Article on Women's Liberation in the Guardian - open for comments!

[stumbledin]

The article is more about Sheila Rowhbotham's personal memories and the forthcoming 50th Anniversary conference in Oxford (which I thought had sold out so advertising it now will cause a few problems).

Anyhow I have been banned from commenting on the guardian so many times and I am too tired to do anything sensible.

So if anyone is interested and wanted to add something about what if really important to them to achieve women's rights, now might be the moment to do it.

they so rarely have comments open on articles about feminism.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/23/in-1970-driven-by-chaos-and-energy-we-felt-like-pioneers-in-female-protest

Damn. I read this article yesterday but didn't see that it was open for comments online - and now it's closed. I notice one commenter has written:

"Good to read this. But Guardian, why did you ignore the Women’s Liberation anniversary conference held in University College London three weeks ago? More than 900 women took part. It was in the centre of London, you couldn’t miss it."

So that's something. But so frustrating not to be able to hammer the point home.

A good article by a feminist icon (even thought she was too timid or bullied to mention the elephant in the room). BUT, comments up for maybe an hour at midnight? Only 60 published with lots of deletions and 'disappeared' comments (including mine) .
If that doesn't show you how offensively anti women the Guardian is, nothing will. Just thankful that I cancelled my sub to them years ago.

In fact it had been open for comments since 7am. But in a sort of self perpetuating way, so few of us read the guardian that it was only the dedicated readers who found it and then commentated.

Which is sad because it could have been the chance to widen the discussion although as one commentator said, most comments were based on the misinformation about the WLM because they only read the Guardian.

I do hope it wasn't me who jinxed it by posting something on FWR. I can just see the panic buttons being pressed and them saying watch out, the mumsnetters will be swarming all over this in the morning.

But although an interesting article, in the context of what else they have or haven't published pure tokenism.

Well, it was the Observer rather than the Guardian, so as we know they have always been slightly less awful on this issue. But it's quite possible that at some point they had an influx of feminists making assertive comments, whether as a result of stumbledin's post or someone putting something on Twitter.

RoyalCorgi - I didn’t see that comment. Maybe it was culled...

My mum is in the photo accompanying the article, so I thought it was great .

But agreed - I don’t read the Guardian anymore and wouldn’t have read it if it hadn’t been for the family connection, so hadn’t even looked to see if comments were open.

(My mum has grown into a highly gender critical older woman, btw, and is on here ).

I only use the guardian to yell “put that rag down! I wouldn’t wipe my arse on the guardian. You know it’s banned!” across the store to DH if he dares to try to pick up a free copy on Waitrose. I think he does it for a laugh...

I've only just thought to check but if anyone wanted to comment there is a facebook link to the article. They dont usually monitor comments on there.

www.facebook.com/GuardianOpinion/posts/3015685108463998?