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Solidarity in Aldi today!

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JaneyHenderson · 13/02/2021 18:08

This is my first thread in a very long time but I wanted to share the uplifting and fabulous experience I had today in Aldi😂

I reached 'peak' during the last lockdown and lurk regularly on here while trying to make sense of the madness.
DH is supportive to a degree but very nervous of me being vocal about my GC views as we are both teachers. I am a middle leader in a secondary school and he worries about me getting sackedConfused
So I can't discuss this much IRL.

Anyway, queing outside Aldi today and saw a woman a few people ahead of me with a 'Woman
Noun
adult human female' tote bag. I was thrilled and as soon as there was an opportunity (by the fruit and vegWink) I told her I liked her bag and that I knew what it meant.
She said I had made her day; I replied I she had made mine. Then she said 'Solidarity sister and see you on the next march'
We went on our separate ways but bloody hell it was brilliant. To vocalise it and be recognised. Felt a bit emotional and even now re-writing it, am a bit teary.

Just wanted to share. It was wonderful.

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littlbrowndog · 16/02/2021 09:04

It’s the law says the Scottish minister for equalities 😂🤦‍♀️

waterlego · 16/02/2021 08:33

Oh God, that Tweet 😩

‘TWAW is the law’ doesn’t even make sense. She sounds really stupid.

SophocIestheFox · 16/02/2021 08:17

Loving the shout out from Kellie-Jay Grin

My husband has been hankering after a Thought Criminal t shirt for a while, maybe now’s the time...

MoleSmokes · 16/02/2021 00:23

@Eastie77

Loving this thread. I spent quite a bit on Red Bubble today procuring some GC clothes and stickers for myself and a friend. We are going to brave the streets of woke East London with our outfits and accessories.

Lots of bars and cafes here have issued written warnings on their doors that they will "not permit transphobia" so wearing my Woman Adult Human hoodie when I go on the coffee run is going to go down a treatGrin

All the “Standing For Women” gear mentioned is made by Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (the Women’s Rights Campaigner Formerly Known as Posie Parker).

She live-streams on YouTube most days - great to see her video today about this thread! Grin

youtube.com/c/PosieParker

Please buy direct from Standing For Women because the proceeds are used for campaigning for Women's Rights and Safeguarding Children

www.standingforwomen.com/

Other outlets selling "Adult Human Female" (AHF) gear (Red Bubble, Etsy and Amazon) are “knock off” designs. The vendors are ripping-off Standing For Women and it is money lost to campaigning if you buy from them.

Etsy, Redbubble, Spreadshirt, Printful and Amazon have also banned women's rights campaigners to stop them selling their original work, eg.

"Vanessa Vokey Will Not Be Cancelled"
The 26-year-old has been fired and censored from Etsy, Redbubble, and Printful—but she refuses to go away

Vanessa's story also covered here:

"Sunday 18th October - Witch Burning Across The Pond"

In "The Week in the War on Women: Monday 12th October - Sunday 18th October"

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/the-week-in-the-war-on-women-monday

and here:

"Woman fired by restaurant after posting support for JK Rowling on Facebook"
It is important that ordinary people understand that the phenomenon of cancellation has spilled over the banks that once contained the process to high-status people in the public eye.

thepostmillennial.com/woman-fired-by-restaurant-after-posting-support-for-jk-rowling-on-facebook

Vanessa Vokey Photographer (Ontario, Canada):
vanessavokeyphotography.ca/work

Wild Women Workshop, the Artist Birdy Rose and others mentioned in this thread all legit and make their own designs Smile

Dammit! We could do with a list of all these fantastic women who have been banned from the usual shopping sites and where to buy their work.

Mollyollydolly · 15/02/2021 22:53

I worked in a very 'woke' industry, broadcasting, in a newsroom - took voluntary redundancy recently. So woke that one colleague was disciplined for saying 'I cant get used to them being a her' when someone transitioned. Another colleague reported the conversation.

When I knew I'd got redundancy I took great pleasure in wearing my 'This witch doesn't burn' t-shirt and my Adult human female bag. People either ignored it or asked me what it meant and everyone I discussed it with agreed with the sentiments.

Most people are still rational, it's fear that keeps them quiet. When the fear is removed (ie my redundancy) it is incredibly liberating.

ArabellaScott · 15/02/2021 22:21

Minister for older people and equalities

Fucking hell. It's fine to hold the opinion/belief that 'TWAW' but to say it's 'actually the law' is - well. Embarrasingly stupid.

littlbrowndog · 15/02/2021 22:10

Minister for older people and equalities

Yet not a fucking clue what the law is. Brazen as

Wrongsideofhistorymyarse · 15/02/2021 22:09

FFS Littl

littlbrowndog · 15/02/2021 22:08

And the here we are in Scotland where a Scottish government minister tweeted this today

Solidarity in Aldi today!
JaneyHenderson · 15/02/2021 21:51

That was for @Fallingirl

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JaneyHenderson · 15/02/2021 21:50

OMG! She's talking about us! That was so exciting and brilliant😍🥰😀

Thank you for posting😀😀

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Eastie77 · 15/02/2021 21:43

Loving this thread. I spent quite a bit on Red Bubble today procuring some GC clothes and stickers for myself and a friend. We are going to brave the streets of woke East London with our outfits and accessories.

Lots of bars and cafes here have issued written warnings on their doors that they will "not permit transphobia" so wearing my Woman Adult Human hoodie when I go on the coffee run is going to go down a treatGrin

Fallingirl · 15/02/2021 21:08

@JaneyHenderson and everybody. Posie/Kellie-Jay is talking about you right now😁

PotholeParadies · 15/02/2021 15:03

Every time I pass the Aldi threshold, I shall wonder if I've just missed crossing paths with another feminist.

BuntingEllacott · 15/02/2021 13:42

The FPFW leafletter recounted handing leaflets to a group of lads on bikes on Moss Side. This was reinterpreted by the snobs on Twitter as her inciting motorcycle gangs to rough up trans people. But fantasists gonna fantasist, I guess.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 15/02/2021 13:15

I remember the TRAs being furious with one woman who told people in her community what was going on because she lived on Moss Side & they thought that meant she & all her neighbours must be thugs.

YY. A nasty bit of class prejudice.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 15/02/2021 13:08

I was not even a bit surprised about Atwood selling women down the river; she sold out science fiction as soon as she'd been given the Clarke award for The Handmaid's Tale. Took the money, didn't want to stay in the nasty science fiction ghetto.

QueenoftheAir · 15/02/2021 11:50

I know @FamilyOfAliens - it's so disappointing ...

Norma27 · 15/02/2021 10:59

I love this thread. Would love to see someone wearing a t-shirt or with a bag.
I'm definitely going to get my own- plus some stickers for when I leave my house again!

FamilyOfAliens · 15/02/2021 09:10

@QueenoftheAir

I’m picturing June (OfFred) whispering to another resistance Handmaid in the grocery store

Margaret Atwood famously said on first publication of A Handmaid's Tale that nothing in the book hadn't happened somewhere in the world.

And yet Atwood is now fully TWAW.

She wouldn’t even be whispering now - she’s be calling security.

QueenoftheAir · 15/02/2021 08:46

I’m picturing June (OfFred) whispering to another resistance Handmaid in the grocery store

Margaret Atwood famously said on first publication of A Handmaid's Tale that nothing in the book hadn't happened somewhere in the world.

QueenoftheAir · 15/02/2021 08:35

Additionally, it's a big subject with a big history. Hang around, read around, and you'll pick it up as you go along.

There used to be a really good lot of resources around "Feminism 101" - Twisty's "I Blame the Patriarchy" was fab.

blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/about-the-blog/

I just searched for the old "Feminism 101" site, but it's been superseded by "Feminism is about equality for all genders" rubbish.

Women are not young men's support system, d'uh

ChoosandChipsandSealingWax · 15/02/2021 08:35

Thank you everyone for solidarity. It is all of us standing together that makes the difference. I have bought the AFH T-shirt but rarely wear t-shirts so inspired by this will also get the tote. Loving the Thought Criminal one too! I cannot wait to use my stickers when we are all allowed out again. I love the Suffragette ribbons too.

MsTSwift · 15/02/2021 06:57

I remember a book event so you can imagine the audience. There was a rad fem and a wiffley lib fem. By the end the entire audience of older middle class women were utterly behind the rad fem lady everything she said was so clear and obviously right. She was extremely complimentary of Mumsnet. Was great to see. If you lay it out clearly most women are radical.

ArabellaScott · 14/02/2021 22:52

I was bloody terrified of militant radfems, all my adult life.

Then I found Mumsnet's feminist pages.

Now, I'm ten times more scareder. Grin

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