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It's Friday night and it's party time!

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xxyzz · 25/09/2020 19:49

Just that. I am looking at Twitter and here and just so bloody happy!

It's been a shit year, lockdown has just restarted, lots of scary things still in the world, but for a brief moment, let's sit back and enjoy what amazing (extra)ordinary women have achieved. Wine Cake Glitterball

So many incredible women, and the odd men to thank for being here. I propose the first toast, to the inimitable JK Rowling, Wine without whose sunlight on the attacks on women's rights, I very much doubt that the recent turnaround in events would have happened.

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ButcherManWasSomeLady · 26/09/2020 14:59

Thanks tea

teawamutu · 26/09/2020 12:28

ButcherMan, found it here: mobile.twitter.com/christophelston/status/1309262126662389760

SerenityNowwwww · 26/09/2020 11:53

Well she helped light the touch paper.

DeliciouslyFemale · 26/09/2020 11:35

I so wish poor Magdalen was here to see all this. I hope her family are getting great comfort from the knowledge that she was one of the most influential voices in the fight for the safety, tights and dignity of women. She made so many people open their eyes to the reality of what was happening and will never be forgotten. When the children of the future look back on this, her name will always be remembered as one of the sheros, unlike the seedy individuals who are currently rowing back from their support of some horrendous decisions, that have caused suffering to so many women and children.

ButcherManWasSomeLady · 26/09/2020 10:59

@teawamutu

Raising my gin to: No self-ID DfE guidance Crispin Blunt making a massive twat of himself Labour getting ratioed to wotsit by enraged women Morgane Oger losing in Canada JKR billboard in San Francisco JKR topping the bestseller list (and having a new Strike to read) Puberty blockers enquiry Mermaids reverse ferreting Posie, Venice and co bringing the sunshine in Leeds

Cheers, vipers. Been one HELL of a week.

Great list, worth repeating. But I have missed the MorganO ger story and a can't find anything online.

Anyone?

SerenityNowwwww · 26/09/2020 10:56

🍷 Magdalen...

ButcherManWasSomeLady · 26/09/2020 10:55

Let there be more happy weeks like this one.

...and, yes

Thanks Magdalen.

SerenityNowwwww · 26/09/2020 10:52

Didn’t I read somewhere about the fishy folk opening up in the US?

Destinysdaughter · 26/09/2020 10:34

Well done to us all. And so glad to finally be able to say, wrong side of history, my arse!

And to a certain someone, enjoy your erssure! Grin

DialSquare · 26/09/2020 10:16

It's cocktail night tonight in my house so I'll keep the party going!

ErrolTheDragon · 25/09/2020 23:56

Winecheers! (Well, tbh at this time of night decaf Brew but what the heckGrin)

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 25/09/2020 23:48

Wine Wine

CHEERS to everyone here and all those wonderful women, and our other friends, who have held the line despite threats, abuse and attacks.

Have a great weekend. We all deserve it!

VallarMorghulis · 25/09/2020 23:44

Thank you to all the brave women* who made this happen. Proud to be part of the wrong crowd! ThanksWine

*and men

ArabellaScott · 25/09/2020 23:43

I'd like to Wine to @MNHQ. They have held space here in the face of relentless campaigns. Thank you.

Gurufloof · 25/09/2020 23:42

MNHQ could have just shut down fwr, for as long as they wanted. I bet it cost dear to keep it running. So thanks to them. They persisted when virtually every other online site shut down discussion and banned posters for even mentioning trans.

Goosefoot · 25/09/2020 23:35

I'm a few hours behind, but I will have Friday night drink - cheers! Wine

WhereOnEarthDoIStart · 25/09/2020 23:30

Ooh yes!! Here to all us bloody difficult women!!
Wine

teawamutu · 25/09/2020 23:29

I still want that "Radicalised on Mumsnet" t-shirt, Sir Samuel (one of my all time fave Pratchett characters, btw).

SweetGrapes · 25/09/2020 23:27

And yes - a big thanks to MNHQ for providing the platform to talk!! Flowers

SweetGrapes · 25/09/2020 23:26

Wine Cheers to Maria MacLachlan.... her getting punched at speakers corner got me signed up!

And of course all the wonderful women named and unknown.., Flowers Wine Brew

SirSamuelVimes · 25/09/2020 23:24

@SVHJess

MNHQ did nothing though.
They kept a space open that many others would have closed.

I used to nod along and "be kind", without thinking about it, until I started reading on here.

Mumsnet: Come for the advice on nappies and milk letdown, stay for the radical feminism. Grin

teawamutu · 25/09/2020 23:22

Not fair to say MNHQ did nothing. As said on the other thread, they had a bloody difficult job to do, they could have said fuck it and shut FWR down for a quieter, more lucrative life, but they didn't.

If they had, if we hadn't had this corner of the internet to mobilise, self-ID would have gone through.

They may not have got everything right, but what they did do was huge. And would have come at a cost.

I'm grateful beyond words.

ArabellaScott · 25/09/2020 23:22

Wine Gin Cake Flowers to the women of Mumsnet, all of you, every last one of you. You're all amazing, and I am so in awe of the tenacity, bravery, compassion, intelligence and clear sightedness that women have shown in the past years. I've learned more on here in the past couple of years than I have in a lifetime of reading left wing newspapers. It's astonishing to find the breadth of thought and insight, experience and humour that hangs out at Mumsnet, it really is. Humbled.

I'm not even pissed. Grin

SVHJess · 25/09/2020 23:19

MNHQ did nothing though.

Redshoeblueshoe · 25/09/2020 23:12

We need to send at least 5 gallons of Gin to MNHQ Grin