Category: prejudice
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Our Thanks to the Opposition
(Is it okay, guys, if I write a bit of a tongue-in-cheek piece to entertain the wimms?) The other day, I put out a blog post calling for an end to people nagging the women’s rights campaigners. I was fed up with our organisations having to deal with non-stop slander and sabotage, whilst being constantly…
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“Calm down, dear!”
We have been told, over and over, that the women’s sex-based rights campaign needs to be more nuanced, more polite, and more sympathetic to those opposing sex-based rights. We have been told we should use the language and the parameters of debate those who oppose us dictate. We have been told we should listen to…
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Where is Dennis?
Elon Musk, freedom of speech and – the battle of the billionaires? I went along to a zoom about freedom of speech during lockdown. It was hosted by one of the organisations the Labour Party has now banned for being too free with their opinions. I thought the debate would be short and the result…
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Left in the Middle with You
It has been a very wearing experience being a woman doing battle for the Corbyn movement in Labour, and then a woman doing battle with the remainder of the left in Labour after Corbyn. (Yes I had to stop and read that sentence back, too.) This is an article about solidarity In the Corbyn years…
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Prepare to support your trans comrades
***long read*** No, I am not saying be ‘a trans ally’. That’s identity-politics nonsense, it’s being partisan, it’s like joining a football supporters’ club – but the thing is, the wheels really have come off Stonewall’s #NoDebate train in their self-ID/queer theory/gender-ideology campaign, and it’s time to re-assess the situation. It’s a real shame it…
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We are getting somewhere near to having that debate!
Come on politicians, come on councillors, teachers and GPs – do the reading, do the thinking, take responsibility… Here is a brief summary of an excellent article in the current edition of The Spectator, ‘The true cause of No10’s conversion therapy muddle‘: The government just shocked everyone by throwing out a plan to pass a…
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What we are
I feel silly writing this, but it appears to be necessary… Has this ever happened to any other group of people? Ever since the last Labour Party conference, we people formerly known as women have been subjected to politician after politician being asked, ‘what is a woman’ and getting into a sweat over the answer.…
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Philosophical question for the weekend
The vast majority of women who get involved with Woman’s Place, or go to its meetings, do so for these two reasons: Reason one They have experienced the mind-numbing horror of childhood sexual abuse, such as rape, manipulative sexual behaviour in the family or FGM; or the fear and frustration caused by sex discrimination and…
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The G-police* and the gender-wars
You cannot stop the women. All you can do is make their lives difficult and harm your reputation by being seen bullying them. These are the armies you are trying to fight (do you want to pick a side?) Mothers, sisters and allies 1. The confabulators Almost all women and girls – the vast majority…
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A message from Mrs Mouthy
We were all anxiously talking about the founding of a People’s Assembly for our town: It’s the People’s Assembly Against Austerity. The purpose is to facilitate a group coming together in each and every town in the country, to defend our services and demand the resources to provide for our people and our environment. It…
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