It’s hard to explain how angry I am today and, even if I manage that, it’s harder still to explain why the people who’ve made me angriest aren’t those who keep accusing me of all manner of insulting things, it’s the nice people – yes, quite possibly you, dear reader.

It’s like this…

In my town, I have the choice of a red or a blue Tory, both of whom support and collude with genocide, a green and a yellow candidate, both of whom are running for parties that have worked hard to supress women’s rights activism – indeed, the Greens still have several court cases against feminist members live –, a candidate who’s signed up with George Galloway’s party, another with the Communist Party of Britain, and one independent, resident in Wales, who no-one’s ever heard of.

There’s a rumour Labour are encouraging extra independents onto lists in constituencies where they aren’t sure of victory. They see it as an advantage, to split the disaffected vote so unless I hear wonderful, convincingly evidenced things about him, that’s the mystery man from Wales ruled out.

My priorities when considering candidates are NHS reinstatement (for it), genocide (against it) and women’s legal rights (for gods’ sakes, say something). That immediately cuts out red, blue, green and yellow.

I’m not keen on George Galloway’s social conservatism, and doubt his ‘party’ will hold together well — and I know most people won’t vote communist, but those are the two candidates who are likely to pass my priority issues test. We have a first-past-the-post voting system, so I don’t see either of my choices as in with a chance of winning, so whichever one I go for, I’d just be adding my X to a protest list. It’s that or what so many people keep telling me to do – vote Labour to get the Tories out. Trouble is, those are all people who haven’t experienced the Labour Party as I have, so in their happy ignorance, they’re sure Labour are not as bad as the Tories.

So why am I angry with *nice* people?

Then I heard cries of joy from women’s groups in my neighbouring constituency…

… Well you know, I have my arguments with the Standing for Women Party, and I don’t agree with Long on everything but I would be as happy as they were, and I would vote for her like a shot – I am SO envious.

Here’s a little slice of the comments that poured in on that post…

None of the above

When people have a mass of urgent problems – housing, poverty, being robbed by Southern Water, seeing your government supporting genocide and ignoring the anger and distress of a vast majority of the people, a little thing like a serious threat to women’s rights can slip under the radar. Just like so many important issues around race, sex and class always do, and those who are trying to defend those issues get more and more weary and frustrated.

It was a bunch of us feeling like that over one issue or another that craven politicians just won’t deal with, who got together to organize an Assembly in Hastings, to talk about the issues that actually matter to people. There I was, happily helping out on the margins of that project, when this came along…

What makes me so tired is that this is round 593 of an endless struggle. Councillors, political candidates and people running community and charity organizations will go along with any group that’s waving the rainbow flag, because it makes them look so virtuous. Corporate powers just love that. It’s so much cheaper than actually committing to solving equity problems.

Managers love pride

People like me may attempt to slug it out, until we get tired of being accused of being “bigots and transphobes”, but many will avoid the fight in the hope of keeping things together, and more will avoid it because they don’t want to be accused of being “bigots and transphobes”, and those tiny little cult-like groups will continue to gate-keep opinions in “safe spaces” where, supposedly, free speech rules, and everyone continues to think they are there to defend lesbian and gay people.

They aren’t. They are the gender-ideology cult, and they are a danger to kids and to women’s legal rights, and they are bullies.

And this is why I’m angry with *nice* people…

All those nice councillors and managers will keep telling people like me that “it’s only the same few of you who say this,” and – well, do they believe us, when we say there is no poll, no algorithm, no spin-doctor’s tool in existence that will help count the numbers of women who’ve given up even trying to talk to them, who’ve given up involving themselves in politics at all? — But those women still talk to me, and they say those groups are the cry-bullies who can’t afford to back down, can’t afford to be wrong, or even to allow debate, because they have transitioned their kids — or perhaps worse, they have transitioned other people’s kids, or they are the last of the gullible cult-believers, who just can’t accept that the Cass Report has blown their sex-change-on-demand ship out of the water.

And we’re stuck with those people driving a wedge into everything we try to do until politicians and community leaders find the courage to say to them, “there’s nothing wrong with being critical of gender. Stop equating it with homophobia,” and until they do that, ever more women and parents will turn away from politics in despair.

That’s why, because my constituency doesn’t have anyone as famously, courageously, successfully outspoken on gender ideology and what it’s doing to women’s rights as Julia Long, I’m going to choose between Phil Colley (Galloway’s Party) who’s been unwaveringly outspoken on the evils of what’s happening in Palestine, and Nick Davies, who’s been equally courageous on challenging the gender-ideology, even when the Labour Party was bullying him something rotten for doing so.

But I am writing just now because we are SO DAMN TIRED of politicians, left, right and centre, who don’t bother to find out what’s happening to women’s legal rights, or what gender ideology continues to do to kids. We are tired of them because their craven silence just keeps encouraging those divisive, cultish bullies who try to push feminists out of every attempt at democracy and community action.

They are just like Jeremy Corbyn and his crew who were so nice that they let their supporters be bullied and abused endlessly, even hounded out of the party, rather than risking a serious challenge to Zionist cry-bullies. Just like John Mac, who repeatedly threw women under a bus, listening to our delegations, telling us yes, we need a debate, then dropping it the minute we’d gone, because he saw cry-bullies like Owen Jones coming down the corridor, and decided it was all just too difficult, and he could always hide behind the being nice defence.

Let’s vote for those with the courage to speak out for what they believe in, even when it means being called everything under the sun, and having to argue every step of the way.

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