Comments on: @warriorgrrl vBlog ep 05 – million women rise :::

By: Vill.

Vill. — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:51:54 +0000

Even though I am male, I’ll have to agree with you – throughout history, women had even worse fate than now and this feels on today’s situation too. Therefore the protest march is absolutely righteous.
I learnt somewhere back in school that in and before the stone age, there was a matriarchal (women-centralized) community amongst cavepeople, and the reason males turned out to be the “leader” sex is because they had more physical abilities to do for example hunt and that was much more of a sight than women gathering berries.
In my opinion, even though we say both sexes are equal, they cannot be, they are different! And so I suspect that there will always be controversy between men and women (or women and men:)) But, because this is today and in the past women got the worst of it, now You deserve the better side.
OH, and I am Hungarian, so if you didn’t understand some of my words it’s because of my bad english:(

András, a fan

By: Annika

Annika — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:13:04 +0000

Wow! Watching this brought me back to the day itself! You definitely captured the atmosphere of the day, it gave me goosebumps watching it! Hope you enjoyed yourself, MWR 08 was my first march, amazing

By: LonerGrrrl

LonerGrrrl — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:31:55 +0000

What an amazing video! I didn’t attend the march this year so thanks for the recording, it gives you a great idea of the atmosphere on the day. It’s so important that we document UK feminist herstory (which 5,000 women marching through central London certainly is) so it’s great to see stuff like this. Thank you.

By: warriorgrrl

warriorgrrl — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:16:22 +0000

@tapps Lovely lady, I wish you could have been here! Next year, yeah?

@katieinthehat Thanks for reading and commenting – it’s nice to know I’m not alone! I remember the word ‘greebo’ well, my sister got called that a lot. I was just the usual awful names and even got voted weirdest person in the sixth form in an official awards thing at the May Ball – how that got past the teachers I don’t know!

By: katieinthehat (aka grace)

katieinthehat (aka grace) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:51:56 +0000

Okay the video works now, just Vimeo having a mare! Such a great video and great cutting. Great to see Cat and Clare of Birmingham Fems talking on camera, someone normally collars me! Stay tuned re: the art project- perhaps you can get involved/film it?

By: katieinthehat (aka grace)

katieinthehat (aka grace) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:33:13 +0000

I know what you mean Laura. I mean as much as I can do without actually being you – I have also spent most of my life being disappointed by my interactions with other women/girls, and I also was bullied in a similar way (only I had brown hair, and was instead referred to as a ‘greebo’ because I liked alternative music). I tended to gravitate towards groups of men generally and for a long time my social circle contained very few women, usually the girlfriends of male friends and I didn’t talk to them very much. In the last few years though, since realising I’m a feminist rather than a freak I have managed to find other women who feel the same way and who don’t abandon me for having ‘outrageous’ opinions. Feminism is comforting in that sense for me. It’s also quite scary and challenging at times though isn’t it?!

The video isn’t working at the moment but I will try again later and will get our photos put up on the Bruminist site.

By: tapps

tapps — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:08:45 +0000

excellent video. i feel like i was able to attend the protest with you through it.