I have nfi what's going on.
I don't know what's banned and what's not. There is no obvious guide on the mobile site that I can see.
Forum is now unusable.
My email for this account is a spam one I rarely check.
I can't use the language told to me as it negates my actual life experience. It's like having my life rewritten all over again, after fighting to reclaim it.
We were betrayed.
People forgot why it was that Emmeline Pankhurst was so inspired and became militant.
She worked as a registrar in a poor area of Manchester and frequency saw women with no voice at all and all the responsibility of children ignored and forgotten. Many ended up in the workhouse; and straight after giving birth were given the choice to either be immediately separated from their child (which of course at the time might well be a death sentence in its own right) or leave destitute with no where else to go.
Once again we are seeing the same dynamic playing out. Women who found a political voice to speak up about their injustice and the injustice of their fellow women are no longer free to speak.
The most vulnerable women in our society are finding themselves in a situation where they do not feel they can go to a homeless shelter or a domestic violence shelter anymore. Their choice is being vulnerable or taking their chances on the streets.
When Emmeline's husband died she raised money for a hall in his name. Only for those who built the hall to decide it was to be a men's only hall. Despite everything that her husband had done to support the cause for women's rights and much of the reason of why they had come together as a couple.
This is what MN have effectively done. The same sort of betrayal of the point of their existence.
More and more I fear we are forgetting the principles that created liberal society and what people fought against to get rights. The history is important, as it stops us slipping back.
The nitty gritty of the whys of what Emmeline did are more important in some respects than the shallow notion of women gaining the vote. You have to know why she was so determined to ensure they had it, because of the reasons of why they so desparately needed it.
And here we are 100 years in celebrating it, and the majority doing so, have not one fucking clue about how babies and biological implications of potentially having babies were the entire bloody point.
If you haven't watched this on iPlayer about why Emmeline became militant, please do so:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b7d4jv/emmeline-pankhurst-the-making-of-a-militant
It's relevant. That includes you too @MNHQ.