Of course feminism is about freedom. But to simply tear up the status quo would require the kind of power women don’t have while ie laws are passed by majority men and scrutinised by male hereditary peers. We can push for and plot revolution. And do daily what we can to speed it.
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Replying to @SophieRunning @Finn_Mackay and
I’ve spent the last year building a fund to get more women elected. Because ‘the world is as it is’ women don’t have equal income to men. Perhaps I should have campaigned instead for economic & political liberation as the ideal. And sat for another 100 years righteously waiting..
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I fully support your work & all you've done for women. I agree more women should be in parliament, at least 50%. That's a win against sex discrimination, but of course not all women in parliament are feminists, just as not all women are feminists. These are wins, not end points.
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Replying to @Finn_Mackay @SophieRunning and
By supporting women into parliament of course you may well be fighting for economic & political liberation because those women may take up those fights within the system, which is drastically needed. We need a critical mass of those in government, women & men.
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So why does the same not apply for trying to get equal numbers of women into the Lords, so long as we have the Lords, in order to take up the fight there too? Weary of being charged w failing to build Utopia bc daily work involves working with what we've got to try to get there
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It's obviously a win for anti-discrimination, as I said. It's clear sex discrimination. I mean, given the current state of things I personally wouldn't make it a priority, but fair enough. Whether those women then use those positions for feminist ends would remain to be seen.
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Replying to @Finn_Mackay @SophieRunning and
I'm wary of everything being called feminist & any woman with ambition or a goal or money or power being called a feisty feminist whether she even is or not. Feminism is about liberation from patriarchy for whole of society, certainly it's a long road I agree.
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Not quite sure how you get to ambitious feisty etc from my comment or Helen's article. Feminism is liberation. Activism: working within compromised systems to to build better, while trying not to lose hope, energy or sanity deflecting questions about the purity of one's position.
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Indeed, I'm not saying you meant that. I'm saying I'm wary of that very common narrative which so often surrounds issues such as this. Anyway, I look forward to class traitors joining HoL & building momentum to end hereditary peerages for starters.
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.. Maybe. In the meantime I'd be glad if any of the women in Helen's article were to be given the chance to scrutinise Brexit legislation.
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Yeah I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the woman in the article who was "radicalized" by the knowledge her beautiful blonde newborn daughter will never be the 15th Baronet is gonna disappoint anyone looking for progressive politics
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