I’m thinking this out as I type but is it too far fetched to say that women have really only been ‘allowed’ (fought for) personal boundaries based on their sex class for the last 50 or 60 years?
And in response we’ve seen increasing hyper sexualisation of women in the last 20 commensurate with the rise in social media whilst witnessing the swift penetration of TR activism into public and private spheres.
Not suggesting this is all orchestrated but we seem to have arrived at a strange juncture of the concept of ‘woman’ being both erased and simultaneously repurposed or weaponised.
Woman now means whatever anyone wants it to mean in a newspaper headline, in decision about which prison estate to house a prisoner, for a political post. It is a breathtaking triumph in dismantling women’s boundaries and their right to set boundaries and in silencing opposition to the dismantling of their boundaries.
Yes there are women fighting back (on these boards and elsewhere), but isn’t it extraordinary how fast it happened and how unaware most people are? And most extraordinary how many intelligent and well meaning people (women!) seemingly accept that a baby’s gender can be assigned at birth and actively dismantle young girls boundaries (in telling them that women have a penis and that they have no right to question a male body in a female space).