@SetYourselfOnFire
I thought I understood how much men hate women before all this happened, but I didn't. I really didn't.
Same.
This has been the figleaf many men needed. It means they can be as vile to us as they choose, and if they use this as the rationale, they feel they get away with it.
If they really cared about trans rights, they'd be noticing all the many ways this movement sidelines trans men. Titles of honour, primogeniture, political representation of men, the very language men may use - all unchallenged. Meanwhile, women are followed around the internet and abused, lectured, tone policed and harassed for being insufficently deferential to male demands.
It's so obvious. They just love the chance to assert dominance over women, and they don't really care what the excuse is. And sadly all too many women are loving the opportunity to be Cool Girls over it, too. Just as many used to jeer at suffragettes, bra burners, ballbreakers and career women. Now they can pearl-clutch over how horrid those terrible women are, prioritising women's rights of all things, and bask in the - exceedingly conditional - approval of the likes of LOJ.
It's not a civil rights movement, if it removes women's right to fair sporting competition to serve the interests of males. And it's not a human rights movement if it asserts the right of males to get their dicks out around unconsenting women - let alone when it demands that male rapists be housed alongside women prisoners, almost all of whom are survivors of sexual abuse, many from childhood. It defies belief that we even need to say that.
Any women pointing out the way men harm women is now accused of 'weaponising'. And now, pointing out that women have a right to expect clear and unambiguous language in our public health campaigns - something not under any sort of threat, for men - is accused of the same. Any woman asserting any rights that do not suit men meets with this twisting of reality, to convert a harm done to women into manipulation - that age-old accusation, for women reacting to male abuse.
It's straight up DARVO, and it's vile.