Power of Women Festival 2022 in numbers

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1. more of the same , not very original is it.

   • What did you want?

     Are any festivals “original”? Perhaps you could mansplain to the the organisers how they could make their festival more original in your eyes. They’ll love the irony of that.

     Sounds like the organisers do a great job to me.

     Do you just hate it because it has women in the title?

     • Nicely put

2. Hang on a minute – the photographs do not support the statistics.

   If there were 202 participants in the parade and the parade stretched for 200 metres – then surely they would have to be walking in single file, one metre apart ?

   However, the photos show most of the participants walking four abreast . . .

3. Ban it for being sexist.

4. I notice on the site it is women, non binary & ‘trans’ women.

   Doubt most women will support it-seeing what has been happening in recent times & how men can now decide one day to put a skirt on, declare themselves a woman & enter women only spaces such as locker rooms, toilets & even prison cells(even if they are convicted of sex crimes against women) & women now have to accept this or have the phobia bs thrown at them.

   Any sexual offence done by them is now marked down as a female sex crime, which hasn’t as you would expect been well received by women & anybody who questions this such as JK Rowling & the female Labour MP for Canterbury is then cancelled, gets death threats etc.

   This event ticks so many ‘diversity’ boxes with refugees, trans, non binary etc that I am amazed the BBC haven’t bought the rights & airing it live. Just look at this guff from their site-which of course rails against the evil white patriarchy(yawn)& teaches how to deal with women who don’t subscribe to the women have penises mantra-they are never judgmental to other women, unless you are a woman & don’t accept science & biology have had it wrong for centuries as they claim. One wonders how a festival for women can be run with a straight (or is that ‘CIS’ now) face, when it demands biological women no longer have safe spaces, or any ability to question the Stonewall propaganda that wants to take away their rights.

   Internalised Sexism Course By The Disobedient Survivors

   This is a compassionate course for women and non binary people exploring internalised sexism and how we can overcome it.

   Through discussion, writing and reflection we will collectively begin to understand and remedy the harm that social conditioning and patriarchy causes ourselves and each other, run by The Disobedient Survivors.

   The Disobedient Survivors, Megan and Bryony, come from the standpoint that we all have internalised sexism; this impacts how we navigate the world, how we understand ourselves and how we build our communities.

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   They do one for men as well though-tells you all about your male privilege(only white no doubt)& how not to sexually assault & rape women-men are all about ‘rape culture’ apparently & spend all day on the streets sexually offending.

5. So much to entertain and enjoy on these comments pages!
   Steve, couldn’t we all do with examining’Power dynamics and jealousy
   Sex, sexuality, shame and stigma
   Victim blaming each other
   Judgment and conditioning
   Looking at our own insecurities, where they come from and challenging toxic behaviours’?

   • I am still trying to work out what it all means. It used to be so simple boy meets girl, or boy meets boy or girl meets girl, legs get over. Now there is 160 different sexes(although even the expert in it can only name 40 of them) internal torment & sexism & in the not too distant future you will likely have to sign a contract to even go on a date.

6. No, there are not ‘160 sexes.’ Firstly, sex is what you are born as, gender is what you identify as. For example, if you were born female but identify as non-binary, you would go often by they/them instead of she/her, but you would have female ‘parts.’ Cisgender is identifying as your sex, so a cisgender woman would go by she/her. The whole ‘160 genders’ thing is media hyperbole anyway. Sure, there are several ways one can choose to express their gender, but putting a number to it is just weird. If you’d like to ask any questions, I’d be more than happy to answer any if you want 🙂

   • No thanks Delta, gender pronouns are enough for me to have to lie down in a darkened room. Life has become very complicated the last 5 years or so.