I keep hearing the phrase "This is no place for hate", or variations on the theme. Lately and most often it's in relation to trans people being the subject of "hate" by the use of phrases such as "TIMs are men" and "Only women menstruate".
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"This is no place for hate" is just as fanciful a sentiment as "TWAW". No amount of legislation that criminalises truthful words and phrases that a minority of people find hurtful will prevent anyone from thinking and knowing the truth.
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More critically though hate exists in every place. Hatred isn't wanted in most rational free thinking societies. Women and our male allies who defend our sex against colonisation by men are not exhibiting hate.
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The idea that men are women is a false premise that violates our sex & threatens sex based rights all over the world. It is this hatred of women that should rally women to stand up & say "No!" 4/-

Hate is the motivation in the war on women. A war that has been waged on various battlefields & arenas since forever & everywhere. 5/-

It's being waged in bloody assaults in countries such as Afghanistan, where women are stoned to death for being visible.
In India females from 1 mth old (the youngest recorded) to 86 (the oldest) are victims of one of the oldest hate crimes known to man, every 15 mins - rape. 6/-

Women in Sudan are subjected to rape and torture by armed forces.
Women from India, Thailand & The Philippines are trafficked to rich countries like Australia & The US to be used as sex slaves.
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Women in Somalia are routinely tortured & disfigured by female genital mutilation, a practise that has spread across the globe to Australia & countries in Europe.
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Hatred of women is the most widespread, destructive & murderous hate in the world. It is everywhere and it will never be vanquished.
Western countries pride themselves on the relative safety women "enjoy" in those countries.
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We console ourselves with the notion that we are advanced and that the relatively "low" rate of sex crimes against women proves that.
But is the hatred of women really eliminated in these countries?
Or is it merely controlled and suppressed?
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The rights that women (not men who think they are women) have fought for have reduced the overt incidences of hate crimes against women, such as rape, assault and murder. But they have not eradicated them. Not by a long shot.
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The latest front in the war on women (the notion that anyone can be a woman), clarifies the reality that hatred of women can never be eradicated. When other avenues for the expression of this hate are restricted, it manifests more creatively, but is no less destructive.
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This latest battleground, our existence as a separate sex, is not the final frontier. It is the gateway to greater assaults on women.
The concessions granted to our sex, such as safe spaces, have not won the war of hate being waged against us.
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They have put a thin veneer over the hate that will always exist. They have made it more difficult for those who hate us to demonstrate that hate. They have frustrated some (not all) of the haters in their attempts to spread the hatred of women and act on it.
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Allowing men to identify as women is a calculated device to infiltrate our defences. The defences we have painstakingly built up as refuges in the ongoing war against women. The defences we are desperate to see rolled out to our sisters in Sudan, Afghanistan and India.
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I talk in terms of war deliberately. I have always resisted the idea that there is a war on women. I have never wanted to believe that I belong to a class that is so hated there exist those who would obliterate it, aided and abetted by the state.
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But here we are. Being told that men are women. Being told to live the lie. That we are not deserving of any considerations by virtue of our biology. That we are not entitled to gather away from men. We are not allowed to organise anything on the basis of our sex.
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We do not exist.
This is the extreme manifestation of hate.
The deliberate extermination of what it is to be women.
The war on women has escalated.
This is where the hatred is directed.
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This is where it has always been directed. Squarely at women.
No man is woman. No matter what he has endured in his attempts to convince the world he is a woman.
No man is subjected to the hatred that women endure.
No matter what he has endured, he has endured it as a man.
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Only women are the victims of what should unite us. The war on women. It is ongoing. Relentless. Ruthless. And we should never give any concession to those who wage it. It will never be enough.
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We are not safer in the west because men are better here. We are safer because of that thin veneer of rights. A veneer that is being torn down.
Hate has a place. It is here. It is always here. We must be vigilant against its ability to manifest in ways that are not obvious.
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Men are not women.
No man can ever be a woman.
A man claiming to be a woman is just a man.
The reality of woman will always exclude all men.
Acknowledge the hate and protect women against it.
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