Searing and excellent from Victoria Smith

[ArabellaScott]

Superb article on calls for women to shut up, be kind, and get over it.

Gender ideology is an anti women movement that uses society's deeply entrenched misogyny to further degrade and denigrate women.

Stop telling us to be nice when pointing out abuse.

https://open.substack.com/pub/glosswitch/p/more-heat-more-light

This is an outstanding piece - the combination of complete honesty, self-awareness, deep emotion and reason and logic is powerful.

And very moving - the courage to lay your feelings and experiences out like that deserves so much credit, and so much gratitude from those of us who don't have the same amount of courage that Victoria has.

She is feeling, thinking and speaking all the things that so many of us feel and think but can't, for one reason or another, speak.

Thank you Victoria Smith

Absolutely love Victoria's writing and this one is just perfect.... Do we think Lisa Nandy would read it if I sent it to her, or is she a lost cause?

I bloody love Victoria Smith. I have never yet read anything she's written on this issue without fervently agreeing. Such a talented writer, and she's outdone herself here.

Brilliant article, thanks for the share. Her book 'Hags' is excellent. She's a very, very articulate and intelligent women (I'll stop fan girling now).

Shes so spot on - "The misogyny – and the utter failure of politicians to condemn it as misogyny that is intrinsic to a misogynistic movement – is terrifying, but it’s hardly a surprise."

Brilliant

Great! I've been feeling enraged by the whole thing. First massive relief but then anger at the lack of accountability, the gaslighting, the abuse women have suffered and that measly reponse from the government over the issue. And their lack of condemnation (and arrests) for the violent threats on women's lives over the weekend.

Brilliant article.

I find the concept of gender identity sexist and fundamentally incompatible with feminism, but understand that for many people, claiming to be the opposite sex is the most comfortable way for them to live their lives. I have no interest in questioning their choices, but think it’s important that feminists are not ordered to go along with a belief system that undermines so many of our beliefs and analyses. I think my own perception of female experience matters and do not wish to describe myself as ‘cis’, let alone own up to ‘cis privilege’, because that contradicts everything I feel and have experienced. Please let women have our stuff (including our one and only political movement), as that’s only fair. The End.

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💯utterly brilliant. Thank you @ArabellaScott

Brilliant. Turn up the heat.

BRING IT

Battle cry.

Bumping for anyone who hasn't picked this up amidst everything else going on in FWR. It is a fabulous piece and I have bookmarked it as I want to come back to it again and again. Thank you Victoria.

Just read it again and experienced a surge of justifiable wrath.

Its a great piece, thanks for posting