Hellofabore . YES!!! 👏
"Posters also seem to ignore that the women were checked at security for wearing the very hateful haberdashery. I doubt her known vagina outfit would have been allowed into the gallery."
I did have a delightful little day dream that, if Security had not been searching women for hateful haberdashery and seditious Suffragette scarves, Elaine might have been able to sit in the front row of the public gallery sporting her highly educational pussy pinny throughout the whole proceedings, to remind and shame those reality-denying, disgusting, misogynistic MSPs of the importance, complexity and beauty of the female body.
Her instagram photos are just glorious! This is female anatomy and function for the female gaze, wit and humour.
www.instagram.com/gusset_grippers/
Her language of bum-holes and fannies also speaks to the majority of women. Women who trade in commonplace terms rather than "correct" latinate medical lingo but who, along with their "polite" sisters, would benefit from learning more about our anatomy and how it functions. Women who enjoy bawdy humour but - shock! horror! - might never have read or heard of Chaucer's Tales and the bawdy Wife of Bath.
(Before anyone points out that "fanny" is potentially confusing because it refers to different parts of the anatomy in US English vs UK English, well, so, apparently, does "vagina", ie. as a colloquial rather than medical term.)
What made Elaine's gesture powerful, rather than comedic or sexual, was the accompanying anger, her rage against the outrageous indecency of politicians who had voted to lock women up with males, including males convicted of rape, violence and torture of women, children and men.
Not one of those MSPs would dare vote for hare coursing, badger baiting or fox hunting yet they voted for women to be used as prey:
They legislated for the status of women to be not merely sub-human but to be less than that of animals.
In case anyone is thinking, "Well, at least it is not done for sport - no one is actually gambling on the outcome of incarcerating rapists with women!" - I wouldn't bank on it, going by the title of this post on a particularly disturbing internet forum:
"Trans female successfully impregnated 2 females in N.J prison"
archive.vn/vintologi.com/threads/trans-female-successfully-impregnated-2-females-in-n-j-prison.1035/%23post-6182
I also think that here is more than a smidgeon of "performative prudery" as far as the discussion of apparent, but not actual, fleeting public nakedness as protest..
Back in the 70's everyone understood the difference between a Streaker and a Flasher:
Streaker - usually male but sometimes female - funny and/or a protest and/or a boring exhibitionist
Flasher - always male - creepy and/or threatening pervert.
I suppose that, to some, the 70's might seem as much ancient history as Anasyrma:
archive.vn/threadreaderapp.com/thread/1606393268765224962.html
However, the claims that some people might not in the first instance "get" the purpose and intended impact of Elaine's protest and therefore suffer in some way or be "put off" objecting to the notion that rapists should be imprisoned with women, due to their sorry lack of learning, well, that smacks of 1960 and the words of Mervyn Griffith-Jones, prosecutor in the "Lady Chatterley's Lover" obscenity trial, who asked the jury, “Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or servants to read?”
It is also risible to suggest that children sitting in the Public Gallery behind Elaine could have come to any harm due to Elaine revealing her sporran-like fake muff out of their line of sight for less than two seconds.