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The trans stuff has opened my eyes to our real status

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twicemummy1 · 17/06/2019 11:36

Jus that really. A minuscule amount of men have managed to pushed through legislation that impacts on and endangers half the population . Nobody even bothered to ask women if this was ok with us. Laws our made without our knowledge and consent.

The police are arresting women for online tweets, while women getting beaten up and damaged and given aids by men in pornography, but nobody arrests those men for hate crimes because pornography is "free speech".

Yes let's be clear on that one. Men can do whatever they want to women in porn and put it online and defend the violence of porn in the name of free speech . But a woman tweeting on Twitter is literal violence. And the police agree with all of this.

The there's the total media blackout on women's opinions and voices. The Times seems to be doing an ok job at the moment but not really.

I could go on. I had no idea how easily our rights could be taken away, and I also didn't have a clue how much we were hated, ignored, dismissed, mocked, ridiculed by society.

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AncientLights · 17/06/2019 13:19

Laws haven't yet been pushed through in any of the 4 UK countries afaik, but don't forget the rumour that Scotland is about to grant self ID in a few days' time.

I fear it's not just men who are doing this - Nicola Sturgeon seems desperate to be woke and I, for one, will never forgive Maria Miller for chairing that wretched committee that is so in thrall to the trans movement. Actually, my list of 'never to be forgiven' people of both sexes is now extensive.

NeurotrashWarrior · 17/06/2019 13:15

Actually, I didn't think I could peak anymore than I have but I just did with this story.

JanesKettle · 17/06/2019 13:14

I'm not really surprised by how quickly women's rights can be taken from them, but I was really shocked by the recent safeguarding scandal. I honestly did not realise how many people in positions of influence really don't care about children, and I was ??? at people putting a man's right to a fetish ahead of child safeguarding.

Not just women but children and vulnerable adults in general, anyone deemed to be lower status than men.

YY

NeurotrashWarrior · 17/06/2019 13:13

The irony in that case is that a transwoman is considering the feelings of trans binary and non binary people and "that's really hard as both feelings are valid."Hmm

Never mind actual females...

NeurotrashWarrior · 17/06/2019 13:10

This is an example of how it works:

www.bntmedia.uk/R6l4ZM

The trans stuff has opened my eyes to our real status
terryleather · 17/06/2019 13:08

I think that we have been in a false utopia where women's rights in law were safe and it was just a matter of bringing up your girls to have a go, encouraging women to use their rights. Now I realise that there are huge structural issues why this hasn't been possible, and that women's rights in law are not safe at all.

This really sums it up for me.

I always knew there was still sexism and misogyny but I really felt things had changed for the good for the most part, in this country at least.

But the under the radar assault on the rights of women and girls, the ease with which it's happened and continues to happen, the sheer amount of people that think it's ok is jaw droppingly shocking to me.

Every time I think I can't be surprised by it any more I am.

I think constantly about The Handmaid's Tale and the relative ease with which women's rights are taken away in that book.

I used to think that was pretty far fetched but now I feel we're getting a taste of how easily it really could be done...it's chilling.

BoudiccaKate · 17/06/2019 13:04

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Melroses · 17/06/2019 12:52

I veer between deep anger and deep dejection at the futility of trying to fight against the way we are treated and viewed.

It is a long uphill task. I think that we have been in a false utopia where women's rights in law were safe and it was just a matter of bringing up your girls to have a go, encouraging women to use their rights. Now I realise that there are huge structural issues why this hasn't been possible, and that women's rights in law are not safe at all.

beenandgoneandbackagain · 17/06/2019 12:11

Completely agree. Having my eyes opened has been shocking, depressing, terrifying, and I veer between deep anger and deep dejection at the futility of trying to fight against the way we are treated and viewed.

RogersVideo · 17/06/2019 12:11

Yes, all this has been massively eye opening.

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 17/06/2019 12:09

Not just women but children and vulnerable adults in general, anyone deemed to be lower status than men.

JoyceJeffries · 17/06/2019 11:38

Completely agree. We are not even allowed to define ourselves. Men have collectively decided what a women is. We are now non men.

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