Thread by @shaunjlawson

I've asked this question once or twice before. I make no apology for doing so again now.

How in the world are there so many men on this platform who think of themselves as progressives or socialists, yet try and dictate to women what being a woman means and involves?

How in the world are there so many so-called 'progressive' men on this platform who:

- Denounce and demonise rape survivors like JK Rowling

- Fail to see that when male-boded athletes compete in women's sports, that is an absolutely appalling injustice and total nonsense

- Think describing rapists with penises as 'women' if they happen to self-identify as such is normal, and that anyone who objects is a danger

- Honestly appear to believe they know everything there is to know about being a woman... when in practice, they know literally nothing?

It just boggles my mind.

I know too many men mansplain. I know too many men talk over, patronise and condescend to women. But this is something else. Something else entirely.

The women you witchhunt, you condemn, you denounce and excommunicate are your mothers, your grandmothers, your great-grandmothers, your aunts, your wives, your girlfriends, your partners, your friends, your sisters, your daughters, your nieces, your cousins, your grand-daughters.

Do you go through your lives treating them like this? Do you listen to them at all?

What next? Are so-called 'leftie' men going to start pretending like they know what it truly is to go through pregnancy or an abortion, to miscarry, to be a single mother on the minimum wage?

To be sexualised as a child, to be trafficked into sex slavery, to live in constant fear of violent, sexual and/or psychological abuse?

And sure, part of the above *does* happen to men and especially boys too - but it's not our spaces which are under threat. It's women's.

Every single time a man says to a woman on here that she doesn't know what she's talking about, she has nothing to fear, she must stop focusing on 'extreme' examples and all the rest of it, it's a man who will lose nothing hectoring a woman who could lose *everything*.

"TERF! SWERF! Fascist! Bigot!", from a sex class who will not be affected in any way whatsoever by this ongoing madness.

And when a non-binary or trans person employs such abuse, I get suspicious. VERY suspicious. Because women just do not behave in such a way.

Women are fierce, tough, stronger than we ever imagine. All over the world too: if only it was remotely true that hard work paid, then African women would be the richest people on the planet.

But women DO NOT BEHAVE LIKE THIS. In such an obscene, disgusting, monstrous way.

All entirely in plain sight. A bunch of men who clearly do not have the first clue what they look like - and haven't even paused for a second to think about it either.

You know that line about "the confidence of a mediocre white man"? It's true. Proven as such on here every day.

Repent motherfuckers! REPENT MOTHERFUCKERS!

No. Fuck the fuck off. And keep fucking the fuck off while you're at it until you learn, finally, to start listening to women.

Solidarity with @jk_rowling, @FemmeLoves, @MForstater, @Docstockk, @joannaccherry and many many others.

Women standing tall against this absolutely grotesque, despicable nonsense.

#IStandWithJKRowling
#WomenWontWheesht