Being fairly new to having had my eyes opened, I’ve spent the past few weeks lurking, reading and starting to post here and there.
Today, my eyes have been opened even further. Thanks to @hellofabore posting an archived tweet on another thread.
I couldn’t get all the way to the end of the series of tweets, I literally had to stop myself throwing up. Those images keep popping into my head and I don’t want them there. How the hell can this type of thing be happening, and yet still there are many people saying that women-only spaces should be accepting of everyone?
And then to increase the danger of this, with any male being able to self-id. And still some people can’t see a problem with it. It has made me feel really low today.
How on earth do we fight things if even those images are not enough to dissuade people from stating that there is no issue regarding people with a penis being in a women-only space?
On a positive note, I actually broached the topic with a couple of family members on a call today. I started with getting them to check out the library rainbow monkey as an example of a thought-provoking news item and then segued into a couple of points regarding self-id/upcoming olympics. Not a long conversation, but enough to encourage them to pay closer attention to future news items that they may have scrolled by normally. So, not much in the greater scheme of things, but I feel good for having broached it.