Oxfam

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twitter.com/oxfamgb/status/1636416799230283776?s=20

Their workers certainly knew who the females were in Haiti.

Over five million views, slightly less than 3500 likes. Not their most popular tweet..

They've stopped replies to that post, so the replies on the next tweet are a bit of a bin fire.

I have not seen a single unqualified opinion approving of this.....thing. Most are disapproving, very much so.

Trying to defend it in the Guardian, 'Look, there were Mothers Day displays in our shops.' Perhaps there were, I'll never know, I have no intention of visiting or donating to another one.

Twitter link has link to the article.

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1638126912663871490?s=20

I know he probably didn't write the title, but the cognitive dissonance in the headline.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/21/oxfam-poverty-culture-wars-inclusive-language-charities

This charity is for they?

Could have replaced that with 'us' and had it make grammatical sense, but I guess that wouldn't be signalling enough virtue.

What a lot of self-indulgent waffle that guardian article is.

Frankly if a charity reaches a point where they are better known for sexual misconduct scandals and for the vocabulary they use than for their actual on the frontline, then it is time to have a serious rethink about whether they should operate at all.

All this bullshit is distracting from their mission and I am sure all the hard working staff and volunteers lower down the food chain must be in despair as to what the management has been doing for the past few years.

I volunteered for an Oxfam shop recently a couple of hours a week. Volunteers and staff at the shop had all had poor experience with the charity central office. The premises were not maintain correctly either. I left because although the local staff was nice and dedicated I wasn't going to volunteer in poor conditions. I am glad I did as I have come to the conclusion now I really don't want any association whatsoever with this charity.

This should read ''for their actual work on the frontline''

Glad there's a thread on this. I read the CEOs defense yesterday:

"I was perhaps most surprised by the strand of criticism that suggested pronouns don’t matter in the global south and that this obsession is a western creation. There are so many communities around the world in which notions of gender are more nuanced than simple binaries."

This makes me so angry, the idea that biological sex doesn't exist is pure western queer theory. Everyone knows which sex has the babies mate.

I cancelled my donation to Oxfam years ago, over ideological 🐃💩
I remember once a man on Facebook saying I was lying about that. I got a bank statement (carefully obvs) and showed him. It was all then HOW DARE YOU NOT SUPPORT THEM. Etc.

I'm sick of men denying biological reality. I will never ever support a charity that lies like this. The capture is extreme.