Originally Posted by
Gray77
We've had a very strange situation here in the last week or so. For the last few years a certain loud but small group of people have been calling for the opening up of women's toilets, refuge hostels, prisons, rape centres, school changing rooms, sports teams etc to male-bodied people who identify as women. I have argued against some of them from the point of view of the safety of women, and how women fought for decades for spaces where they feel safe from men.
These same people are now telling everyone how dangerous life is for women and how the Tories, the police, the right-wing media don't care about their safety. Tell them that their advocacy of male-bodied people sharing changing rooms, prisons, hostels, refuge centres, sports teams, school changing rooms etc with women is putting women's safety in danger and they call you a bigot. If the problem of violence against women is a problem that revolves around a certain percentage of men being horrible people then it follows that a similar percentage of men who identify as women are also horrible people. But those men aren't a problem it seems, and giving them access to every safe space a woman has in public is fine for these people. It's all the other men that are the problem obviously.
I have started to realise that for them there is no right or wrong, it is 'agree with us or you are evil'. The contradictions in their worldview are all over the place, they're so easy to see, but they don't want to hear it and unfortunately they very rarely have to.