Daily acts of feminism - a thread for ideas

I assume animals are female unless told otherwise. And for a lot of the farm animals I see that's correct. Cows are female, sheep are female, hens are female, etc. Yet so many people (not farmers) still say "he" when talking about them. And I live in a very small city surrounded by a lot of countryside, so farms are relatively common.

@FeministRabbit that's a good idea. I name animals I meet with female names eg herons who knock around our nature reserve. Most people default to male names. It's insidious.

Following on from my thread about the DWP, guess what they have published?

A Brilliant Civil Service:
becoming the UK’s
most inclusive employer

The Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

Now guess which word is missing from this document?

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/658488/Strategy_v10_FINAL_WEB6_TEST_021117.pdf

When meeting new dogs, I always say owners 'What's her name?' to avoid the default male assumption.

Oh I'm not sure if this counts.

I get Hedgehogs visiting me, I name them alternately with female and male names.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4194477-Template-letters-and-emails-to-politicians-and-organisations?watched=1

Thread created here.

Hope it makes sense. Am multi-tasking.

tea

I do think the individuals in FPFW do post here.

A separate thread specifically for template letters will be a great idea.

I can’t disagree with that SDP quote. “putting differences above common bonds can harm mutuality.”

I really think that the root of the problem is the importing of neoliberal individualism from the USA and giving up on traditional values of community and “the politics of solidarity”.

Consider the SDP - I'm having a read of their literature at the moment. This is in their statement on Community:
"We believe the shared ‘identity politics’ of both the far right and far left to be inherently divisive and self-defeating. For many years the liberal-left has abandoned the politics of solidarity for those of individual emancipation, without realising that putting differences above common bonds can harm mutuality."

Be interested to hear from those who know more.

sdp.org.uk/new-declaration/

Write to your MPs.
They are pretty much obliged to reply so can't avoid reading what you say. So you can pass on ideas and opinions that they won't always come across.
As far as I'm aware many /most constituencies have similar populations so you have as much chance as anyone of being heard.
Apart from me I don't know anyone who has written to their MP so not everyone does it by a long chalk.

Just going to plug the @MaryBCH question.

Do you agree that there should be sex-segregated facilities for women in hospitals, schools, refuges and prisons?

twitter.com/maryBCHR/status/1356382271243235329?s=19

teawamutu

Could we develop some template notes for MPs and councillors as a starting point for once we're out of lockdown and have less time?

Really good idea.

Goading, that's all.

This thread is a lovely place. Don't give these posters oxygen.

sashh that's a great post. I'm going to concentrate on small actions as well as donating.

That badge isn't inclusive of women and girls who've suffered sexual assault nor is it inclusive of women and girls who for cultural and religious reasons need single sex spaces.

It's inclusive of males; but that's not feminism.

Inclusive of what ? If inclusive of people of the male sex then you are no feminist.

@theInebriati is that what it is? Thought it some someone banging their head against a wall. Figures.

The irony of clapping a poster who has had posts and threads removed for racism and homophobia.
You do you.

Given the stramash in the Green Party where the word female must now be inclusive, to include people of the opposite sex, I've decided enough is enough. There is no space between trans and women and all transwomen are members of the male sex.

I've beaten my head on the wall in trying to get somebody, anybody, in the entire Domestic Abuse movement to accept that the crucial thing to define it, is it happens inside the place a woman lives (especially if she can't simply escape by going elsewhere)

A woman M.P. brought Parliament to tears telling about her boyfriend coercing her, so that is Domestic Abuse.
Women of all ages, not just young; women who don't qualify to apply for council housing and who cannot buy or rent, (even if they are not immigrants) scared women, women with no alternative, stalked women, escaping women, disabled women of all ages, may live in house shares, sofa surf or be in institutions. They can't do anything but accept every kind of abuse, within the place they live, because they have nowhere to go and they are excluded from the Domestic Abuse definition, due to having the 'incorrect abusers'