I am 60, I fear for my daughter and daughter in law going about their daily business. I am terrified for my beautiful, strong, intelligent and currently happy granddaughters. They are 3 and 5, I wanted the world they grew up in to be better for women, not worse. I can only see repression, exploitation and misogyny becoming more and more entrenched.
They keep finding more ways to do it, who would have thought 20 years ago it would be acceptable for a man to just steal medals from women by simply saying 'I am a woman now'. Who could have imagined that other women would vociferously support this happening?
That young girls, who don't fit in with the currently acceptable way of being female, would be encouraged to see themselves as not girls at all. But some kind of failed boy, and to become a 'real' boy they must amputate and excise the parts that make them female. To sell these young women the lie that this will cure them of something that should be celebrated, not cured. There is nothing to cure, being an unusual girl is not a disease, its a gift you have to grow into.
I never used to hate men, I was able to believe that it wasn't all men, and even that it isn't most men. Now I am beginning to think that it is most men. Even if they don't actively participate in violence, suppression and exploitation, if they aren't speaking out and challenging it, they are complicit. They are endorsing and supporting it by inaction.