PSNI strike again- women asked to nominate men for IWD.

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(Above is a Facebook link)

Attached should be 2 screenshots for anyone who can’t access Facebook. The first is the PSNIs FB post. The second is of some of the comments.

What on Earth was the thinking behind this? for IWD we will celebrate men.

Women are merely props in the lives of men to validate or celebrate men

Yup.

IWD is just a day for men to pat themselves on the back for not hitting women really.

Surely a parody no??!

It’s noteworthy that PSNI recently had a recruitment drive, aiming to increase the number of female (as well as catholic but not relevant here) recruits and were baffled by the continued low number of applications from women.

It's a natural outworking of thinking that women's rights are bestowed, graciously, by the patriarchy, rather that battled for by women rejecting their oppression and socialization.

And I'm sorry, but you see it here, all the time when we get giddy about the latest bloke who has deigned to be a decent person and acknowledge the situation women face.

Fact is, we are like fish who don't even know we're wet, so saturated are we in a culture that teaches women to centre men, and teaches men to expect it.

One of the most powerful things FWR does is raise the consciousness of women to reject the chains of that mindset and truly put women at the heart of feminism. It's one of the most revolutionary things you can do.

What absolute twat thought this up? Whether this is a joke or not I'm laughing

How utterly pathetic - but then who'd expect anything else from any police force anywhere. It's like women's lib never even happened.

I can maybe see what they could be thinking with this - that they are looking for a way to encourage male employees to really help and mentor female employees.

It might be better accompanied with some other initiative - unless maybe it is?

Wtf

The replies

(The replies on twitter I mean, not seen it on Fb)

I came on to post this! I saw it on my FB feed and was

What kind of idiot thought it was a good idea? Mind you the new Chief Constable doesn't seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer with his "we'll take their children away, here's me posing with a lot of armed officers in bandit country aren't I great" style of policing...

In the face of so much fuckwittery at the moment that twitter thread has cheered me up

Don’t forget Ladies. We are just support humans. A day for women is best celebrated by women thanking men.

But what about the men?!

It's worth knowing about this just for the twitter responses, and a couple of new favourite memes

I particularly appreciated this meme

I get "page not found" on fb, has it been taken down?

Is this part of the Each For Equal campaign or is this PSNI going off on their own "brilliant" frolic under the EFE banner?

It’s still coming up when I click through the link mcduffy.

I’m not sure Mrsfogi

See the replies to the PSNI Twitter account

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3841164-PSNI-strike-again-women-asked-to-nominate-men-for-IWD

twitter.com/PoliceServiceNI/status/1235861934630559744

''This is a great idea. So all those men who spend IWD tiresomely asking 'When is International Men's Day?' now you can just say, 'Oh International Women's Day is your day too now, lads'.'
😂

They should be called P-NIS 🍆

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Brilliant!