Thread by @SWWalesReSister

On Kindness

I am fed up with seeing women trying to protect women only spaces being told to be kind.

I am fed up because this is framing women as being unkind because they are asserting women & girl's rights.

I am fed up because kindness does not seem to apply to women & girls

I experience a world a country which, after over 150 years of feminist activism, is still not kind to women & girls. A world where women & girls are still not treated as equals to men and boys.

For instance:-
- there is still a gap between the pay of women & men
- men still predominate in the top jobs, in positions of power & authority
- women are still trafficked for men's sexual gratification
-women bodies & images of our bodies are sold for entertainment

- women are more likely to live in poverty than men
- women still do most of the housework
- women are twice as likely to suffer domestic abuse than men (over 80% of "high frequency" victims)
- women are less than 20% of the perpetrators of domestic abuse

- three quarters of the victims of sexual assaults are women
- conviction rates for rape are far lower than other crimes

I could go on.
I could mention female genital mutilation, female infanticides...

Women wanting to protect women's spaces are just wanting to be kind to women & girls, kindness often not afforded to them.

They say charity begins at home, well the same could be said for kindness and other women are my home.