Ian Betteridgehis isnt' a "masculinity crisis". Let's call it what it is: a deliberate campaign by the right to brainwash boys with misogynistic propaganda. Calling a woman teacher "a fucking slag" isn't masculine behaviour.
Idren Anarchoqueer@ianbetteridge the fact that UK women did not support 2SLGBTQQIA+ folks is coming back to bite them because now that the hierarchy is cutting them out, there’s no one to save them because they decided to punch down as part of the kyriarchy.
Robert Galbraith helped plant these seeds. Thank you for weeding the garden.
@idren I take the point about solidarity, but I think it misreads where British women actually are. Polling consistently shows women are *more* supportive of trans rights than men, not less. That's been true across YouGov, Ipsos and More in Common research. The loudest gender-critical voices get a lot of airtime (because right wing media), but they don't represent British women as a whole.
The Rowling-as-representative-of-British-womanhood framing is itself something the right has actively promoted — and I don't think that amplifying it is positive.
I also think the "they didn't protect you so no one will protect them" logic is one we should be careful with. It punishes a group based on a mischaracterisation of their views, and that's exactly the kind of fracture that benefits people who want coalitions broken. The more useful question is how we build the solidarity that does exist into something durable.
@ianbetteridge eliminate sexual differentiation of the third space so that men don’t have a platform for down pressure
@ianbetteridge i’m not sure why you would bring up J. K. Rowling. I didn’t mention her whatsoever.
@idren "Robert Galbraith"?
@ianbetteridge I was referring to how RG teaches men how to marginalize women and treats them like sexual doormats in his books.
JK treatment of trans Women doesn’t need to be included in the narrative for my point to have validity.
RG planted the seeds of the bromance
@ianbetteridge not every discussion about how men are fucking women over needs to include J. K. Rowling.