Bullying is NEVER acceptable
Stone the crows. Green Party Women on Facebook:
On the day before a general election, Green Party Women are shocked and deeply saddened at the investigation by Fair Play for Women that discloses several Green Party prospective parliamentary candidates using a misogynist slur on public platforms.
Our campaign launch, to ‘Make Misogyny a Hate Crime’, feels very hollow when we cannot set an example within our own party.
This reprehensible behaviour by a handful of candidates does not represent the values of the wider Green Party membership, nor the Party’s core values, and is completely unacceptable. Green Party Women are raising formal complaints against all party members involved.
We will never convince others to reach consensus in the fight against climate change or any issue, with such hostility and poor leadership and judgement. Bullying is NEVER acceptable.
Green Party Women unequivocally condemns the use of misogynist slurs and hate speech against women. We call upon prospective parliamentary candidates of ALL parties to conduct themselves in a civil and respectful manner during the election campaign, and beyond.
Lots of comments defending the practice of calling women ‘TERFs” though.
I wonder if it’s simply that the ‘woke’ can’t get their heads round the idea that fifty-ish percent of the population can be oppressed. Do they work on the basis that the smaller the oppressed group, the more oppressed they must be (a per capita oppression index, perhaps), so they need greater support?
I don’t think that’s it. There are plenty of people who stand up for women’s rights except when transgenderism comes into the conversation. The dissonance is strong.
I think the reason the woke (and other people) are so down with trans dogma is that it got harnessed to gay rights. Gay people worked hard to gain their rights and acceptance by society. Trans came along and said, ‘Yep, we can use that’, stuck a T on the acronym, and loudly proclaimed themselves under the rainbow umbrella. Too many gay people accepted it.
Thus saving the T part the actual hard work; that was done by someone else. Now they think they can capitalize on the hard, soul-searing, back-breaking, millennia-long work done by feminists. Without having to work for themselves. And they were so readily accepted by the gay community, they can’t understand why the feminists are resisting. While some of us feminists (especially those who are lesbian) wonder why the G acquiesced so easily.