange were lobbying the government to have the age of " consent " lowered to age 4 !!🤮😡💔

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Wow. That must have been a shock to the system

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The left have gone way too far round the back to meet the far right ... as Eddie Izzard used to say about being trendy.

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Could we just tell Thomas the teddy to wait a while and see how he feels later?

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Brilliant article by Brendan. Says it all and yeah we need to start shouting out loud that "transwomen" are MEN !! I absolutely hate that word and rarely use it. Thanks for sharing this 👏👍

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That was a brilliant review. Thanks for sharing it.

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Oh, that was gross. Brendan must have felt sick.

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April 24, 2022
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you must be new around here, Liam! :)

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I just want to wrap Liam up in a blanket and protect him from the world, his purity is just too much for us.

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I want to just pinch your cheeks right now - you are SOOOO adorable!

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Oh my sweet, summer child!

You are certainly too pure for this world. How ever did we deserve you?

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