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In despair

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Kettlepotblack · 03/06/2018 11:47

Ladies, I'm feeling so down about these proposed changes to the GRA and the whole trans rhetoric. I really feel in utter despair.

I do feel angry too and I hope this anger can be channeled into doing whatever it takes to safeguard and protect our spaces, for our fellow women, daughters and generations to come - but God I feel so low about it all. Especially reading about this disgusting tampon fetish, now that new article about the amount of male prisoners convicted of sexual crimes when been moved into women's prisons.

Is this normal? Did anyone else feel quite depressed about this before the anger and injustice really got going? How long did it last before it became productive?

We will win this won't we?

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LangCleg · 03/06/2018 12:21

Even if they win this time, we won't stop fighting for the rights of women and girls.

Well, quite. And even if they do manage to erase the definition of the word woman, the class of people formerly known as woman will still exist. It will still be us. And they still won't be in it. All the narcissistic rage in the world won't change that.

UpstartCrow · 03/06/2018 12:14

I think the despair is normal when we think that it's one battle. When you realise its a constant ongoing battle you'll dig in and get on with it.

Even if they win this time, we won't stop fighting for the rights of women and girls. We can carry on challenging male privilege and exposing how it harms women.
If they win this time it will play out in a predictable way, and we can start the fight for basic rights for women all over again, from scratch if we need to.

Lemonjello · 03/06/2018 12:00

I sympathise.

For me, the worst bit is the messing with reality that the whole ideology promotes. People being entirely comfortable to refer to men as women, and comfortable that ‘woman’ now has no meaningful definition. It gives me the existential heebie jeebies.

Talking to other likeminded people helps me, as does any activism that I do. I need to take regular breaks because I find it so crazy making but feeling like I am doing something to counter it is the best thing for my mental health.

ReluctantCamper · 03/06/2018 11:58

The tampon fetish is nothing. It's a vanishingly small number of people. I wouldn't spend any energy on it.

Think about women's sports, women's prisons, equal representation of women in parliament.....

I think we will win this, yes.

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