i don't vote and couldn't care less about ideas of left or right. what i do care about is humanity. and for anyone who cares about people there is only one place to stand on this. there is no such thing as transition. you can re draw the map but it doesn't change the land.
I do think we need to be able to name our differences without arguing about them and without trying to convince each other we are right. I'm a bit over being told the 'a' word can't be mentioned. Forty years campaigning for abortion rights and now I'm never to mention abortion? I'm not in the business of attempting to convince women opposed to abortion that they are wrong - but I don't like the way some groups ban any mention of abortion.
Yes, this new super-sensitivity makes us take our eye off the ball whilst we pander to it and skirt around it, trying to find the words we can use without offending everyone who has a different opinion or POV. While we're busy being distracted, those who don't give a rat's use it as a cloak to sneak in a do their own thing. I have no truck with deliberately offending people for the sake of it, but neither do I have any truck with sanitising everything either.
I agree. In the face of the level of irrational opposition from the left around all the safeguarding issues that women's and children's rights bring up, I'll use whatever sources of support I can find. It is important to separate out what you are trying to do and to stay focused on this. Holly Lawford-Smith in her book "Gender-Critical Feminism" makes the very valid point that so called "intersectionality" means that women's issues never make it to the top of the to-do list; that by the time everyone else's interests are served, women are left behind to pick up the pieces (again) and our needs are not met because we are never important enough on our own. That is one of the things I admire about Kellie-Jay Keen; she is not an apologist for putting women first and foremost in the work she is doing.
That's exactly right. Whilst we're busy ensuring everyone's needs are met, we take our eye off the ball, and our precise needs go unmet. I also like KJK for that reason - she's laser-focussed, like it or not.
i don't vote and couldn't care less about ideas of left or right. what i do care about is humanity. and for anyone who cares about people there is only one place to stand on this. there is no such thing as transition. you can re draw the map but it doesn't change the land.
I do think we need to be able to name our differences without arguing about them and without trying to convince each other we are right. I'm a bit over being told the 'a' word can't be mentioned. Forty years campaigning for abortion rights and now I'm never to mention abortion? I'm not in the business of attempting to convince women opposed to abortion that they are wrong - but I don't like the way some groups ban any mention of abortion.
Yes, this new super-sensitivity makes us take our eye off the ball whilst we pander to it and skirt around it, trying to find the words we can use without offending everyone who has a different opinion or POV. While we're busy being distracted, those who don't give a rat's use it as a cloak to sneak in a do their own thing. I have no truck with deliberately offending people for the sake of it, but neither do I have any truck with sanitising everything either.
I agree. In the face of the level of irrational opposition from the left around all the safeguarding issues that women's and children's rights bring up, I'll use whatever sources of support I can find. It is important to separate out what you are trying to do and to stay focused on this. Holly Lawford-Smith in her book "Gender-Critical Feminism" makes the very valid point that so called "intersectionality" means that women's issues never make it to the top of the to-do list; that by the time everyone else's interests are served, women are left behind to pick up the pieces (again) and our needs are not met because we are never important enough on our own. That is one of the things I admire about Kellie-Jay Keen; she is not an apologist for putting women first and foremost in the work she is doing.
That's exactly right. Whilst we're busy ensuring everyone's needs are met, we take our eye off the ball, and our precise needs go unmet. I also like KJK for that reason - she's laser-focussed, like it or not.
Wonderful Katrina - and I LOVE yours and Di's video, it's fantastic.