[quote EmbarrassingHadrosaurus]If you can prove that the mums are all crazy/hysterical bigots who, then no one will listen to them when they object to children being medicalised, when they are overtly sexualised, when we object to the boys in girls changing rooms or sports, when we say “no” to adult males sharing sleeping spaces with young girls on Guide/Scout trips.
Women are still dealing with the shadow of being the perceptions people have of us and not who we are. We're dealing with the social consequences of being gaslighted on a staggering scale and having gendered roles thrust upon us to our great detriment.
As PPs astutely remark, why are women who are concerned with safeguarding being labelled Nazis, transphobes and bigots if not to deter others from speaking up? Why are people concerned with the right to civic dissent and misgivings about the creep of the social credit systems being cast as enemies of progress and society?
Jean Hatchet reported an exchange she had in Sept. 2018 (iirc, it was after a WPUK event):
Woman last night : “really it’s a shame you all have to waste your time on the trans issue when there’s so much to do in feminism”
No. There isn’t. All the rest depends on this. If men can say they are women and women have to believe them - they killed feminism. It’s over.
When men take the word “woman” from women and use it for themselves it is the most aggressive collective act of male violence against women and girls you will see in your lifetime.
These men know .... oh yes they know... that if we can’t define “woman” ... we can’t name our oppressors “male”. We can’t fight them. We can’t overthrow them.
Let this pass and it’s over women. The whole game is up.
Fight now. For feminism and for your lives as women.
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This. Again and again and again. I am dealing, on another board, with two women who call themselves feminists yet can't see this, which is so ruddy obvious to me it's poking me in the eye.