Peace Wimmin Take The Piss

This is a bit of a larf on the Guardian site.

George Monbiot is reminiscing about his days at Greenham Common and in particular how the "Peace Wimmin" threatened and harassed a young hippy called Cat.

"He led me for what seemed to be miles through scrub and woodland, all the way urging me not to trample the leaves or break any twigs: only he knew the paths, and he didn't want anyone to be able to follow him. When we stopped, however, I realised that we were just 200 yards away from the camp. "Here we are", he said. I looked around. All I could see was bracken, birch and hawthorn. He parted the bracken to reveal a clear polythene sheet, stretched over a rowan sapling which had been bent down and tied to the ground. Even after he had shown it to me, when I stepped back a pace I couldn't see it.

"Why are you taking all these precautions?"
"Because they set light to my last two benders. The last time was when I was sleeping in it."
"The police?"
"No. The women."

Cat had slept there, on a pillow made of moss, with nothing but his I-Ching, a candle and an enamel mug, for a fortnight, since he had lost his other possessions in the last fire. Recently, he told me, someone had held a knife to his chest and promised she would kill him if he stayed."

Later they scare the shit out of George by talking to him.

"In the morning, unaware of the trouble I was in, I sat by the camp fire, waiting for the kettle to boil. I sensed that someone was standing over me, and looked up. I was surrounded by a ring of women. They held their palms out towards me and their eyes were closed. Slowly and quietly they started chanting. "Go away. Go away. Go away." It was terrifying and extremely effective. I left immediately."

Hardly the bold warrior.

Are these people so serious that they are unable to understand the deep irony of their actions. Anti-abortionists killing the born to save the unborn. Animal right activists freeing mink to save them so they can lay waste to the birds and animals of the local countryside. Peace wimmin threatening violence.


But here are a few comments.

'Surrounded by a ring of women chanting go away go away'You and Cat should have stood up with your eyes wide open and chanted very slowly with two plates extended 'where's my breakfast, where's my breakfast'


JJ10


handinthebush
Comment No. 204199
September 7 12:44
GBR
can someone explain to me why when some bunch of fusty old duffers want to keep their London boozing den male only it is an example of wretched sexism but when a bunch of hairy lezzers want to keep their camp female only it is empowerment? God what a load of bollocks.


Starsqui
Comment No. 204144
September 7 12:19
GBR
So you didn't get laid, then?