I bloody love women

Never too late Angie!

This is the stuff I came in mumsnet for. I feel like a lonely voice in the wilderness foisting unsolicited feminism on those around me. Example: male family member saying the patriarchy argument is made up. It can’t possibly be true apparently because his boss and their boss are both women; so therefore there is no patriarchy. He sees no correlation between the landscape of mostly male politicians/decision makers/business board members and the inability of women to be seen & heard. Thinks it’s all made up! I turned 50 this year and I think I’m only now finding my voice. Oh to have been this enlightened (& confident) decades ago. I’m sure I would have slain dragons!

Thanks, @ArabellaScott.

Feeling v bruised, tonight.

I'm early 60s, I lived through a lot of this shit. I really, honestly thought we had got equality, or at least nearer to it. And then, in the last few years wtf!!!

Not used it for a while so it's a bit dusty but I've found the right to maternity leave and to retain your job. It was packed up with outgrown baby clothes.

Spring.

I'm hanging on to my right that sex with my husband that I don't want, would be counted as rape post 1992. Even though he wouldn't have done this anyway. That's not the point.
I was raped repeatedly by my first husband and had no help from police, in the early 80s.

Oh and yes to the whole civil service married women losing establishment on marriage. That was still in place when I started work. Hanging on to that right, also.

And the separation of my tax filing.
And getting a mortgage on my own say so.
And oh so many rights, that are just normal life for men, that we had to fight SO FUCKING HARD to get.

I'm absolutely fucking incandescent with rage over all this.

Not a right, as such, but I must fess up that I have been hoarding the right to wear a trouser suit, rather than a skirt suit, to work since 1992. Not that I've got a pocket in those trousers to hoard it in of course - I've been hoarding it in a special zippy pocket in my handbag.

Sorry.

OTOH, even the most righteous blue-haired aporagender maverique would be mighty unimpressed if served a mug of tea containing the white fluid from a bull rather than a cow.

[quote CaveMum]He’s just tweeted complaining about journalists focussing on identity politics.

The ratio is beautiful!

twitter.com/davidlammy/status/1443131899652853760?s=21[/quote]
I haven't scrolled through all the comments on that thread, but I've not seen anyone mention this from a few days ago:
twitter.com/Nadine_Writes/status/1442517284069666816

How is being concerned about the number of black men (and specifically black MEN) in Parliament not identity politics, but being concerned about women's rights under the Equality Act is?

Oh yes, those also. As long as we stay quiet, while we do them.
Stepford Wives.

Strikes me the only right they want to leave us with, is the right to remain silent

They do. And a reliable cervix informs me I have got the date wrong for one of those rights:

'1637: Amye Everard Ball is the first woman in England to be granted a patent (for making tinctures from flowers)'

Sorry, lads! I'll throw the right back into the fray as is right and proper, clearly we women have been holding onto that for WAY too long.

Gawd these cervixes work hard, don't they?

My cervix is chasing the right of women to graduate from university round the
garden. I tried to grab it but my arms are too short.

Good call on Brave New World. I read that alongside 1984 (and Zamyatin's 'We') so the three books tend to run together in my mind into a general mush of dystopian horror.

Maybe time to dust them all off and try again. I hoard books like I hoard rights, I should have them lying about somewhere, probably buried deep under a woman's right to register a patent (1768) or the ones I stole from Locris, Ancient Greece, because they looked so useful I couldn't resist:

'A free-born woman may not be accompanied by more than one female slave, unless she is drunk; she may not leave the city during the night, unless she is planning to commit adultery; she may not wear gold jewelry or a garment with a purple border, unless she is a courtesan'

Getting short shrift on Twitter.

[quote TatoAndBeans]@EmbarrassingAdmissions[/quote]
Well, quite. I can't think why this puts me in mind of the fox-killer and is breathtaking lack of insight into fox-killers own interactions with women who disagree with him.

In future, instead of asking politicians that pop by for web chats what their favourite biscuit is, I propose asking them to label a diagram of the female reproductive system.

He’s just tweeted complaining about journalists focussing on identity politics.

The ratio is beautiful!

twitter.com/davidlammy/status/1443131899652853760?s=21

@EmbarrassingAdmissions