Over the weekend, Posie Parker held a small women's rights rally in St Peter's square in Manchester city centre to highlight the issue of men accessing female-only spaces. Posie has been fighting this fight for several years. She has a large online presence, as well as many mainstream media appearances, and recently toured America giving interviews and presentations.
I like Posie, real name Kellie-Jay Keen, she is a sensible, straight-talking woman who sees lunacy all around her and will not be silenced. She is the one who screams 'The king is in the altogether!'. And the cherry on top is that she does not see herself as a feminist – as I have already said, she sees lunacy all around. Well done her.
The rally in Manchester was arranged and advertised for 1pm on Sunday at the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, the famous suffragette. From this point, I have two issues with the rally on the day: their choice of location and reaction to the trans activists.
Let us deal with the fascists first. A small group of male looking individuals, all dressed in black with balaclavas covering their faces, arrived at the statue hours before to deny the rally their preferred location. I do not have a problem with this. It is a free country (I know this is debatable) and public spaces can be used by anyone for legal means. But as with nearly all protests, tempers and emotions are heightened. Some individuals from the rally were incensed and wanted to reclaim back the statue space for their use. The usual pushing and shoving took place. The police had to intervene.
The battle of the statue had been won the second the rally turned up and saw a group of Antifa looking masked thugs at the base of the statue. The PR optics of this situation would have supported the overall aim of the rally, but unfortunately, many in the rally were feminists, which is just another name for Antifa-light. They hassled and provoked the men in black who were legally counter-protesting, albeit, in a slight intimidating manner.
The result was exactly what the feminists had hoped for, an opportunity to claim victimhood status and to call men evil oppressors. Social media has been full of posts of women screaming their shock at the level of misogyny on the day. Men's posts were nearly all sexist for they insisted that these women need protection because they were women – sexism is only acceptable to women when it benefits women.
The rally should have turned up on the day, saw the lunatics had pinched their space, and move to another. That is exactly what Posie did. I told you she was sensible. To ignore the protesters and not engage with them would have been the best outcome for this rally. But a few radical feminists always spoilt it for everyone else.
What do I mean by 'spoilt it'? I mean these types of radical actions turn people away from your cause for they see you as just a different version of the lunacy. The rally had a very important topic to discuss, it did not need drama. This battle will be won by educating women and girls who are in favour of trans ideology, not by demonising men.
This brings me nicely to the statue itself. Emmeline Pankhurst was not a women's rights hero, she was a terrorist. It is insulting to the people of Manchester that a statue was ever erected to commemorate her. The suffragettes were plain old fashioned terrorists, in fact, the IRA used their campaign as a template, such as the use of the letter bomb. At least 5 people were murdered in their reign of terror and at least 24 were seriously injured. Many historians state that the suffragettes delayed voting rights for women by years. The real heroes of the suffrage movement were Millicent Fawcett and the suffragists – a peaceful movement that lobbied parliament and persuaded the public.
Emmeline Pankhurst stated that they committed acts of violence to "terrorise the British public". Suffragettes were proud of their attacks and reported them in their own newspaper under the headline "Reign of Terror". Emmeline declared their fight was "guerrilla warfare", as well as that their aim was "to make England and every department of English life insecure and unsafe".
This is why feminists adore the Pankhurst family for they were violent thugs who would do anything to promote their cause. Women today need to be careful of who they place upon pedestals for violence attracts violence, just ask Sasha Johnson, the British BLM activist who called for violence to end 'racism'. Unfortunately, you cannot ask her because she was shot in the head by black gangsters by mistake.
Women have a real issue to fight currently. Do not water it down with feminism, men-hating or violent encounters. Speak your message clearly, play your own game, ignore the decenters and continue to fight for single-sex spaces.
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