Category: women
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Our society hates women
Yep, she was right, wasn’t she (you know the quote I’m thinking of). I know, I know, someone’s going to say ‘oh, society loves *this* woman, and *these* women…’ Yep. I thought that too, for most of my life. I knew loads of blokes who were decent to women, and loads of successful women, shining…
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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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Amplifying Elaine
This may shock you, but if you haven’t already, we need you to look at this – we really, really do. (I’ll get to what you need to look at in a minute…) I think this is world-changing information – maybe it’s going to break through anyway – it’s got 6000 views in a couple…
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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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What kind of country tolerates police seizing people’s books?
Yep, it happened. It happened in Wales. As one woman put it to me recently, surely that’s a red line for everyone. This was a gathering in support of a woman who was arrested, detained for ten hours, and has been messed about ever since. The police searched her house, and took a book they…
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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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The Mermaid of Black Conch
Life, eh! When you’re tired – years and years tired – of the struggle, of the battering of socialism, of feminism, of the average person’s chance to even earn a crust; when you know you’ve got too bitter and stroppy to do any good, and all but withdrawn from the fight, and a friend passes…
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Sorry, we broke the revolution?
I have a great view of the pincers of sexism from here just now. When we talk about gender being oppression, we’re not just talking about different dress codes. There have been ructions recently within feminism over women working with right wing organisations – particularly when trans-Atlantic link-ups have blurred people’s view, and led to…
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2022: Sisters, the campaign starts here
“This is the year our collective righteous bloody-minded refusal to shut the fuck up finally broke the impenetrable wall of ‘no debate’” – Jane Clare Jones on Twitter, 31st Dec 2021 Click here to read the whole message. So we have won the right to have the debate. Now, we need to win the debate.…
Kay Green 