I have felt compelled to pay 4.99 to respond to this. I listened to Michael Portillo and Kiri Tunks on a radio show with Mann. Said similar shite. The dismissal of women my age by these men has been the story of my life. They don't fecking change. I could write pages about the shit I've lived through, and now I have to listen to these fools dismissing me in different clothes. No.
Not only the RCs....see the report last month which showed endemic and persistent CSE in the CofE. Exactly the same, complete with cover ups, denials and forgiveness.
The difference tends to be IMO not the religion but the degree of power and control available, especially by men over women and children. I remember as a child being instinctively quite repulsed by nuns in strict habits because I perceived them even as a pre teen as somehow subjugating their bodies to a male structure and having an element of judgement on other women. That sense in me faded as religious orders eased their restrictions and nuns became to my eyes more humanised, and women’s choices in life expanded. I had a very strong antipathy to the Roman Catholic church, NOT individual catholics, for the stance on birth control which held women in subjugation. That same sense in me returned when I came across women in full hijab and particularly niqab in the UK. I was called a racist for musing later that my preteen daughter and I had felt uncomfortable being with a woman in niqab, especially when we saw through the small eye gap that she was white. The reluctance to query cultural traditions that impact on women because of fear of being or appearing to be racist feels as if women have to go to the bottom of the pile.
There is nothing men won’t appropropriate from women, names, property, rights, spaces, money, time, children intellectual property, bodies, safety..... just nothing they won’t take from us. Now once again and shamelessly erasing our very existence for HIStory.
I’m baffled that the Telegraph has been so quiet on this issue, or pro TRA like this piece, despite having some quirky columnists with a range of views.
I’d say there’s a strong dose of harrumphers against trendy C of E vicars and the editorial team are scathing about Welby esp. his response to Covid. There’s a longstanding column called Transgender diaries by someone who would previously have been called a TS. I don’t get even a whiff of TRA entitlement from her. Perhaps because she’s so sympathetic and reasonable à la Jan Morris that the editorial team assume all trans people are the same? 🤔
I have felt compelled to pay 4.99 to respond to this. I listened to Michael Portillo and Kiri Tunks on a radio show with Mann. Said similar shite. The dismissal of women my age by these men has been the story of my life. They don't fecking change. I could write pages about the shit I've lived through, and now I have to listen to these fools dismissing me in different clothes. No.
Sick of men suggesting black women are some kind of comparable sub class of women.
To be brutal here, but when did the church ever really care about the safe guarding of children. 🤔
to be fair, that was our lot
Not only the RCs....see the report last month which showed endemic and persistent CSE in the CofE. Exactly the same, complete with cover ups, denials and forgiveness.
The difference tends to be IMO not the religion but the degree of power and control available, especially by men over women and children. I remember as a child being instinctively quite repulsed by nuns in strict habits because I perceived them even as a pre teen as somehow subjugating their bodies to a male structure and having an element of judgement on other women. That sense in me faded as religious orders eased their restrictions and nuns became to my eyes more humanised, and women’s choices in life expanded. I had a very strong antipathy to the Roman Catholic church, NOT individual catholics, for the stance on birth control which held women in subjugation. That same sense in me returned when I came across women in full hijab and particularly niqab in the UK. I was called a racist for musing later that my preteen daughter and I had felt uncomfortable being with a woman in niqab, especially when we saw through the small eye gap that she was white. The reluctance to query cultural traditions that impact on women because of fear of being or appearing to be racist feels as if women have to go to the bottom of the pile.
Jesus wept.
There is nothing men won’t appropropriate from women, names, property, rights, spaces, money, time, children intellectual property, bodies, safety..... just nothing they won’t take from us. Now once again and shamelessly erasing our very existence for HIStory.
Beautifully translated.
Aimee is as welcome in Girlguiding as Rolf Harris.
I’m baffled that the Telegraph has been so quiet on this issue, or pro TRA like this piece, despite having some quirky columnists with a range of views.
CofE, innit? Torygraph is its daily paper. Must be a bit confusing for them.
I’d say there’s a strong dose of harrumphers against trendy C of E vicars and the editorial team are scathing about Welby esp. his response to Covid. There’s a longstanding column called Transgender diaries by someone who would previously have been called a TS. I don’t get even a whiff of TRA entitlement from her. Perhaps because she’s so sympathetic and reasonable à la Jan Morris that the editorial team assume all trans people are the same? 🤔
I know the column you mean. Sorry - it had smug self entitlement all the way through it like a stick o’ rock!
Okay, can we agree to disagree? Or shall we take this on to Twitter and have a punch up? 😉
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