A tongue in cheek victory chant from Julie Burchell

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"In a world where Britain is a shadow of its former self, a country the younger generations are increasingly reluctant to fight for, at last we have a victory we can be proud of against the might of the American woke empire – and it was TERF Island wot won it."

How TERF Island took on America’s woke empire - spiked

In a country that grows up with the pantomime-dame / drag-queen tradition, we are going to point and laugh when we see a man dressed as a woman – it’s inherently comical, like a pantomime horse, only marginally less convincing.
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What a joy to read!

I think that's a little bit unfair on US women who've been working like dogs (I'm a big admirer of Kara Dansky). But seeing as it's Julie, I'll let her off and, if she's reading, I hope her health is improving.

Thanks Julie!
Terf team spirit, a la Dunkirk!

‘Free-thinking friends and comrades, we all did our bit in this great battle, in which the pen turned out to be mightier than the penis attached to a man called Amanda’

‘..a man dressed as a woman – it’s inherently comical, like a pantomime horse, only marginally less convincing’

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Great read, and I'm so happy that we live in the context of these times where this article can so lightly and cheerfully written by such an author. Good times indeed.

Although the article feels to me like a joyous little victory lap around the kitchen table it did make me think about some things.
"The wiliest young women on the left will reject woke now that they have grasped that it has lost (or had never really won over) the people – precisely because of issues like gender woo-woo."
This make me think of forced teaming, e.g. tagging on the T to the LGB, and I realised after reading Julie's words above it goes much wider than that. The whole woke progressive identity critial theory movement is all forced teaming. No one oppression can exist without being tied into all these other oppressions. The idea of forced teaming was to lift an unpopular idea ( e.g. men in women's spaces ) up by inexorably tying it to popular ideas ( e.g. gay rights ). It worked for a while, but I wonder if the "geniuses" who refined and went all in on forced teaming thought the tactic through?
The way Julie says "reject woke" suggests to me that the forced teaming means all of woke is getting dragged down together. The components of woke have been so tightly welded together by forced teaming they are now indivisible. The whole edifice is coming down, nothing will be left standing.
Dentons may have a lot to answer for, including indirectly helping orange man bad live in The White House.

This is true but not because of forced teaming but because so much woke is based on the same ideologies and theories: your identity group is the key fact about you, and perceived power hierarchies and the use of oppression based on this. And lived experience trumps reality.

The whole DEI policy push was based on this, BLM, Me Too was taken over by it, disability rights have been taken over by it, support for Palestine has been grouped with it & Climate change is added as a fealty test.

I think many on the left still don't see this and think the trans stuff is a separate aberration or madness. Or Dentons fault.
It's not, it's all under the same encompassing ideology.

And yes it did lead to the orange man being in the white house.

Yes, thank you for saying this.

It would be excellent to have real problems, like how to manage women's child bearing, and the caring of small children, or questions like why certain groups achieve less academically, or why black men are so much more likely to be murdered or incarcerated, or even classroom integration, all allowed to become grown up discussions again.

Despite being bedridden and not knowing if she's ever going to walk again, Julie can still make everyone laugh. What a gal 😍 👏

She is a brilliant writer: very much to the point and so funny that her pieces are enjoyable to read.

Thanks for sharing OP.

I admire Julie's lack of self pity so much - it's very humbling.

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Fabulous line

She must be very brave, facing an uncertain future and still managing to turn out articles.