Solidarity in Aldi today!

Amazing I'd have done exactly the same

When I was out for a cycle ride last summer, I was stopped by a woman with a clipboard and asked if I would do a survey about the cycle path. One question was what my gender was, so I said that my sex was female and that I think gender is bollocks, and she said she agreed and we had a good long chat about it. I mentioned mumsnet and I hope she did come and check it out.

Sounds very Hitler youthy

Middle aged women chatting about tote bags with the dictionary definition of woman on?

Or is it the having to hide our beliefs and moral values as we fight in secret against our rights being taken away that makes you think that?

Thank you for sharing this story, it is very uplifting! I'm going to look into ordering a tote as well :)

Lovely to read this thread. It's remarkable that such an obvious statement of fact is considered 'cult like'. I'm fortunate that pretty much everyone in my life is GC. There's a friend who's all 'be kind', autistic, trauma background, has decided she's non binary. I know a young man who has happily transitioned- again, autistic and trauma background. I know a 16 year old who has socially transitioned and is gagging for more permanent treatment. Again, trauma background, grew up in care. They agree that physical transition shouldn't be rushed, but in their own case, being 16, they are sure of their decision- they've known for 'ages'. So hard, from the perspective of someone over 50, to accept they know their own mind enough to make irreversible physical changes.

I suppose some people do have quite a visceral reaction to Aldi 🤣

Cheap groceries, fascism, much the same really. Easy mistake to make.

I love this Aldi story. I'm going to look at the website right now for one of those bags. Thank you 😊

@12frogsincoats I think you might need to do a bit more research my friend.

Sounds very Hitler youthy

Lovely OP, step by step we can resist.

I have my ManFriday bag and a selection of stickers in my bag ready for use.

💪💪💪💪🥰

Oh I love hearing stories like this. Gives me hope.

The overreach and bullying is so extensive that women everywhere are seeing what is happening. It's impossible to ignore.

Lovely anecdote. How perverse and sad that women have to hide the fact that they are GC. Safe spaces for women are vital.

Mine too! Just watched Posie and Mr Harrop again. What a joy! Now I’m going to have a glass of wine and toast them both!

Great OP, I'm glad you saw it and I'm glad you felt able to mention it to the owner!

By the way, I don't know if it has been mentioned elsewhere.. I was watching an interview with Jackie Weaver (I think it was on Sky) and the interviewer asked her if she felt that her gender had anything to do with the way she was treated... Jackie was very careful to use the word 'sex', not gender, in her response!

I’m a middle leader teacher too and I’m so relieved I haven’t had to cover It in pshe type lessons so far. I would really push the tolerance and everyone having rights aspects, I think- and say that our rights don’t mean we can take away those of others.

Love this! It shows that we are out there, even if some of us can’t afford to be as openly visible as others.

There are so many of us. The tide will turn soon, I just know it.

Solidarity sisters. X

I was genuinely bewildered as to what the frig they were on about and said something ‘Well I am a woman obviously, are you saying I look like a man, I’m not a bloody he am I’

This thread is warming the cockles of my heart.

See Judith Butler, queer theory, etc

(Personally I'd rather eat ground glass)

That's a sound grounding, musicalfrog.

Personally, I think all feminism is 'gender critical' by default, as it's about investigating and challenging stereotypes and norms imposed on people because of their sex.

In the past few years, though, it's been coming up against what some people may call 'genderism', which posits that we choose our 'gender' and sex is 'a construct'.

GC feminists acknowledge the inescapable reality of biological sex (males and females), and challenge stereotypes. Gender theorists claim that we choose our 'gender' out of an almost infinite possible number of genders, and seem see sex as secondary to our 'gender expression' (how we dress, cut our hair, etc). (See Judith Butler, queer theory, etc).

I hope I'm not misrepresenting the latter view, it does seem so removed from reality I find it quite hard to formulate. And I'm not a scholar or very clued up on theories.

Thanks @ErrolTheDragon I'm completely on board then.