Jess Phillips appointed a minister to focus on tackling violence against women and girls and domestic violence.

Blimey. You don't often get an almost full house of TRA bingo in just one post.
Impressive. 😂

Except it HASN'T "moved on" if by that you mean "moved forward". If anything, we're regressing back to the bad old days of restrictive gender roles. You really can't see that?

Nope. I didn’t start this nonsense here. I just responded to it

Can you be angry in a different thread please?

I’m really grateful for the info here as it’s given me a different perspective on the appointments of JP and AD. I also have respect for how Jess deals with the appalling abuse she has faced in her constituency (by not being drawn into conflict around the religion/ethnicity of the men involved) because she is also holding onto the positive relationship she has with Muslim constituents. Thank you again for the info here

😂 yeah I’m angry that your ridiculous narrative has taken over mumsnet and that no subject can be talked about without first saying ‘well X doesn’t know what a woman is’.

I’m angry that you’re hijacking feminism and women’s rights by punching down to another more marginalised community.

I’m angry that you’re using exactly the same rhetoric that was used against gay rights 50 years ago.

And I’m definitely angry that you all seem to be too ignorant and in trenched to recognise all of this.

Hey - that Stalin. Mostly bad ey? But at least he knew what a woman was.

No, but I read Truth to Power and really liked it.

Has anyone here read her book about life as an MP? I thumbed through it a while ago in Waterstones, she had some cracking anecdotes about the job. Didn't end up buying it in the end and forgot about it until now! Good read for those few snippets though.

Hippo, you're clearly very angry about a lot of things.

I'm not sure why you want to blame the posters here.

Nobody is reducing anybody to their genitals - that's a very disingenuous argument. But 2 sexes have evolved for a reason - it's how most animals reproduce (because it enables a greater variety of genetic material than asexual reproduction).

The 2 sexes have different genitals. That is a mostly irrelevant fact. It makes no difference to what job you do or clothes you can wear, or how you like to have your hair. But occasionally it matters - like in healthcare or single sex spaces.

Recognising that this difference exists is not 'reducing people to their genitals'.

A meme? Just the way you said "time for this again"... I thought it would be something, substantial + credible.

That's like me saying: "Time for this" (anticipating credible source to establish not only my opinion but fact)......

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(Who doesn't love an image of a hoglet).

Is there a Minister with specific responsibility for policing or is that under the remit of the Home Secretary?

I want to see police forces prioritising VAWG and tackling mysogyny within the police.

Hopefully, both of these will be among Jess Philips's priorities.

https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/mp/jess-phillips

Some good info here about the work Jess has been doing in Parliament over the past decade, committees and APPGs she's been part of or chaired, and bills she's worked on.

Yes we have sons. Me and my GC husband are raising them to understand biology and critical thinking, to understand how sexism and patriarchy has arisen and debate how things might be done differently in future.

I mean. Literally. Not all men are like that. As a group they’re fucking awful but I have a husband and a son and they’re not. My son is 1. I refuse to talk shit about an actual baby and reduce him to just his genitals. I also refuse to reduce myself to just my genitals.

as a group, boomers have fucked us millennials over with your free uni and cheap housing. But I’m sure you’ll all be on to tell me how it wasn’t like that for you in your cheap rented flat and no assets. Not all boomers right?

Generalising on the basis of a person’s age, race, sex or indeed trans identity does not reflect well on anyone dear.

Guilty of taking the bait on this thread - Points in this post noted, you're completely right!
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I'm based in Scotland and totally delighted by Labours win - the diversity of their cabinet, with MPs from representative backgrounds is a breath of fresh air. I don't know a lot about JP other than being really moved by her a couple of years ago in the House of Commons reading the names of all the women that were killed (femicide reading). It went into 7+ minutes (I think it's a yearly reading she provides). The speaker at the end reminded her that there is a time limit.

It's pretty clear at this point you didn't come onto the thread to talk about Jess Phillips new role. Prove me wrong?

Where did anyone say "all" men?

Fuck off with the NAMALT. The MRA vibes are strong from you.

I’m ok with that. You can generalise about men and women. I’m happy to generalise too.

Do any of you have sons? How do you reconcile this pure hatred of all men with that?

Ageism never goes out of style with some. The last acceptable prejudice it seems.

Hmm, a Labour MP who isn't hostile to gender critical feminists is given a really important ministership that could make a huge difference to women's and girls' lives and we have two disruptors on the thread?

Why is that? Why don't the board monitors want us talking about this?

That venn diagram is a well-known meme used to explain philosophical differences between three groups of people. It's not a journal paper.

No we don’t.

Men rape women.

Men get to do what they want.

We’re happy to do battle.

You know what we are, we know what we are, if you don’t like the Not Kind feel to it all, talk to the bastards with penises. They’re the problem.

So pleased Jess has got this role, think she’s brilliant