'Handmaid's Tale as public policy' - Susan Dalgety in the Scotsman

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Article on the WHO guidelines on drinking, and Jess De Wahls/RSA.

I sense Susan is a bit pissed off.

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/the-handmaids-tale-as-public-policy-women-are-being-reduced-to-nothing-more-than-breeders-susan-dalgety-3278273?fbclid=IwAR1mcs9SN8fjEXTdJEzVhqnRUfZhLk0UQ5AOJOzor-eDQlGHjo0o1FEjeGI

Dalgety captures it so well, time after time.

That is a brilliant article

Great article, especially the point about ignoring the role of alcohol in abuse, yet women have to stay sober just on case they may get pregnant.....

Great article.

She tells it like it is. I keep challenging myself, worried that I am spending too much time on this board, that I might be turning into a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but there it is. Plain and simple. The world fucking hates women and it is getting worse not better.

Yes, I was particularly taken by her comments on alcohol fuelled male violence. The WHO document is outrageous.

Powerful

She's not wrong , great piece of writing.

It's reminded me of a public health campaign that didn't last long - it might have been back in the late 70s.

It was a poster that showed a family and I can't recall how they did it but there was a shadowing of financial stress and DV. The text said something like:

The mother's on tranquillisers.
The son's on drugs.

The father only drinks.

I'm fairly sure it was halted very quickly because it seemed to be highlighting alcohol misuse among men as a cause of family problems.

That's a great article.

I keep challenging myself, worried that I am spending too much time on this board, that I might be turning into a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but there it is.

We've all been there. Comfort yourself with the knowledge that if everyone knew what you now know this ideology would evaporate overnight. It's only because there is so much deception and sleight of hand going on that the push back isn't mainstream, yet.

Excellent article. Reassuring to see robust criticism from the CEO of BPAS, I thought they'd been captured.

Great article.

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She tells it like it is. I keep challenging myself, worried that I am spending too much time on this board, that I might be turning into a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but there it is. Plain and simple. The world fucking hates women and it is getting worse not better.

Exactly how I feel. I just despair. I honestly thought back in my heady early days of feminism in the 80s that we'd have this shit sorted. How wrong could I be?

It's not just the trans issue tho. The normalisation of porn, the staggeringly low conviction rate for rape and sexual assault, the objectification of women, entrenchment of stereotypes, all of it is getting worse and because of the huge and current threat to women's rights posed by TRAs, we don't have the resources to fight it all.

I keep challenging myself, worried that I am spending too much time on this board, that I might be turning into a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but there it is. Plain and simple. The world fucking hates women and it is getting worse not better.

I teach women's history & feminism at university, and every year, young women say to me "Oh I see the world differently now. I see all the sexism."

And I say, "I know. It's hard. We hold dark knowledge of the world now."

It is hard - particularly for those of us who live with and work with and love boys & men. I increasingly think that the radical lesbian separatism of the 70s had its attractions wish I were a lesbian