I'm starting to feel that a new apolitical movement is needed by women, for women to promote and protect womens' rights. This would be nothing to do with feminism - they can carry on down their own route. I just have this horrible feeling that unless we ordinary women organise ourselves and say 'This is the Line beyond which we will not retreat', all the freedoms we have fought for are going to be slowly and silently taken from us and denied to our future generations. I see this movement as monitoring the press and daily life for examples of loss of female liberty and collectively publicising and challenging them via all routes available, such as MP, Councillors, Director Public Prosecutions, Press, organisation/companies etc. Any thoughts?
I think this is a wonderful idea.
I mind very much having my thoughts and fears parcelled up and handed back to me labelled with erroneous cliches like 'racist' and 'right-wing.'
It's facile and insulting as it shows the parceller to be either uninterested in, or intellectually incapable of, nuanced debate.
I am also tired of being told that each new outrage is a one-off in a 50s don't worry your pretty little head type way.
Like most women, I'm not stupid and I want to see that we are all committed to protecting the rights of women including our daughters, mothers and each other.