Category: women
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I’ve been and gone and done it now
Five years of frustration, trying to get “the left” to sort out the appalling ignorance of lefty MPs, activists and groups on the women’s rights issue, on what’s happening to vulnerable women and girls, and to our kids – now, finally, the problems we’ve been trying to amplify have “gone mainstream”. Most people at least […]
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Left, right and left behind
This article is, ultimately, about the row about ‘drag’ (!) which I think offers a good opportunity to think about the left/right confusion in the women’s campaign… Is ‘queer theory’ left wing? Is ‘gender critical’ theory right wing? How many people are sufficiently academic, sufficiently fond of critical reading and sufficiently practiced in critical thinking […]
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“Cross-dressing” is a dodgy concept
“DRAG” supposedly means “dressing up as girls”. Is “dressing up as girls” also what pantomime dames are doing? Are they the same thing? Are you thinking ‘oh come on, it’s obvious…?’ But what is? These performances we used to call night-club drag acts have spilled over into so many aspects of our lives. According to […]
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Keep Rishi Sunak away from our Equality Act
First, let me state the obvious, just in case anyone missed it. The bunch of Conservative MPs who have been competing to take over as Prime Minister are all members of the government that has dragged this country into the worst mire of debt, poverty and dysfunction I have seen in my lifetime. I sincerely […]
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Fed up with long, complicated blog articles?
I had a couple of complaints last week that my blogs are getting long – sorry, here’s one for you – it’s so short that it fits in the header pic, so you can just share it like a meme, if you want. Please send it to your MP – too many of them still […]
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Macy Days and UK Ways
Or: What’s with ‘the hostage video’? Look what happened – first, we had a clear and refreshing statement, made by an adult women, voluntarily discussing ‘The Issue’ on a show she presumably volunteered to go on. She seems quite relaxed, and happy to chat on volatile issues like the US flag, and what a woman […]
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A memorable week in the end times
***long read for the weekend*** July 2022, UK, planet earth Many of us do not forget we are well past the time we could have dealt with the climate crisis without cataclysmic consequences. Many of us are grappling with the cost of living crisis (that is, our government’s complete failure to address the problem of […]
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Can we adopt this as our anthem, please?
Love is an action, something that is born, grows and lives, not something you hope will land on you. The sisterhood knows that. I’ve always loved this song – Can we adopt it as our anthem now? For all the women, battling for the sake of sisters and daughters, and for the women who will […]
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What else is the Labour Party being useless at?
(Just to be clear – this is not an advert for any other party. We need to demand better from ALL our politicians) For most of the last five years or so, if I’d said ‘you know that toxic issue in Labour’, people would have thought ‘ah yes, the left-right thing’ or ‘ah yes, the […]
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Stonewall finally show their hand
Please bear with me – A few quick definitions and a couple of background tales before the grand reveal, because in these days of obsessive word-bending, you won’t know what I mean if I don’t say these things up front: Sex: the biological categories of ‘male’ and ‘female’ – humans are mammals, mammals are di-morphic […]
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