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Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government

Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said.

Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK’s counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats posed by harmful ideologies.

The analysis will look at hatred of women as one of the ideological trends that the government says is gaining traction.

Ms Cooper said there has been a rise in extremism “both online and on our streets” that “frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy”.

vzq ,

Now do transphobia, you shitty little TERF island.

ogmios ,
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This is what you get when you submit to psychopaths.

obinice ,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

…I’m a what?

Thanks for insulting over 60 million people. Very nice of you.

vzq ,

Are you an island?

If no, then I’m not talking to you, personally. You can crawl back into your hole.

Whelks_chance ,

Were you literally talking to the land then? That’s pretty weird.

FlyingSquid ,
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Considering crossdressing has been a major theme in British entertainment literally for centuries (see the Christmas panto for a famous example), I would wager that, JK Rowling notwithstanding, there are a lot more TERFs in the U.S. Not to mention just open bigots who don’t make any faux-feminist excuses.

vzq ,

I’m all about taking pot shots at the US, but “better at trans rights than Texas or Florida” isn’t what you are looking for.

Also, if the best you can do for “we’re not transphobic honest” is cross dressing entertainment, well, yikes.

FlyingSquid ,
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Far, far, far better. As I said, since crossdressing has been a theme in British entertainment for literal centuries, it is much easier to accept someone saying they were born the wrong gender.

If you’re already used to seeing a man in a dress, you’re going to be a lot less upset about it overall. That’s why Eddie (now Suzy) Izzard got very little pushback both when he (at the time) did sold-out comedy shows wearing women’s clothing and, more recently, when she came out as trans. She does say she is fine if you call her he, and Eddie, but prefers she and Suzy.

Queer comedians in general have also had a long history in the UK. Even in the modern era, you had openly gay men like Kenneth Williams being hugely popular in the 1960s and 1970s.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_and_Sandy

vzq ,

Oh honey.

FlyingSquid ,
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That is not a substantive response. Not that I expected one.

vzq ,

What you have to me is literally the trans ally-ship equivalent of “there is no race problem, black comedians are so popular”.

It’s not worth engaging with other than with empathy and pity.

Hence “oh honey”.

FlyingSquid ,
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I never said there was no problem. So no I didn’t literally do that. I said it was much more accepted there than the implication that everyone in the UK was a TERF.

vzq ,

Since you’ve basically retracted your entire post piece by piece now, I’m just going to go away.

FlyingSquid ,
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Now that you’ve been able to call a random person suggesting that the entire UK population does not hate trans people a bigot, I’m sure you can go away satisfied.

Gsus4 ,
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You should know that the racists elon has been agitating didn’t go further because they are like 5% of the population max, it really isn’t what elon imagines it to be in his psychotropic stupor.

vzq ,

I know, but they are the right 5%.

You have the Guardian publishing their tripe, you have labor MPs all anxious about self-ID laws etc.

Unless the other 95% start making up for some serious lost time, it’s going to remain TERF island.

schnurrito ,

Remember when center-left social-democratic parties were more likely to defend civil liberties, less likely to be authoritarian, than center-right conservative ones?

You know actually I am not sure this was ever the case in the UK (I am old enough to somewhat remember Tony Blair), but in theory it is how it should be and it makes me angry when it is not.

tiefling ,

JK Rowling sweats profusely

dojan ,
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Good. Hating half the population is a pretty extreme take.

ByroTriz ,

The government is totally not going to abuse this

MelastSB ,

Wowowow, cool it with the islamophobia there

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

As it should. Treating women like lesser than human leads to sexual assault.

beepnoise ,

Nice, at least the UK is attempting to counter the online misogynistic content by Tate and co.

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