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I'm going to regret asking this I'm sure but...what *are* "women's hard won sex based rights"?
I ask this as someone with an MA in the history of gender and sexuality. I genuinely don't know what people mean when they say "hard won sex based rights". It's such a vague phrase.
I ask this as someone with an MA in the history of gender and sexuality. I genuinely don't know what people mean when they say "hard won sex based rights". It's such a vague phrase.
When I ask people on here, the response is usually something woolly about women only prisons or toilets. A genuine feminist position would surely challenge the notion of women in prison, e.g. the Corston report, or even better, the notion of incarceration itself.
Even if questioning the validity of incarceration or women in prisons is too much, surely a more important issue is abuse of women by prison guards and police, or re-criminalisation/re-victimisation by the system?
& if they think that ladies loos were a "hard won fight" in the UK, they clearly know very little about the history of loos. A much more pressing UK feminist issue now is hugely decreasing amount of public toilets, which disproportionately affects disabled folk & those with kids.
"hard won sex based rights" is, as far as I can tell, a repackaged "protect family values" phrase of the sort that gave us section 28; but even more weaselly. It pretends to be doing feminist work, while it's actually promoting a conservative ideology.
Some good points made about martial rape - only made illegal in case law in the 90s.
Another one could be when in the 70s feminists took direct action and occupied post offices to force the government to pay child support direct to women, not all to the husband...
Another one could be when in the 70s feminists took direct action and occupied post offices to force the government to pay child support direct to women, not all to the husband...
...however this has been rolled back with the introduction of Universal Credit, forcing women back into the same sort of abusive domestic traps they were in 40 years ago.
I would have thought that was a better fight worth taking on.
But is that "sex based"?
I would have thought that was a better fight worth taking on.
But is that "sex based"?
Single payee for universal credit applies not just to heterosexual relationships. To assume it's sex based is to assume only women are vulnerable, and that women are always vulnerable - this is not a feminist position.
Someone in the replies here who thinks women's toilets came into existence after WW2, because coverture laws ended. The same person who called me mentioning my MA as an appeal to authority.
People, I plead. If you're going to make claims to history, please read some history.
People, I plead. If you're going to make claims to history, please read some history.
