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I love these guys!
So, the usual female-led protests against the Miss University London competition were given additional support from a guerilla group of male protesters setting up a booth outside the competition, “encouraging attendees to “vote” over pictures of the contestants”, (they provided kleenex), and “keeping a tally of the girls who brought the guys over the edge.”
Possibly the best bit was the comments garnered from bewildered beauty pageant supporters:
“you’re worse than the feminists, it’s disgusting”
“What so you want people to wank in the booth, over the girls and judge them, how’s that any different from the competition?”
“And I think your suits are shit!”.
“I don’t know what they’re protesting about, it’s not even animal cruelty, they must be jealous”
“But you’re not serious, right?”
Jo and I went to this event on 14 Feb and it was great, really informative. I felt it provided a really good space for discussion and gave a sense of hope for the future. We came up with loads of ideas as a result, simple initiatives that we could get involved with as a group. We’re going to write a little piece on each workshop. Mine will follow shortly.
Feministing have started a meet-up alliance for local feminist groups (link in title), so I have added our group to it.
The London Feminist Network’s Reclaim the Night march and rally is on this weekend.
Anyone fancy going?
Josephine Grahl
Sharon O'Dea
scarlettmcqueen
