It’s part of a systemic and determined culture of breaking down of boundaries and this is just a small symptom of the rotten whole.
Of the same ilk as those who demand that men should be allowed into women’s shelters, women’s rape/crisis centres, women’s prisons, women’s changing rooms, women’s toilets, women’s groups for survivors of DV and so on and so forth.
As pp have said, beyond the fact that women have always been, and will continue to be, the preyed upon sex class, women are also the gate keepers of children and there is a sizeable faction that wants all those boundaries broken down. It absolutely is not an unintended and regrettable mistake. It never is. Situations such as these are directly related to this agenda of predating.
People who do not believe in sensible boundaries to protect as much as possible those more vulnerable are not decent, good, trustworthy people.
But because people are worried about being labelled as ‘bigoted’ or ‘phobic’ they often feel uneasy about challenging it. So here we are.
This is about demands by certain individuals and/or organisations to access spaces in which they do not belong, to seek ownership of these literally and figuratively and to harass, abuse and assault with impunity.
If you think this plastic penis shouldn’t have been shoved in children’s faces and paraded about in front of women without their consent then let’s imagine what might be wrong with an actual penis being flopped out in front of women and children in a spa, or paraded around in a women’s rape/DV shelter. Or in prisons. Absolutely unacceptable.