A few months ago I suggested that I should do a woman-only Twitter round-up on topical issues, in the interests of amplifying women’s voices in the political debate and also because:
So here’s some top tweets on Anne Tolley’s suggestion of coercing encouraging beneficiaries to get sterilised.
I'm a strong supporter of free access to a comprehensive range of contraceptive methods but forcing people, sanctions if they don't NO WAY
— Julie Fairey (@juliefairey) September 27, 2015
Whoah, is it eugenics day on Twitter? I see one of our MPs is on the same fertility-policing tip too. https://t.co/kpDfLi00BH
— Jessica Williams (@mizjwilliams) September 27, 2015
You can make options accessible (which the govt should for ALL NZers) but the second it's targeted and mandated, it's eugenics. End of.
— Your Relatives (@ColeyTangerina) September 27, 2015
At least once a decade, for a few hundred years, someone has piped up with this shit. It is exactly as racist, classist and gross as always.
— Caitlin Snark (@CaitlinSnark) September 27, 2015
If your house was on fire Tolley would just recommend you own less flammable furniture. https://t.co/jHflLVpyK0
— 🎃Best of The Eagles (@electricbirb) September 27, 2015
You know what the state should do before deciding who can/cannot have children? Address inequality. Tolley is in very scary territory…
— Lizzie Marvelly (@LizzieMarvelly) September 27, 2015
Let's have a right-wing government talk about controlling people's reproductive options, because that's never a thing ever.
Fuck that shit.
— Sarah (@Pseudony_Ms) September 27, 2015
Dudes, I love ya, but today isn't a day I need to hear "stop calling out the right's attack on reproductive freedom, that's their plan!"
— Stephanie Rodgers (@bootstheory) September 27, 2015
You can get high and mighty about tactical plays when YOUR class is being threatened with wholesale sterilization to create a wedge.
— Stephanie Rodgers (@bootstheory) September 27, 2015
Also, this isn't a "distraction" because using hatred against the poor and brown and female is their general modus fucking operandi.
— The Premenstrualist (@dimsie) September 27, 2015
https://twitter.com/Dovil/status/648225594820292608
There's something so unnuanced about "slap an IUD on a slapper" that I want to break something. It's about education, empathy, support…
— AJ Fitzwatr 🌈 (@AJFitzwater) September 27, 2015
trust, access to low cost of free health care, removal of judgment and shame, better anti-DV systems. ALL THE REALLY HARD STUFF of course.
— AJ Fitzwatr 🌈 (@AJFitzwater) September 27, 2015
It's a multi-layered system that can take decades, generations, to fix, one step at a time. Not a bandaid of eugenics tainted dog whistling
— AJ Fitzwatr 🌈 (@AJFitzwater) September 27, 2015
anne tolley is blatantly talking about sterilisation and eugenics okay
— ☭ emmy ︻┳デ═— (@cannibality) September 27, 2015
this isn't an empowering feminist reproductive health decision, this is the mass sterilisation of undesirable groups by the state
— ☭ emmy ︻┳デ═— (@cannibality) September 27, 2015
I asked Tolley why SHE thinks women who've had multiple children removed keep having babies. Her response: "I think they like having sex".
— Katie Bradford (@katieabradford) September 28, 2015
@katieabradford I doubt they're having sex all by themselves. Funny how it's always women being blamed, but very little talk of men.
— Deborah Russell MP (@BeeFaerie) September 28, 2015
If you see any tweets you think I should include in a women-of-#nzpol roundup, drop me a tweet @bootstheory using the hashtag #blatantmisandry.
Stephanie Rodgers 
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