What Fox has said here is highly consistent with this yougov poll. In this case, that particularly women will not let their true feelings be known, particularly to family and friends, about this issue. Because they fear that they will lose contact with the people they love.
Remember how relieved fox was to cut the person they regarded as gender critical out of their life? I doubt they are even aware that people who know that fox did this might have made the connection that they too would be cut if they showed any sign of disagreeing.
The YouGov poll is very clear about it. I would love to see them redo it now though to seen whether people are still as concerned or whether they have just gone ‘fuck it! Who needs to live agreeing with someone who is so ideologically driven’ or whether it is worse.
yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/12/22/cancel-culture-what-views-are-britons-afraid-expre
Here are some interesting highlights:
A majority of Britons (57%) say they have, at least sometimes, found themselves stopping themselves from expressing their political or social views for fear of judgement or negative responses from others.
Women are also more likely to have held their tongue than men (62% vs 52%).
29% of those who disagree with the statement “a transgender woman is a woman” feel they have to frequently keep bottled up.
Only 10% of respondents agree with the mantra. But apparently, according to Fox in 20 years that number will be significantly higher. This is another assertion that isn’t based in reality though. All the studies, experiences and evidence coming through that show that this is simply not true and that once you pull one thread, such as sports or prisons, pronouns for rapists, then the entire philosophy unravels into an emotional mass.