@TheThermalStair
I must confess, reading your opening post made my heart pump a little faster. Because I can see me, and many women here, in you. And the frustration elevates my heart rate.
I can distinctly remember when the tone of this board changed. About five or six years ago.
There was a fair amount of disagreement about how important the issue of gender ideology was. At the time, no one could really conceive that it would result in rapists in female prisons. Despite the fact that some women on here put that forward as a possibility. A lot of people genuinely thought it wouldn't actually be allowed to happen. That it was just too extreme, too unlikely, too awful. The term fear mongering was used.
Now, not only has it happened, but incarcerated women are being casually used to satisfy the need of extremely high risk male sex offenders to 'associate with women', as long as those male prisoners say they're not male.
Likewise, the issue was discussed regarding the possibility of company boards, management, even Parliament being split into men and transwomen.
I still find this possibility almost impossible to think of. But it is happening. elsewhere in the world.
So these two examples, could, conceivably, be relegated to things that (currently) are not affecting many women. Despite them being despicable displays of misogyny. Which, I think, is perhaps the way you regard gender ideology.
And this is also where the board was, pretty much, four or five years ago. The potential of what could happen, but many people thought it wouldn't, or wouldn't be allowed.
However, what has happened, is that more and more women are finding the issue of gender ideology is having an actual impact on them. That it is being allowed. In their day-to-day lives. At work, in their peer groups and to a very worrying degree, in schools.
What was deemed an unlikely potential, has now become a very real issue, on a daily basis. For very many women and very many parents.
The aspect of children and teens, is particularly concerning. The schism between what many have been taught, and what is real, is a genuine issue that is impacting numerous families.
Women, their rights, and their political representation is facing a massive backlash. And children, in many schools, are being taught to support it.
So, like a previous poster, I don't see this as a separate issue, I see this as the collective mobilisation of a patriarchal society, to once and for all dismantle feminism.
Not as a conspiracy, with a checklist of rights to be taken down, but as a natural extension of the sexism and misogyny that we all know exists.
There are now numerous ways to, stop women talking, attack them when they are vulnerable, call them names, relieve them of their privacy and safety, strip them of power, divide them from each other, stop them centering their rights and alienate them from their children - and, the icing on the cake is, it's all in the name of progression.
The reason this board has changed, is because this issue is affecting all women. One at a time. And they are coming here to find support.
If that's not feminism and women's rights, I don't know what is.