female identifying only area at Glastonbury.

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Playduh · 07/06/2016 15:52

http://i-d.vice.com/en gb/article/glastonbury-announces-revolutionary-women-only-venue?utmm_source=idnewsletter

This just makes me so depressed. How have we got to a place where men are deemed so incapable of behaving themselves, women need to have a place to hide.

I'm teaching my son about respect and consent. Why am I bothering when society seems to think it's better to just fence off the women?

And (I accept I'm probably going up in flames for this one.) 'female identifying'? So it's not a safe place for women, it's a safe place for 'non-men' again isn't it?

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Dozer · 07/06/2016 16:32

Of course there wouldn't.

Trans issue aside, which is another debate, it's good to give women the option of an area without men. Am sure they are also doing lots on security.

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Playduh · 07/06/2016 16:29

What also concerns me; if someone chooses not to use that space and gets assaulted, would there be a tacit assumption that she was somehow implying consent?

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twittwooery · 07/06/2016 16:19

Thing is I don't think it's just that men can't control themselves( sure there's loads of bastards), but also many women want a women's only area (for many reasons) I've seen many times people talk how they wouldn't mind living in a women only commune on MN, mostly on the feminism board.

And seeing someone say there will be loads of men in there as its female identifying, I don't think so the trans community is a small % of the population, then it's an even smaller % that would cause trouble, and would surely be in the minority in such a space. And I think people overestimate the efforts men would go to to cause trouble, I doubt most would think ooh lets identify as women to be with women and do it, like most women don't like being seen as a man, as there would still be. 1000s of women in the general population area.

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Playduh · 07/06/2016 16:05

It's just wrong on so many levels. It doesn't respect anybody. The worst thing is that Glastonbury will be really proud of this and won't understand why they aren't doing the right thing.

Did they stop to think about just improving their general security? Not such a sexy headline I guess.

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SeemsLegit · 07/06/2016 15:58

Blablabla "women only spaces" followed by "women identifying"...so there will be men there too then

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