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Older women should step aside says Laura Hudson

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IrkThePurist · 18/01/2018 22:56

Laura Hudson says;

''Take comfort in knowing this not a new development: feminism has evolved over the years from concerns about suffrage, to concerns about reproductive rights, to concerns about including ALL women in its mandate''

''I have great respect for the contributions that many older women made to the feminist movement, at times when it was harder than I have ever experienced. It is also time for them to listen, to learn, to step aside''
twitter.com/laura_hudson/status/953707342951981056

Laura hasn't actually set an age limit for stepping aside (Or the 'Logans Run' mandate as some Twitter users are calling it)
Laura seems blissfully unaware of The Equality Act, its become irrelevant now all the lesser battles have been won. Ageism doesn't concern her at all.
She's said we can rejoin feminism when we catch up.

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ReanimatedSGB · 19/01/2018 09:07

Something that strikes me about this particular type of feminism is that it's harking back to the idea of "put yourself last." Which is what women have always been supposed to do. So it starts with 'rich white women shut up' then it's old women shut up' then it's 'never mind if you're disabled, you need to prioritize race'/'never mind if you want to talk about racism, you need to prioritize class/disabililty/fat-shaming'
So whatever matters to you, you need to get over/wait for/shut up about, because you don't matter and you need to be humiliated and crushed...

AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth · 19/01/2018 09:02

Who the fuck IS Laura Hudson?

The unbelievable arrogance to think she can make demands of women in this way.

And I bet these young women are the funfems who believe in porn, prostitution and penises in our changing rooms

I will step aside when I fall down dead

MadamMinacious · 19/01/2018 08:49

Older women are the reason I know so much about feminism.

I'm an older woman now but those women who came before me, are my heroines - so many brave, interesting, intelligent women. I thank them and I still listen to them.

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 19/01/2018 08:37

Well i am white

I really dont want to put that on a t shirt though

Having said that her definition of old seems flexible...maybe her definition of rich is as well

ChattyLion · 19/01/2018 08:29

Sorry who is this person?

SophoclesTheFox · 19/01/2018 08:25

rich, white and TERF

I might get this on a t shirt

CanIBuffalo · 19/01/2018 08:15

I'm torn between 'aww bless' and 'what a loon'.

QuentinSummers · 19/01/2018 08:11

She is an idiot. Now claiming all the older women who have commented are rich, white and TERFs.
Nice attitude for a feminist.
I despair. How have we got to a situation where people call themselves feminist but do things that are the antithesis of feminism?

Deadlylampshade · 19/01/2018 07:54

No no no. Older women need to speak more!!

What kind of feminist tells older women to shut up? Jesus wept talk about doing the leg work of the patriarchy.

Older women are more fun anyway they say fuck more.

LardyMardy · 19/01/2018 07:46

I thought her rant was about the “Just day No” response to the Ansari story?

Either way she’s patronising and ageist.

UrsulaPandress · 19/01/2018 07:37

Is this about the trans then?

VivaLeBeaver · 19/01/2018 07:15

So basically anyone who doesn't share her take on feminism is an old, irrelevant bat who should shut the fuck up?

Don't think so.

SophoclesTheFox · 19/01/2018 06:58

Because age tends to correlate with not being on board with progress

Arf! Don't think so, love. Why does being a trans-inclusive feminist tend to correlate with being blindly, insufferably ageist, hmm?

Scratch the surface of anyone who fancies themselves super progressive and edgy for being rah-rah for trans issues, and you always find someone who secretly thinks old people are ignorant dinosaurs who should be led out into the snow for a lie-down.

It's astonishing, but it kind of makes sense in my head because they make it clear by their support of the horrific sexism of much transactivism that they themselves are mired in some very traditional ways of thinking about the world - as male is better, so young is better.

blackberryfairy · 19/01/2018 00:51

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Vicxy · 19/01/2018 00:14

Because age tends to correlate with not being on board with progress, and older woman are specifically the ones who have been most vocal about standing in the way right now. Many, but not all

Not on board with progress indeed

Guessing from this its down to one issue then. And I do not need to even state which one issue this is, I am sure.

irretating · 18/01/2018 23:47

of course

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IrkThePurist · 18/01/2018 23:42

Yes, and we bow to your superior knowledge

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LardyMardy · 18/01/2018 23:40

I’m almost 60. Does that mean I’m magnificent?

irretating · 18/01/2018 23:39

Older women give no shits, they're magnificent.

LardyMardy · 18/01/2018 23:37

Hmm I have been engaging with her tweets but have had no response. I did suggest that she think about being 65 one day. The one thing we know for sure is that we will get old. We’d better hope so, as the alternative is worse.

blackberryfairy · 18/01/2018 23:36

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IrkThePurist · 18/01/2018 23:34

Vicxy She would say yes based on your politics, but Laura also says;

''Because age tends to correlate with not being on board with progress, and older woman are specifically the ones who have been most vocal about standing in the way right now. Many, but not all''

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Vicxy · 18/01/2018 23:31

What an utter twat.

From reading the thread a bit more, it seems her issue is with radical feminism (as opposed to libfem), rather than the age of the feminists involved. She seems a little too dim to realise that sometimes younger people are radical feminists also. I am 30, so younger than her and I have discovered through this forum that I am a radical feminist. Should I also step aside I wonder..

EamonnWright · 18/01/2018 23:29

Libfems are all for porn, prostitution and penis in women's private places. 3 major things I always thought were top of the list of things feminists are against

Megs4x3 · 18/01/2018 23:27

She has a right to an opinion but she doesn't have a right to be taken seriously or even a right to be listened to.

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