Yep. It's incredible really isn't it, a mainly female forum gets constant scutiny from the menz, just in case we say something they don't like. How dare women say what they think eh? Yet the filth and threats many of them post on twitter, kiwi farms etc towards women is something else. Yet stating biological facts is enough to send their tiny little heads spinning, causing them to hit the report button, dox people, try to destroy mumsnets funding stream, etc etc. Mumsnet really do need to tell them to piss off.
How true this is. It's legitimized misogyny: the sort that would have made anyone uttering this kind of rhetoric persona non grata as recently as about five years ago. It's legitimized homophobia, too, bearing in mind what they have to say about lesbians. And the lengths to which they're prepared to go are really quite frightening: particularly sickening is the persistent targeting of rape crisis centres and rape victims (not least the victim blaming on Twitter and other social media. Jessica Taylor wrote a book about this. The abuse she's reported in retaliation is alarming). If even traumatised rape victims are not off limits then it tells you everything you need to know about these men. Germaine Greer was on the nail when she wrote that women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
It's particularly galling when this kind of ugly discrimination emanates from the left - the ground from which the same kind of thing has traditionally been fought in the first place. It feels like so much more of a betrayal, and in the meantime the right is rubbing its hands gloating over the (correct) assumption that the left is eating itself.
A lesbian on FWR recently stated that these days she'd feel safer at a BNP march than at Pride because at least the far right know what a lesbian is. When this becomes a widely-recognized sentiment it's a real indication of how far things have gone.
A PP suggested that the tide might be turning. I hope they're right.