I'm having a shit week and am premenstrual, but that emailed response actually make me cry. Whether they were tears of sadness, or of rage and frustration, I'm not entirely sure. All that compassion, all that courtesy and consideration, for males larping as women. As for actual women? Well, no one gives a shiny shit about real female angst; nor ever, ever asks: 'but what about the women?'
Women are painted as aggressors and don't receive one iota of sympathy. No one cares if we are intimidated. No one cares that we are the demographic most at risk from male-bodied people, that we are murdered by said male-bodied people at the tune of 2-3 women a week, because of our sex; that we are paid less, valued less, picked off and harrassed in the street: because of our sex; that we are told to sit down and shut up, and to stay silent about the instruments of our abuse and oppression (men): because of our sex. We just need to be kind to the males masquerading in our changing rooms with hard-ons and who, backed up by this toxic ideology, suggest that any little girls scared or intimidated by the fact simply shouldn't be looking.
Adherents to this groteseque ideology never fail to remind women on a more or less daily basis that we are considered lesser humans. As for the women who internalise that misogyny and then turn it against other women, there are no words that can adequately express the depth of my contempt and disgust.
As they say in Scotland, 'get tae fuck'.