I've recently watched The Rise and Fall of the Nazis.
It just struck me as so similar. It starts fairly quiet then builds until it's big enough and feared enough that people who want to object are too afraid to.
It takes a while to realise that this isn't kindness to children but opening doors to people who least have their interests at heart.
The doors are being opened to men who ultimately gain access to children and women.
It's never failed to amaze me that women are left trying to close these doors and being harmed along the way, yet if husbands, fathers, and brothers spoke up against this cult it would be far easier to shut down.
I come across different types of men online and IRL. Many just have an underlying hate for women. When I've mentioned or read about trans women in women's sport their answers are always the same: feminists wanted equality, get on with it. These men don't like women and/or want us put in our place.
Yet surely they can't all be like that? We need to get them to look up from their newspapers, see, understand and act on the harm being done to their women and children.
There are a few men on these boards who get it, my DP gets it, and even my gay brother gets it. It's getting them to get off their arses and do something about it. They get it but don't do it. Maybe we should get a Nike campaign going to get them to just do it instead of not doing it.
I fear it will be an even harder slog for the women of Europe than it has been here. Even here it's only the battle that's been won. The war is still ongoing.