Report states misogyny should be treated as hate crime

[YoBeaches]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54254541

The report states that sex as well as gender should be protected as hate crimes where misogyny is only recognised in 7 of the UKs police forces.

Recommendation to be made next year.

I think this would be good. Obviously it would have to be sex not gender (as trans people are already covered under the reassignment category).

I like that from Stella Creasy. It is a shame she took it down but the fact that she put it up in the first place is positive.

The biggest challenge is it’s bloody everywhere.

@EarthSight

If they class it as a hate crime, where would one even start with prosecutions??? How would it be defined? Does making or watching violent porn count? How about insisting that men who say they are women should be able to go into and access single-sex spaces, no questions asked? About the total disregard for safeguarding and diminishing women as hysterical thickos for being worried about it?

Like I said, where would they even start with something this big???

Hate crimes already exist in UK law, the legislation lists most of the protected characteristics covered by The Equality Act. The idea is to add 'misogyny' to the list.

''Hate incidents and hate crime are acts of violence or hostility directed at people because of who they are or who someone thinks they are.
For example, you may have been verbally abused by someone in the street because you’re disabled or someone thought you were gay.''
www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/discrimination/hate-crime/what-are-hate-incidents-and-hate-crime/

Stella Creasy was writing in the Telegraph yesterday about this, and noted that “ After two years of campaigning by a coalition including Citizens UK, Refuge, Hope Not Hate, Stonewall, the Fawcett Society and more, the Law Commission has now launched a consultation on how to reform our hate crime legislation to include misogyny. ”

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/making-misogyny-hate-crime-has-nothing-do-wolf-whistling/amp/

I have no confidence that this proposed change will make things better for women. I fully expect that by misogyny, they intend to encompass hate against transwomen.

The problem is that ‘hate crimes’ against women are so common and frequent that even the women themselves don’t realise that’s what it is. For example, when MN was taken down by a Ddos attack lots of posters couldn’t see that this was because this is a woman centred website.