Why am I am so bloody furious

[lilythemoo]

I am a feminist. I always have been. I have put up with the eye rolls and the idiotic comments ‘why do you wear makeup/bra/ fashion if you are a legitimate feminist?’ I will put up with it no longer. I am riled with anger and fury. For myself, for my daughter. For all women. And also for our young boys.

Patriarchal toxic masculinity may have been knocked down a peg or two since the #MeToo movement; and rightly so. But it isn’t enough. It isn’t even close. Every day women and girls are raped and murdered by men that they know and the Government continues to slash funding for women’s aid. If that doesn’t tell you, you are worthless, then I don’t know what will.

I am an Australian/Finn who lives in Scotland. I have found myself often trying to defend Australia by saying we aren’t racist, we aren’t bigots, we aren’t sexist. Oh, but we are. We are all those things and worse- we are full of apathy and inaction.

Today I read about a 9 year old girl who respectfully declined to stand for the Australian National Anthem at school. Bloody, well done! This girl is an independent, critical thinker that stays true to her own values and beliefs. This should be the norm for our children rather than the exception. However, this child had received the most vile trolling and bullying on line; including from politicians and people in the limelight.

This is my end point. I can no longer just roll my eyes. If I don’t act now, if we don’t act now then this vitriol against girls, against women will continue and the budding generation of feminists will be stopped short before they’ve had a chance even to bloom.

I can barely justify my own tolerance of sexist behaviour in the past, but I own that because of self doubt and insecurities. But I will absolutely not allow, NOT ALLOW the next generation to be thwarted.

Do we grab pitchforks and march on masse? Do we express our disgust through art and vandalism? How do we rise up as a collective, and be the women that we needed when we were little girls? My veins are pulsing with anger and fury. And so should yours.

Wow, that has to be a new record.

The SECOND response is "WHAT ABOUT THE MEN?!"

I've always found that the best defence against bad men is good men.

Your disdain for a national anthem exposes you to be a communist. And communists hate the family unit and are easy meat for corporate hegemony.

I agree op.

The other day I mentioned I was a feminist and I got the 'We don't have it as bad as women in the Middle East and those countries"

Jesus wept

"Today I read about a 9 year old girl who respectfully declined to stand for the Australian National Anthem at school. Bloody, well done! This girl is an independent, critical thinker that stays true to her own values and beliefs. This should be the norm for our children rather than the exception. However, this child had received the most vile trolling and bullying on line; including from politicians and people in the limelight."

The OP endorses the child's 'independent, critical-think[ing]' because it actively shows disrespect for something of which the OP disapproves. The OP would not endorse such defiance if the child was, instead, refusing to participate in a whole-school-celebration of multiculturalism or some other Liberal-Left shibbeloth.

This the problem with those on the Liberal-Left. They are all for freedom of speech, just so long as the message is theirs and 'approved'. If it is not, the speaker must be shut down or drowned out.

This is where Trump and Brexit came from.