I increasingly feel I’ve woken up in a Black Mirror episode about a dystopia where women are gaslit, belittled and psychologically abused in some godawful experiment to find their breaking point. To just make them submit. Roll over. Admit defeat 1/ https://twitter.com/HJJoyceEcon/status/1191395348008312832

Men breaking women’s sporting WR’s and winning their awards. Male rapists in women’s prisons and rape crisis centres. Stealing the very language they have to describe themselves and their experiences. Their hard won spaces gone (or at least going), just like that 2/

Many women see it and speak out. They get attacked and bullied, hounded off SM or out of their jobs. Often by pathetic men, upset that they can no longer call women cunts, bitches or whores, that can’t believe their luck they can now call them TERF’s with impunity 3/

Yes, some women join in. I think some just can’t see how it affects them – they don’t play sport and are not planning on going to prison or needing a DV centre. Others, imo, think that if they agree enough, the ire won’t get pointed at them. Maybe. But probably not 4/

I can see where that comes from. What I don’t understand is decent men that can see it and say nothing. YOU ABSOLUTE WANKERS. What the fuck is wrong with you? I know you can see it. I know you could say something, but you don’t. Why? 5/

It doesn’t affect you? Do you have a mum? A wife or gf? Daughters, nieces or female friends? Even if you don’t, do you not have any sense of basic decency and wanting fairness in this world? You won’t get anywhere near the shit women get for speaking out 6/

This isn’t a Black Mirror episode. This is the real world in 2019. THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING. It won’t go away, it will get worse if we don’t say anything. It’s wrong, but also true that men’s voices still carry more weight. Men: PLEASE SAY SOMETHING /end