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Is anyone else furious/deflated at the amount of energy this is taking up?

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Dhalmeup · 27/06/2020 19:43

There is just so much more that needed doing already.

The abysmal rape/murder rates in most countries, baby girls being murdered after birth because of their sex, FGM, so many issues around the world we could be banding together and putting our energy towards.

And instead, we have found ourselves having to turn around and defend what we already bloody had! Constantly fighting fires and trying cling on to rights and spaces that we took for granted as already permanently ours.

I know we can concentrate on more than one thing at once and great work is still being done.

It’s just so frustrating that the TRAs are taking up so much of our time and I resent it because we shouldn’t have to! We shouldn’t have to be fighting these fires at all.

Sorry, just feeling defeated this evening. SM has been manic the last few days and what has happened to Allison’s fundraiser has just tipped me over the edge.

I do feel that we will win. I’m just angry that we need to fight at all.

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CodenameVillanelle · 27/06/2020 19:50

Yes. I'm depressed about it to be honest. I feel like for my well-being I should step away but I just can't act like it's not happening.

Deltoids1 · 27/06/2020 19:49

I’m with you. It was me sport that sucked me into this madness. I spent my youth fighting to be allowed to play a “boys” sport back in the 1980s. Now, girls play this sport at school because people like me fought for equal rights and it boils my piss that I’m having to fight again to maintain these rights.

isabellerossignol · 27/06/2020 19:46

Yes, I'm exhausted and I look at my teenage daughter and I'm terrified for her future.

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