Leeds Council FB Page dares to celebrate Female Suffrage while banning women talking about a Government consultation

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The barefaced hypocrisy

"Suffragettes' time to shine in powerful new display!

Their fearlessness, devotion and indomitable spirit saw them become leading lights in the historic struggle for women’s rights.

Now an illuminating new artwork will bring local Suffragette’s Leonora Cohen and Mary Gawthorpe back to life in modern day Leeds and reveal more about the real women behind their extraordinary stories"

The comments are good though

www.facebook.com/Leedscouncil/?tn=%2CdkCH-R-R&eid=ARDz1ttET2A14x-pqI9OdCHCzf-p_QsjuWO0IJllTfIqmTuGw_6pQ4JnlLW7D1BUe6OZlOocpQzGWV4H&hc_ref=ARTbT4bOUvZu_pXZmDDeP37Hhj8IOiO0EHOLaODaz3dtNFZEIdxrLEnVfkGJomSL3Ls&fref=nf&hc_location=group

Breathtaking!

The comments are great. Keep going, MNers!

They are getting their ass lucked on Twitter, too. This was a home goal and, like the ‘Women = adult human females, it’s been brilliant publicity for GC females. So many people are asking ‘what on Earth is going on?’ The TRAs are shooting them selves in the foot, at every turn. It’s glorious. 😁

Lucked!? I mean kicked!

I’m guessing that post was probably prescheduled rather than a deliberately provocative move but fuck, how dare they even speak the suffragettes name. The suffragettes would have despised the women on the council who did this.

Do they understand irony ?

The comments are pretty good - someone's going to have a pretty rubbish Monday morning. I wonder if the comments will be deleted.

That response on FB is great. There is one gay man putting the Stonewall side across - on his own FB page he's calling all the comments 'hate'. It's fascinating really. No one is being hateful. There's no aggression. It's just a bunch of women saying they're cross they were denied the chance to meet and talk. It makes the other side seem very cultlike. They're not actually seeing what's right in front of their nose.

The definition of 'hate' is almost as bizarre as their definition of 'woman these days.

One comment says that in Leeds woman are for sale but not for speaking.

So very true.

Presumably it's part of their range of projects to celebrate 100 years since women got the vote - for which they received £152,500 of central government funding with the aim of enhancing "... the range of work that already takes place across the city to ensure that women and girls have a greater voice and are empowered to have a greater voice and influence in the city." Unless those women want to voice their concerns about transgender politics, in which case STFU.

www.leeds.gov.uk/Pages/Leeds-Women-2018.aspx

It's far easier to celebrate the achievements of suffragettes from a safe distance (ie 100 years later) when you don't have to wrestle your conscience over the WSPU's violent and contentious actions. Faced with some uppity women in the present day, however, who just want to meet and talk and that's a different kettle of fish.

the range of work that already takes place across the city to ensure that women and girls have a greater voice and are empowered to have a greater voice and influence in the city.

I. Just. Can't.

I'd love to see a breakdown of where that money has been spent.

Amazing how they can celebrate the suffragettes while denying modern women a voice. No self-reflection there.
These are the type of people who would have said to the Suffragettes ‘Why can’t you just be nice?’ I would bet a fair few would have been happy to see them jailed and force-fed too. The rhetoric around the ‘T’ word we’re not allowed to use here glorifies the use of violence against women who won’t conform. They are the modern day incarnations of Matthew Hopkins and his ilk.

Posted my comment. Also posted on their Twitter post.

Zuut, I'd like to see a breakdown of that too. How would we go about getting one, by FOI request?

GatheringHerBrows. I've just looked at their website.

www.leeds.gov.uk/Pages/Leeds-Women-2018.aspx

All but one is a paid event. Not what I would call a "celebration", but better than nowt, I suppose.

Just read the comments and added my own - came here to publicise it but you were all well ahead of me. This is shocking. But not surprising.

The comments are fantastic. I think I only saw two men defending the Councils actions, and one brilliant man telling other men to STFU.

Someone is going to have a shite monday morning deleting all the 140+ positive comments!

I've added my comments too. One of the men commenting heads up the LGBTQ+ network at the council and posted on his FB page for people to come and support him against the hate. They don't all seem to have rushed to his aid though

I'm fascinated to see what will happen on Monday and to see if the colleagues of my local councillor (Jess Lennox) rally round or throw her under the bus.

Jeez look at the time of these events. 3.30 pm or 3 pm. How the heck are women meant to attend these events

Ooh there one at 11 pm
Ffs

And they cos5 a fiver

little, that's so rubbish. LCC are really annoying me now.