Extraordinarily tired of constantly having arguments about gender in politics ignored, as though trying to stamp out misogyny, in personal actions and policy, is an unnecessary distraction from “real politics”. It’s exhausting and demeaning.
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This is a cross-factional, cross-party issue and has been all of my life. Pointing out structural injustices and flat out exclusion or hatred is always treated as time-wasting, rather than completely central to building a more equal politics and society.
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Same goes for disability, race, sexuality, class, nationality: I got told by a senior journalist - when I asked him not to use the word “spastic” - that unlike me, he cared about actually improving people’s lives. Absolutely pathetic mischaracterisations like that.
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But whenever you argue for more representation, or for policies to consider impact on particular groups, people will bite their lip and loosely feign agreement, when their actions and private language harbour resentment at having to think about structural inequalities in politics
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No one actually enjoys having to constantly discuss racism, sexism, homophobia, and how the state and society discriminate against disabled people and migrants, so the least people can do is listen without eye-rolling and bad faith accusations of opportunism.
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Legitimately amazed that a chunk of people still believe they cannot get ahead in politics not because they don’t work hard, but because white, straight English men are the most put upon “group” in the whole country.
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