Small act of rebellion

I have stopped saying ‘wait for the green man’ to cross the road. I now say ‘ ‘green for people to cross’.

PerverseConverse all my kids are in Catholic schools, but in the US. The schools are very big on critical thinking and free speech. I am just relieved to know they will not be presented any of the gender ideology stuff as part of the curriculum at any time, although if it came up somehow I know it would be critiqued and the kids would be encouraged to critique it. Both my teen dds belong to the feminist group at their high school and my eldest dd has been one of the leaders for a couple of years.

I added a label to a display in a library saying woman=adult human female. Right next to a suffragette display.

I correct gender/sex on forms, and if I can't I tick "other". If there's a box I explain that I reject gender and that I am an adult human female.

I also changed my FB settings to male. Amuses me greatly, if sex is meaningless then it doesn't matter that I am recorded as a male. (wouldn't do that on the census, but, I think SoMe is fair game)

"It's actually quite hard and also frightening how ingrained the male by default setting is."

Yes indeed. Interestingly, my daughter (5yo) is actually very good at helping me correct for it. She has the opposite bias in that she assumes every animal (etc) is a girl like she is... Hopefully we can keep that going as long as possible.

I've been putting Adult Human Female stickers in loos and one on a mirror in new mixed sex loos near me. Few other places too. Always on the lookout to put one somewhere.....Also crossed out gender and put sex instead. All very satisfying.

Glad to hear it, perverse!

Stolen from here - things we don't know sex of (animals, drivers, characters in story / TV) are female here. Ie 'look at the bird pulling up that lovely worm, she's going to enjoy that for her tea!'

It's actually quite hard and also frightening how ingrained the male by default setting is.

@ErrolTheDragon thank you! That's who DD1 was going to do her science homework on. I couldn't remember the name.

@IdaBWells Posie is as far as I know, atheist and against religion in general as it oppresses women and girls by telling them what they can and can't wear, who they can marry, how to behave etc so that's what my dd wrote. She was told "really interesting ideas" and "good research"  DD attends a catholic school so goes against the grain!

So sad, I'm a school secretary and no one changed gender to sex on their forms . I could've done it on mine (my dcs in the school) but it seemed a bit pointless when I'm the only person reading them...I did go through SiMS to change the bloody default Parental Address from Mr and Mrs His First Name his Second Name to Ms/Miss/Mrs Her and Mr Him, does that count?

PerverseConverse I just had a question regarding your DC using Posie as an example for their RE homework. You mention this question “How does their religion influence this?” does Posie have a religious background, is that part of her reasoning? I am just curious as I had always thought she was Free Speech campaigner.

I hear they were looking for nominations for names for the new £50 note ...

They only use dead British people on banknotes (well, apart from the monarch, obv) so I hope we don't see Posie or any of our other current heroines on one for many years! 

And this banknote is earmarked specifically for a scientist; I've nominated a truly world class inspirational female scientist, who managed to achieve a long and successful career and also be a mother - Dorothy Hodgkin, one of the very few women to have ever won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry (solo, not shared with any men!)

www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/50-pound-note-nominations

I asked for my workplace diversity training to be changed to include sex as a protected characteristic. Surprise surprise the current training had ‘gender identity’ instead.....

I filled in an RSPCA adoption application form and crossed out gender and replaced it with sex.

I'd like to get some of these. Where do I get them?

Love all.of these!!

On my son’s spelling test the other week they had the word woman. I was ranting about the ‘womxn’ thing at the time so told him to put womxn as the answer, and told him that if the teacher said anything to say that he’d seem on the BBC web sight that that was is how it’s spelt now.

He did it as well, and gave the answers provided by me. It’s not helpful but it gave me a laugh.

DS likes to get in on my little feminist actions.

Putting 'woman adult human female' stickers in every public loo

I've been doing this too. In one location they called the Police to report a hate crime!

Eldest's science homework is to write about 2 famous scientists. We were looking at female scientists a few weeks back when talking about the suffragettes and so will write about two female scientists.

Love Posie Parker appearing in RE homework !

I hear they were looking for nominations for names for the new £50 note ...

Ah yes, homework. Both my daughters have written pieces that show our rad fem leanings 
My eldest wrote "adult human female" in brackets after the word woman in her story. My youngest wrote about Posie Parker for her RE homework on Missions: who do you know who has a clear mission in life? What is their mission? Why is this their mission? How do they live out their mission? How does their religion influence this? I was so proud!

Dd (9) came home from school with a script for a little play they’d done in class of “The Gingerbread Man”. Every single time the word “gingerbread MAN” appeared in the script, she’d written “and woman” next to it. She’d obviously not quite got the context right but I was so proud that she’s spotted that and “corrected” it that I almost cried.

Small acts of rebellion rock. I take my kicks wherever I can get them. And I have the patience of a saint...

I am quietly raising the profile of our company’s self id policy. My line manager is already GC and when I raised concerns with him he said the introduction of self Id would be a major cultural shift and would need consultation, particularly as we have a wide multicultural community who may not be aware of the debate. I then pointed out it had been made official policy months ago and no one was aware...