Women's rights general conversations - Thread 10

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of Thread 9.

There is so much excellent information and so many active discussions on FWR that I wondered if it would be useful to have a thread to sort of "cross-fertilise" between them - airing little thoughts or vignettes that wouldn't themselves merit their own thread, to highlight other posts/threads of particular interest or to point to notable developments on fast-moving threads so that casual observers know where to look.

(For example, "the X thread has meandered onto a fascinating discussion of Y" or "Poster P's amazing analysis on thread Z might have relevance to the scenario in thread W" or "Has anybody noticed this recurring theme that keeps coming up??" or even "Random bloke asked me to smile while I was choosing onions in the supermarket, grr"- that sort of thing).

Ouch, hope it heals up quickly, @SinnerBoy !

Can't see a thread on this, I'll put it here, Julie Bindel on Iceland

https://archive.ph/FIDhH

Jeez, that's quite a hard read, it's very sinister, thank goodness sane heads prevailed here. Despite numerous women being arrested previously, at least we have Maya's ET Appeal and the FWS Scotland judgment.

This sounds interesting:

26 women moved in together — in a housing estate they built themselves.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/a868778c-c411-4370-b188-93c9c9cb4b96?shareToken=1a58e67b8e16848f26aa5cf0346e2c4b

I remember their battles to get it set up - I think there were some discussions about it and the possibility of doing similar on the feminism thread on the Old Place. Nice to see an update.

Not the same as it's not a women-only caper but there's a great chain of homes for seniors in France called Domitys, I've just looked it up and apparently they have about 150 sites in France plus some in Belgium. The apartments are really nicely laid out, generally have a balcony, and the homes usually have a small swimming pool and sauna. The interesting thing about them is that they rent spare apartments out like hotel rooms. We've stayed in at least three different places in France for a night in one of these residences on our way to somewhere else. The upshot is that the long term residents get to see and interact with new people - including families with their kids, and their dogs, etc. - all the time. They always have a nice atmosphere about them, quite lively and feeling like part of the community rather than a place to stick old people away out of sight. Sorry for the diversion, but this story just brought it to mind, would recommend to anyone passing through France and looking for an overnight stop.

Excellent long read linked here, for any who might have missed this thread.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5530420-fascinating-article-about-the-failure-and-complicity-of-the-bbc-regarding-transactivism?

Yes - very good.

Thanks, that was interesting and confirmed what we've been saying. It was good to read the actual, real experiences of those who've been through that mill.

Unison (the union) have a post up on both x and bluesky asking members to support them in opposing the FWS judgment. On X it has 1.5k responses pretty much universally telling them to fuck off; on bluesky it has 20 responses which have already degenerated into infighting about what is transphobia.

Unions are just hopeless, aren't they?

Watching the women's Challenge Cup Final, and Wigan are putting a great show in the sunshine, well on the way to the first part of a double if the men's team can see off Hull KR this afternoon.

Very little reaction on Threads in either direction.

There’s also an email address that I’ve seen so I sent a response.