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SevenZebrasDancing · 25/10/2021 06:12

Thanks for the share token.

Ulrike Bullerby, if you are a MNetter and see this thread- you ROCK!

FindTheTruth · 25/10/2021 06:07

Wow, Ulrike's on fire 💐❤️. thanks for the link @Igneococcus

"Ulrike Bullerby, 50, a mother of two with 25 years’ experience as a bookseller, said she had handed in her notice at the Oxfam shop where she had volunteered for ten years. She told The Times that the decision to ditch the game was “an affront” to all the women who fund-raise and donate to the charity.

“I feel like women are under attack. We’re not allowed to have a word to ourselves. We’re no longer allowed to celebrate women in their own right. It is insane.

“They [campaigners] want total submission from us. They want us to comply with everything and to deny that sex exists and that the female sex has the right to be acknowledged on its own terms.

“We’ve been demoted to ‘cervix-havers’ and then told off for saying, ‘No, I’m a woman’. If Oxfam becomes part of that culture . . . then I can no longer represent them. I feel let down and disappointed and I think this will make other women volunteers feel undervalued and overlooked.”

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FindTheTruth · 25/10/2021 06:04

The whole 'not inline with our values' statement from Oxfam might as well say 'people who disagree with the 'replace sex with gender' religious movement are hateful bigots'. so that's most of the population then.

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SteakExpectations · 24/10/2021 23:45

I’ve just taken a look at that Twitter thread and see not one message of support, nor in the quote tweets.
Many people cancelling their direct debits though.

2319inprogress · 24/10/2021 23:20

It's here @Nemorth

Oxfam are misogynistic bastards; what else is new.

Nemorth · 24/10/2021 23:02

@CompleteGinasaur

Probably paranoia to the max, but didn't this only get dropped into the GC Christmas shopping thread yesterday....?
Anyone able to link to this thread please?
Etinoxaurus · 24/10/2021 22:35

@334bu

Given all the scandals Oxfam has hanging over it , discarding a game celebrating women because it doesn't confirm to Oxfam's "values" really takes the cake.
Yep, it’s a distraction isn’t it. Beer and circuses, look over there, not here.
CrossPurposes · 24/10/2021 22:31

Get thee to Gateshead. Copies of bingo and happy families games for sale at the BALTIC.

334bu · 24/10/2021 21:35

Haven't withdrawn thisHmm

Oxfam. Again.
OperationDessertStorm · 24/10/2021 21:22

It’s like a pantomime - women (booooo!) trans and non binary (yey!!!!).

The one thing that has been specifically designed to promote women has been “all genders mattered”.

How do they ever expect to help women and girls around the world with that attitude?

KimikosNightmare · 24/10/2021 21:06

@KittenKong

Inspirational how though? What did they do to inspire women (can’t say that I know much about them until the recent turn of events)
Calling Page and Emma Watson "inspirational" is scraping the barrel.
LizzieSiddal · 24/10/2021 20:56

So they’ve admitted a game with the word Woman in it, is problematic? Shock

Gastonia · 24/10/2021 20:55

I'm so furious, I've already cancelled (£30 a month, which was a lot for us), and emailed them as well to complain.

I guess looking at the silver lining, that frees up a bit of money to donate again to Jo Phoenix come November.

Yepnothatfeeling · 24/10/2021 20:48

Utterly speechless

McDuffy · 24/10/2021 20:28

Shock Christ

Gastonia · 24/10/2021 20:28

Bloody hell. I'm cancelling my monthly contribution and writing to them.

WarriorN · 24/10/2021 20:16

Christ on a bike.

Oxfam. Again.
VexedofVirginiaWater · 24/10/2021 16:06

Dammit - wish I hadn't bought those Christmas cards cheap in the January sales now. Once they're used up I won't buy any more.

WarriorN · 24/10/2021 15:23

The pack is on Amazon but only a few left, more on the way.

Someone reviewing has "updated" their pack to "wonder humans" and edited EP's card...

WarriorN · 24/10/2021 15:19

@Mollyollydolly

Just went to buy it on Amazon Uk as a Christmas present .. showing as out of stock. Maybe there's been a rush today.

The card game was arriving soon, I wonder if they did a re print without Elliot Page?

Gastonia · 24/10/2021 15:13

Yes, I now donate old clothes to our local hospice shop, but kept the monthly donation to Oxfam going.

AlfonsoTheUnrepetant · 24/10/2021 15:04

I neither shop at nor donate to Oxfam because of their policies regarding women.

CharlotteCollinsneeLucas · 24/10/2021 14:57

Ah yes, deadnaming. Still, how can it be offensive if the game was produced before EP even knew EP was a man?

I'm guessing the inspirational bit was about being an out successful lesbian actor.

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