How is this possible? Martina's comments were widely supported on social media. The Guardian was the only publication I saw that did not support her and interestingly did not allow comments on the article; presumably because they knew their readership would not agree with them.
It's so batshit I'm starting to wonder if what I think of as reality is actually a serious mental health problem. My lived experience is that nearly every man I've ever met is taller and heavier than me, I've never run or cycled faster than a man of similar age and no man has ever asked for my help lifting something heavy when other men have been available to help. This is a simple acceptance of the biological differences between the sexes. What am I missing here?
A friend recently bought me Vox by Christina Falconer, I reported back to them that 5 years ago I would have thought it an interesting work of fiction but in the current climate it was actually a terryfying read because women were already being silenced. This from Google books,
Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you're a woman......^
The Guardian described it as overblown feminist dystopia but it's looking more real everyday.