International Women's Day Mass Cancelling of Labour Memberships Action

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I am passing on an action started by @mayday4women on Twitter; they aren't on Mumsnet so they said I could post here for them.

Basically they are getting a lot of women contacting them saying they are cancelling their Labour memberships due to the decision by Labour's NEC to essentially take on self ID as party policy in every area, including re AWS. And they think it'd be a more powerful statement if women did it en masse together on International Women's Day, which is the 8th March (Thursday).

The idea is to let Labour see how important this is to women, and how badly they are letting women down. Everyone can always reinstate their memberships down the line, but this is a way to be seen and heard, and to make a statement. I'm not a member of any political party myself right now, but as I say I am passing this on and doing all I can to support my sisters in the Labour Party.

Mayday for women are drawing up a statement, and you can get in touch with them directly if you want to let them know you are taking part in the action: mayday4women@gmail

Cheers!

What am I talking about - we did just ask nicely!

Really good article on the Labour shit show by Gappy Tales in Medium: medium.com/@GappyTales/a-crisis-of-misogny-a-plea-to-the-labour-party-4ce9d39e11c4

for all having the same views

Think you misspelled "sane" there. I sympathise. Damn autocorrect

but you're wildly out of step with the rest of the country

This is laughable. Where do you live, Goldsmiths Student Union coffee shop?

I am not a member of the Labour party and am what I call a floating voter. I have no loyalty to any party. That said, I would still like to make my protest over Labours campaign to throw women under a bus. How can I do this?

Coalition of reality-based individuals versus team "some penises are female".

@BanyanTree

Have you got local elections coming up? Something snappy on the ballot paper?

I don't think so.

What is something snappy on the ballot paper.

Pink News have their own special way of reporting it

www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/03/06/anti-trans-activists-plan-mass-resignation-from-labour-over-trans-inclusive-policy/

SIDE NOTE: the comments on the linked Bergdof resignation are interesting, for Pink News: www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/03/06/munroe-bergdorf-resigns-from-lgbt-advisor-role-after-a-week-in-the-job/comments/#disqus_thread

These people are unbelievable aren’t they.

Do you know, I’ve had two of them messge on me on Twitter, insisting that I recognise that ‘transwomen are women’ and that I am damaging the cause...

Err no I’m not.

Has it reached the stage where they are trying to convince even me?

Sorry that should read ‘err no I’m not’ to being a woman

I most certainly am happily ‘damaging the cause’.

Why are they all suddenly saying "anti-trans activists" and not "TERFs" or "transphobes" or "hate groups"? Has an order gone out from on high or something? Because that's happened overnight.

That's fine. The new word for feminist is now "anti-trans activist". Just so long as I'm keeping up!

Interesting that women talking about their rights to safety is activism, and not giving transwomen their own way unquestioningly in everything is 'anti trans'..... nothing but hyperbole and high drama.

@LangCleg

A Twitter user on OJ

"If women raising entirely legitimate & reasonable concerns are deemed “anti trans activists” I think Owen can be classed as an “anti women activist”."

Get your heads out of your vaginas?

Really?

What if my vagina is an "outsie"?

I thought it was the new word for "witch"...

"Get your heads out of your vaginas" is comical. Nope, no sexism going on with that at all, nothing to see here!

Why are they all suddenly saying "anti-trans activists"

There is going to be an issue over the hyphen.

Anti-trans activist

Or

Anti trans-activist.

And only a misogynistic twit like Owen Jones could claim that doing the exact opposite of what all their women voters want is a strategic move.

Ha ha, yes, that will be fun

I've yet to find a single [man] who doesn't retreat into the assertion that anyone who disagrees with them must be a [transphobe].

Look at that! It rings truer that way round I think.

We keep going. We will retain our rights and protect our children. Bromentum and their enablers will collapse along with their gaslighting religious cult.

Owen is operating in that fine tradition of misogynists where the very fact of women demanding a particular right is given as a reason why they can't have it. So, every time women have asked for the vote, or equal pay, or an end to work-based discrimination, or whatever, we're told that we're hysterical and irrational and if only we'd been patient, we'd have got the thing we're asking for but now we're being so angry and emotional then that's a reason not to give it to us.

I do wonder why Owen is so comfortable with being seen to be such an obvious hater of women, though. You'd imagine that he might at least want to give the appearance of listening to women's concerns.

Owen Jones has posted a tweet this morning saying that a senior Labour party figure has informed him that the main reason the party updated its position on trans rights is "because of the anti-trans backlash". In other words, he says, anti-trans activists "overplayed their hand so much they made Labour more pro-trans rights."

Reminds me very much of Donald Trump signing anti-abortion legislation in revenge for the 2017 Women’s March.

Owen is operating in that fine tradition of misogynists where the very fact of women demanding a particular right is given as a reason why they can't have it. So, every time women have asked for the vote, or equal pay, or an end to work-based discrimination, or whatever, we're told that we're hysterical and irrational and if only we'd been patient, we'd have got the thing we're asking for but now we're being so angry and emotional then that's a reason not to give it to us.

Note the similarities to "I want doesn't get", which I remember my dad saying to me when I was a child (never my mum, and isn't that interesting). Misogynists love talking to women as if we're children.