Article in the Independent:
"I’ve been a feminist ever since I was old enough to be leered and sneered at"
www.independent.co.uk/voices/international-womens-day-joan-collins-b2295729.html
Key section:
"And it’s also somewhat disturbing that, even in our progressive western countries, our hard-won freedoms could be subtly eroded.
It worries me that we might be inadvertently subjugated with the censure of female-only spaces or words like “mother” and “breastfeeding” (and told we must use terms like “female parent” and “chestfeeding” instead.) We must beware that we are not being kicked back into inequality by politically correct stealth.
And with the awareness that International Women’s Day puts into acceptable feminism, I truly hope that this will never happen."
Follows up on her discussion on Piers Morgan last year where she was way less direct. Like many others it has taken time to get up steam to speak out plainly:
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4557404-they-silenced-joan-collins
For every one celebrity speaking up there are many others thinking the same, but too scared to step up. We all know how difficult it is to do the right thing. There are gradual steps and you can be mobbed along the way and pushed back. If it has taken Joan Collins and Alice Walker this long there is no shame in the difficulty others take in coming forward.
Bit by bit though women are speaking out, a movement is getting stronger, and there is nothing the genderists can do to stop it because the more insane they act the more people get enraged. This doesn't mean our side will win, but they will have a fight on their hands.