Adult Human Female postbox topper "against the spirit of postbox toppers"

[Topperfan]

say Labour councillors
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/beeston-postbox-topper-claiming-women-9319330

(no it wasn't me, I can't knit! 😁)

If only Pips could crochet , I wonder what the end product would look like…………..

Essence, of course. There's this mysterious female essence that they tap into (or whatever you do with an essence, rub it on, maybe?) and THEY KNOW they are women.

Fuck! I just installed a new mortice lock in my door, and I have set up most of our TVs, I create websites, set up my own PC and network it to others, and I fix fences, I do know have to pull together a barbed wire fence, do hard landscaping and most of the painting, plastering and decorating. And sometimes wear a dress and make up if I want to.

I don't have a 'masculine stereotype'.

I am just a woman who gets in and doesn't let other people's expectations of what a 'woman should do' stop me from doing what needs to be done. But that set of examples makes me feel like I am definitely not 'womaning' correctly. I reckon my mother and probably grandmother weren't 'womaning' correctly either.

However, negative sexist discrimination still exists in employment. But I suspect a large % of it is about reproduction, education and opportunities rather than the type of discrimination such as 'I am a woman and cannot set up my TB or PC'. Although, I am sure that will still be around. I certainly doubt any male person with a trans identity will be experiencing that discrimination.

Or was it self-limitation? I could't work it out.

I think I lost my female essence at some point.
Maybe it slipped out when I gave birth. Or when my PCOS/gynae problems caused me to pass blood clots the size of my hand.

Oh no... I think it got confiscated by the TRA God when I programmed my TV/put up a shelf/plumbed in the washing machine.

I didn’t explain myself very well, I don’t think anyone is stealing to sell on the postbox toppers local to me, I think it is probably either mean-spirited people or someone being political as only war or royalty related ones go. It was more the contrast, a dictionary definition of woman = unpleasant politics and must be removed and destroyed and this is okay (for some people) while nationalistic/ historical ones depending on your worldview = someone selling on and not a protest so the culprit must be found and told off.

Either way, it’s a real shame that hours of work, whether we like the message, colour or type of wool craft, are being removed and probably chucked. Personally, I can’t stand crochet.

Was the original really destroyed? I'd been wondering what happened to it, thinking it had probably been handed in at the PO or something.

Ah bugger it. I rewired the livestock trailer a few months ago. And I wore men's clothing whilst doing it.That'll be why my womanly essence has evaporated.😟

I agree tbh. It's not in the spirit. In my opinion they should have knitted objects like people or ducks or twee things on. No statements. Just knitted tweeness

Maybe the knitted ones do have tweeness on them.

Maybe it's just the hookers who are the problem

That bloke who dives and who had a child via surrogacy - way too uninterested to remember his name - knits. Perhaps he could knit some toppers.

Tom buy a baby Daley?

Is this some sort of knitting reference?

No

The piece isn't knitted it's crochet. Hookers is a nickname for people who crochet because they use hooks.

So no its specifically not a knitting reference, twee or otherwise

Oh! OK

Sorry to any hookers I have upset by confusing them with knitters

This won't clarify things at all:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kroshay/

The nazis did a pretty good job using armbands made of cotton !

Ah and here is a perfect example of Godwin’s law.

It really isn't.

And Godwin has effectively revoked his 'law' for obvious reasons. Referencing it is terribly early 21st century.

PraiseTheSunshine · 03/06/2024 15:56
It's been removed and replaced with this one now...

(posted on page 2) please please send this into the paper! If you haven’t already. It would be very interesting to see what happens -
Also you can absolutely quote me, and I suspect, many others, in that I now find the trans and rainbow flag intimidating and makes me feel kind of..oppressed? Is that the word? Physically slightly ill and uncomfortable and please..just stop it already.

We could set up a business selling 'Essence of Woman', The marketing guff will include phrases like 'organic, non-synthetic essence of woman', 'ethically sourced', 'cheaper than synthetic HRT', and there could be some pseudoscience about it turning the feeling of woman into the reality of woman.

There must be homeopathy bottle manufacturers looking for a new outlet.

The only thing that makes you a woman is your female body. It doesn’t define anything else about you. What you should like. What you should wear. How you should spend your life. It may influence parts of those, but it doesn’t define them.

There are billions of different ways of being a woman. Being male isn’t one of them.

I think we'd need legal advice on the exact definition of 'essence of woman' versus 'essence of a woman' versus 'woman essence' versus 'womanly essence' and how large a quantity was required in each, and how close to source each one would have to be.

Is an actual XX adult human female required in each case, or would a flouncy skirt or some false eyelashes do just as well?

I am actually quite affronted at the suggestion that 'woman' might be synonymous with incompetent or ineffectual.

Sod that.

Plenty of the men who discover that (in their opinion) they are women really manage to hold down 'man jobs' both before and after transition so I'm not buying that they are hampered by lady essence that prevents them from managing anything technical.

@MagpiePi

I’ll invest.