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I'm so upset by @damian_barr's bullying. It's a representation of how women are deeply hated, and how they'll be punished if they fight for their rights. We all know now his reason for shaming Baroness Nicholson was nothing to do with her vote on equal marriage and everything
to do with her campaigning for women's rights and the safeguarding of children that gender identity politics threatens. She was open with the letters she wrote to politicians and CEOs and was punished. Men saw her as smug and 'attacking' trans rights (which are the same rights
everyone has, but women have legally protected sex-based ones). Damian was told Obama voted against equal marriage, and then spitefully retweeted one of his tweets. He was told one of @TheBookerPrizes trustees has a strong record of anti-gay votes but said that doesn't bother him
as he doesn't know that man's views now. What does bother Damian, and a lot of men, is women daring to state they are human and need their own spaces and sports. Even if they support trans people too, they are vilified and abused - look at @jk_rowling, she wrote an essay saying
trans people pose zero threat and need support, but women and children need protecting too, we need balance. Her words were calm and measured, and all she's had is bile, the worst kind of abuse, from many who admit they haven't even read her essay. Many of Barr's supporters
also said they didn't know what Baroness Nicholson had done, they just support Damian. They don't know anything about her decades of charity work supporting children, even risking her own life to save them, they don't care. Damian is their hero, a man who saw a woman using her
power as a peer to speak directly to important people and not liking it one bit, especially as she had some supportive replies from companies such as ASDA and of course from Liz Truss, which incensed the misogynists. You can disagree with @Baroness_Nichol's views on gay marriage
and still support her dedication to women and children, it doesn't make you homophobic despite what men like @ggbourne accuse you of. Just like Damian Barr can be fine with The Booker Prize having David Willets as a trustee, a man who was asked to step down from a university
chancellor role because of his beliefs, and that doesn't make him homophobic either. @LukeStephensMUA makes it clear Willetts isn't a concern to Damian or any other misogynists as Willetts has no interest in defending women's rights. This sinister campaign to stop women saying
they are a sex class and have legal rights is dressed up as 'transphobia' as an attempt to shame women. These men, often white and privileged like Damian and Luke, with no skin in the game, feel they can tell women what a woman is, and dish out punishment if they
try and defend their boundaries, their legal rights and their own existence. Many people have pointed this out to Damian Barr and he has either blocked them or told them how to stop being "angry and afraid". He is cruel. He is a bigot. A hypocrite. Someone without principles.
I put it to @TheBookerPrizes and other literary places that work with him, is this what you want to be associated with? Women are watching, we see what's happened here. And with JK Rowling. We see how women are calm and measured to assert our rights, men react with shaming and
cancelling. He also sees any challenge to his misogyny as 'pile ons' and 'abuse', a sign of an immature and narrow minded man needing his views propped up by others, angry to see there could be any challenge to his world viewpoint. Telling women their feminism is unkind is an
age-old tactic. Is this the man that represents your views on diversity+inclusion? A witch hunter with no moral compass, just open hate for women? @theRSAorg @BBCFrontRow @SohoHouse @thebookseller @hayfestival @HodderBooks @bbcscotland Look at the personal association Baroness
Nicholson had with @TheBookerPrizes and the @caineprize. Think how horrible this end is for her, for no reason. So many unfeeling men like @amateuradam said she didn't found it so it shouldn't matter (she founded their foundation). Have they never been in love? Do they have no
heart? This is all about women asserting their rights and we see this. Men still get to be men, vote how they like, dismiss and abuse women online and IRL, and there's no consequences for men. See also @Keir_Starmer's brush off of Lloyd Russell-Moyle's comments on domestic abuse.
