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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Radical feminism - the coolest game in town. Always has been.

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Jeanhatchet · 12/07/2018 07:50

You know it. Stop messing about now with all the man inclusivity daftness. We haven't got much time.

Men have never given feminist women a damn thing. They just like the t shirts.

We have taken every right we have by campaigning and shouting and marching and lobbying and writing and petitioning and tweeting and posting and setting up services on just £1.65 and a can of pop in Susan's kitchen on a rainy Thursday. But with incredible strength and determination round those women's tables.

Some women have been fighting to halt the trans assault on women's rights for a very very long time. Years. I wanted to acknowledge those brave and bold women who began to openly tweet about this way way back years ago. When folk either ignored them or threatened them. This stuff isn't new.

However - to Mumsnet. You are important and you have raised awareness. You've stuck your necks out. You've begun to realise in bigger numbers that this stuff threatens the very foundations of why you're here. I thank you for that. And I've only been here 5 minutes. I still can't quote posts or work out what the hell is the point of AIBU.

But you've been so supportive. Thanks again.

Right. We haven't got much time. Women are fierce and we are determined but when faced with the massively funded and corporately organised resources of the trans dominated Stonewall and Pink News et al ..... in comparison we are still sat round Susan's kitchen with a can of pop and £1.65.

Do what you can as loudly as you can. Tell your friends. Tell your office. Tell the women at the school gates. At your yoga class. Tell the butcher and the post woman. Share stuff. Keep challenging the narrative. Keep defending our rights to spaces free of men. Back your lesbian sisters when they refuse to be erased. Donate cash to fund raisers. Sign petitions. Tell the men to step back because we are a bit busy to worry about their needs just now.

Be brave. Be certain. Women will help you and they will fight for you to still call
yourselves women and have space that belongs just to you.

Come in to Susan's kitchen. No men allowed.

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SophoclesTheFox · 13/07/2018 20:31

Isn't pansexual something to do with Belinda Blinked?

haha, check under your seat for a wok, bert!

Love finding a fellow Belinker Grin

UpstartCrow · 13/07/2018 21:03

Its pan sexual you phobes. 'Pansexual' as all one word implies they are a third gender. Or is it fourth, I can never remember.

BertrandRussell · 13/07/2018 21:04

Not long to wait now, Sophocles, you Special One, you.......

SophoclesTheFox · 13/07/2018 21:39

My vaginal lids are quivering with anticipation Grin

SchnitzelVonKrumm · 13/07/2018 21:45

I've always thought of myself as a fairly mild-mannered, middle-of-the-road feminist. Suddenly it turns out I'm practically Andrea Dworkin Hmm

BingBongSong · 15/07/2018 08:42

Turns out I'm more radical than I thought I was. Thanks for the reminder about the crowdfunder!

BlackeyedSusan · 15/07/2018 15:28

Susan's biscuits are a bit out of date and probably all melty in the sun...

IAmLurkacus · 15/07/2018 15:37

Not sure I’m radical or even feminist Confused but I am female and I’m most definitely with you!

Thank you WineBrewCake

gendercritter · 15/07/2018 22:25

My vaginal lids

I'm just about good with where my cervix is, but my vaginal lids???

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TheBiologicalWoman · 15/07/2018 22:46

Thanks Jean. I donated twice, but waived my anonymity the second time. I had a word with myself and wondered why I should feel fear or shame (that old default) when I am simply sticking up for WR.

I'm wondering how to air my views in the real world (my family are bored now)
I work with people who I expect to 'side' with TRAs. Who may see me as exlusionary, when all I want is for sex based rights to be in place, to not be called by a pre fix or acronym, to feel safe, to know my children are being taught biological facts in school.

My colleagues write policies day in day out and could run rings around me, I'm sure.

However, I have that same feeling - the one I had when I stopped eating meat 30 years ago - that to deny my true feelings of a cause I feel so strongly about is hypocrisy.

I hope that as the public interest becomes more mainstream, that the current news bias will shift. And that as this impacts on individuals (i.e. men winning women's races, men on female wards - not that I want that, but it is already happening) that this will raise awareness.

Thanks to all those who've been before me. When I was 16 my lecturer spoke of her time at Greenham Common and I'm ashamed to say I didn't have a clue 30 years ago what any of this meant or what she did.

Thanks Lucy.

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