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Grace Under Fire's avatar

This is what makes Labour politicians bleating on about Male Violence Against Women and Girls so meaningless and sickeningly virtue signalling. We used to be safe from 98% of sex attackers when only females were allowed into women’s changing rooms - when there was even such a thing as segregated women’s changing rooms. Now women and children are exposed to 100% of them due to policies that Labour and Lib Dem Councils are implementing all over the country. That does not square with any professed desire to reduce violence against women and girls.

I wish they would be honest and just say that the desire of a few aggressive men and some deluded youngsters is too scary to oppose, and while they would like to reduce violence against women they are too afraid to do anything about it. Then we might be able to elect some politicians with courage and integrity like Rosie Duffield or Joanna Cherry who might actually do something to retain the safety we had in the last century. So much for “progressive” politics.

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George's avatar

This issue has taught me so much about human psychology & that so many people will do or say anything that stops them being ‘thrown out of the tribe ‘ . Obviously, for our distant ancestors this could have meant literal death & some survival instinct seems to lurk in the modern brain , overpowering logic & compassion .

The biggest disappointment for me has been older , high profile women , that I’ve previously really respected pretending to be blind to the issues that this pernicious ideology creates for women & girls when we know they’ve had the experiences Milli details above but are now personally ‘safe ‘ due to wealth & celebrity status .

It’s been extremely ‘unmooring ‘ for me to listen to interviews with - for example/Sandi Toksvig or Dawn French & realise that the ‘ bonds ‘ I felt existed between us , as women understanding & supporting each other within a patriarchal society could be so carelessly destroyed by them .

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