Soz, nomination canceled
On Tuesday 21st February 2020, we were surprised and delighted to find that Woman’s Place UK had been nominated for something called the National Diversity Awards.
Congratulations! You have just been nominated for the Community Organisation (Gender) award at the National Diversity Awards!
Woman’s Place UK felt honoured by the nomination.
We were invited to accept the nomination and to create a profile page.
In the meantime, why not create a profile page so others wishing to nominate you can find you! Please click the link below to confirm you accept this nomination.
They clicked on the link below but it didn’t work. The password they’d been issued was rejected. They tried again on a different computer, and got the same result. They emailed the National Diversity Awards to report the problem. There was no response.
On Tuesday 4th March, we tried to log in again, unsuccessfully, and decided to register a ‘forgotten password’ to see if that would elicit a response.
It did, it elicited a “no recognize password” response and advice to contact them for help, so they tried that again. This time a response arrived.
Many thanks for your email and apologies for any inconvenience.
Unfortunately, upon confirming your nomination, we received a number of complaints which are currently being investigated by our advisory panel. During the nomination process, it is our obligation to review any issues raised and we are committed to ensuring our nominees values align with the inclusive ethos of The National Diversity Awards.
Inclusive of what? Inclusive of men who say they are women and not of women who say that men are not women? Is that the kind of inclusivity we get to have? The only kind?
They said they’d “be in touch” once they’d “completed” their “investigation.”
Given that we had not completed our public profile page, we wondered where “a number of complaints” could have originated from.
We were also astonished that the National Diversity Awards had only informed us that our nomination had been rescinded when we approached them for an explanation.
The National Diversity Awards gave us no information on the complaints nor did they offer us any opportunity to make representation to the “advisory panel”.
Naturally. Women who refuse to obey orders to call men “women” are so evil that we don’t deserve basic courtesy.
WPUK replied asking for more information, and were rudely ignored. See above: no courtesy for you evil women who don’t “include” men in the category “women.”
WPUK has heard noting more to this day.
The National Diversity Awards lists the following categories as being eligible for recognition:
Age | Disability | Gender | LGBT | Race, Religion & Faith
Quite a mess, isn’t it. “Gender” should be “sex,” and “Race” should not be in the same category as “Religion” on account of how they’re not the same thing at all. But perhaps not quite so obvious…where the hell is class? Where is diversity of money-having? Where is the category for people who have to go on showing up for work during a pandemic to get their small paychecks while people who make big paychecks can mostly work from home? Where is the difference between poverty and wealth?
Never mind. That’s not interesting any more. It’s too of the earth earthy. The real heroes of our time are men who have intense fantasies of being women.
Lumping race and religion/”faith” together is exactly the kind of thing that causes problems for women within Muslim families who disagree with the conservative tenets of the faith, who need support, and who are too-often ignored by UK “progressives” who are far too concerned about “Islamophobia” to listen too closely to the issues raised by liberal Muslims and Brits with Pakistani/Indian heritage.
Subsuming women’s rights entirely into the category “gender” is such blatant sexist bullshit, it’s clear these “awards” are a joke.
And indeed, of course class isn’t mentioned. I’m sure these are comfortably well-off young people, the kind of people I’ve had to work and live alongside my whole adult life: who like to think they count as working-class because they take low-paying jobs in the city and live in the city, but they still call their parents’ house in the suburbs “home” and still have a bedroom to go “home” to for the holidays, who have no idea the constant anxiety, the fear that wakes you up in the middle of the night in sweats, of living paycheque to paycheque with absolutely no safety net, no parents or relatives to fall back on. People who don’t understand that your “place” in the city isn’t your fun-times adventure-pad; it’s your real home — the only shelter you’ve got, and if you lose it, the consequences are far more than an awkward phone call to Mum and Dad: it’s selling your mattress for $40, stuffing as many clothes you can into a duffel bag and registering at a bedbug-infested shelter. A lot of young people (and not-so-young people too) have a hard time understanding that for many of us it feels like every day we’re clinging by our nails to the ridge of a volcano’s caldera, just trying not to fall into the fire.
And frankly I’m not one to talk, because I don’t have dependents. Even stuffing a duffel bag and moving into a shelter for a while isn’t so bad compared to what impoverished parents have to go through to support their kids.
I wonder if the COVID crisis will bring class, income inequality and the social safety-net back to the forefront of the left’s priorities, where frankly it has always belonged…
Considering that they omitted the apostrophe in “nominees values”, perhaps the comma in the Race, Religion and Faith was just another indication that they have no idea how to punctuate?
I think it’s time for a new movement, a movement by women, for women, about women. We could call it something that suggests the supported group is composed of women, maybe something like…oh, I’ve got it! Feminism!
@iknklast;
We could call the other type “femininism.”
At least they could reorder it a little:
Age | Disability | Sexuality | Race | Gender, Religion & Faith
Heh. Much improved.
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