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Jeremy Wickins's avatar

It's a shame we don't know what Boudicca said to stir her troops!

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Weren't the Iceni from the Essex area, Jeremy?

It might have been : Women Won't Shaddap 😃

Dusty

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Jeremy Wickins's avatar

I'm not taking that bait! 😂😂😂

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

😂

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Terf vibes's avatar

We've got our NZ Women's Rights Party AGM in June, so that's a fit. Good idea.

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Hope it goes well, Terf Vibes 😊

Dusty

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Becca Shambles's avatar

I like the speech Jane Eyre gives when she tells Mr Rochester that just because she’s small and poor doesn’t mean she’s not a human being equal to him.

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Thanks, Becca I shall seek that one out 😊

Dusty

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Becca Shambles's avatar

Mia Wasikowska was phenomenal in that role. I think Charlotte Brontë would immediately recognise the way we are treated as ‘support humans’ by a self-entitled class of people!

This has reminded me of an anecdote Mary Cooper told of the experience her mother, Selina Cooper, and fellow suffragist campaigner, Margaret Aldersley, had when they tried to hold an open-air meeting at the market cross in the village of Haworth:

“Well, they threw rotten eggs and tomatoes and all sorts of things … [Selina and Margaret] kept coming back into this cafe where they were sheltering … and then Mrs Aldersley went out and came back crying - oh, covered with egg and tomatoes and - so my mother - she’s slow to rouse, but when my mother was roused I was scared stiff of her. … my mother went out and she stood on this cross, and she said, ‘I’m stopping here, whatever you throw, so go and fetch all the stuff you’ve got to throw, because,’ she says, ‘I’m going to speak to you, I’ve come here to speak. And,’ she says, ‘this blooming village would never have been known about but for three women - the Brontës.’

[My source for this is a biography of Selina Cooper by the author Jill Liddington who spoke to Mary herself]

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Thanks, Becca what a wonderful story!

And, of course, the Jane Eyre speech is really a Charlotte Brontë speech!!

Dusty

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Becca Shambles's avatar

Yes and Charlotte was very small and poor herself, of course, but mighty when wielding a pen 😄

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Yes indeed what a woman!

Dusty

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Tenaciously Terfin's avatar

Great choice. And if we’re going classic, in Martin Chuzzlewit when Mr Pinch collects his sister from the big house where she’s a governess. I’ll try and find it.

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Thanks, TT

Dusty

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Tenaciously Terfin's avatar

No luck, sorry Dusty. The best version is from the 1990s BBC (🤬) tv series but it’s probably not relevant as it’s about the power of monied people over the poor. It’s a great adaptation though. Shame the Beeb has gone so badly downhill.

And great story Becca.

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Thanks for trying, TT

Dusty

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sensusquaeram's avatar

One of the shortest speeches in the history of Terfdom but one of my absolute favorites. 🥹

https://youtu.be/7RB9_xq_2gc?feature=shared

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Hahha that is brilliant.

Thanks, Sensuquaeram, will definitely feature this 😃

Liar Thomas had just defeated Riley Gaines and apparently Riley could hear this voice from the crowd shouting 'He's a man!' 😊

Dusty

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Tenaciously Terfin's avatar

😂 brilliant

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