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Feeling despondent.

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WomaninBoots · 07/05/2021 17:20

Watching the results map of Scotland start to turn yellow.

Sad

Anyone else want to sit in a corner and cry with me?

I didn't really expect anything else though and I've no idea what colour I would actually want it to turn! But every bit of yellow seems to say "women don't matter".

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BuffysBigSister · 07/05/2021 17:57

[quote BlackForestCake]It's really bad for women. Joan McAlpine is probably going to lose her seat, Alba looks like getting

SolitaryBee · 07/05/2021 17:55

Very depressed. At the point of why protest? I have another 20ish years of this shit show and then I will be gone. If this is what millennial women and those that follow want then who am to complain? I will never believe that growing your hair long, putting on a dress and some lipstick is what defines a women but I am clearly out of step with this century.

BuffysBigSister · 07/05/2021 17:45

I confess I am feeling despondent this week. We seem to take one step forward and then two back.

BlackForestCake · 07/05/2021 17:44

It's really bad for women. Joan McAlpine is probably going to lose her seat, Alba looks like getting

Olderbadger1 · 07/05/2021 17:39

I'm with Arabella on this one. The situation is so much better than it was - mainly thanks to the fabulous For Women Scot and their trusty crew, plus of course some courageous female politicians. It was all happening behind closed doors with hardly anyone noticing. Now it's more and more out in the open and more and more women are fighting back. Same here in Wales and there's no way we are going to get back in our box now that we are out of it. Take heart!

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WomaninBoots · 07/05/2021 17:39

Yup. My other Internet spaces are very independence at any cost. I'm not sure either way about independence but I damn sure know that we shouldn't be putting men in women's prisons! Confused

Plus the bloody hate crime bill!

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EdinburghFeminist · 07/05/2021 17:37

Yup. I feel the same. I had really hoped the message would be heard somehow.

ArabellaScott · 07/05/2021 17:33

It was always going to be lots of SNP wins.

Take heart. Sunlight is slow, but coming.

BlackForestCake · 07/05/2021 17:24

The worst bit is watching smug white bearded men gloating about it

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