Unfortunately, I found that yes, the world still hates women. 

I’m not only talking about misogynistic groups who feel entitled to women’s bodies, see women as nothing more than broodmares, and who go on shooting rampages because they can’t get dates. I’m not even referring to people who feel compelled to comment #notallmen every time a women’s issue is brought up, even if it has nothing to do with them, such as female genital mutilation.

I delayed publishing this post because I had to rewrite this part as recent events reminded me that advocating for women’s rights can still be controversial. Even when talking to the woke left and self-declared “feminists”, saying that you want women to advocate and prioritize their rights will leave you open to accusations of hatred and bigotry.

I had the surreal experience of being driven off a private Facebook page which purports itself to be a “safe space” where women’s issues can be discussed and debated upon. During Women’s Month. While advocating for women’s rights. 

Sure, they said I was welcome to stay but I just have to shut my trap. No thanks.

Apparently for them, women can only be “real feminists” if we center men and non-gender conforming men in our movement. Apparently, centering natal women (women are adult human females) in the feminist movement is hateful and threatening, more threatening that actual male violence and non-existent protection under the law, both of which are not the fault of women. 

Yes, I was called a slur in that FB page and the moderators told *ME* that my views are threatening. I had to laugh because this group is an offshoot of a well-known atheist/freethinking group where dogma of all kinds are questioned all the time. Except of course when the dogma is gender theory, they turn into cult members, unable to distinguish a point of view from an attack. Even though I told them that I am not coming from a place of hate but from the point of view that women should center us in our own movement.  I want women to prioritize our unique issues. I haven’t seen the women’s movement demand another marginalized group to center us in their activism. Why should we center another marginalized group in our movement? This is patently absurd. 

We are being made to be responsible for male violence, lack of legal protections, and a culture and society that can’t accept gender non-conforming people. Instead of fixing violence, the law, and society, they demand to fix the women. Probably because it’s easier. Women have been oppressed for thousands of years, so why not suppress our newly rediscovered but still unconsolidated voice and power? This leads to me to think that these new movements are a new manifestation of the patriarchy disguising itself as a liberal form of “feminism”. 

Women who don’t agree with these activists are called slurs, threatened with rape and physical violence, deplatformed, and deprived of their livelihoods and careers.

Women like J.K. Rowling were canceled by the Left for tweeting that there is a word that refers to “people who menstruate” which is of course women. They want to deprive us of the fundamental right to describe and identify ourselves. If we can’t even describe ourselves, how are we to name our oppression? 

Biology is the root of women’s oppression. We are not oppressed because we like to wear feminine clothes or put on make up, or because we “feel girly” (whatever that means).  There’s one thing that binds the women of the world, from the urban areas of the Philippines, the steppes of Central Asia, the alteplano of the Andes, the deserts of Sahara, and the glaciers of Alaska. It’s the potential to gestate and give birth to the young of our species. Whether a woman realizes or even want to realize this potentiality is immaterial. 

As a woman, I personally support advocacies that will lead to better outcomes for everyone. But I oppose initiatives that will result in erasing and silencing women to please others. Do your own thing and leave us women alone.