Coming up on January 23, the feminist event I least want to go to all year! Object’s annual conference will see Fiona MacTaggart MP as ‘special guest speaker’. Why not pay £7.50 to hear a women whose parliamentary record looks like:

Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards.

Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals.

Voted strongly for introducing student top-up fees.

Voted very strongly for Labour’s anti-terrorism laws.

Voted very strongly for the Iraq war.

Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war.

Voted for replacing Trident.

Voted moderately for the hunting ban.

Voted moderately against laws to stop climate change.

Obviously being Blairite to the core doesn’t matter if you help Object pass anti-sex worker laws. Over to some Eagleton I’m reading:

Much feminist criticism to date has arisen from within what in Britain is termed a ‘radical-feminist’ problematic; this must be unswervingly opposed. Anti-theoretical, rampantly idealist and frequently sectarian, such ‘radicalism’ represents the presence within the women’s movement of a familiar brand of petty-bourgeois ideology. The facility with which a callous middle-class indifference to the political fate of the global masses may be tricked out as a jealous defence of feminist ‘autonomy’ – separatism in fact – is a scandal that any revolutionary, woman or man, must surely denounce. Terry Eagleton, “Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism”.

If this isn’t an example of callous middle-class indifference, what is?