I also want to thank you, Justine.
You, and this place you built, are our only hope. You're women's Obi Wan Kenobe.
I think it is nuts that an astute businesswoman has that responsibility placed upon her - because our female politicians are not brave enough to try and balance what women need, what we want, and what the law says we are entitled to.
I am furious. Absolutely livid. My disappointment makes me shake with anger.
I NEED those two politicians. I NEED to have women in parliament and I really don't care which party they are in - just that there are women representing the interests of 51% of the population; the interests and needs that the 49% are often totally oblivious to.
I want to vote, I am politically engaged and if either of their parties made a commitment to protect my sex based rights I would vote for them.
As it is, I'm hoping that Rosie Duffield, Johann Lamont, Joanna Cherry, Joan McAlpine, Baroness Nicholson, and Jackie Doyle Price set up a political party for women.
Because without women standing up for women then we are fucked, by anyone who wants to fuck us.
I suspect that civil servants and political staff will be looking at this thread now - well, read this:
I am a floating voter. I am not alone, by refusing to uphold my sex based rights you have created a mess because there are an unknown number of women thinking "they have done WHAT?"
Our tights to privacy, safety and dignity matter a great deal to women - you just aren't bothering to ask us about it because it's Too Hard and worse, you aren't doing any sort of impact assessment on what effect losing our rights to privacy, safety and dignity has us as a group. That is your job. You are letting me down.
This sounds a little dramatic, but, I mean this sincerely - I will never forgive you for allowing women to be raped in jails. I will never forgive you for dismissing the marginalised women. I will never forgive that women who are escaping male violence and get to a refuge find it is shut because it has lost funding because they refused to accept male people. And I will never forgive that the person in charge of Rape Crisis Edinburgh has none of the skills, qualifications or aptitude for the role, but has one special quality that freshly raped women do not want to be around.
You can come on MN and give us mantras and slogans and refuse to engage in the ONE issue which comes up repeatedly - that's unfortunate but it's up to you.
The consequences of your dismissal of us on here, though, are that I will never forgive you and I will never vote for you while you contribute to women being fucked over.
No thank you.