oh dear, another thread derail.
I dont understand how it is acceptable to criticise the way others write based on the narrow set of beliefs you have.
Just because some right wing papers use "woke" in an anti left way, doesn't mean that others who have contempt for the peformative narrow knee jerk short hand of key board warriors that is now the general perception of being woke, doesn't mean we are denied the right to how we think. Its that same of left arguement, we have failed you, but dont ever say that or suggest it.
And the problem with what some call the Head Girls but I see as Antifa's Aunt Lydia, is that if they were less partonising to other women, and actually did a bit more grass roots feminism, they might be listened to.
It is perhaps not a surprise that I got the info about this edition being free online from the group Actual Gender Critical Left. Who as we all now know after the FiLia fiasco where they thought we are all so dim we wont work out the manipulations, have now entrenched themselves in WPUK.
I usually visit AGCL once a week, just for a good laugh, and meant to post a link where they were sadly reflecting on how they hadn't really made an impact on others, and suggested amongst other things that maybe it was too hard a topic for women to understand the link between feminism and socialism. Never once did the reflect on their appallingly arrogant behaviour to other women. Many have joined, and make a comment or asking a questionn and then get told if you have to ask that quesiton you shouldn't be in the group, didn't you read the introductory notes.
This isn't about whether being left is the correct thing.
This is about the sheer dumb stupidity of thinking if you sneer and talk down to other women, they stop listening to you.
And yes you can accuse KJK of being a populist but so long as she is the only one, or one of very few, who is actually doing something she will always have greater sway.
Feminsim is about women's real lives. It is about the impact of entrenched sexism on our lives.
Feminism isn't some dinner party talking point or publication in obscure, unknown academic journals.
This self absorbed irrelevance (probably only matched by media feminism where the women that men choose then get to write total nonsense which is published as being feminism) has no impact on women's lives.
But also this style of writing is used to disguise what is little more that school girl bullying of those who dont fit in the tiny perception of what are the "correct" thoughts.
If you cant organise to campaign for women's rights and then try to justify it by saying the wrong sort of women are campaigning, I think we can all work out why women's rights are being eaten away.
Just look at Scotland. That should be the wake up call to all of us.
There is nothing to stop women organising in the way they think is best, but if their only contribution is to focus on the women who are achieving something and point out how incorrect they are, then it is clear the priority isn't furthering women.