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How stupid do you have to be to believe this?  It flies in the face of literally every single fact about Corbyn himself, and more generally about the party and/or Labour supporters. 

There are “radical” women in the United States who have bought, with zero thought apparently, the weird narratives around Bernie Sanders and his supporters too, so I’m not profoundly shocked, but unfollowing all the idiot British “radical” women on twitter was one of my better decisions because what a bunch of fools they are.  It’s just depressingly obvious that most women who call themselves “radical” are no such thing, and are only focused on what they are told and obediently believing in it and parroting it back, just like their genderist arch-nemisises (nemisi?) do.  Ain’t none of you different in the end.

“Corbyn has been one of the most outspoken and visible anti-racism campaigners in parliament for decades. In fact, it is his long-standing vocal support for oppressed ethnic and national minorities that lies at the root of the current antisemitism “crisis” in his own party.

The Labour leader has been a leading champion of the Palestinian cause, demanding that Israel end more than half a century of belligerent occupation that has oppressed Palestinians and is in clear breach of international law.

His activism long ago made him unpopular among many fellow MPs in his party, Jews and non-Jews alike, who are members of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) lobby. They have thrown their support fully behind Israel. LFI is one of the many organisations that connects the Labour party to Israel. All are anachronistic – remnants of a time when the British left treated Israel as nothing other than a sanctuary for Jews fleeing a long history of persecution in Europe.

But these Labour lobby groups reflected too a lingering European racism only too willing to overlook the legacy of Israel’s creation – the mass suffering of Palestinians ruled over by an unaccountable, brutal Israeli army.

It was Palestinians, not Europeans, who were made to atone for Europe’s racism towards the Jewish people. Corbyn acknowledges that historical fact. Most of his parliamentary colleagues refuse to do so. Some may even unconsciously resent him for highlighting their own hypocrisy and unthinking racism towards Palestinians.”

The anti-Semitism is partly linked to Muslim Labour voters/members/politicians. Labour failed to deal with grooming gangs, Labour failed to deal with voter fraud and the Tower Hamlets fiefdom, and it’s not because Labour are a fundamentally anti-Semitic party, it’s because Labour don’t want to risk the Muslim block vote. The issue with multiculturalism (as opposed to genuine equality) is that by adopting a relativistic view, Labour (and the UK establishment as a whole) never commit to feminist values that might upset religious men! It’s all wishy-washy and interpreted by different people in different ways. Corbyn has tried this approach on Brexit too, he’s admitted he’d have a second referendum but wouldn’t campaign for either option.

It doesn’t work with binary questions like Brexit, it doesn’t work with issues like are men women if they say they are, it is just cheap politicking.

This doesn’t help Muslim, ex-Muslim, or any other women at all. It’s patronising and lazy. Labour MPs like Ann Cryer who tried to help women and girls were ignored and sidelined. Sarah Champion was forced out of the Shadow Cabinet.

I’m an ex Labour member and I’m allowed to be fed up with Labour. I don’t have to be grateful for them just for being less shit than other parties. I want Labour to stand up for women.

Guilting me into voting Labour because the Tories are worse? That means I am accepting Liam Madigan, TWAW, and the destruction of women’s rights by gutting the Equality Act.

Also this is literally guilting women into voting Labour. We should be able to ask for more from the Labour party. I hate the idea that they can treat us like shit and still rely on women’s votes. At the very least we should be demanding a voice.

This line of thinking is what gets self-id in through the back door. We don’t dare withhold our votes so Labour argue we agree that self-id can be written into law and voila! companies decide to argue maternity leave is no longer necessary because not all women can get pregnant. Sex discrimination cases collapse in tribunals across the country. You must not realise how important the legal status of women is.

I am allowed to be pissed off that the party that is supposed to give a shit about feminist issues, doesn’t. You think I need to suck it up and shut up, that’s your opinion.

Sorry but such policies only look like ‘crumbs’ to those who are lucky enough to not to have to deal with day to day in-work poverty which women and their families are subject to because of Tory cuts and general savagery. 

How stupid do you have to be to believe this?  It flies in the face of literally every single fact about Corbyn himself, and more generally about the party and/or Labour supporters. 

There are “radical” women in the United States who have bought, with zero thought apparently, the weird narratives around Bernie Sanders and his supporters too, so I’m not profoundly shocked, but unfollowing all the idiot British “radical” women on twitter was one of my better decisions because what a bunch of fools they are.  It’s just depressingly obvious that most women who call themselves “radical” are no such thing, and are only focused on what they are told and obediently believing in it and parroting it back, just like their genderist arch-nemisises (nemisi?) do.  Ain’t none of you different in the end.

“Corbyn has been one of the most outspoken and visible anti-racism campaigners in parliament for decades. In fact, it is his long-standing vocal support for oppressed ethnic and national minorities that lies at the root of the current antisemitism “crisis” in his own party.

The Labour leader has been a leading champion of the Palestinian cause, demanding that Israel end more than half a century of belligerent occupation that has oppressed Palestinians and is in clear breach of international law.

His activism long ago made him unpopular among many fellow MPs in his party, Jews and non-Jews alike, who are members of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) lobby. They have thrown their support fully behind Israel. LFI is one of the many organisations that connects the Labour party to Israel. All are anachronistic – remnants of a time when the British left treated Israel as nothing other than a sanctuary for Jews fleeing a long history of persecution in Europe.

But these Labour lobby groups reflected too a lingering European racism only too willing to overlook the legacy of Israel’s creation – the mass suffering of Palestinians ruled over by an unaccountable, brutal Israeli army.

It was Palestinians, not Europeans, who were made to atone for Europe’s racism towards the Jewish people. Corbyn acknowledges that historical fact. Most of his parliamentary colleagues refuse to do so. Some may even unconsciously resent him for highlighting their own hypocrisy and unthinking racism towards Palestinians.”

The anti-Semitism is partly linked to Muslim Labour voters/members/politicians. Labour failed to deal with grooming gangs, Labour failed to deal with voter fraud and the Tower Hamlets fiefdom, and it’s not because Labour are a fundamentally anti-Semitic party, it’s because Labour don’t want to risk the Muslim block vote. The issue with multiculturalism (as opposed to genuine equality) is that by adopting a relativistic view, Labour (and the UK establishment as a whole) never commit to feminist values that might upset religious men! It’s all wishy-washy and interpreted by different people in different ways. Corbyn has tried this approach on Brexit too, he’s admitted he’d have a second referendum but wouldn’t campaign for either option.

It doesn’t work with binary questions like Brexit, it doesn’t work with issues like are men women if they say they are, it is just cheap politicking.

This doesn’t help Muslim, ex-Muslim, or any other women at all. It’s patronising and lazy. Labour MPs like Ann Cryer who tried to help women and girls were ignored and sidelined. Sarah Champion was forced out of the Shadow Cabinet.

I’m an ex Labour member and I’m allowed to be fed up with Labour. I don’t have to be grateful for them just for being less shit than other parties. I want Labour to stand up for women.

Guilting me into voting Labour because the Tories are worse? That means I am accepting Liam Madigan, TWAW, and the destruction of women’s rights by gutting the Equality Act.

Also this is literally guilting women into voting Labour. We should be able to ask for more from the Labour party. I hate the idea that they can treat us like shit and still rely on women’s votes. At the very least we should be demanding a voice.

This line of thinking is what gets self-id in through the back door. We don’t dare withhold our votes so Labour argue we agree that self-id can be written into law and voila! companies decide to argue maternity leave is no longer necessary because not all women can get pregnant. Sex discrimination cases collapse in tribunals across the country. You must not realise how important the legal status of women is.

I am allowed to be pissed off that the party that is supposed to give a shit about feminist issues, doesn’t. You think I need to suck it up and shut up, that’s your opinion.

Sorry but such policies only look like ‘crumbs’ to those who are lucky enough to not to have to deal with day to day in-work poverty which women and their families are subject to because of Tory cuts and general savagery. 

How stupid do you have to be to believe this?  It flies in the face of literally every single fact about Corbyn himself, and more generally about the party and/or Labour supporters. 

There are “radical” women in the United States who have bought, with zero thought apparently, the weird narratives around Bernie Sanders and his supporters too, so I’m not profoundly shocked, but unfollowing all the idiot British “radical” women on twitter was one of my better decisions because what a bunch of fools they are.  It’s just depressingly obvious that most women who call themselves “radical” are no such thing, and are only focused on what they are told and obediently believing in it and parroting it back, just like their genderist arch-nemisises (nemisi?) do.  Ain’t none of you different in the end.

“Corbyn has been one of the most outspoken and visible anti-racism campaigners in parliament for decades. In fact, it is his long-standing vocal support for oppressed ethnic and national minorities that lies at the root of the current antisemitism “crisis” in his own party.

The Labour leader has been a leading champion of the Palestinian cause, demanding that Israel end more than half a century of belligerent occupation that has oppressed Palestinians and is in clear breach of international law.

His activism long ago made him unpopular among many fellow MPs in his party, Jews and non-Jews alike, who are members of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) lobby. They have thrown their support fully behind Israel. LFI is one of the many organisations that connects the Labour party to Israel. All are anachronistic – remnants of a time when the British left treated Israel as nothing other than a sanctuary for Jews fleeing a long history of persecution in Europe.

But these Labour lobby groups reflected too a lingering European racism only too willing to overlook the legacy of Israel’s creation – the mass suffering of Palestinians ruled over by an unaccountable, brutal Israeli army.

It was Palestinians, not Europeans, who were made to atone for Europe’s racism towards the Jewish people. Corbyn acknowledges that historical fact. Most of his parliamentary colleagues refuse to do so. Some may even unconsciously resent him for highlighting their own hypocrisy and unthinking racism towards Palestinians.”

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I hope you all are going into this year full of love and strength!

Please don’t delete my captions xx

from ‘oranges are not the only fruit’ by jeanette winterson

My mom just needed *a job* to leave my dad, and lots of jobs qualified. There was still lots of medium skill work that wasn't in degreed professions, and lots of it was female-dominated (how many professional secretaries exist anymore, relative to the 80s?).

She didn't need to go back to school and put in 3 years of unpaid work just to make any living wage at all. She didn't need to become a graduate-degreed professional just to be able to end her marriage. She just needed *A* JOB. You needed to make more than minimum wage to be on your own, but not as much more as you do now. And people who did make minimum wage sometimes lived with roommates. Many of my older friends left home while working minimum wage jobs, something that just was not possible for my age group.

Whereas now many women are either in an appeasement dynamic with men in their lives that they depend on, or in an appeasement dynamic with the male-dominated professions they're in.

Eteri Chkadua (Georgian contemporary artist. Lives in US)

In Black, 2013