Calling the conversation 'playing silly buggers' is exactly why rights are rolling back. I don't do femininity, so there's zero insecurity there for me and most of the women I know raising this issue are not very feminine (whatever that means).
If you're worried about wrongthink, you're more likely to be accused of that by the ideologues with the loudest voices, who outlaw facts as hate speech. If you're not worried about that, you soon will be.
Nobody has said they hate men. The women who get so defensive about feminism are usually the ones who feel threatened, which is why they use derogatory language for other women. You're effectively policing what another woman is talking about, surely it's obvious why that's a problem.
To me this demonstrates exactly why we can't pretend this issue is any less important. If everyone sits back and calls women who speak up 'man haters', how on earth can we expect a government to protect us?
I've been saying this would happen for years and people told me not to be 'obsessed' because it would never happen, and now look where we are... exactly where a lot of us predicted.
This is one of those issues where feminists will be villified for standing up, but also blamed when our rights start disappearing.
I'm also an orphaned voter who was a member of the Labour Party until Keir. It all feels like pissing into the wind now. Sad to see how democracy has ended up here since I was young. Knowing what a woman is seems like a pretty fundamental thing when half the voting population is female. You can't apply the Equality Act, provide adequate health care, safeguard vulnerable people or close the pay gap if you don't know what a woman is.