“It is our role as feminists to always be there, and to make sure that people know that we accept them for who they are.” So says the Executive Director of UN Women...

What does her salary have to do with this?

Someone with her salary and job description shouldn't be putting out such complete inanities. We sometimes write off various dismissals of women's rights as 'the intern being left in charge of twitter' but this clearly isn't the case here.

A terrible attempt to rewrite the definition of feminism. Part of the sustained attack on women through language.

accepting someone for who they are is not a major crime but my issue is her describing feminism in such simplistic, floppy handed terms.

What does her salary have to do with this?

Where 'feminist' means 'assigned support human at birth' and 'people' means men.

Thanks Michelle. I’m so going to steal that.

Oh, dear, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka!! I am so upset to discover that the feminism we’ve been practicing today and all this week in Warsaw and around Poland - where the church now apparently identifies as the government and the government now apparently identifies as the judiciary - isn’t really feminist at all. We should just accept the lies we’ve been told and shut up, yeah?

Well, the prognosis doesn’t look good here re feminists (or most other people, the way things are going) “accepting” wildly regressive sexist nonsense any time soon. And you can fuck all the way off for trying to manipulate girls to do so.

Actual feminists are setting a different example: right here, right now. If you can’t lead, won’t stand beside us, and can’t even even bring yourself to follow - then for everyone’s sake be a decent human and get out of the way.

"Women are there to service men". Same old, same old.

She should bloody resign. What a disgrace.

Blimey there’s stupid and then there’s really really stupid

And then there is getting paid a massive amount for being the most stupid

She has hit the jackpot

I would hope in a real hostage situation she would know that her role is to accept the kidnappers and be there for them, not call the police ❤️

That comment is brilliant! "Women are busy." 😂

And beyond that, TRAs consistently keep trying to hitch their wagon to other issues. It looks a little different in each instance but I think it's pretty much the same thinking for those who buy into it.

What the actual fuuuuuuuck?????

Thank god for the comments!

Yes Michelle, hence my class blinkers comment!

Quite, Michelle. It only works if women are recast as the heroic, silently suffering supporting actors in other people's films. Dispensing comfort and mummy-approval like sweeties. That is the entire limit of our role in this narrative.

If you go fully for treating everyone as an individual

This made me think though - those pushing this agenda don't. This is about some people getting to be treated as individuals, and living their authentic selves and best lives and being respected and included and defining their own identities and speaking their own truths and not being labelled and defining their own language....

and everyone else enabling them without any right to the same, and threats if they fail to obey. There is most definitely a class group of 'c* women' and 'tfs who this ideology is delighted to name and treat as a herd without personalities or needs or feelings or rights other than the right to shut up and serve.

It's anything but individualism.

FFS. Comments are really encouraging though.

I think she got feminists and surrendered wives mixed up

Isn't she the one who made some comment last year about gender, but it was not part of official UN policy.

But either way for her to say it, and for them to publish it on their facebook page it just so depressing. I cant even get angry. This whole women must move over and be accepting is all around us.

But glad to see those who have found the energy to contradict this statement on facebook.

Wouldn't it be great if our time on social media was just about sharing positive news about forwarding women's rights, instead of this endless need to reject this gender tsunami against women's rights.

www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances/salary.htm

So it looks like an ED in the USA gets a salary of up to 170 000 USD. There's usually a bunch of allowances and expenses paid too.

So she's making at least a quarter a million a year to talk shite about women.

I'm not sure that this is a problem specific to feminism.

Are there any other groups, which expressly exist to represent the rights and liberties of one specific protected class, who get told their 'role' is to do something which isn't in their interest?

I am browsing to find out how much this Executive Director is paid. She's apparently still getting money from the SA government since stepping down

from the link. R6.7m on former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka since 2017.

That's 315 thousand pounds.

www.2oceansvibe.com/2019/10/03/sa-taxpayers-paying-huge-sums-of-money-to-fund-former-sa-presidents-and-deputies/

UN pay crazy salaries. I will keep digging.