Female socialisation urgently required

[Knicknackpaddyflak]

Having just read the responses from a Minister I am wholly unable to be polite or non deletable about at this moment, please, I beg you, help me out before I forget myself and do or say something discourteously truthful in an unladylike manner.

I need scones. Or chocolate. A frilly pinny. Delia Smith. Anything. Please.

You could temporarily identify as male while you reply.

Haha!

Write it out in a nice cross stitch. No one will notice ....

That's the best idea yet. I'll do it in pink.

JFC.

The Minister for the Eradication of Women and Equality.

She’s a fan of homeopathy. Do I really need to say any more?

I can’t shake the feeling that someone chose her deliberately because they knew she was —and this is putting it kindly: I won’t say what I really want to put — scientifically illiterate.

Knicknack this might cheer you a little.

I was at a primary school for World Book Day last week where the children went dressed not as a character but as a word. One of the older girls went as a Suffragette complete with an amazing Votes for Women sash. She was probably 10 but knows her science better than Penny I reckon!

Really.

I've just read the 'answers' she gave.

She hasn't a fucking clue. About anything.

Good grief. Just read it. My word.

I can't help but notice that a more personalized answer was afforded to someone who identifies as a woman with a trans history asking a question that was ostensibly about 'LGBT' but was clearly framed as all about trans, than the boilerplate bullshit dished out in bundles to the women who dared to ask about women's specific rights, never mind that no safeguarding queries were addressed.

I ain't got no socialization left to offer, I'm afraid. I've gone from submissive mousewife to shrieking harpy, and there is no way back.

One of the many, many infuriating things about all of this is that the Ministry for Women was initially conceived of, and fought for, as a radical post which an MP would take on full-time, and do seriously, and thus champion women, not an extra for an MP who would add it on to their "real" ministry job as something else, and in doing so cock it up completely.

It's a perfect metaphor for how third wave "feminism" shat all over the many gains for women that second wave feminism fought so hard for and achieved.

The minister's responses demonstrate ignorance. The minister does not want to know about women's rights.

More worryingly, the Minister does not give a damn about the safeguarding of children.

Yeah, just identify as male while you reply. Penny thinks that its possible to switch sex at will, so meh. My replies have been quite, unladylike. But my mouth is generally like a sewer tbh, possibly something to do with being a working class Geordie I missed out on many female socialisation lessons it seems..

Oh she has a fucking clue all right. She has female socialisation in spades. Her specialist subjects are Be Nice and Best Not Make Him Cross.

And a deeply internalised belief that people with penises are intrinsically more important than people with vaginas, and the job of people with vaginas is to service and step aside for their betters.

Fuck that, Penny.

As for vague wittering about anyone can be anything and everyone should feel supported - Penny has no difficulty at all in knowing who's male. They're the 'women' she rushes to service at the expense of all the others. Wall to wall bullshit and self delusion on a truly staggering scale, how on earth did such a chocolate teapot ever get near a ministerial post.

ArcheryAnnie, I couldn’t agree with you more. Well said.