ReSisters standing up for adult human females **Thread title edited by MNHQ**

And yet projecting the sinister phrase ‘repeat after me - trans women ape women’ onto public buildings is what exactly?

I know it wasn’t ‘ape’ but one projection went over a window frame and it did look like it said ape. It amused me anyway.

And pink news are absolute trash. Defacing statues by putting t-shirts on them..yeah. And as always, pro women is anti-trans

Amazing

Gender Critical Feminists of South West Wales thread:

"So why have women been putting t shirts on statues up and down the country? And why with the dictionary definition of woman?
Women have fought long and hard for the right to be accepted fully as members of society:
•It is just over a 100 years since some women won the right to vote on equal terms with men.
•43 years ago discrimination against women in the workplace was made illegal
•Women’s entitlement to equal pay was not enshrined in law until 1970
•During the 1970’s the first women’s refuges and rape crisis centres were opened
•Not until 1990 were married women taxed independently from their husbands
•Rape in Marriage became a crime in 1994
All of these and other many changes have been brought about by the activism of women speaking out, protesting, fighting for their rights to be treated as equal citizens.
And yet we still live in a sexist society:
•#metoo reminded us that sexual harassment and sexual violence are still daily occurrences for women and girls
• pay gap reporting reminded us that men are still paid more than women
•Austerity has hit women harder than men
Women have spent 150 years fighting for their rights, some of the issues women have fought for we no longer notice & are taken for granted. The Women’s Sanitary Association was formed in the 1850s to campaign for women’s public toilets, to enable women to go out & about
Early women’s public toilets were vandalised and destroyed by men who did not want women to have that right. Women are still campaigning for adequate toilet provision on construction sites.
If we dilute the definition of woman, we will not be able to see this sexism, we will not be able to record it or nor will we be able to record how we progress in eradicating sexism.
Today we dress statues & sculptures of women in the definition of woman to remind everyone:-
we cannot take women’s rights for granted & we still have a long way to go in creating a world which is safe and supportive for women and girls.

Today we Stand Up for Women & Girls"

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Nick Duffy's article in Pink News headline speaks volumes (about both Pink News and the quality of his 'journalism':

"Anti-transgender activists deface Cilla Black statue, peace monuments"

Pink News progaganda thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3390910-Can-we-talk-about-Pink-News-Collecting-examples-of-their-propaganda

Is this why the twitterati are getting all upset, hurty and hysterical?

Keep up the good work ladies...

PinkNews have quoted Jean: www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/01/28/anti-transgender-cilla-black-statue/

Name changed for this.

My heart skipped a beat when I saw a picture my local town on here! Fabulous work!

DJLippy Its a really comprehensive article. I hope it get's wide coverage. Have you considered AIBU ?

makemorenoisemanc.wixsite.com/mysite/mmnblog/a-womans-place-is-in-the-resisters-midnight-t-shirt-protest-sparks-outrage

Here is a brilliant piece which goes into the history of the ReSister movement, and the response to the midnight Tshirt raid

From the South Wales Argus article linked above:
(extract)
"A spokeswoman for ReSisters United commented: “In today’s climate of hyper political correctness, the factual definition of woman has become taboo.

“The dignity, privacy and safety of women is at risk.

“With this action we send the message that women have the right to speak about our biology without shame, fear or retribution”.

“We'd say that we are not positioning ourselves against trans issues, we are standing up for the rights of women and girls.

“We're not anti-trans, we are pro-women.”

However, the person who wanted to burn the t shirt off the statue could have defaced the statue if they'd done it.

Amy Johnson an avatar? No, think they mean aviator.

South Wales Argus report is ace.

They kept using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means....

Pink news is crying and calling it "defacing". How is it defacing? lol

South Wales Argus re Newport...

www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/17391210.feminist-campaign-group-uses-statues-to-fight-hyper-political-correctness/

DJ Lippy weighs in.

makemorenoisemanc.wixsite.com/mysite/mmnblog/a-womans-place-is-in-the-resisters-midnight-t-shirt-protest-sparks-outrage

That MerseyFocus article and interview were remarkably fair and friendly. It's apparently run by student journalists at Liverpool John Moores University. I wonder what kind of kickback they may find themselves facing.

Nice of PN to show a good selection of the gallery - illustrating that contrary to their misleading report, no statues were 'defaced', merely temporarily dressed.

My understanding is that the women involved in this action took great care to ensure that none of these statues of women was harmed in any way.

Some small articles covering today's action.

merseyfocus.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/radical-feminist-group-t-shirt-protest-stripped-bare/

www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/01/28/anti-transgender-cilla-black-statue/

Some of these transadvocates seem to have very delicate hearts, except when it comes to female erasure.

What an effective campaign! I find the pictures really moving. Thank you to everyone involved.

Alex of Newport finds the dictionary definition of 'woman' 'heartbreaking'? What definition would he like to put in its place?

Why did Posie and the ReSisters (and others!) participate in this campaign?

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I'm hugely grateful to Posie for supplying the T-shirts (and banners) because that took the major financial hit out of the action and i honestly don't think it would have worked with any other T-shirts. It gave us a focus and a common inspiration that united women around the country.

You don't have to like Posie - I don't think she's ever demanded that - but you know where you are with her. She doesn't dissemble or pretend. She is the WYSIWYG of gender critical feminism. For those of you too young to know what that means, it was a seminal moment in the development of personal computing which means what you see on the screen is what prints out (what you see is what you get)