It was only a matter of time before Glastonbury, the world’s most middle-class festival, caught up with the latest political trend. In an announcement heralded as brave, pioneering and ‘necessary’, a group called ‘The Sisterhood’ have announced a women-only venue at the four-day festival. ‘In a world that is still run by and designed to benefit mainly men,’ the group argue, ‘oppression against women continues in various manifestations’. The way to combat this global sexism, it seems, is to have a boy-free zone at festivals.
The Sisterhood has designed the special zone to allow women ‘to connect, network [and] share their stories’ about sex work, domestic violence and the pay gap. In spite of this, they assure female festival-goers that the space will be fun.
There are probably lots of weird places to go at Glastonbury – everyone has heard of that one secret venue if you take a left by the third tree under a full moon – and a women-only venue is a similarly weird idea.
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