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Fuck Oxfam

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DismantledKing · 05/06/2023 21:55

Anyone seen the tweet by Maya tonight about this little animation by Oxfam? Here’s the link:

https://twitter.com/mforstater/status/1665817901327085568?s=46&t=U7-xooKExwmFQ8mivn72lw

as I said, fuck Oxfam.

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IcakethereforeIam · 05/06/2023 22:43

@ResisterRex that training is just astonishing. It's not just 'white women' who get raped. You'd think after Oxfam's behaviour in Haiti and the DRC they'd know that. The woman, Alison Phipps, also seems to be implying that all black men (at least the poor ones) are rapists. Shockingly misogynistic and racist.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 05/06/2023 22:43

I don't normally do boycotting, but I think it's safe to say that I'm now done with Oxfam

they can get to fuck

ArabeIIaScott · 05/06/2023 22:44

ResisterRex · 05/06/2023 22:25

Oxfam is a lost cause. This was June 2021:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/09/oxfam-training-guide-blames-privileged-white-women-root-causes/

"An Oxfam staff training document says “privileged white women” are supporting the root causes of sexual violence by wanting "bad men" imprisoned.
In the wake of sex scandals that have rocked the charity, Oxfam has produced guidance which states that: “Mainstream feminism centres on privileged white women and demands that ‘bad men’ be fired or imprisoned”.
Accompanied by a cartoon of a crying white woman, it adds that this “legitimises criminal punishment, harming black and other marginalised people”.
It advises staff to read a controversial book which concludes: “Mainstream feminism is supporting, not undoing, the root causes of sexual violence.”
Oxfam said that the training was voluntary, and the views are not presented as its own but designed to help staff understand the issues.
However, the charity was warned on Wednesday night that the document, compiled by its LGBT network and seen by The Telegraph, could breach equality laws as it suggests reporting rape is "contemptible".
The four-week “learning journey” recommends that staff read Me Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism, a book by Alison Phipps, a professor of gender studies at the University of Sussex.
Summarising the book’s central premise, the Oxfam document says white feminists need to ask themselves whether they are causing harm when they fight sexual violence.
It then links to Prof Phipps’s Twitter account and a thread which summarises the main themes of the book, including: “White feminist tears deploy white woundedness, and the sympathy it generates, to hide the harms we perpetuate through white supremacy.”
Naomi Cunningham, a discrimination and employment law barrister, says the document may breach the Equality Actt_, which bans harassment in the workplace on the basis of sex.
“The message seems to be that a woman who reports a rape or sexual assault to the police and presses charges is a contemptible ‘white feminist’,” said Ms Cunningham. “I think any woman could make an arguable case that this has created or contributed to ‘an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment’, which is how the Equality Act defines harassment.”
Learning About Trans Rights and Inclusion was drawn up in 2020, whilst Oxfam was still reeling from sexual exploitation scandals in Haiti and Chad.
The charity suffered further blows in April this year, when a female aid worker quit alleging that there was a “toxic culture” and her sexual harassment complaint had been ignored, and it faced separate allegations of sexual misconduct in the Democratic Republic of Congo."

Holy fucking moly. They're done. Toast. I agree, OP, fuck 'em.

BabyStopCryin · 05/06/2023 22:51

PotteringPondering · 05/06/2023 22:11

Oxfam's Supporter Relations Team deal with complaints:
[email protected]

Just saying.

Don’t forget to ask if the middle figure is supposed to be JKR. And also why are they celebrating elective double mastectomies?

Helleofabore · 05/06/2023 22:51

ResisterRex · 05/06/2023 22:25

Oxfam is a lost cause. This was June 2021:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/09/oxfam-training-guide-blames-privileged-white-women-root-causes/

"An Oxfam staff training document says “privileged white women” are supporting the root causes of sexual violence by wanting "bad men" imprisoned.
In the wake of sex scandals that have rocked the charity, Oxfam has produced guidance which states that: “Mainstream feminism centres on privileged white women and demands that ‘bad men’ be fired or imprisoned”.
Accompanied by a cartoon of a crying white woman, it adds that this “legitimises criminal punishment, harming black and other marginalised people”.
It advises staff to read a controversial book which concludes: “Mainstream feminism is supporting, not undoing, the root causes of sexual violence.”
Oxfam said that the training was voluntary, and the views are not presented as its own but designed to help staff understand the issues.
However, the charity was warned on Wednesday night that the document, compiled by its LGBT network and seen by The Telegraph, could breach equality laws as it suggests reporting rape is "contemptible".
The four-week “learning journey” recommends that staff read Me Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism, a book by Alison Phipps, a professor of gender studies at the University of Sussex.
Summarising the book’s central premise, the Oxfam document says white feminists need to ask themselves whether they are causing harm when they fight sexual violence.
It then links to Prof Phipps’s Twitter account and a thread which summarises the main themes of the book, including: “White feminist tears deploy white woundedness, and the sympathy it generates, to hide the harms we perpetuate through white supremacy.”
Naomi Cunningham, a discrimination and employment law barrister, says the document may breach the Equality Actt_, which bans harassment in the workplace on the basis of sex.
“The message seems to be that a woman who reports a rape or sexual assault to the police and presses charges is a contemptible ‘white feminist’,” said Ms Cunningham. “I think any woman could make an arguable case that this has created or contributed to ‘an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment’, which is how the Equality Act defines harassment.”
Learning About Trans Rights and Inclusion was drawn up in 2020, whilst Oxfam was still reeling from sexual exploitation scandals in Haiti and Chad.
The charity suffered further blows in April this year, when a female aid worker quit alleging that there was a “toxic culture” and her sexual harassment complaint had been ignored, and it faced separate allegations of sexual misconduct in the Democratic Republic of Congo."

I remember Phipps’ contribution.

Oxfam really have proven themselves as misogynistic.

OscarsAmmonite · 05/06/2023 22:52

It's from the 'women led' @falanafilms 🙄

dropthevipers · 05/06/2023 22:53

To paraphrase the famous quote from "Jaws", were going to need a bigger bin.

HipTightOnions · 05/06/2023 22:55

The very first image of that awful video includes a woman with mastectomy scars.

You're right. Fuck them.

Clymene · 05/06/2023 22:57

What a bunch of hateful misogynists.

JulesJules · 05/06/2023 23:01

Fucking hell. This is absolutely shocking.

PotteringPondering · 05/06/2023 23:02

FYI emailed to [email protected]

Dear Oxfam,

Over many years I’ve been a loyal supporter of Oxfam. In the past financial year alone, the amount raised from my donations was £x,xxx, which I gift-aided.

I’m writing to let you know I won’t support Oxfam again.

I was already feeling uneasy about your support for the trans agenda over the past couple of years. Your website still links to Mermaids, a controversial group now being formally investigated over safeguarding concerns. I’m convinced the current fad to rush vulnerable and confused children to life-changing and mutilating surgery will be seen by future generations as a medical scandal.

Then this evening I saw your new short Protect the Pride animation. The ’TERF’ image (below) is beyond offensive, like an image from old Nazi propaganda. As you must know, gender-critical views are protected in law in the Equality Act 2010. To portray an older woman as a hateful TERF is disgusting. I’d say in UK law it will probably count as a hate crime, so I’d get your lawyers onto this very quickly indeed.

I know you mean well, and think you are promoting inclusion. But the way you are doing it its itself hateful and peddling cruel stereotypes. This is now about blow up in the national press (it already has on Twitter), and will lose Oxfam thousands of supporters – particularly women who have questions about gender theory.

I’m sorry to say I can’t support an organisation that presents women who have genuine, valid questions about gender ideology as evil and malicious, and supports an organisation such as Mermaids that is damaging the lives of vulnerable children.

I remain concerned about issues of poverty and development, but I shall find another charity to support.

Clymene · 05/06/2023 23:03

And now I've just read that the BBC received 1.7 million complaints of bias over the last five years and upheld ...

25 of them.

I mean it always felt like pissing in the wind submitting a complaint but I thought the ratios would be a bit better.

Today is an all round shitshow

MrsJamin · 05/06/2023 23:04

What a shitty day, we are only on day 5 of 30 days in June! I'm so fed up already. 😞

EpicChaos · 05/06/2023 23:05

You'd have thought that after their shenanigans in Haiti had come to light, they'd have had sense to keep their heads down a bit, wouldn't you?!
As it is they've yet again proven themselves to be utterly vile and not worth supporting, not that i did anyway, there are better charities out there, afaic.
They might find though, that they've just about bitten the hand that feeds them, for the last time. It's not poor people that visit their shops, not at those prices!

KalimbaMoon · 05/06/2023 23:07

There’s an irony in that they’re trying to show how trans people are subject to hate… and yet this is the most hateful, spiteful video I can imagine a charity ever making. How shamelessly misogynistic to demonise women who have legitimate concerns about gender ideology. Despicable twits.

KalimbaMoon · 05/06/2023 23:08

PotteringPondering · 05/06/2023 23:02

FYI emailed to [email protected]

Dear Oxfam,

Over many years I’ve been a loyal supporter of Oxfam. In the past financial year alone, the amount raised from my donations was £x,xxx, which I gift-aided.

I’m writing to let you know I won’t support Oxfam again.

I was already feeling uneasy about your support for the trans agenda over the past couple of years. Your website still links to Mermaids, a controversial group now being formally investigated over safeguarding concerns. I’m convinced the current fad to rush vulnerable and confused children to life-changing and mutilating surgery will be seen by future generations as a medical scandal.

Then this evening I saw your new short Protect the Pride animation. The ’TERF’ image (below) is beyond offensive, like an image from old Nazi propaganda. As you must know, gender-critical views are protected in law in the Equality Act 2010. To portray an older woman as a hateful TERF is disgusting. I’d say in UK law it will probably count as a hate crime, so I’d get your lawyers onto this very quickly indeed.

I know you mean well, and think you are promoting inclusion. But the way you are doing it its itself hateful and peddling cruel stereotypes. This is now about blow up in the national press (it already has on Twitter), and will lose Oxfam thousands of supporters – particularly women who have questions about gender theory.

I’m sorry to say I can’t support an organisation that presents women who have genuine, valid questions about gender ideology as evil and malicious, and supports an organisation such as Mermaids that is damaging the lives of vulnerable children.

I remain concerned about issues of poverty and development, but I shall find another charity to support.

Great letter!

GulesMeansRed · 05/06/2023 23:13

Fenlandia · 05/06/2023 22:11

I bet lots of 'evil' terfs volunteer in their shops, how would they feel seeing this hateful crap?

Yes and I'm one of them.

In about January there was a big survey commissioned to look at volunteer engagement, training, what was working, what wasn't working. The results were out last week and were no surprise at ALL to any of us at the coal face.

Huge disconnect between the "culture" at the head office and stores. Store volunteers don't give two hoots about gender identity and inclusive language and even aren't on board with the campaigning and politic-ing that Oxfam do around poverty. Store volunteers are there to raise as much money as they can so that Oxfam can meet its core goals of helping after natural disasters, digging wells, feeding and vaccinating children. Store volunteers reported that they did not feel listened to, did not feel consulted, felt ignored and unrecognised for what they did for the charity.

Store volunteers are a much more diverse bunch than Head Office, who are all left-leaning 20 somethings, many of whom appear to be working in a charity being simultaneously financially supported by mummy and daddy. The ladies I work with on a Wednesday are all older than me and I'm 50. They are socially conservative and not on board with all the gender woo nonsense. Our store is being quietly subversive from the inside.

Please don't think all volunteers are in agreement with Head Office tweets, or policies, or brochures. We're never consulted when they issue this sort of nonsense, and are on the front line of people getting justifiably cross about it.

By all means email head office, tweet them, write to them. Don't take it out on your local volunteers. And don't expect a reply either, as we don't get replies to our concerns/complaints on the internal messaging system.

GulesMeansRed · 05/06/2023 23:15

The four-week “learning journey” recommends that staff read Me Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism, a book by Alison Phipps, a professor of gender studies at the University of Sussex.

Shop volunteers are not getting this training. No idea who is. Bit of an echo-chamber at Head Office.

Safxxx · 05/06/2023 23:17

I only give to a charity that is 100% reliable and through someone who can give directly to the needy....these big charities are all scammers even children in need their CEOS make a luxury living from it. The amount that gets Donated to them I don't see the full results of it. Plz stop throwing money to these big brand charities...do your own research and only give to reliable sources.

Clymene · 05/06/2023 23:20

You know @GulesMeansRed the only way they'll change is if you all just stop. They are demonising women who are the backbone of their organisation. Withdraw your labour.

We don't have to politely take this shit. You're volunteers, you're not earning anything. Tell them to fuck off with their misogynist hate b

FMLWTF · 05/06/2023 23:24

I have just deleted my direct debit. I’ve been sending these misogynists £20 a month for years. It’s over. I’m now working out who to switch my donation to.

Fenlandia · 05/06/2023 23:24

SidewaysOtter · 05/06/2023 22:29

It was the British Library that had the stupid sex-changing fish.

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Thanks you're right. NHM was last year's 'queer animals for pride' clusterfuck!

GulesMeansRed · 05/06/2023 23:26

Yes but it would take a mass, organised action. 600 shops in the UK, each shop probably has a rota of 20-50 volunteers on the "staff". And some of the volunteers in the studenty, trendy areas probably agree with all this stuff.

Volunteers are not feeling listened to by head office. We see the district manager once in a blue moon. We have not seen anyone else from Head Office ever and I've been there 8 or 9 years. They don't ask us about what's important to us (raising money for disaster response) and what's not (political campaigning and gender woo).

Stropping off and handing in my notice would make not one iota of difference. They don't care. The fact that lots of middle aged women in Scotland or Wales had stopped volunteering wouldn't even get fed back to head office. Communication is awful, we are not listened to. We have some fairly serious health and safety issues going on in our shop with mould/damp which is ongoing for 2 years and we can't get anyone to listen or deal with it.

So why do I stay? Because I like my fellow volunteers and the shop environment and know that the work I do - unpaid - really does raise money to respond when something like the Turkey earthquake happens.

SweetMeadow · 05/06/2023 23:27

Bunch of crooks. How has it come to this?

Despite their superstore being the closest and most convenient place to drop things off, I’d rather go out of my way to donate elsewhere. I always thought Oxfam shops had an arrogant vibe about them too. Their legacy and purpose is totally tainted for me.

GulesMeansRed · 05/06/2023 23:27

Oh and meant to add - most people volunteering in your average shop are not political in the slightest. They might sign a petition. They certainly wouldn't be attending a demo, putting a poster in their window or wearing a political t-shirt.

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