A British actress has called on Londoners to re-name Valentines Day ‘Vagina Day’.
Thandie Newton today called on Londoners to re-invent the meaning of Valentine’s Day to end violence against women.
The actress, who has starred in films including The Pursuit Of Happyness, Mission: Impossible II and Crash, said that ever since she met Eve Ensler, writer of The Vagina Monologues and founder of One Billion Rising, February 14 has had a different meaning.
Newton, 40, said: “It’s Valentine’s Day today but for me it’s been
V-day, V standing for vagina and victory, since 15 years ago when I met Eve.
“Valentine’s is an ideal in everyone’s minds, it’s something that we aspire to, it’s an ideal of romance and is something that we celebrate every year. But that sat against the statistic that one third of women are victims of sexual abuse in their lifetime, it’s not right.”
She said she took her daughters Nico, eight, and Ripley, 12, with her to Parliament today to teach them about the plight of women across the world.
Meanwhile, the same newspaper reports that British schoolboys are to be forced to take lessons in relationships and sex, teaching them that violence against women is not acceptable
MPs will today call for sex and relationships education to be made compulsory in schools in a bid to tackle violence against women.
Experts believe that a zero-tolerance approach needs to begin in the classroom. Education Secretary Michael Gove will come under pressure to promote more teaching about respect and consent.
Last year more than 100 women were killed by their partners or former partners in the UK while 750,000 children witness acts of domestic abuse every year. Although sex education is mandatory, lessons often take place in science classes and schools have no requirement to teach about relationships.
Parents have a right to withdraw their children from personal, social and health education that falls outside the national curriculum. The call to make relationship education a requirement comes as thousands take to London’s streets as part of the global One Billion Rising campaign to end violence against women.
Great article. It’s too bad the english insist on damaging their children from an early age.
Will girls be taught that infanticide, DV and false rape allegations are wrong?
Girls I trust will be taught that neglecting children to point of starvation, criminally beating their children and cuckolding are wrong as well. Since women instigate domestic violence at about the same rate as men I trust they will also be taught not to hit their partner or kill them, over 60 men where also killed by their partners this year as well in the UK.
Bringing ideology in to the class room is beyond reasonable.
This ‘campaign’ is nothing new really as in this account (one with opposing views) on the infamous White Ribbon Day campaign which was started in Canada in 1991 by a bunch of manginas who felt guilty over the deaths of some feminists, murdered apparently, by a psychotic antifeminist.
This misandric and humiliating, not to mention embarrassing (to observe), campaign is now an annual event, celebrated every year in most western countries including Australia, on November 25th and is an especially prestigious event in schools, where often, many weeks are spent preparing for the ‘big day’.
The most disturbing aspect about the campaign which is nothing more than another witch-hunt to further scapegoat men, is the way it is supported more by manginas and white-knights like this one, who is essentially advocating men to shame other men into believing and supporting feminist ideologies (lies) and thus of being slaves to feminism.
It’s truly sickening how these totally nauseating and STUPID manginas are co-operating with and helping bitter, jealous and vindictive old hags to ostracise and oppress themselves.
Campaigns such as International White Ribbon Day are nothing more than a recruitment drive for more manginas and vomit-inducing white-knghts. The propaganda promoting it is so effective in the way it easily convinces men to hate and persecute themselves, it makes our job as MRAs, of opposing their hatred and informing men that they are in fact being brainwashed for a very evil purpose; almost impossible.
Feminism relies on 3 essential elements to survive:
1. The abuse industry
2. Large numbers of indoctrinated manginas and white-knights to support them and do all their ‘dirty work’ (including promotions, campaigning and recruitment / indoctrination of manginas and white-knights).
3. The manipulated mainstream news media (for propagating their hysteria and HATRED of MEN).
Remove any of those 3 elements and feminism would all but completely end.
How about renaming it ‘Mangina Day?’ LOL
I also posted this comment to Michael Kaufman’s ‘White Ribbon Day’ blog, but it’s still awaiting moderation and no doubt will remain waiting for another 50 years or so…