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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Dawn Furness is suing the Green Party for Institutional Sexism

18 replies

NarcissasMumintheDoghouse · 14/04/2022 19:31

She needs help with her gardening project.

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Abhannmor · 14/04/2022 19:41

Donated earlier.

334bu · 14/04/2022 20:27

🌼🌱

Signalbox · 14/04/2022 20:56

I posted this a few days ago. It got deleted.
Green Party are going to be spending a lot of time in court quite soon aren't they?

CrowUpNorth · 14/04/2022 20:57

On what actual grounds?

Signalbox · 14/04/2022 21:08

@CrowUpNorth

On what actual grounds?
Do you mean on what grounds was my post deleted?

I don't know exactly, I posted a link to Emma Bateman's twitter and that had a link to Dawn Furness's crowd funding page so I assume it was the indirect linking to the crowd fund.

Saltyquiche · 14/04/2022 21:16

How many cases are there against the Green Party now, I’m getting mighty confused

Signalbox · 14/04/2022 21:22

I think there's 3

Shahrar Ali
Emma Bateman
Dawn Furness

DomesticatedZombie · 14/04/2022 21:23

Ta.

334bu · 15/04/2022 08:13

Bump

Rheia1983 · 15/04/2022 08:22

Did some digging. If even half of the allegations are substantiated, this would mean the Green Party as an organization is corrupt to the core.

Manderleyagain · 15/04/2022 22:39

Just 2 of the 11 items listed. These really stood put to me as specific horrible events that suggest a culture which the party should be very ashamed of. There's more. Worth reading.

"9. That I was physically assaulted twice, and when this was reported to officers, their only reaction was to laugh.
10. As the unsuccessful Parliamentary Candidate for the Green Party in 2019, male officers in the party cheered and celebrated my loss to the Conservative candidate, while watching the result being announced on TV, shouting the word “TERF” at the TV screen at Party HQ."

Snoodsy · 16/04/2022 01:45

@Manderleyagain

Just 2 of the 11 items listed. These really stood put to me as specific horrible events that suggest a culture which the party should be very ashamed of. There's more. Worth reading.

"9. That I was physically assaulted twice, and when this was reported to officers, their only reaction was to laugh.
10. As the unsuccessful Parliamentary Candidate for the Green Party in 2019, male officers in the party cheered and celebrated my loss to the Conservative candidate, while watching the result being announced on TV, shouting the word “TERF” at the TV screen at Party HQ."

Jesus. It’s become a publicly accepted and encouraged sport to ridicule and assault women
Articus · 19/04/2022 12:14

If there is three of them, maybe a collective action would be better?

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 22/04/2022 18:35

Dug.
Most of my spare cash these days goes into crowdfunders, and it hurts when the case is against the Green Party. As a long-term environmental activist, I am so sick of this male supremacist infiltration.

PrelateChuckles · 22/04/2022 19:18

Been looking round the public garden, and the case is based on "institutional sexism, and discrimination on the grounds of sex and on the basis of my Gender Critical beliefs".

This is some of it:
Among the aspects of the Green Party’s institutional discrimination that I will be litigating are:
-That Green Party policies on how women are defined and treated within the Party were put in place by David and Aimee Challenor and were left in place after David Challenor was imprisoned for 22 years for child sex offences.
-That Green Party officers indicated support for David Challenor after his conviction, and members who challenged those expressions of support were disciplined. Even those who – like me - expressed solidarity with those challenging support for David Challenor were disciplined.
-That the Report into the Challenors’ involvement in the party identified serious safeguarding risks, which have still not been addressed.
-When women members of the Green Party (including me) attempted to pass democratic motions seeking to overturn the policies that the Challenors had brought about, those motions were illegitimately and undemocratically defeated by the Party leadership.
-That women who expressed gender critical beliefs (or who were even suspected of holding those beliefs) were blacklisted and excluded from Party platforms.
-That Officers made concerted attempts to ensure that women who stood for election to internal roles had their results suppressed in favour of males who had received fewer votes.
-That women who tried to meet to discuss the role of women in the party had their meetings sabotaged by Party officers to the extent that the women had to meet in secret.
-That the leadership of Green Party Women were denied access to its membership database, to prevent women from democratically meeting and organising.
-That I was physically assaulted twice, and when this was reported to officers, their only reaction was to laugh.
-As the unsuccessful Parliamentary Candidate for the Green Party in 2019, male officers in the party cheered and celebrated my loss to the Conservative candidate, while watching the result being announced on TV, shouting the word “TERF” at the TV screen at Party HQ.
-Members - including me - who expressed gender critical beliefs were disciplined and suspended, often in processes that took years, denying us any democratic role while those processes were ongoing.
There is much more besides.

Surely they can't be surprised if they lose massively to the Tories, can they? I have no idea how I'll vote, but how can anyone support a party that doesn't do anything about this stuff?

Articus · 19/05/2022 21:26

Donated

Itscalledmisogyny · 20/05/2022 22:43

@PrelateChuckles That's shocking.

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