"Yes, I agree that those would be very long term and fundamental if they happened fully and continued to be accepted fully. But I don't think it's going to be as quick a change as that. Whereas Brexit is. I think the issue of women's rights is huge, but slower, and that there is still time to change things after a referendum/decision etc on Brexit. I do think that people will wake up; I think that the changes around the ideology of women can be reversed still or in the future, whereas I think Brexit can't." (my bolding)
One word - Canada.
A country previously thought of as sensible and boring. Now?
"The fact that powerful people and corporations are either being silenced or actively embracing ‘gender neutrality’ irrespective of its negative impact on women?" We can see this happening. Do you really think that ordinary people 'waking up' will effect change when those with the reins of power have already surrendered? I don't think so. Reversal will be nigh on impossible.
I'm going to repeat @SpartacusAutisticus 's post of Mon 11-Nov-19 11:06:16 because I think it is spot on.
This notion that women's sex-based rights are a 'single issue' is nonsensical.
Women's rights (and I include girls in this group, as women's rights are girls rights too, now or in the future) are fundamental to health, care, education and employment rights.
The well-being of women is utterly vital to everyone's future, for we bear and nurture the next generation.
It is women who care for the most vulnerable in society, whether we agree with this split by sex is irrelevant, the reality is that we do this, often unpaid or underpaid and almost always with little respect or recognition.
Recognising and ameliorating for our sex-based disadvantage is why we have our own protected characteristic in the Equality Act, because it is acknowledged that we face systemic discrimination and oppression.
Our rights as women and girls to actively participate in society remain obstructed and hindered by this systemic failure.
Women's health, our education and employment rights, our freedom to gather and speak, and to recognise ourselves as a discrete social group, are all under threat, so this is not a single issue at all.
For women and girls, this is all the issues.
Every single one of them relies on our ability to name ourselves as women.
If we can't do this we have nothing.
No rights.
I absolutely agree with this.
And as for Brexit - I think we're too late. We're fucked, no matter who gets in and what they do once elected. I am not willing for those hard-won women's rights to be fucked too.