This morning Radio 4 featured 2 relevant items:
One on loneliness, with the shrink explaining "men - only spaces are sacred" (!) And, that women cannot be lonely, because somehow by being female they must all be assumed to be "literally, falling into the arms of friends"
Assorted handmaidens joined in, kindly explaining that menz's feelz are very special and important.
Another, on Starmer in China, had BBC
a) declaring a triumph because some male politicians had been forgiven for saying nasty things about China,
b) declaring a disaster that another man had not,
c) and declaring a triumph that Keir had mentioned the Chinese Great Sin, of being nasty to Chinese Muslims.
Like the Great Sin commited by JKRowling, this is assumed to need no explanation.
An admittedly perfunctory look into the past, both distant and recent, and the present, seems to indicate that China treats or has treated vast numbers of citizens in ways which could be questioned. (The one child policy was enforced rigidly and suddenly, but the results gave China the future we now see, and gave Chinese women the power they now have, over their own lives and the male dominance or bullying they are willing to tolerate, i.e. none)
But being Muslim appears to have gained special exemption at one stage, so the 'community' was permitted to carry on pretty much whatever an Ayatolah or Taliban regime would find satisfactory. Unlimited power of males in how they treat 'their' women and children, and, as a result, unlimited churning out of children. Is that a treat for women and children? And are they not fully human?
Elsewhere, there is discussion on the NHS instructing health visitors to praise cousin marriage, (two thirds of Pakistani weddings involve first cousins) although it leads to large families often of non-verbal, non- functioning children who will need round the clock care for life, and repeated kidney transplants.
There has been a brief mention that although the general public, and both Houses of Parliament, would be in favour of a ban on cousin marriage, the Labour party has refused to consider it, for fear of upsetting .....
,,,,,,,,,Well, whom? Is it male- only 'Community leaders', able to deliver block (postal) Labour votes, because community leaders instruct male-only heads of households, who instruct/ discipline the less- than- human females and children they 'own'? But slavery is banned, isn't it?