I think in Italy International Women's Day has lost its meaning somewhat. It's like a kind of Valentines Day where the men in your life buy you flowers and men congratulate you wherever you go. I know, creepy and weird.
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Caitlin was on Saturday kitchen ... she has an accent which resembles Victoria Cohen but on a bag of whizz. She came across as entitled, irritating to the point of me wanting to punch the tv & a chip on her shoulder which she struggles to hide.
All those men who spend International Women's Day going 'er when's International Men's Day?' Just to be dicks and waste everyone's time are clearly having an impact. Women now feel super guilty that they've been ignoring it when in reality these men don't care and have no intention of recognising it.
There is a male comedian (I think) who tweets back all of the men who do this with the date
I love Richard Herring. He's a true ally of women.
I worked for one company once that sent all of the female employees an "empowering" email telling us we were all beautiful, fragrant life-creators (I paraphrase). The person whose idea it was was based in Budapest, where I think it's very much the same sort of day as in Italy. I hit the roof and so did a few other women, and they had to send an apology around afterwards. bleeping benevolent sexism in the office. It was a seriously male-dominated office already so it was doubly awful.
Sorry, o/t.
Bloody hell, where do you work?! I'm not surprised about the men, but maybe I'm lucky to have never (knowingly) been acquainted with any women like this.
I think it's part of the angle of the new book. From the description of the contents on Amazon:
How did sex get boring? What are men really thinking?
I know top of my priorities as a woman is knowing what men are thinking. She must have totally ran out of ideas and she couldn't rehash the upbringing origin story for this one.
i hate the whole " how would you feel if your wife, sister..." surely you can have empathy without some kind of relation? i don't have any POC as relatives yet i can understand BLM. this attitude seems only to be done with feminism related issues
I cannot stand this. It usually means the person fundamentally has a less than progressive view and cannot see that there are huge, established systems in place that hold people back. I say this as usually it’s coming from someone in a more privileged position who believes people should ‘just try harder’ ....
It's almost always upper middle class white men who "want to play devil's advocate". When it's not them it's upper middle class white women. It's easy to posture when you have no (or little) skin in the game.
It would be more honest if she described her books as "me talking about my life and family which some may find amusing, useful or interesting" instead as the latest despatches from a feminist thinker. Does anyone remember when she said she was going to write a book that would do for socialism what HTBAW did for feminism"?
i find this a lot with issues realting to women. there is always a claim of "imagine this was your mother or your sister etcetc... is it so impossible to empathise unless it is related to someone you know? this is never done for other movements like BLM for example (as it rightly shouldn't be, no one should want any group to be discriminated as a basic human decency) it just pisses me off it always is with women's roghts issues
yeh ahe acts as if she is some kind of feminist philosopher it is so ridiculous
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Isn’t it just.
'origin story'
In my opinion, the people who use this an as argument really reveal how selfish they inherently are - they only care insofar as it relates to them - THEIR sister etc
This to me is a Bridget Jones era alarm bell - thought we had largely evolved past that
Also, with this - it seems clear that she doesn't want to have sex with her husband anymore, with 'The Maintenance Shag' and now this. I'm sure it's a hard issue to face head on (I have never personally been in this situation), but if it's not fun to have sex with your partner anymore and sex is important to you, then you should consider that the relationship may no longer be desirable, or if (boring) sex isn't important enough to you to consider ending the relationship, then maybe stop writing about it in the present tense? I don't know, it's just that if a man was writing in the mainstream press about sex with his current, also public, partner being boring, then people would understandably feel sorry for her.
I haven't read the book so don't know if this is the tenor of what she writes.
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Totally right about the male journalist. Also, as a woman her saying it plays into the idea we don't enjoy sex or have the same desires as men and that it's a chore we do to keep our men happy. Feels the opposite of progressive on sexual matters.
Self righteous anger on Twitter today on behalf of her mate Sali...damn those pesky trolls
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