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Why doesn't the Labour Party care about women.en?

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Eveniamcautious · 18/06/2021 23:54

I made a mistake the first time I tried to post this, and used an offensive term, so im asking again, without that term. Apologies for that.

Why doesn't the Labour Party support women? The pro-women reports i see in the media come from sources like GB News, the Mail and even the Spectator. The left-wing media seems to be largely silent and almost anti-feminist.

Labour oversaw that atrocity that was the Managed Zone in Leeds, a Labour Councillor called a woman a terf with no repercussions, Labour just don't seem bothered that women are being thrown under the bus, and I genuinely don't understand why.

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NiceGerbil · 19/06/2021 01:03

No one should make the mistake of thinking that the right care about women or girls in general.

I mean that's silly.

NiceGerbil · 19/06/2021 01:01

Someone said the thing about labour currently is that they seem to despise large groups of their traditional supporters.

Women
Jewish people
More?

NiceGerbil · 19/06/2021 01:00

@PastMyBestBeforeDate

They changed from championing the oppressed working white man to the oppressed. Certain factions have portrayed themselves the most oppressed so they're the new cause. Women never quite got the limelight.
Never at all.

I remember watching Bob crowe speaking at a convention on the telly a few years ago.

He talked about standing up for tube workers.

It was obvious to me that he meant men.

I don't know why or how but that was my overriding impression. Subjective obviously but it was a very strong feeling.

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 19/06/2021 00:58

True stumbled. I am a former LP activist. I didn't vote in our local election this year. It's the first time ever that I haven't been the polling station.

stumbledin · 19/06/2021 00:48

I think we need to be a bit careful and not think that because right wing media (sometimes) support on women's sex based rights. For many of them it isn't that the care about women, but that they can use this issue to make fun of left wing politics, and "woke" young warriors.

And that is because Labour, Liberal, Greens, SNP, ie just about everyone else has opted for the position that women dont have their own rights, they should only accept that their issues go on the back burner because there is always someone whose rights are more important than them. Particularly if it is men demanding the right to be accepted as a woman.

So we have ended up with the bizzare situation that all parties are misogynist, but even on that they have to abide by party lines so just display their misogyny as competitive dick waving.

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 19/06/2021 00:38

They changed from championing the oppressed working white man to the oppressed. Certain factions have portrayed themselves the most oppressed so they're the new cause. Women never quite got the limelight.

NiceGerbil · 19/06/2021 00:33

The left don't care about women in their current incarnation and IMO were never that interested. This has just made it obvious.

The right don't care about women either.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!

GNCQ · 19/06/2021 00:16

It's not only Labour who don't care about women Grin

StillWeRise · 19/06/2021 00:03

many years ago a socialist man told me that it was no good talking about gays on the shop floor because 'you've got to get the lads interested in socialism'

  1. it didn't occur to him that the lads might be gay
  2. women didn't factor, even when talking to an actual woman
  3. things haven't really changed much