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https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/07/02/labour-would-have-the-suffragettes-spinning-in-their-graves/
> The relationship that left-wing women have with the Labour Party is the UK’s greatest ongoing abusive relationship. Female Labour supporters must be livid with self-loathing (‘I must stop being so selfish and hoarding rights, like a dinosaur!’) or have successfully been gaslit (‘I’m not really being threatened with choking on lady-dick, I’m just a whinging little fucker!’).
> Mrs Pankhurst herself was barred from joining her local Manchester Labour Party because she was a woman. Her friend, Labour’s founder Keir Hardie, made a special dispensation so that she could join the London branch instead. Little has changed. A few females are allowed into the shadow cabinet so the rights-robbing optics look okay. Yes, sexism – like snobbishness and anti-Semitism – used to be even worse in the Conservative Party than the Labour Party, but those days are gone. The new difference between them when it comes to women’s rights can be seen in the vastly differing ways Rosie Duffield and Kemi Badenoch have been treated by their respective parties.
> The relationship that left-wing women have with the Labour Party is the UK’s greatest ongoing abusive relationship. Female Labour supporters must be livid with self-loathing (‘I must stop being so selfish and hoarding rights, like a dinosaur!’) or have successfully been gaslit (‘I’m not really being threatened with choking on lady-dick, I’m just a whinging little fucker!’).
> Mrs Pankhurst herself was barred from joining her local Manchester Labour Party because she was a woman. Her friend, Labour’s founder Keir Hardie, made a special dispensation so that she could join the London branch instead. Little has changed. A few females are allowed into the shadow cabinet so the rights-robbing optics look okay. Yes, sexism – like snobbishness and anti-Semitism – used to be even worse in the Conservative Party than the Labour Party, but those days are gone. The new difference between them when it comes to women’s rights can be seen in the vastly differing ways Rosie Duffield and Kemi Badenoch have been treated by their respective parties.