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It’s a normal survival instinct to be aware of our surroundings – so why would anyone tell women and girls they mustn’t exercise it?

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  What kind of creepy self-serving individual tells women and girls that being aware of our surroundings, who’s around us, and judging what might look and feel off, is “creepy”? Everything we’ve learned tells us to view the above attempted shaming of women and girls with justified deep suspicion. It’s natural for us to constantly scan our surroundings, either consciously or subconsciously, because to not do so isn’t great for our survival. To know who or what doesn’t look right in the environment we’re in, is to enhance the chance of that survival. Hence, we’re constantly using our eyes and ears, to either a greater or lesser degree, to scope out our surroundings. We don’t have those senses just for decoration. Women and girls, especially, grow up being taught how to be very aware of where we go and who’s in our periphery. Boys do, too, of course, but as boys grow into men, the need to retain that acute awareness becomes less necessary than it remains for women. We don’t want to have t

Who's holding the line for women’s sex-based rights in NZ, now that legacy women’s organisations won’t?

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  Jill Ovens, national secretary and co-leader of the  Women’s Rights Party NZ , gives an excellent presentation about the party in this recent Women’s Declaration International video below. In it, she describes how the Women’s Rights Party came about, and what it has done since its inception, including campaigning during the run-up to the general election in October 2023. Amongst a scant handful of other groups and organisations now, the Women’s Rights Party is dedicated to holding the line for women’s sex-based rights. Most legacy organisations, such as the  National Council of Women , have disgracefully sold out to the agenda of men who say they’re women. In the case of the National Council of Women it’s especially disgraceful, because  Kate Sheppard , who is revered for being highly instrumental in winning the vote for women in NZ in 1893, was the “ inaugural president of the National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCW) in 1896 ”. She’d turn in her grave at the sell-out the Natio