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Thank you to all those who sent greetings and solidarity in response to the recent threats I received for speaking about male violence. I'm fine thank you.
However, at this point, I would like to invite other public figures not to accept invitations to British TV shows. Hello Brittany. In my experience, they do not take care of their guests, especially women, and they are not honest about what to do to talk about.
After inviting me on Monday to discuss male violence and terrorism with Christopher Muwanguzi, they canceled at the last minute. Then an experienced producer called me later on Monday, asked me to come on Tuesday and offered to debate between Toby Young and Edward Adoo.
I believed them when they offered me a choice. I said I did not want to debate Toby because he is a clickbait commentator whose whistles attract abusive far right trolls. "Pathetic creature"; but I agreed to debate with Edward, who disagrees with me but also campaigns against knife crime.
I've also said that I would only do it if GMB paid for the early morning care because I had already had to take and cancel expensive arrangements once already after the first cancellation; and I've checked with the same producer that GMB they understood their duty of care and took security measures at the studio. The main producer accepted all this and apologized for being targeted.
Early Tuesday evening, I then received a brief call from another producer to announce that he had canceled again, without saying why. Shortly after, Piers tweeted that I had refused to argue with Toby (and that I had "run away") and that the show had decided to cancel me. Report another abuse attack on the part of anti-feminist trolls and the far right among its six million followers.
If the producer had said: to be honest, Piers only wants you to chat with his mate Toby because he wants to fight, so I would have known where I was standing.
I am always ready for a debate. I will not stop talking about that. But I will not engage with liars and bullies. GMBit understands you now.
Sophie Walker is a feminist activist and founder of the Women's Equality Party.
ITV has been contacted for a comment.
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