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JAM AND JERUSALEM
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JAM AND JERUSALEM     The Women’s Institute movement in the UK is celebrating its centenary this year. The country’s first Women’s Institute was formed on 16 September 1915 in the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwygyll in Anglesey. With over 200,000 members, the Women’s Institute movement is the largest women’s voluntary organisation in the UK. The Women’s Institute movement flourished during the two world wars when rural women were encouraged to help with the country’s food supply. Women’s Institutes are widely associated with drinking tea in village halls, making food (especially cakes and jams), crafts (especially knitting), holding raffles, and singing Jerusalem. Though not renowned for its feminism, the Women’s Institute movement has played a key role in promoting women’s rights. Women's Institutes, fiercely independent from church and state, have promoted equal pay for women, women's access to education and health care, family planning, responsible fatherhood, and women’s solidarity in a male-dominated and class-ridden society. Here are five bits of Women’s Institute trivia: 1. The world’s first Women’s Institute was established in Stoney Creek, Ontario in Canada in 1897. In her book A Force to Be Reckoned with: The History of the Women’s Institute, Jane Robinson found that one man had quipped, "It won’t last long without a man to run it". 2. The founder of the Hutton and Howick Women’s Institute in Lancashire, Edith Rigby, was a suffragette campaigning for equal rights for women. As a suffragette, she sprayed acid on a golf course that men could only play on, set fire to Lord Leverhulme’s home, set fire to Blackburn Rovers football ground, threw black puddings and home-made bombs at Winston Churchill, was sent to prison seven times, and took part in hunger strikes while incarcerated. 3. At the 2000 Annual General Meeting of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair was heckled, jeered and slow-handclapped for giving a party political speech. The meeting was attended by 10,000 Women’s Institute members, who Tony Blair described as “the most terrifying audience I have seen”. 4. In 1999, several Women’s Institute members posed naked for a calendar. This naked calendar raised £3 million for leukaemia research. The 2003 film Calendar Girls was based on this fund-raising initiative. The film starred Helen Mirren, Julie Walters and Celia Imrie - see below. 5. Men are not normally allowed to be a member of a Women’s Institute. Can you make jam? If a woman, have you been or are you a member of the Women’s Institute (or an equivalent)? Do you think it’s okay for organisations to deny membership to certain groups of people in society? My Mum was an active member of her local Women’s Institute branch. Little did I know then that she was such a radical though she did make lots of jam! Generally, and under certain circumstances, I think it’s fine for private (but not public) organisations to exclude certain people from being members. Otherwise, what’s the point of a club - it’s all about who you keep out and who you allow in that matters sometimes. Organisations promoting the interests of the oppressed should not allow the oppressors to become members. Otherwise, trade unions (or labour unions) will be infiltrated by bosses. My local pub is a gay pub, but I would understand if I was denied a drink there because gay men need their space. I can easily go to another friendly pub - gay men can’t so easily go to another gay-friendly pub! But organisations promoting the privileges of the oppressors should not be allowed to deny membership to the oppressed. Male-only golf clubs and white-only political associations shouldn’t be allowed. It’s all about who has power and who doesn’t!    |
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hmm, in the America, we have the NOW (National Organization of Women) who helped with the Women's Movement! But, the local church ladies help with disasters, funerals, and other helpful things! “Life is available only in the present moment.” Thich Nhat Hanh Come and read my blog! Become a watcher! veryfunnycple64 
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I love that film and saw it again on TV only last week.  I can make jam but have never been a member of a Women's Institute. I don't see anything wrong with certain types of clubs and associations restricting their membership type at all....except I think all Golf Courses should be open to both sexes. ~~Anais Nin~~
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Can you make jam? I can not, but I will make the rolls to go with it Do you think it’s okay for organizations to deny membership to certain groups of people in society? I do, but our politically correct society seems to give the impression that every one is entitled to everything. We even had people that never belonged to any military service demanding membership to one of our local Military Retiree organizations. They were not so politely told to go "F" themselves
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Can you make jam? Yes, I can. If a woman, have you been or are you a member of the Women’s Institute (or an equivalent)? No. Do you think it’s okay for organisations to deny membership to certain groups of people in society? I don't think that any kind of discrimination is okay. Loved that movie! Visit my blog It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World of NaughtyInSO, leave a comment, become a watcher. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LIVE AND LET LIVE Be happy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Can you make jam? Sure have .. If a woman, have you been or are you a member of the Women’s Institute (or an equivalent)? Oh yes in University Do you think it’s okay for organizations to deny membership to certain groups of people in society? No I don't think so.. Everyone should be welcome hugssssss V Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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I'm embarrassed to say that I don't recall having heard of Edith Rigby before. Thanks for that! I think I'm in love! I'm OK with clubs being exclusive, but I'm also OK with ruining their fun, especially when they're rich, fat white fucks. It's the price you pay for being exclusive. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Loved the movie but can not make jam. I would probably belong to the WI if I lived in England. Where I live, we have a book club that meets monthly. You must have read a book and bring a bottle of wine.
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hmm, in the America, we have the NOW (National Organization of Women) who helped with the Women's Movement! But, the local church ladies help with disasters, funerals, and other helpful things! 
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I love that film and saw it again on TV only last week. I can make jam but have never been a member of a Women's Institute. I don't see anything wrong with certain types of clubs and associations restricting their membership type at all....except I think all Golf Courses should be open to both sexes.
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Can you make jam? I can not, but I will make the rolls to go with it Do you think it’s okay for organizations to deny membership to certain groups of people in society? I do, but our politically correct society seems to give the impression that every one is entitled to everything. We even had people that never belonged to any military service demanding membership to one of our local Military Retiree organizations. They were not so politely told to go "F" themselves
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I think people coming together in a club is brilliant provided they're not plotting to rule the world!
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Can you make jam? Yes, I can. If a woman, have you been or are you a member of the Women’s Institute (or an equivalent)? No. Do you think it’s okay for organisations to deny membership to certain groups of people in society? I don't think that any kind of discrimination is okay. Loved that movie!
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Can you make jam? Sure have .. If a woman, have you been or are you a member of the Women’s Institute (or an equivalent)? Oh yes in University Do you think it’s okay for organizations to deny membership to certain groups of people in society? No I don't think so.. Everyone should be welcome hugssssss V
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I'm embarrassed to say that I don't recall having heard of Edith Rigby before. Thanks for that! I think I'm in love! I'm OK with clubs being exclusive, but I'm also OK with ruining their fun, especially when they're rich, fat white fucks. It's the price you pay for being exclusive.
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You sound a very competent jam-maker; I'd love to taste your jam!
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Loved the movie but can not make jam. I would probably belong to the WI if I lived in England. Where I live, we have a book club that meets monthly. You must have read a book and bring a bottle of wine.
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..Miss Kinky...you never cease to amaze me............ Blue
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Australia's Country Women's Association sounds like the UK's Women Institute. I think men should be excluded from a few more clubs than they are already!
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Can you make jam? I have, but not recently. Since reading this post, I have bought some blackberry jam. If a woman, have you been or are you a member of the Women’s Institute (or an equivalent)? I have not. Do you think it’s okay for organisations to deny membership to certain groups of people in society? That's a bit tricky these days. That is a very delicate point of law in the states. "When an association reaches a certain size and importance, the public has a legitimate interest in what goes on inside them," according to a constitutional-law professor at Northwestern University School of Law. A sticky wicket here, don't you think? Clubs may cite their first amendment rights to freedom of association with like-minded persons. In 2000 The Boy Scouts of America, excluded gay members by asserting their First Amendment rights, the supreme court ruled in favor of the BSA. Public pressure has resulted in a slight change, homosexual minors are allowed to join, but gay and lesbian leaders are still banned. While the excluded of any "private club" argue their right to inclusion based on other amendments and the Civil Rights Act. Robert M. Gates, the former defense secretary who was elected president of the BSA organization last year, warned that the longstanding policy could provoke legal challenges and suggested proactive action to allow sponsors to change the policy if they so choose. “We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be,” Determining whether or not a club is public or private is a matter of law here. Rulings under state laws vary and the determinations are inconsistent to say the least. Very good question Sir. Well done Hugh, making some of us think (about something other than sex) and in all places on a hook-up site. I sometimes run out of things to say about sex!
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