Sarah Ditum on Brocialism in the New European

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Quite a thoughout provoking piece by Sarah Ditum

"‘brocialism’ – a dismissive portmanteau of ‘bro’ and ‘socialism’ which describes the meeting place between left-wing ideology and virulent machismo.

Brocialism is the politics of the left that puts women last. Brocialism is when it just so happens, coincidentally, that the politicians who attract the most hatred for being ‘right-wing’ are also the female ones. Brocialism is saying we’ll get around to sex equality, but the revolution comes first."

Did you mean to post a link? Brocialism is interesting because of who it excludes. It excludes me as a middle class, white woman. It excludes Blairites. It excludes people like Alan Johnstone or Liz Kendall.

On the right it vilifies and excludes people like Ken Clarke or Anna Soubry . It excludes people like Andrea Leadsome who is onside about abortion rights. All of these disparate and sensible people are hated.

I think it is destroying the Labour party.

I read it last night on Twitter. An absolutely brilliant and incisive article.

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/women-should-say-goodbye-sexist-left-ditum-1-5541873 Love the illustration.

This week's New European is worth buying in print, though - it's a feminist edition guest-edited by Caroline Criado-Perez. Lots of good stuff in there.

Absolutely it reduces poitics to football team mentality. I was at a book reading by a famous American author recently, he got a rousing round of applause when he talked about democrats being those who have open hearts. Simplistic amd divisive. I just wanted to weep. In the UK , I consider myself much closer to Ken Clarke's view on Europe than Jeremy Corbyns despite having voted Labour all my life.

Great article by Sarah. I also enjoyed this one by historian Louise Raw:

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/forgotten-heroes-revolution-women-1-5542774

Brocialism is when it just so happens, coincidentally, that the politicians who attract the most hatred for being ‘right-wing’ are also the female ones.

Well naturally - because they're traitors. The Left seems to have this idea that women all belong to them. Whether that's Hillary's "vote for me because I'm a woman" or the more routine and tiresome dismissal of the Right as being "sexist". Just like the US Democrats insist that all Black people should be Democrats and those that aren't get called by "Uncle Tom" or "Coon" by Leftists. Right Wing women are savaged by the Left. It's a combination that undermines the narrative of the Left being for women.

The Conservatives don't really give a shit about sex and have produced two female prime ministers. Labour wave around all women shortlists and half of them seem to be men. IIRC, Labour have only once ever had a female leader (Harriet Harman) and she was a temporary stand-in. Correction, Margaret Beckett was also leader - again an interim one serving briefly until the election.

Leftists hate Right Wing women. They can neither claim that they put her there nor pretend that their opponents are holding her back.

I bought it on Friday Have been reading it over the past two nights. Some great stuff in there and some of it will only be available in the print edition.