Feminists often speak about women’s spaces. In a world completely dominated by men it is no surprise that women often find themselves desiring women’s spaces.
In a man’s world a woman is just a piece of property and a fuck toy. Something to be used and abused as men see fit.
Considering that in man’s world women are always been brought down, it is no surprise that there are many everyday women walking around with very low self esteem.
Women are not only held back by sexist laws, customs etc, but when a woman believes she is just a worthless piece of shit and her main objective in life and purpose for living is to serve men, then she is not a likely candidate to achieve much in life. If women are constantly thinking so lowly of themselves, then they certainly won’t be able to pull themselves up to higher standards and achieve what God created them to achieve.
A male dominated society only offers women oppression and depression.
Women need their own spaces, where not only they can discuss female issues with out been run down by men, but also they need these spaces in which they can support each other hold and hold each other up and show that women have so much to offer this world and they can achieve so much and the only thing holding them back is male domination.
As one who firmly believes that women (and feminist men) need to support each other I was rather disappointed when I came across the following article on the MailOnline written by Abul Taher and Brendan Carlin on 30 October 2011.
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The Hattie Cabinet: Harman 'riding roughshod' over Miliband as she launches women-only frontbench team
Harriet Harman was yesterday accused of 'riding roughshod' over Labour leader Ed Miliband after she launched a new bid to boost the power of women Labour MPs.
Ms Harman, Labour's deputy leader, sparked fury among male party colleagues by announcing that the 11 women in the Shadow Cabinet were holding their own meetings.
They said Ms Harman informed the Labour leader of the plan – already being dubbed 'Harriet's Kitchen Cabinet' – at a full Shadow Cabinet meeting earlier this month.
One witness told The Mail on Sunday that towards the end of the meeting, Ms Harman mentioned that the women members would be meeting on their own. The source added: 'The blokes on the Shadow Cabinet just looked at each other as if to say, what the hell is all this about?'Harriet then said that as the Tories were now losing the women's vote, it was important that we made sure our policies appeal to female voters.
'But even Ed looked a bit surprised and joked, “When are the men going to meet then?” and when nobody laughed, he said, “Sorry, not a great joke.”
'But it really is a load of politically correct, feminist claptrap. She's riding roughshod over Ed.'
When challenged about the meetings, Mr Miliband's office at first said Ms Harman had actually talked about meetings for all female Labour MPs – not just those in the Shadow Cabinet. But later the Labour leader's spokeswoman admitted Ms Harman had announced that women Shadow Cabinet members were about to meet but other female MPs in the party were also invited.
The spokeswoman denied that Ms Harman was dictating to Mr Miliband, saying he had been aware of the all-women gathering and was 'very supportive'.
She added that an earlier women-only event had taken place in the summer while the most recent was held in the Shadow Cabinet room at the Commons last week.
However, since then, The Mail on Sunday has been told that the Labour leader has rebuked his frontbench team over how details of the all-women meetings leaked out.
One source said: 'He told them all off at last week's meeting, saying someone in the room was leaking stuff from what are supposed to be confidential meetings.'
So fierce is Ms Harman's zeal for women's rights that the South London MP, 61, has been given the nickname 'Harriet Harperson' and 'patron saint of equality'.
As the party's deputy leader, she backed a controversial policy of all-women shortlists in Labour target seats at the last General Election.
However, she faced taunts after her husband, ex-union baron Jack Dromey, was selected as Labour candidate for a winnable seat in Birmingham
Ms Harman was told by William Hague: 'Your husband has just gone through an all-women shortlist to be selected. You may not want to recognise marriage in the tax system but you sure do in the political system.'
Last night, one senior male Labour MP who is angry at the formation of the new all-women group said he suspected it was partly a 'front-group' for an eventual leadership bid by the Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper.
The MP added: 'Of course we've got to appeal to women voters but it's as though the blokes have never met any women, don't know anything about them and don't want to.'
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I don’t know how most feminists feel about this. But for me it is a sign that not only do women need their own spaces, but also that men think women’s spaces are stupid and unnecessary and will therefore try and sabotage them.
The reason for this could be because men just don’t care how women feel or they don’t want the oppressed to get together in case they realize just how oppressed they are, that they are worth a lot more then men allow them to think they are and horrors of horrors they may even start a revolution.
