WomenShouldStillWinWomensSports ·
02/12/2023 00:03
I just found out she died in January.
My very first potted history of feminism was from Big Women, the ?BBC? adaptation of Big Girls Don't Cry, when I was about 10 or 11. It so clearly depicted the structural, institutional and personal reasons why women were oppressed and how they sometimes inadvertently became a tool in their own oppression. In the late 90s, I naively thought that oppression was in the past because everyone was always telling us how far we'd come and how much equality we had now. I think that's still an issue for why young women don't think feminism is a matter of their own survival.
One of my favourite lines of hers:
Alison said, "I told him I was contemplating a sex-change operation."
"Oh?" Elaine was interested, "What to, male or female?"
She had a bloody good innings.
We need more Fay Weldons.