Would you march?

[FightingtheFoo]

Not some bullshit "pussy hat" march that was about nothing.

Not a vigil taken over by self-publicists who think "woman" is a feeling.

I'm talking about a march through central London with the specific aim of highlighting male violence against women - adult human females - in the UK.

Violence against our bodies, our spaces, our language.

Everyone would be encouraged to attend with a photograph of a woman who has been murdered by a man in the UK in the last 10 years.

Who would be up for it?

stumbledin - I cant even feel that an anti demo demo ie a celebration of women to try and promote some common cause would be possible in this day and age.

I agree. It's pretty depressing to think that an event to celebrate women will always be seen by some as not inclusive, or hateful.

I would march OP, but as a previous poster said there needs to be clarity on the message and the demands.

I think what's happened over the past few years has made many women like myself frustrated and angry at the lack of opportunity to speak up properly about what's happening. I feel the need to 'do something' without knowing what would achieve the best outcome.

Perhaps campaigning for one issue women's party. But again that will be branded as a right wing hate group

@Floisme

You don't sound bitter safe and I think you've made a good point. I've been on so many marches where I've dreaded anyone from the media stopping me because they always ask, 'What do you want to happen?' I'll only march now if I can answer that question in a single, short sentence / phrase: 'No rapists in women's prisons' 'Keep women's sports for women' 'Legal, safe abortions' 'No strip club in this neighbourhood' I think all work. If you answer with, 'End violence against women' they'll come straight back at you with 'How?' That's when you need a short, achievable answer or their eyes start to glaze over.

I hope it's clear I'm not dismissing the idea, and I'm not saying marches never work - you could argue 'Stop the poll tax' brought down a Prime Minister. But I think you need to be able to communicate very clearly what you want and how you'd do it.

Part of the problem is that when you have a campaign that is basically saying, change human nature, it becomes pretty meaningless.

Stop Greed, Respect the Environment, Don't Be an Asshole.

It doesn't even really raise awareness in a general sense.

And it makes the assumption, which is either naive or arrogant, that everyone knows and agrees what exactly needs to change and how to accomplish that, and they'll do it if it just seems popular enough.

So again this romanticised myth that somehow women marched and the male world caved in isn't even true

Neither is it true that the Suffragettes had widespread support from women. They didn't. The whole thing is overblown