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Feb 12Liked by Katrina Biggs

How many examples can we give about how all the "be kind" messaging is only really for us natal females? Men have prostate cancer, but people with a cervix have cervical cancer. Who knows if I have a cervix and who can I ask and not feel dumb for not knowing?

"So where does “be kind” take us if we think our thoughts through to the end?

It takes us to a land, where in a quest to prioritize the feelings of men, women and mothers no longer exist; where relationships disappear, where the connections between what we do and who we are, are considered less important than an ideology and where even prestigious medical journals feel it appropriate to refer not to women, but to “people with vaginas”. Nope, I don’t see any kindness being beneficial here to anyone. Count me out." https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/erasing-mothers-erasing-relationships

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Once we see it we can't un-see it, eh? We don't see men being coerced to accept the erasure of their language out of 'kindness'.

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Feb 12Liked by Katrina Biggs

And in the context of including biological men as "women", it comes as no surprise that the dude in a dress who heads up Scotland's Women's Refuges has advised women objecting to sharing the showers with penis havers to "reframe their trauma". I'd like to "reframe" him....

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Haha - well said!!

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The attack on we men seems to be limited to the colour of our skin at the moment, if we're white anyway. And our ages if we're older than Chloe Swarbrick.

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True. Maybe you need to identify as young and brown, because self-identity is apparently an indisputable truth now. Having said that, of course, it seems to be restricted to only identifying as the opposite sex or as cats.

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2019 NCW welcomed those 'identifying as women' into the fold (appropriate collective noun note pun) of the National Council of (once were biological) women.

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Good new name for them - lol!

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Feb 12Liked by Katrina Biggs

The old message for women was 'think of others' (usually men)

always before yourself and now it's been reframed to 'be kind' to others (usually men) before yourself. It was always a forgone conclusion that children were included in this. I stopped feeling kind some time ago.

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Feb 12Liked by Katrina Biggs

I call it The Cult of Kindness. 🫶🤢

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🔥🔥💪

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Feb 12Liked by Katrina Biggs

Brilliant! 🙌 ❤️

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Feb 12Liked by Katrina Biggs

Well said

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Feb 16Liked by Katrina Biggs

I agree with everything you say. Maybe it's good that this is happening so blatantly with such fury. If they weren't so violent and aggressive it might have crept up on us and become more difficult to see and rail against.

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I’m a real man. I find that photo of a group of ‘men’ packed together, grinning like wolves, showing all their teeth, shockingly offensive.

They are snarling.

The man who loves you is quiet and modest. He admires you, watches over you, protects you, and smiles.

Beware of the man who shows his teeth.

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Lol - I'm more wary of the man who says he's a woman!

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Sorry for the intrusion, but I need some who are prepared to nominate me for Green Party co-leader. Telephone and email contact details are on this post. I only signed up as a Green Party member a few days ago myself. But I am serious although of course I know that I stand little chance of winning it. Still I might be able to peak a few.

https://plebeianresistance.substack.com/p/i-need-some-nominators

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Have you had any nominators yet?

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No, not yet. I can get a couple of nominations from my family but they have to join first as well. It would be better to have nominations from current Green Party members.

I have sent my nomination form to Miriam without these nominations.

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I'd have to join, too. I was a Green Party member for years, until they turned into a bunch of f-tards.

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Miriam is doing her best to facilitate my nomination it has to be said. She has been very helpful.

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I have one nomination now. I will have one or two others before noon. But might be struggling to 5.

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I know, completely agree but I figure the zeitgeist is changing.

I need two more nominators real quick....

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But they can only be Green Party members - correct?

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Yes but you can join up here;

https://www.greens.org.nz/membership-join

technically too late right now but it might help me get over the line.

All those who have nominated me, that I know of so far, are brand new members.

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richard@southernindependents.co.nz or (+64) 027 627 4732

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Has to be in by noon.

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