Why Would ‘Feminist’ Workshop for Age 6-7 Girls & Non Binary People Wish to Ensure Parents Can’t Hear What is Being Discussed?

[RichardBarrister]

This workshop is part of the WOW event at the South Bank Centre

Parents are not welcome and are told to sit behind a glass wall in sofas to view their children but will be unable to hear what they are being told by the hitherto unnamed workshop leader.

Does anyone else think this sounds ultra dodgy?

Same people who organised the DQ event where sexual jokes about the kids opening their legs were made apparently.

I took my DD, then a mid teen in 2015, I think. It was really busy, lots of milling around and loud. It’s a cavernous, anonymous space so unless your DD has a friend I can’t see that she would happily go and sit down with a lot of strangers. Even back then we mostly thought it was heavy on selling and quite vacuous.

Anyone who signs their little girl up to this may as well leave her with a random stranger on a bench outside the RFH.

Remember this thread from last summer? Where the drag artist was telling the audience we need to teach children to open their legs?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4591922-to-be-livid-at-the-national-theatre?utmmcampaign=thread&utm_medium=share

And of course South Bank is also promoting the Vault Festival - whose headline family show is CabaBabaRave

WTAF?

I feel sick now

Look, I just really want to be alone with your 6 year old daughter OK?

it’s been drawn to my attention that you may not be ok with that, so as a totally fine compromise, you sit on that side of this window

she and I will be over here talking about gender

And I don't want you to hear what I put into your child's head because I strongly suspect that if you knew, you'd stop me. To protect your child. And I feel strongly that I know much better what should be in your child's head than you do, and should be able to control your choices and your child's thinking because I know better than you what is good and right for your child. That I've never met before, will never meet again and have zero care for other than what I want inside her head.

This is all fine, ok? Cos I have a label and buzzwords and everything, and am exempt from common sense.

Well, it will make a nice change from being in school for the poor little things!

I know my DD (who is 8) would never have wanted to go to something like this (especially if it was all talking, yawn!) on her own aged 6 or 7.

To be fair I don’t really ‘get’ academic feminism and would actively swerve this now

as a pp says, 6 year old girls aren’t quite aware of the hand they’ve been dealt yet. My vote would be to let them just continue being kids for another 3 or 4 years at least

This sounds very dodgy to me.

As far as "girls and non-binary kids" I have seen a few activities advertised this way, which were clearly actually intended to be for girls. From what I can tell it reflects that so many girls are getting caught up in identity thinking. They actually want girls to attend but want to include these "transboys" with the girls, because they know that they are in fact female people.

It's not such an issue for a boys group. Which should tell them all something, but it seems like it doesn't.

as a pp says, 6 year old girls aren’t quite aware of the hand they’ve been dealt yet.

I agree. This smacks of gender identity politics/queer theory.

Suggest that you want to take the same girls aside to tell them about periods however and watch the screaming abdabs errupt.

Only some pre programming of service humans is acceptable. Largely the non titillating bits.

Yeah OK. Look can you take the younger one as well, that way I can get a few hours to myself whilst you indoctrinate the kiddie winkles.

TaTa for now.

Kids, mummy loves you, listen to the strange man you've never met before and do everything he tells you, yes sweetie, even if it makes you really uncomfortable and violates your natural boundaries. Remember what I taught you?..Now say after me ..be?...kind. Yes dear. That's right. Kisses.