Page 2 | Christmas cards: which charities acknowledge women exist?

MinervaBoudicca · 2021-11-14T12:39:01+00:00

So, in the past would happily buy cards from oxfam, amnesty etc but as they seem to have doubts that the female sex exists, I’m having to select my Xmas cards more carefully this year. Samaritans seem good. Is there one for female refuges or similar?

Clymene · 15/11/2021 18:30

@IsabelGowdie - I have sponsored a child through them for years and I've never had any gender woo from them.

lanadelgrey · 15/11/2021 17:47

I got some from Centre for women’s justice at Filia - cats with baubles so no good if you have an aversion to cats

Stealhsquirrelnutkin · 15/11/2021 16:32

I'm getting a packet of these, and will use them to bring Christmas cheer to Wise Women.

www.adulthumanfemale.store/product-page/christmas-cards

IsabelGowdie · 15/11/2021 15:10

[quote Clymene]Plan know what girls are

plan-uk.org/act-for-girls[/quote]
Plan looks great.

Thank you for that.

It is so sad that it feels weird to read that website. There is no fuzzy language, no non-binary crap, or “people with periods”. I don’t want to put a target on them but they could be a real option for charitable giving for women.

Will check them out more closely.

Chersfrozenface · 15/11/2021 11:39

I'm giving up buying charity cards. Instead I'll buy from small-scale craftspeople, preferably local.

Personwithrage · 15/11/2021 10:16

Argh cisgender

Clymene · 15/11/2021 09:29

Ah not any more it seems. But they've bundled conversion therapy into one:

'We recognise the harm done to people by conversion therapy. While there are various definitions of conversion therapy in the medical, mental-health and social-work professions, as well as in law, at its most basic, conversion or reparative therapy is an attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual or gender identity to cisgender.'

Clymene · 15/11/2021 09:27

Last I looked, the Sally Army were homophobic. I give a box of stuff to them for the winter shelter but I don't give them cash

OneMorePieceofCheese · 15/11/2021 09:24

@highame

Actually, Sally Army are good. No judgement, they just want the cash to help the poor. Giving my endorsement as an atheist. I also donate furniture (they have a bigger warehouse near me) and charity shop stuff

Don't they have links with Operation Christmas Child which is linked to far-right bible groups in the USA? Apologies if I'm mistaken.

TiredMacTiredface · 15/11/2021 09:24

Crap, I just bought from Action Aid on the basis that they campaign against period poverty ffs, hopefully some of the money goes to actual women and girls, even if AA's policy wording is objectionable.

OneMorePieceofCheese · 15/11/2021 09:23

Cardiac Risk in the Young are great and I've scoured their website and can't find any gender nonsense. Plus you can buy their cards online. www.c-r-y.org.uk/shop/product-category/christmas-cards/

highame · 15/11/2021 09:09

Actually, Sally Army are good. No judgement, they just want the cash to help the poor. Giving my endorsement as an atheist. I also donate furniture (they have a bigger warehouse near me) and charity shop stuff

Personwithrage · 15/11/2021 09:06

Does anyone know where the RNLI stand on this? I recently cancelled by (over 20 year) direct debit to Amnesty and transferred it to RNLI for their work with the channel crossings.

I absolutely want to support charities who know what a woman is though, and who don't spread the confusion and conflation of terms.

Clymene · 15/11/2021 09:02

Plan know what girls are

plan-uk.org/act-for-girls

Mrstwiddle · 15/11/2021 08:56

Salvation Army

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MinervaBoudicca · 15/11/2021 08:55

@Chersfrozenface

Samaritans have a note on their briefing on 'Gender and suicide', by which they actually mean 'Sex and suicide'.

"In this briefing we focus on comparisons between men and women, which reflects the majority of research on gender and suicide. However, it is important to recognise that suicide is major concern among trans and non-binary people too, who experience a set of specific risk factors for suicide, and whose experiences challenge many assumptions in our understanding of the role of gender as factor influencing suicide risk, and suicidal behaviours. Suicide among trans and non-binary people is an under-researched topic, one that deserves careful and in-depth exploration."

So apparently they recognise the existence of men and women, but also some third class of human beings - note the word "too" after "trans and non-binary".

And the charity's staff put pronouns in their email signatures.

Oh bloody hell. Seems the Third Sector is nearly completely captured by this nonsense.

I think it’s really sad that attempts to diversify recruitment etc etc has ended up with ‘diversity and inclusion’ coming to mean ‘women don’t really exist’a la Stonewall and Oxfam/Amnesty

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Chersfrozenface · 15/11/2021 08:32

Samaritans have a note on their briefing on 'Gender and suicide', by which they actually mean 'Sex and suicide'.

"In this briefing we focus on comparisons between men and women, which reflects the majority of research on gender and suicide. However, it is important to recognise that suicide is major concern among trans and non-binary people too, who experience a set of specific risk factors for suicide, and whose experiences challenge many assumptions in our understanding of the role of gender as factor influencing suicide risk, and suicidal behaviours. Suicide among trans and non-binary people is an under-researched topic, one that deserves careful and in-depth exploration."

So apparently they recognise the existence of men and women, but also some third class of human beings - note the word "too" after "trans and non-binary".

And the charity's staff put pronouns in their email signatures.

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MinervaBoudicca · 15/11/2021 07:58

Thanks everyone:
Think I may go for hospice ones as suggested

www.royaltrinityhospice.london/shop

The Samaritans cards may be ok?
Can’t see any woo woo on their site

shop.samaritans.org/collections/charity-cards-greetings-cards

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drspouse · 14/11/2021 21:50

I'm wondering about World Vision as they are one of the few charities working in Afghanistan at the moment. Anyone know anything?
Or I may go for an adoption or fostering charity.

EmpressaurusWitchDoesntBurn · 14/11/2021 21:46

@BrilliantBetty

I've gone for a small local hospice charity shop cards this year. Partly because they're on my doorstep and partly because I just don't feel comfortable with the big charities at the moment.

Me too.

BraveBananaBadge · 14/11/2021 21:43

No Christmas cards, but just general charity recommends - Making Herstory and O's Refugee Aid Team are both founded by the author Onjali Rauf and have been mentioned on these boards before.

BrilliantBetty · 14/11/2021 21:19

I've gone for a small local hospice charity shop cards this year. Partly because they're on my doorstep and partly because
I just don't feel comfortable with the big charities at the moment.

Isthatthebestyoucando · 14/11/2021 20:14

PDSA, a few of my neighbours are pensioners and I know that the PDSA is the reason they manage to have their companion pets.

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 14/11/2021 19:56

Very useful thread, thanks everyone.

IsabelGowdie · 14/11/2021 19:52

The fact that Cancer Research has come back from the brink is great news.
I’ve been donating loads of stuff to charity shops in the town. Oxfam is getting nowt, and I was avoiding Cancer Research as well.
Age Concern was getting everything.