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Tell the women who had to leave school at 15 and get a job to support their brothers staying on at school, that it wasn’t about their sex. 1/ #SexNotGender #WarOnWomen
Tell the women who were told they didn’t need a career because they’d be wife’s and mothers, that it wasn’t about their sex. 2/
Tell women who weren’t allowed to open a bank account without their husbands permission, that it wasn’t about their sex. 3/
Tell women who weren’t allowed to buy anything on HP without the permission of their husbands, that it wasn’t about their sex. 4/
Tell women whose husbands were allowed to legally rape them until 1992, that it wasn’t about their sex. 5/
Tell women who were kept out of medical schools, that it wasn’t about their sex. 6/
Tell women who were passed over for promotion because they might want children, that it was nothing to do with their sex. 7/
Tell women who weren’t hired in case they wanted a family later on, that it wasn’t about their sex. 8/
Tell women who have been paid less for the same job a man does, that it wasn’t about their sex. /9
Tell women who have been raped by men, that it wasn’t about their sex. /10
Tell women who are jailed for life for killing a violent partner while men get away with killing their partners, that it’s not about their sex. /11
Tell women who called the police on their husbands only to have the police walk away, that it wasn’t about their sex. /12
Tell women who are belittled as overreacting, irrational people, that it’s not about their sex. /13
Tell women who will never be protected in Scots Law, that it not about their sex. /14
Tell women that they can’t refer to the biological part of their bodies without being abused and called a bigot, that it’s not about their sex. /15
Tell women that that they no longer exist as they always have done, that it’s not about their sex. /16
You cannot continue to lie about the horrors that women have gone through and say it’s not about their sex. You are oppressing women. You are part of the abusive patriarchy. That is your legacy. #WarOnWomen
