I’m pretty far to the left, politically. And will be staying that way no matter what men on the left do, because my political philosophy isn’t dependent on them.
I know there’s a looooong history of feminists getting fed up with the sexism of left-wing blokes and walking out to form their own movement, all the way back to the 19th century. But for a good few years there I was kidding myself that it’s different these days. These men call themselves feminists, they certainly aren’t old-fashioned sexists any more, blah blah blah.
(I did start questioning things around the Julian Assange rape accusations when so many ‘feminist’ men were spitting foam-flecked rage about how it was all so obviously lies, but even this didn’t wake me up.)
So I’d like to thank gender identity ideology, and all those left-wing men who are either mysteriously silent or actively putting the boot into feminists. This ideology made me see that not only are these men not on our side any more, but they never really were in the first place. They don’t think we’re oppressed as a class at all. It’s been a bit shit to realise this but I’m glad I finally did.