What is going on with the Feminist Library in London?

[ArcheryAnnie]

This isn't a rhetorical question. I am seeing on twitter that loads of sensible gender-crit women and transwomen have been banned and blocked from the FB message boards, including pre-emptive bans, and that posts on such things as, er, the menopause have been deleted as transphobic.

The Feminist Library was set up by second-wavers decades ago, and I thought it was still run by second-wavers. What's going on?

(I'm not on FB so don't know if I am pre-emptively banned or not.)

ALass - that's interesting - seems to be perhaps so you can include bottle feeding.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. Kids need to be fed, but I feel that point of the legislation was that if a baby is breastfed, then the mother needs to be able to do that. Bottle feeding means that anyone can do it, so the kid doesn't need to be near the mother.

I suppose, as long as this doesn't mean that BFing mothers lose any right to BF where they need to, then this is fine. I may have missed something though, and I wouldn't want a bottle fed baby chucked out of somewhere because it's hungry (I'm not sure that that has historically been a problem that requires protection)

Chunky the point of the legislation was to ensure anyone who needed to feed a baby in a public place could do so. That is why it uses person in sections 1 to 3 . "Feeding" is specifically defined as including breast and bottle feeding.

Section 4 deals with promotion and support for mothers to breastfeed. If men can bf that section will have to be re-written

Some of these young libfems LOVE being thought police, don't they?

No change there then, eh ?

If it looks like a duck.....

Occassionally

Better write it down - you might forget.