Despite the fact that being a woman just 'is', the reality is they are Cassandra and not believed and they aren't valued.
Therefore a man never has to justify nor explain nor asset himself. That is his privilege.
But a woman has to always explain and demonstrate and go beyond rationality into the land of not just the irrefutable and undeniable but also into the unignorable.
And that is where the concept of womanhood lies, quite apart from the reality of womanhood.
Elite women are told they should 'just try a bit hard' - when men are in sports and well within male elite ability range.
Mothers and sisters are told they aren't kind enough when they don't sacrifice their entire identity and their entire history to a male child.
Rape victims are told they aren't considerate and enough of a victim when they object to males in their presence in a crisis setting. The males are always more deserving of kindness and assistance.
Women who demonstrate and highlight a safety risk using evidence are told they arent professional enough, are biased and don't understand the subject enough even if they are much more highly qualified and experienced than a male saying it. They are told it's not admissable evidence and flimsy clearly biased material which is fundamentally flawed in methodology should be included despite being so unbelievably useless it's not fit for anything more than bog roll.
Women who complain publicly are told they should be killed or raped because their views are so abhorrent because they are truthful, whilst those saying it are lauded as brave and courageous behind their masks.
The modern witch hunt and the modern Cassandras are alive and well and living in places like St Helens, Sheffield, Fife and Bridlington. Which of course makes them even more easy to ignore as their postcode isn't prestigious enough and they don't have a second rate degree and a beard. God damn those pesky and gobby northerners and their history of challenging those in power and decision making.
Their silence is read as complicity rather than being read as a cold hard lack of support. Because the default is always in favour of men and never for the invisible women.
The invisible women who should be given voice by equality champions. Except those equality champions have no understanding and clue of inequality because their experience of it, is only getting a second hand car from mummy and daddy rather than a brand new one. Life sucks doesn't it?
Meanwhile in the real world, where women are old enough to have had kids and had their eyes opened by the experience of really being shafted (literally and metaphorically) by selfish and abusive men, we see it all for what it is.
We are the Cassandras.