I am really not seeing women’s achievements being glossed over or ignored- We celebrate their wins all the time on FWR.
We celebrate whether they are individuals doing their own thing like Magdalen was, like Jean has been doing for years or Posie and Julia Long more recently and Fiona MacKenzie with We Can’t Consent to this which might be about to change the law.
Or like the grassroots groups campaigning and holding events, like Get the L Out, WPUK, We need to Talk or the different Resisters networks or Charlie’s Detransition advocacy network.
Or like the legal and policy trailblazers like the NHS Tavi whistleblowers, like Maya’s appeal or Susan Evans and Keira Bell with their consent case, like Helen and Katie taking on GGUK policies.
Or a mega celeb like JK Rowling putting her unbelievably massive Twitter following to excellent use by speaking up for women and biological truth.
^Even on that list there are people who massively disagree with each other abo how things should be done. That’s OK.
Partly these are celebrated because it’s an achievement for these women just to keep going or to get a win, and partly quite a few of us seem to celebrate consciously because celebrating is needed to keep going. it too often feels like one step forward and two steps back. It will always be that way.
This article in the Daily Mail today interviewing Glinner is an achievement. He got a great deal (but not all) of the points in, in a very readable way.
Yes it’s unfair that Glinner gets to talk about the personal impact this is having on him while lots of others are also personally impacted and will never be able to get the press attention but what should he do? He already had the platform he has. Should he shut up and not talk about the issues any more? pretend it’s all fine when even a powerful male media figure like him speaks up and gets legal hassle costing him thousands of pounds. I’d much rather he did tweet to his big Twitter following about these issues and the authoritarian fuckwits who try to bully others into silence.
Also there’s usually nothing new under the sun: nicking other people’s ideas is relevant when it comes to artistic creation or scientific advancement but in sex and gender politics, lots of us come to the same political conclusions with no political activist background or education but just on moral conviction and experience. It’s not rocket science any of this. The wrongs facing women and children are so stark it’s hard not to draw similar conclusions. More people talking about it is a good thing.