So many letters to Nadine Dorries! Because of this, the masterlist of letters to Dorries has been moved to its own site:
http://dearnadinedorries.wordpress.com/
You can see the full masterlist of posts here.
Please, please please send more. And don’t forget to send them to Nadine, either.
September 1st, 2011 at 11:11 am
Great idea. My letter is here: http://ershinsays.blogspot.com/2011/09/open-letter-to-nadine-dorries.html
It has been emailed to Ms Dorries also.
September 1st, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Has anyone received a response?
September 1st, 2011 at 3:50 pm
I haven’t. Apparently Dorries has a track record of not replying to letters though.
September 1st, 2011 at 3:56 pm
That’s a shame but I am not surprised
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:15 am
This was real special! Thanks for sharing this with me!
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:23 pm
This is a post by someone who wrote a letter to Dorries, but then read my post and began to reflect on some of the criticisms I have of the action:
http://emelyn-roadtomotherhood.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-makes-woman.html
This post illuminates what I think- that the idea of ‘womanhood’ that this campaign is promoting is narrow. Harri wrote a letter but you call him a ‘boy’ and from what I gather from his letter, he is actually a man.
And Cas wrote a letter, but in her letter you can read the pain of being a woman who does not have the ‘right’ bits that make a woman a ‘woman’. And I think this whole uterus letter thing just emphasises how ‘women’ should have the right bits and pieces.
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:31 pm
I saw that, wonderfully written letter and I’m glad we have people thinking about this sort of thing. As for me, I know I’m well aware that the womb doesn’t make the woman.
September 3rd, 2011 at 11:35 am
so what makes a woman a woman? why do we split people into ‘men’ and ‘women’? why is ‘feminism’ about the ‘feminine’ (as the very word indicates it is)?
September 3rd, 2011 at 8:00 pm
For me, it’s not really an issue. We’re stuck with stupid binary terms right now because our language isn’t equipped for anything more sophisticated.
September 3rd, 2011 at 11:00 am
[...] as the about poem suggests. But this and the recent outpouring of anger and outrage in the blogosphere in response to Nadine Dorries’ amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill about abortion [...]
September 3rd, 2011 at 8:04 pm
I agree, it’s not like we’re singling out humans, we define pretty much all mammals as male or female.
September 3rd, 2011 at 8:48 pm
er you are singling out humans, and feminists single out ‘women’ as most worthy of attention – the word ‘feminism’ is concerned with the ‘feminine’ like I said.
The binary is what needs challenging in my view. Anything else is a side issue.