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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

female identifying only area at Glastonbury.

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Playduh · 07/06/2016 15:52

http://i-d.vice.com/engb/article/glastonbury-announces-revolutionary-women-only-venue?utmm_source=idnewsletter

This just makes me so depressed. How have we got to a place where men are deemed so incapable of behaving themselves, women need to have a place to hide.

I'm teaching my son about respect and consent. Why am I bothering when society seems to think it's better to just fence off the women?

And (I accept I'm probably going up in flames for this one.) 'female identifying'? So it's not a safe place for women, it's a safe place for 'non-men' again isn't it?

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Felascloak · 08/06/2016 15:58

vestal I think because part of the aim of the space was to provide a boost to representation of women at a male dominated event.
They can do that whether they use a biological or gender identity definition of women.
Sorry for getting ducked into the derail. Too much Wine

Dervel · 08/06/2016 16:23

Why does this even need justification? If some women want a place to congregate by themselves, and it is used each one of several hundred women might have their own reason. If it's used it was worth it.

I get the point about trans though, this virtue signaling on trans issues is becoming not just a farce, but a dangerous one as well.

TwatbadgingCuntfuckery · 08/06/2016 17:24

on twitter just this month I have had 3 dick pics sent to me. several @s calling me a cunt/bitch/fucker/deserve to be raped all because I share feminist articles so yes. Women need safe places because even on the internet, where I am protected from physical abuse I still get a hell of a lot of verbal abuse.

VestalVirgin · 08/06/2016 18:02

@Felascloak: Is it really progressive in any way to have representation for men who identify as women?
I never saw a problem in the lack of representation of people who wear high heels and make up. The problem, as I see it, is the lack of representation of ... well, women.

TheDowagerCuntess · 09/06/2016 03:06

Grimarse - that your wife and daughter might be violent and abusive is irrelevant. We all know that women can be as vicious and abusive as the worst sort of man.

That does not translate into widespread fear of womenkind by men.

Men don't walk alone along a street at night and see a woman - or group of women - and get that automatic jolt of fear and uncertainty. Men don't walk past groups of (sober) women in broad daylight and automatically speed up and put their head down, for fear of drawing the group's attention and comment.

Unknown men cause fear in women, in a way that unknown women don't cause fear in men.

Women only cause fear in men, other women, and children, on an individual level. If they're a known entity - and have proved themselves to be violent or abusive - for example your 'teacher' wife or 'bully' daughter.

Unless I know a woman is a bully, I have no reason to fear her. I don't need to know anything about a man, to fear a random one that I might meet in X circumstance.

This fear is caused by nothing more or less than what I know men - as a group - are capable of (even though my personal experience of men has generally been extremely positive).

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