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Why can’t all women see the dangers?

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Couragetocourage · 23/10/2018 19:59

I’m having another wobble about all this. I’m watching women I agree with in almost every other political view, and yet they disagree with me about the dangers of self-ID. Why can’t they see it? I understand why men can’t, but women? Labour women MPs, who clearly have thought about the issue, disagree about the dangers. Why? we're not wrong are we!?

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CoolGirlsNeverGetAngry · 23/10/2018 20:08

Perhaps because they believe that the people they will be sharing a space with are sans penis and feel safe. Perhaps they don’t know about the 80-85% still “intact” so to speak.

hellandhairnets · 23/10/2018 20:04

Perhaps they are women who have never dealt with manipulative, abusive behaviour and gaslighting? I think once you have, you can see it quite easily.

It's that I was drawing on most when I first picked up on what was going on here. I've learned to trust my gut when something is "off" and sure enough, the more digging I did, the more I saw that told me exactly why my alarm bells were ringing.

Shampoo0 · 23/10/2018 20:03

I worry, can we do anything about it?

FekkoTheLawyer · 23/10/2018 20:02

They can't see it having any impact on their life. Until it does.

Trousered · 23/10/2018 20:01

Probably because they don't experience much danger in their lives. Therefore it's hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes.