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Do you personally believe there is a war on women?

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XXHelenaXX · 23/02/2018 22:47

I've seen the expression "war on women" twice on the net today, and I don't recall ever seeing it before. The reason it caught my eye and intrigued me is, I have been telling my close friends for a few years now that if you "join the dots" * of what men are doing to women, worldwide, non-stop, it amounts to just that: a war on women.

The few people I have told think I am either imagining it, exaggerating, paranoid or a conspiracy theorist.

I'm wondering how many Mnetters would now agree with the statement that the present state of affairs amounts to "a war on women"?
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(*e.g. the violence depicted in porn, sexual harassment and assault everywhere from Hollywood to primary school, trafficking for prostitution, FGM, domestic abuse and murder, and now the angry trans agenda).

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XXHelenaXX · 23/02/2018 23:13

LassWiADelicateAir

As yours is the dissenting voice, could you please elaborate, tell us what is going on re men and women, globally, if it's not a war?

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Wornoutbear · 23/02/2018 23:12

Fifty Million Missing on FB - have a look at that, and you realise that yes - it's global - timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/at-government-hospitals-women-being-given-iuds-without-consent/articleshow/63021211.cms?from=mdr

LassWiADelicateAir · 23/02/2018 23:10

No.

UpstartCrow · 23/02/2018 23:09

Yes I do.
It seems deliberate and co-ordinated; for example Women's Studies have been replaced by Gender Studies, and universities have changed out of all recognition.

enpointeredshoes · 23/02/2018 23:09

Yes. I think online porn needs to be sorted first. We can hardly go forward when our youth are being brainwashed with this degrading violence on tap.

MyBrilliantDisguise · 23/02/2018 23:05

It's hard to believe on a personal level and hard not to believe on a national and global level.

chocoshopoholic · 23/02/2018 23:03

The book war on women by Sue lloyd Thomas is a very interesting and worryingly read.

TallulahWaitingInTheRain · 23/02/2018 23:00

Patriarchy is a violent system for the oppression of women which operates during peace and war and which is structurally different from war. But given the levels of violence and the number of women who are dying and being harmed, I don't think 'war' is an unreasonable metaphor. We are, in some sense, under occupation.

Agerbilatemycardigan · 23/02/2018 22:53

A few months ago I would've thought you were paranoid. Now, I totally agree with you. When a 19 year old boy became a woman's officer, I finally realised how bad things were getting for us. Everything that's happened since has just cemented that thought for me.