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The corollary of the idea that women should have single/sex spaces is that men should have this right too but this idea was undermined over several decades by feminist-activists themselves, in the form of the disappearance of all-male clubs in the wake of new progressive pieties.
Likewise, transgenderism builds upon an edifice of blank-slatism that feminist-academics-and-activists have themselves contributed towards creating i.e the idea that men & women are virtually interchangeable with differences culturally-constructed rather than biologically-rooted.
Thats why Im not convinced that the rise of transgenderism is linked to ‘patriarchy’ as such (with the caveat that this is a stronger argument if we focus on places like Iran) but instead is, to some degree, an unintended consequence of forms of feminism itself.
The rise in transgenderism has coincided with a decline in ‘patriarchal’ practices in this country. So to blame ‘patriarchy’ for transgenderism, doesn’t really make any sense, other than the fact thats its just the standard feminist catch-all explanation for everything.
Ultimately, you can make the argument that men need single-sex spaces too (& no that doesnt mean ‘golf clubs’ not least bc most men have never been able to afford membership to such clubs in any case) but yet not a single feminist (to my knowledge) has ever defended such a right
&, therefore, what a lot of feminists end up (by default) saying is: single-sex spaces for me, but not for thee. Which isn’t a tenable position to hold Im afraid.
Men end carving out male-only spaces by stealth, this largely accounts for the appeal of hobbies like fishing, for instance, I believe.
The need for male-only spaces is different from the female-only-spaces need, bc not primarily about safety, but is more about other less tangible needs (eg male bonding/friendship) but they are no less real needs for that. Feminists would have been wiser to have recognised that.
@v_j_freeman & trying to conflate all women with a certain type of feminist is also disingenuous on your part. Not all women are feminists. Ive been talking about a certain type of feminist in this thread. That type of feminist does not represent all women, as you seem to think.
@v_j_freeman I take massive offence to your reply tbh. I bet I have tweeted more about violence towards women than you have. One does not need to be a feminist to be opposed towards violence towards women, as Erin Pizzey demonstrated.
But much easier to blame everything on ‘patriarchy’ instead rather than reflect on the ways in which the ideological movement that you yourself belong to has served to contribute to the erosion of the basis for the rights which you now claim to.
Lots of ppl unable to understand the point that by undermining the idea of single-sex spaces for men, feminists undermined the idea of single-sex spaces in general or, at least, made them harder to defend in principle. Single-spaces for me but not for thee isn’t defensible.
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