Thank you, Christina. I do hear the angst in your voice, I share it in my own XX related way.
Not being a woman, and not having children, thus not under threat personally from the movement, my disquiet is coming from a more free speech, linguistic, cancel culture, logic/paradox point of view, laced with a heavy dose of being tuned in to what you're all going thru.
Indeed I've done my best on my personal journey to unwind the whole sorry riddle wrapped in a conundrum.
Or is that practical joke wrapped in a satirical post modern theatre and multi media installation?
Of course, the joke is on women (at GC men's expense as well), and the multi media event is as broad as you can imagine.
And as every denial from the left comes in (Libs Of TikTok clips are cherry picked, activist DQs only want to read to kids, there is no ambiguity between their adult kink acts and their child-appropriate "day" jobs, any objection is Rightist fanning of the culture war, stopping activist DQs going into schools is reminiscent of the toxic days of Thatchers anti-gays in education crusade etc), we see how much the pressure to make this happen from the left is stepped up. This in and of itself is proof it is political, not educational or egalitarian in intent.
And no-one seems to be able to answer this. How is it that it's only the DQs that are available and motivated to go into schools in great numbers?
Where are the actors, poets, retired teachers who can put in a few hours, language specialists, authors, public speakers, cartoonists etc etc?
How about mums, grandmums, dads, granddads, anyone at large who has time and enthusiasm?
Out of the whole arts and academic fraternity, and community at large, it's just the DQs that can/are doing this?
Of course there'd be no political angle or barrier breaking if the Womens Institute or scout masters went in instead.