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Feminist summer school: training the new generation of 'suffragettes'
The Guardian ^

Posted on 08/14/2011 2:48:23 PM PDT by AfricanChristian

(And you wonder why Britain is in trouble ....)

After just one day of classes at her summer school of choice, Emily Birkenshaw had already learned a crucial lesson: how to "go floppy" when facing arrest. "You're heavier then, so you can't be carried," she said, with the genuine delight of a new recruit.

The 24-year-old been practising by linking arms with her classmates and singing loudly at a pretend policeman. "It just felt really empowering," she said. "If that happened [in real life] – and I hope it wouldn't – I'd know how to do it without getting hurt."

Birkenshaw, a teaching assistant from York, was one of about 500 who descended on Birmingham at the weekend for the UK Feminista summer school, a two-day event aimed at mobilising feminist activists and training them in the art of campaigning and direct action. With new groups, new campaigns and a set of decades-old beliefs being repackaged for the 21st century, leading figures such as Kat Banyard are claiming a "massive resurgence" in feminism.

If anyone felt intimidated by the "monumental shifts" needed, Banyard, author of The Equality Illusion, told the audience, they needed to look no further than at the mountains moved by their antecedents. "Feminism is nothing but audacious," she said. "It can be done."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: activism; activists; birmingham; britain; campaign; class; classmates; empower; empowering; equality; event; feminism; feminist; illusion; lesson; monumental; policemen; recruit; school; summer; uk; york

1 posted on 08/14/2011 2:48:26 PM PDT by AfricanChristian
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To: AfricanChristian
Feminist summer school: training the new generation of 'suffragettes'

Remember girls, your power is in the collective. Independent freedom is the enemy of women everywhere. White males will always try to get you to accept personal civil rights without collectivism - don't be fooled. Group allegiance is your only protection. Obedience to the feminist agenda is the only true freedom.

2 posted on 08/14/2011 2:54:49 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: AfricanChristian
Emily Birkenshaw had already learned a crucial lesson: how to "go floppy" when facing arrest. "You're heavier then, so you can't be carried,"

Hair makes a good carrying handle. Alternately, handcuff a limb to a chain attached to a truck and drive away.

3 posted on 08/14/2011 3:02:15 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: AfricanChristian

Pain compliance holds are a policeman’s best friend, it will cure the floppies any day ;)


4 posted on 08/14/2011 3:09:10 PM PDT by trapped_in_LA
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To: AfricanChristian

This Feminista school probably is somehow, somewhere subsidized by the government and its taxpayers.


5 posted on 08/14/2011 3:20:54 PM PDT by bajabaja (Too ugly to be scanned at the airports.)
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Hats and Bats! Hats and Bats, baby, and water cannons, and CS and everything! You just go floppy....... when you don’t intend to.


6 posted on 08/14/2011 3:23:58 PM PDT by Oiao
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To: PapaBear3625

“You’re heavier then, so you can’t be carried”...

Yeah, but you can be maced, clubbed, tasered, cuffed, dragged, and oh yeah, you can’t run away.


7 posted on 08/14/2011 4:17:05 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: AfricanChristian
Emily Birkenshaw had already learned a crucial lesson: how to "go floppy" when facing arrest.

Easy, leave your bra in the laundry basket.

8 posted on 08/14/2011 4:25:23 PM PDT by Petruchio (I Think . . . Therefor I FReep.)
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To: AfricanChristian

9 posted on 08/14/2011 4:34:09 PM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: trapped_in_LA

PD Demonstration of pain compliance techniques

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hoiYFqhh7M


10 posted on 08/14/2011 4:36:07 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: PapaBear3625
PD Demonstration of pain compliance techniques

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hoiYFqhh7M

From the looks of those bellies, donut denial would be just as effective.

11 posted on 08/14/2011 4:51:42 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: PapaBear3625

Most of the feminists I’ve seen can’t be carried because their a** is too big for a human chair.

They definitely can be dragged, though. Take the trucker wallet out of their back pocket, wrap the chain around a trailer hitch, put up the “wide load” sign and start pullin.


12 posted on 08/14/2011 4:54:26 PM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: AfricanChristian

Let them get so busy being down with the struggle and fighting the man that they won’t have time to have any children or just one at the most.

The conservatives should have 3 or 4 child per family and make sure most of them turn out conservative. The numbers will simply overwhelm the Feministas into obscurity.


13 posted on 08/14/2011 5:39:50 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: AfricanChristian

Meanwhile, Russian and Chinese females are learning the sciences, engineering, math, business, and otherwise being practical participants in their society.


14 posted on 08/14/2011 5:51:20 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: tarotsailor

Or a two-wheelie.


15 posted on 08/14/2011 5:54:31 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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