Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht - Joan McAlpine

Joan McAlpine writes about her appalling treatment at the hands of fellow party members because she stood up for women's rights inside Nicola Sturgeon's SNP.

"I hoped for reasoned debate. Instead, I was targeted by activists in my own party.

"One future SNP councillor posted a photo of me with a red circle target on my head.

"Others called me ‘trash’, demanding I should be suspended or deselected.

"A senior politician’s male partner threatened to confront me at an SNP conference.

"Others cheered on a notorious troll who posted violent, misogynist tweets and somehow ended up on the party’s National Executive Committee

"My complaints were ignored or dismissed."

So many talented women have been bullied and victimised in this way and not just in the SNP - in other parties, in trade unions, in universities and in Scotland's NHS.

Respect to them - one and all!

 

Joan McAlpine was the SNP MSP for the South of Scotland region but came up against fierce hostility to her gender critical views.



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