The laziness, cowardice and resulting sheer bloody ignorance of journalists infuriates me. Many of the women here write better in posts they knock out in a few minutes in a coffee break and it's way better researched and evidenced.
Why is there this 'squabble'?
Squabble?
Because - as an activist poster plainly and specifically laid out last night in a thread - this is about men requiring that all women suck up a sex based duty to be raped, excluded and disadvantaged, and see this as a fair price for the better psychological happiness and freedoms of some of the male sex. This is about requiring women to accept sex based disadvantage and discrimination and the horror of things such as rape and exclusion and being left in life threatening relationships so that a small percentage of men, less than 1% , can indulge in an uninterrupted role play that sex does not exist (for them.)
The hypocrisy and ludicracy is off the scale.
And the 'hate'? The reason some men and some women are desperate to silence these women and force their compliance? That would be because they perceive it as unacceptable that women say no to men, that penis portions do not extend to rights, that women will not gladly sacrifice and martyr themselves for men.
This reflects massive sexism. Massive. It is a massive issue between the ears of people of both sexes reflecting the one really acceptable prejudice left in the UK.
And no it's not 'just that bit of the site'. It is the exact same issue you see all over the site including the bits that the moderators are openly proud of.
The women helping other women escape who are locked in the bathroom with a black eye and a fractured cheekbone because he tried to strangle her two hours ago. Who know that the police won't do much because domestic and men gonna men.
The women helping the woman do a flit this morning with the kids to a refuge knowing he is at his most dangerous if he knows she is escaping. And no one but women are going to help, but the refuges are going to have men in them. (Except that women staff will fiddle the system as much as they dare in secret because men are gonna men.)
The women helping the woman with the MiL who is fixed in the belief that a good woman will lay down and surrender herself and her mind and body and sanity to keeping a man happy and doing what suits him. No one believes that the man should give the woman equality of care and consideration or sacrifice himself because men gonna men.
The women in maternity units who had a C section four hours ago and are being expected to manage a newborn alone on paracetamol. Because women don't feel pain like real people do and you can treat them in ways you'd never treat a man.
And now women should accept that some of them will be raped in the name of men's psychological betterment and this is supposed to somehow be ok?
Sexism. On crack. It's the same issue. It's always the same fucking issue .
"Well it's hateful cos men are so very distressed when they're told no, and expected to find answers within boundaries that protect other people's rights!"
Diddums.
I care about how the females feel in the situation the male person wants to expose them to. If you are not equally educated about and concerned about them as you are about the males, then you need to go and sort your sexist problem and prejudice out first before you 'squabble'.