I think it would be great to have the conditions in place to enable so called “marginalised women” to have access to the resources needed so they can have a voice and be heard. So that they don’t suffer economic and educational disadvantage that leads to never having the opportunity to let moral principles guide their actions. For most in that group, that is simply not a choice open to them, demonised and kept at barely subsistence living by the “privileged policy makers” combined with AWAs. Their voices go unsought, unheard and unheeded - even in the rush to live by one’s principles.
The fight for the right to exist as a woman is a luxury when one fights for literal survival day in day out. Let’s not forget that. In the rush for publicity and getting more people on board, who is tending to this group and seeking their views?
It’s an unreasonable expectation that they have the same capacity to make themselves heard as someone who is healthy and comfortably off financially. Many survivors are in this marginalised category through no fault of their own. They keenly feel the injustice metered out to them from all sides, day in day out - today as every other day.
Jean’s points were well made. She knows this divide. My sense is she’s trying to draw attention to it by saying don’t throw out the baby with bath water. I think they deserve for us all to reflect upon how can we ensure that we aren’t using the disadvantaged for our own moral principles- that we aren’t unknowingly abusing the economic agency some have -replacing one set of jack boots with fashion boots 🥾
We need some under the umbrella to be facing not always to the public eye but back to this group - to ask them their views and what they need first.