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International Women's Day Mass Cancelling of Labour Memberships Action

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leyat · 06/03/2018 14:54

I am passing on an action started by @mayday4women on Twitter; they aren't on Mumsnet so they said I could post here for them.

Basically they are getting a lot of women contacting them saying they are cancelling their Labour memberships due to the decision by Labour's NEC to essentially take on self ID as party policy in every area, including re AWS. And they think it'd be a more powerful statement if women did it en masse together on International Women's Day, which is the 8th March (Thursday).

The idea is to let Labour see how important this is to women, and how badly they are letting women down. Everyone can always reinstate their memberships down the line, but this is a way to be seen and heard, and to make a statement. I'm not a member of any political party myself right now, but as I say I am passing this on and doing all I can to support my sisters in the Labour Party.

Mayday for women are drawing up a statement, and you can get in touch with them directly if you want to let them know you are taking part in the action: mayday4women@gmail

Cheers!

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thebewilderness · 06/03/2018 23:18

Fugitive, you do not appear to be understanding what is being written. You appear to be hearing the opposite of what peeps are saying to you.

AssassinatedBeauty · 06/03/2018 23:18

"Honestly, how can you not see that you've already failed? The world won't turn back towards injustice however hard you try and make it. You MUST be able to see that you've already lost this battle?! You can't make this country backtrack on the steps it has already taken towards equality."

Why do you care about trying to make all the horrible transphobes see things your way? You've already said you're ecstatic that they're leaving your party, that you don't want them involved, so why are you concerned about trying to make them agree with you?

Fugitivefrombrusstice · 06/03/2018 23:18

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sallyannemum · 06/03/2018 23:17

I would imagine most CPL's will be holding great parties when you transphobes leave the Labour Party, Anyone who disagrees with you has to be male so again it boils down to what you have in your pants. You are certainly not feminists that has got lost along the way.
You have made the whole situation a joke and have shown the whole of sensible Labour supporters your true colours, and You have Failed miserably at getting the support you wanted,

thebewilderness · 06/03/2018 23:16

I recognize this as an attempt to re enslave women. I am astonished that you do not.

Fugitivefrombrusstice · 06/03/2018 23:14

@thebewilderness if you don't believe that our belief of what people are can be controlled and codified through law I would invite you to consider the entire history of the slave trade.

TerfyMcTerface · 06/03/2018 23:14

I didn't say I didn't care, I said I'm actively glad I won't have to share a party with you any more.

And yet here you are, going out of your way to share a discussion board with us. Strange.

UpstartCrow · 06/03/2018 23:13

Marching smartly forwards into the Brave New World!

thebewilderness · 06/03/2018 23:13

Can you mandate belief?
Can you codify into law the idea that some people can mind over matter themselves out of material reality and into the opposite sex, and must be treated accordingly?
It is like transubstantiation. A belief that no one actually believes.
Will you allow people to drug and mutilate children based on this belief that no one believes?

It has been tried before many times and never ends well.

Fugitivefrombrusstice · 06/03/2018 23:12

@thebewilderness I have seen more vitriol on the feminism boards than any other forum I've ever come across!

Fugitivefrombrusstice · 06/03/2018 23:11

Honestly, how can you not see that you've already failed? The world won't turn back towards injustice however hard you try and make it. You MUST be able to see that you've already lost this battle?! You can't make this country backtrack on the steps it has already taken towards equality.

thebewilderness · 06/03/2018 23:10

This is the way they talk to one another over in AIBU.
We are not used to that much venom over here in the grown up women's space.

Mouthtrousersafrocknowandthen · 06/03/2018 23:10

Ok, its all a fit of pique.

I just checked the definition of pique
a feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one's pride

You have explained it now, thanks, I am piqued, not peaked. Bloody hell, so glad you came along.

Fugitivefrombrusstice · 06/03/2018 23:08

I didn't say I didn't care, I said I'm actively glad I won't have to share a party with you any more.

Kneedeepinunicorns · 06/03/2018 23:08

maybe you should get your head out of mumsnet (and also your own vagina)

LOL

Oh what a giveaway......

Kneedeepinunicorns · 06/03/2018 23:08

If you're happy for people to cancel and get the hell out of Dodge, then why bother turning up to rant at us about 'cancel away'? It kind of contradicts the whole 'I don't care' slant you're trying to give it. Confused

Fugitivefrombrusstice · 06/03/2018 23:07

I've yet to find a single transphobe who doesn't retreat into the assertion that anyone who disagrees with them must be a man. If you can't believe that other women disagree with you on this maybe you should get your head out of mumsnet (and also your own vagina) and look to the real world where transphobia isnt really acceptable any more.

thebewilderness · 06/03/2018 23:07

3rd rule of misogyny: Women speaking for themselves are exclusionary and selfish.

terfing · 06/03/2018 23:07

I think there's some sock-puppeting here... Very similar writing styles from the ploppers.

womanhuman · 06/03/2018 23:06

The men appear to be very excited over this opportunity to put the women out of the public sphere in the name of equality.

That’s what I meant to say, I just accidentally said hahaha instead. I wish I was as eloquent as you. Smile

thebewilderness · 06/03/2018 23:05

Twelve million women are a drop in Labour's bucket and you can't quit them cuz you are all fired!
Thanks d00d.

thebewilderness · 06/03/2018 23:04

The men appear to be very excited over this opportunity to put the women out of the public sphere in the name of equality.

Fugitivefrombrusstice · 06/03/2018 23:04

I could ask the same about you - how important do you think you are?! I know mumsnet is a wasps net of transphobes and you all get to sit here in a nice echo chamber and pat yourselves on the back for all having the same views but you're wildly out of step with the rest of the country and if you think the tiny few of you who actually are labour members cancelling your memberships in a fit of pique over self ID is going to register as anything more than a blip to the party, you're mistaken. If anything it's a helpful cleanse of those people who seek only to derail progress. Labour doesn't need bigots and you'll save everyone a headache by removing yourselves from the conversation. By all means, cancel away...

Mouthtrousersafrocknowandthen · 06/03/2018 23:03

Blimey did someone arrive to shout transphobia

Arachnophobia yes, I have an irrational fear of spiders, dysphoria and AGP, nope, entirely rational responses to those conditions.

I'm starting to develop a phobia of people that say "people like you".

womanhuman · 06/03/2018 23:03

don't you dare have the gall to call yourself a feminist while you do it

Hahahahahahaha ok bye then

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