Feminist Friday is here! #don't let a man tell you what day it is. (lighthearted)

[Fuppy]

This weeks topic is:

What right do you value the most?

Independence - I can travel freely, own stuff and have money and work. I get so much of my esteem from work. I can do all of this whilst being a mother. Yes life is tough and I am constantly exhausted, but I chose my life.

Having given it due thought, Article 30 of the UN International Human Rights Declaration.

‘Nothing in this declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the [other] rights and freedoms.’.

I know I cheated, but I think they are all important.

I have a right to be me, have my family and choose my own thoughts and beliefs etc.

The right to use Toyah as my daily inspiration

Sexual and reproductive rights.

The right to be listened to.

The right to education

The right to drive, be educated, work for a living and the right to prosecute someone if they rape me.
It's amazing, when you look at other countries and how things were in the past, how lucky we are.

The right to vote. The horrors inflicted on the suffragettes and the dehumanization of them makes me forever grateful.

The right to be a full human, not an inferior 'other'.

Yeah I don’t want to be a sub set of women

To vote. Most important

These are fantastic responses! I would say, my right to an opinion

The right to do my job - barrister - from which women were excluded until 1919.

The right to associate with other women, free of male supervision.

The right to use contraception and abortion.

CuriousaboutSamphire, thanks.

From Wiki:

From early childhood, Willcox was aware she did not fit into gender stereotypes. In an all-girls school she was always a tomboy, very aggressive and physical, frequently in fights.[9] In 2003 Willcox remembered: "The rebellion came easy since most of my life up until I was a teenager I had to play a gender role. I didn't like to be a female and I didn't like to be a boy either, I just wanted to be a person and I was acutely aware of this very early on in life, about the age of four. I loathed dolls, I loathed dresses, everything that had to do with femininity I couldn't bear. And it was forced on me with such passion that I thought: 'If I don't fight it I'm gonna be stuck with it for the rest of my life'"

I loved Trafford Tanzi. Toyah was so good.

I've met her, way back then... she was lovely, very, very intense but lovely! I had her up there with all the other gender bending icons of the era!

The music may have dated but the sentiments are totally appropriate!

Ah the good old days when it didn’t matter what ‘gender’ you were, you just were.