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Shout out to Mumsnet from Posie P

38 replies

queenofknives · 24/09/2020 20:15

Very nice thanks to ordinary women who've been working away on this in the background. Mentions a couple of Mumsnetters by name.

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queenofknives · 24/09/2020 22:25

I really appreciate PP mentioning the anonymous women. The pressure that was put on at times for women to out themselves was immense and very unfair. So I appreciated that, because I do think all of us who have been involved in whatever way have taken risks, lost friends, lost opportunities. I lost an entire career over this stuff and I know lots of women who've been through the same or worse, and no one knows who the fuck we are!

Anyway. Congrats to us all. We've won a couple of battles but we still have a fight on our hands. I feel encouraged! Wine Flowers

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TitianaTitsling · 24/09/2020 22:04

It's an amazing day! The fear I have in being GC and working in the NHS is ridiculous-- started off with little things like work place staff surveys and saying gender is not male/female in the 'other' part in forms to feeling brave enough to talk about things with people all down to the amazing human females like Posie and the women on here.

Datun · 24/09/2020 21:58

Very flattered to be in the same sentence as Dittany Blush.

And Posie is indeed right, the unsung women who have pushed this through are those as a PP has said, at the school gate, chatting to the mother-in-law, handing out a leaflet, stickering, or, if they can, taking on the school governors.

Those women, and the women with the feminist groups, those attending the meetings, the smart women reading the dry as dust minutes, so I don't have to, the women sending the emails, the women writing the letters, the women taking all the shit on Twitter, the women on mumsnet, the women who are funny, feisty, frantic and furious. And to end on an alliterative note...female.

It's a good day.

TheShoesa · 24/09/2020 21:14

I do admire Posie for just getting on with it and taking an 'actions speak louder than words' approach .

But being one of the women who bought the t-shirt and wore it nervously on the school pick up, and talked about the GRA consultation to people in 2018 and ranted a fair bit (I've learnt to rein that in!) it was nice to be mentioned. She's right, of course - the 'names' get the exposure, but also the abuse. But anyone who has started a conversation about this in real life, or posted something that shouldn't be controversial but now is, has also had a hand in raising awareness and hopefully had some part in the slowing down of the rollback of women's rights.

CaraDuneRedux · 24/09/2020 20:49

@HollowTalk

Is Datun Posie????
No.

Many years ago Posie used to be on here, and her posting style was inimitable. As is Datun's, albeit differently so!

RozWatching · 24/09/2020 20:49

That is lovely and I agree with PP, here's to "ordinary" women and absent friends Wine

Gurufloof · 24/09/2020 20:48

Is Datun Posie????

The two have never been seen together!!!

MichelleofzeResistance · 24/09/2020 20:45

Datun Flowers

BewaretheIckabog · 24/09/2020 20:36

Datun is consistently reasonable, thoughtful and articulate and has added much to these threads.

HollowTalk · 24/09/2020 20:32

Is Datun Posie????

KnightsofColumbusThatHurt · 24/09/2020 20:31

@Datun you got a shout out! I have to say, you really are one of the most amazingly articulate people I have ever come across on the Internet, and your points are always just on fire! Thank you.

Kazakaren · 24/09/2020 20:30

♥️

Melroses · 24/09/2020 20:24
Grin