Jess Philips article AIBU

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This has been a difficult week for women throughout the world - in the UK Sarah Everard's murder has led to an outpouring of grief. Huge thanks to @jessphillips for writing for @IndexCensorship about why this is a free expression issue

www.indexoncensorship.org/2021/03/jess-phillips-violence-against-women-and-girls-begins-and-ends-with-censorship/

Ok I agree with every word of Jess's article, however I also feel a deep anger. Why 2 fold.
Index on censorship have been completetly mealy mouthed about defending women's right to free speech in the face of violent threats and silencing tactics from TRAs.

Jess Philips has done little to stand up for women's rights to free speech in her own party.

This just looks to me like 2 former colleagues supporting each other in looking good.

I want to see Index on Censorship standing up for freedom of speech of all women, without being threatened with violence or loss of jobs and work or social isolation and silencing - full stop.

Agree. Don't know if there's a coded message here but there's a massive elephant in the corner...

I think she has peaked but also she is far too ambitious to sacrifice any standing in the Labour party.

To quote Ron Swanson, I think she is trying to ride two horses with one ass.

Have you seen this from Glosswitch. What an absolute charmer that bloke is. She has got a lot of crap the last few days for reading out that list.

mobile.twitter.com/glosswitch/status/1371835249190113288

The dissonance is becoming resounding this week.

There comes a point where the confrontation has to made - if you genuinely believe x is a problem for women then you can't ignore the existence of x in this situation too.

Either women need safety and have issues with male violence or they don't.

Either women are entitled to feel safe, to have privacy and dignity, or they don't.

So which is it? Some very difficult truths are going to have to be faced up to here.

The Labour Party are milking this issue for all they're worth. They were originally going to abstain on the Crime Bill. I'm actually disgusted at their behaviour.

twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1371805763497250819?s=19

Can the labour party define what they mean by women in simple terms? Until then they've lost my vote.

@TheBuffster

Can the labour party define what they mean by women in simple terms? Until then they've lost my vote.

'anyone who says they are one particularly the ones with penises no debate SHUT UP BIGOT' about covers it.

The state of that tweet..........

"300 pages of the Tories' crime bill not a single mention of the word "woman" "

How fucking dare they.