What is going on?

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Sofasurfingsally · 21/06/2019 09:29

It is a shit time to be a woman. That is all.

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TheInebriati · 21/06/2019 10:12

There was a huge change in womens rights under Labour. It led to a change in attitude across society.
For example, under the previous Tory governments, single parents were openly treated as scum. There was no childcare or tax credits for mothers who wanted to return to work. If you didn't have family who would do it for free, you couldnt work.
Under Labour, childcare was introduced plus tax credits, and women were encouraged - not forced - to start work. That led to a change in attitude towards single parents.
Some funding became available for domestic violence shelters and Rape Crisis.
At one time, the police actually started to listen to Rape Crisis, they introduced rape suites, realised that victims needed counseling and might prefer female staff.

All of those gains have been gradually lost. Added to that, we now have had decades of easy access to increasingly violent porn, and the MRA movement supported by the gaming community and Reddit.
The entire social landscape has changed. Its like going back to the Thatcher years, but the focus is breaking womens boundaries instead of Trade Unions.

Apollo440 · 21/06/2019 10:08

Didn't Blair give us the 2004 GRA. Turned out to not be such a high point for women's rights.

dancingcamper · 21/06/2019 09:56

Agree we did have a few more significant women politicians at that time.

dancingcamper · 21/06/2019 09:55

When they talked about Blair's Babes? Yes that was a high point.

TheInebriati · 21/06/2019 09:41

Its always been this bad, its just that during the Blairite years we had a slight respite from it as we made a few legal and social advances, and the worst excesses were dampened.
Now misogyny has been given permission to go public again.

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Sofasurfingsally · 21/06/2019 09:34

I can give examples. Mark Field, Antoinette Sandbach, the amount of women in government, the sense that the door is ajar and the Trump style pussygrabbers are spilling out over here.

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OvaHere · 21/06/2019 09:31

It is. I'm in my 40's now and I've never known it to be this bad. I'm never quite sure if that's just because I lacked awareness when I was younger but it certainly feels much worse.

Babdoc · 21/06/2019 09:30

There was never a good time! Care to be more specific, OP?

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