Single sex spaces are "The hill I am prepared to die on".

[Maskless]

JHB tells BO'N that women's safety in single sex spaces is the topic she is prepared to lose her job about, and the hill she is prepared to die on.

I'm so glad to hear a high profile, loud and forceful woman making such a trenchant, no-nonsense, emphatic announcement about this issue.

Imagine how different things would be if EVERY female presenter, every female MP, every female in the public eye, was as steadfast.

www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/a-world-gone-mad/

@NiceGerbil

Isn't it up to men whether their spaces are sacrosanct?

I mean it's a totally different ballgame.

Elliot Page is no threat to any man. Aren't they 5'2"ish?

Well yes.

But I mean in general. Female in male things is in no way equivalent to the other way around.

What men think about when it comes to their spaces. Is up to them.

It's going to be way less common for a start.

There's also the fact that men are very good at policing things they see as their areas anyway. Usually non violent.

I know and have always known when I've walked into somewhere that men see as theirs. Staring. That sense of hostility. Going quiet. Etc. And there are a lot of everyday situations and places that are open to all but men see as theirs. Including outside...

Men don’t need women to speak up for them on this- they are not without the power to say what they want, they are listened to and male only spaces aren’t something men feel any sense of shame through toxic masculinity to comment on.

Men are welcome to voice their opinions on women in their spaces, they always have. They can handle that one by themselves.