I just read his follow up tweet about "bigots". What a stupid, nasty, patronising, misogynistic piece of work. Wow.
I was basically new to politics and didn't believe Jess Phillips when she said in 2017 that left-wing men were the "absolute worst" sexists, it's worse than "out-and-out sexists of the right", that Labour has a misogyny problem, outwardly displaying they're for equality but don't think of women on the same level, and deligitimize their voice. I terribly naively didn't believe that men on the left could be sexist. Jess also said, “Men who want to own your equality and the things you fought for are absolutely fine if they want you to own it as well but when they want it to puff out their own chests, that is really, really, really annoying.” It has all definitely become apparent to me over the last few years.
Alex displaying here that left-wing men really think they know better than women and can decide what we are, decide what we should think, decide why we think something that they don't want us to think (because we're bigots of course!), refuse to listen to us about our own issues, speaking over us about things which affect us, think they know better than us, and feel entirely comfortable doing this in public, disregarding us and libelling us with name calling.
Well, we have our own fucking brains thanks, and it's us who has the woke-quote "lived experience" as women, not you Alex, and not any male. Wow. The fucking audacity of it. Not that I'd have thought you needed lived experience to realise what a lunatic idea it is to have mixed sexed prisons and refuges. Anyway, I suspect this may wake many people up, so glad he wrote it, spread it far and wide. Used to like this guy. Now I much prefer Jacob Rees Mogg, at least regarding Joanna Cherry and this issue, disgusted with the abuse she's received and stating "And much that I disagree with her on so many things, may I commend her courage in standing up for freedom of speech and putting forward her views, clearly in a difficult and sensitive area but one where she has a right to be heard." Just those last 10 words are a big deal for me to hear after all of this stomping on by left/liberal men. Contrast with Owen Jones also and his celebration of the treatment of Joanna Cherry by the SNP and his salivating at the prospect of action against female Labour MPs/members, including a survivor of domestic violence. Also OJ was fantasising about some how banning "transphobes" from watching a TV show he liked. This guy is 36. Anyone asked OJ if he's open to sexual relationships with transmen, self-id, pre & post "transition"? If he's not prepared to do various sexual deeds with female body parts (of which there is no such thing we're told, just like a transwoman's penis is female, a transman's vagina is male, right?), he's a Transphobe. As I've been told. Funnily enough Jess and Owen don't seem to get along, and Jess has some kind of friendship with JRM and described him as a "real gent". Also saying “[Rees-Mogg] is who he is,” she said. “People might not like that, but… I find that much more appealing than spending a week with someone who’s a fake.” About the abuse Jess had, a lot of which came from left-wing men, but was also from across the political spectrum, JRM said “This is something we should take really seriously. The abuse of women online for sharing their views is a disgrace.” “It is a real disgrace of modern society and will discourage women politicians from going into it if they are treated the way Jess is. It is deeply outrageous.” Alex here I'd say is partaking in abuse of women online, name calling us, and encouraging it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/07/misogyny-feminism-stop-the-war-jeremy-corbyn
Jess: "
Why I won’t shut up about misogyny and the left"
"I suggested that some leftwing feminists will forgive anything if it is done by a leftwing man..."
"...In both these cases, people appeared to take leave of their senses because there was a leftwing man to protect. “Oh, sweetheart, don’t you realise the cause is more important? Take this one for the team.” I know this happens in all sections of society; the hard left just seem to have a special talent for it.
I believe the Labour leadership team do want to fight for equality for women but they think it is a happy byproduct of the cause, something that will trickle down without actually being campaigned for. And because of this they could potentially turn a blind eye to terrible misogyny in some of the causes they support. What worries me about this is that good feminists might turn a blind eye too, for the sake of their man."
I absolutely refuse to have this issue sneeringly reduced to the suggestion that it's just all about toilets and going to pee - but one question - which unisex toilets have we always had? I've only seen unisex toilets as a single room containing its own handwashing facilities, with the door onto an open corridor of the building, the toilets not being in a shared room/cubicles in a room at all. Why is he even bringing that up and comparing it to prisons, refuges, hospital wards, if that's what he's doing?
