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So this is what Annie Lennox said to me today...

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Heathcliffscathy · 12/03/2010 15:57

yes i am a saddo who had the temerity to go up to her after her speech at the White Ribbon Alliance Mum's Cafe in H of Commons...

I said that her ferocity was inspiring and she told me that it had been a gift that she'd found something she believed in so very much (her big thing is her charity SING which campaigns for women and children with HIV/AIDS) and that she felt tireless in her activisim. I said how nourishing it must be to be on that kind of journey and she agreed making the v good point that Activism is just such a better feeling than passive impotence.

I am very very inspired by her, and by Carrie's speech...even more so by how moved you were Carrie, that speaks far far more than any words could, that the things you've seen have touched you so much.

So I have decided today to become an Activist, rather than just a gobby gobshite on here.

I think my big thing is linked to this immense cause...I am passionate about sexual education in it's very broadest sense for young women. If young women don't understand their right to keep their bodies safe, have pleasure from sexual contact as well as not to have babies until they want to, there is no hope of anyone including the men they are with respecting those rights.

I'm going to go out there and find out how best to channel the energy that thinking about this subject imbues me with.

Thank you Mumsnet for giving me the opportunity today to crystallise thoughts i've had for years and years...I am VERY proud to be an MNer.

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LeSangeEstSurLaBranche · 12/03/2010 16:00

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SoupDragon · 12/03/2010 16:01

"rather than just a gobby gobshite on here"

Are you a gobby gobshite then...?

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Heathcliffscathy · 12/03/2010 16:05

very funny soupy....

i may be the gobbiest gobshite, although as I said to, was it inmyheadi'minparis? today I have matured in my mn gobshite-ness to the point that i do sometimes write a gobby post and then not post it anymore...which I never did before as you well know

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Heathcliffscathy · 12/03/2010 16:07

oh and if the cause that i've described already exists (the bit about sexual pleasure is v important in my manifesto...straight info about contraception just isn't enough imo) please point me in the right direction.

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