Billy Bragg: your misogyny is showing

[RoyalCorgi]

Apparently "expressing solidarity with the trans community will only provoke a storm of angry feminists (led by a male comedy writer) to harass you for days."

Because obviously we women are too pathetic and useless to organise ourselves and only do anything when a man tells us to.

They don't even bother hiding their contempt for women any more.

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As to being 'harassed for days'...
... is that getting some snarky tweets maybe?

Whereas women (and a few male supporters) get harassed for months or years, including vile threats, misuse of police etc. How does he think any 'harassment' he may have encountered stacks up against what eg JKR has endured?

@Jaysmith71

Aw! Who had to go and mention Kirsty???

Now I have to play this:

And doesn't it mean something else today?

"Your laws do not apply to me..."

Genius. I don't know any of her songs I don't like.
Innocence

Bragg has always been a creep, no change here.

He is a misogynistic bellend. Imagine thinking so little of women that you can't even fathom that they might talk together, organise together and come up with their own thoughts and opinions without the need to be 'led' by a man.

Prick.

@WinterTrees

But you could say the same against violence against women, does that mean we shouldn’t be campaigning against it?

Society has had a very high tolerance level for violence against women since the dawn of time. The fact that it still does makes the question of how to begin to address an almost impossible task. The house is rotten to its foundations and a bit of wallpaper and a quick paint job is going to do fuck all to address it.

It's good that transpeople don't face the same level of social and legal indifference to violence and murder committed against them. I wouldn't for a moment advocate for a society where the oppression of one group of people should be addressed by levelling down others, but the reality is that 3 women a week are killed by men in their own homes and rape convictions are so low as to effectively decriminalise it. Meanwhile, police forces dedicate time and resources to investigating thought crime, wrong speak and the incorrect use of pronouns. Whatever unpleasant incident you witnessed at the weekend, I'm prepared to bet that the perpetrators were men, and that - if it was reported - the police will be taking it very seriously. Which would simply not be the case if a woman reported being glared at or sneered at or harassed. Everyday occurrence, innit?

This is really well put. Thank you.