God, this. There are no hard-won female spaces". What was hard won was access to hitherto MALE spaces. Women being segregated was the oppressive default.
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Naomi Alderman
as ever. when people say "hard-won female spaces" all I can ever hear is "mechitzah", the curtain I grew up standing behind in synagoge while the men got on with doing the service & we women got to listen in silence, in our "hard-won female space".
"separate is never equal" is a very good principle
"separate is never equal" is a very good principle
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