Stickering

This is why I sticker

A coat of clear nail vanish over the sticker helps.

I just went to women's loo in a council gym in Scotland and saw the stickers. Someone had tried to remove them but could still read the msg. Knowing that someone had put the stickers there made me feel seen, heard and like I'm not alone with GC views.

I put stickers on public bins and park benches.

The only people I have ever seen trying to reluctantly remove them and taking as long as possible are male council workers and I'm pleased I've given them something to do!

The reason yours are removed is because they might create publicity, Washing.

The vast majority do not believe that men should be in women’s spaces and many women will be heartened by seeing your stickers.

Women cannot be allowed to publically object, nor can they be allowed to realise that their position is common.

Therefore continuous threats are made against women who object.

Men with women’s names take time to belittle or dismiss these views as unpopular in the few spaces where it is permissible to discuss women’s rights, such as Mumsnet. Such sites have long been patrolled by these men.

Wikipedia is similarly patrollled by obsessives, who actively ensure the site is kept ‘pure’.

But where free speech is now allowed, on Twitter/X for example, it is obvious how much those who object are being silenced elsewhere. There is no doubt that public support for men having access to women’s spaces is not widely supported, but is being pushed from the top down.

They cannot allow honest and open discussion regarding the clash that occurs when such men demand access to women’s spaces. Open and honest discussion reveals that they have no valid argument. The policing of women must occur so those men can get what they want.

Why should big corporations with money for billboards be the only ones who get to put their opinions in the public space?

It's very hard to walk down a high street without being bombarded with messages trying to sell you shit. I like it when at least some of the messages aren't commercial.

(Ideally of course I'd like to be left in peace altogether but that doesn't happen in cities)

Well if others are left and yours are removed, I would take that to mean people disagree with your position (as a great many people do). If you're going to sticker politically then others can de-sticker politically.

The ones I remove are typically in the loos at work which is just shitty as, like I said, it's just adding to the cleaners' workloads.

The stickering is bizarre tbh. If someone posted on MN that their teenage son was sticking stickers in public places, regardless of what they said, they would be flamed as the parents of a vandal.

Often all you're doing is creating work for a cleaner - i.e. a woman on minimum wage. Not particularly feminist.

That said I do enjoy removing them when I come across the occasional one.