1/6. So, here’s an interesting thing.

In past few weeks, MFW have been deliberately targeted for abuse by several different men, all claiming to be progressive.

All but 1 we’d never interacted with AFAWK, & that 1 got ragey after we gently pulled him up on a sexist comment.

2/6. We wouldn’t raise this again as we’d rather focus on our campaign work, but in nearly all of these cases we were contacted by DM after by women who’d also faced abuse from the same men. In one case, we received DMs from EIGHT women saying the man in question had stalked ...

3/6. ... or threatened or otherwise hurt either them or a woman they knew. The lengths women went to to let us know to be extra careful & to have our backs on this was extraordinary, as they didn’t know we’d keep this information confidential so it was a risk to get in touch.

4/6. Australia’s defamation laws are so tough & its internet abuse laws (& all laws to protect women) are so weak women are forced into using these secret underground networks to help each other stay safe. We’re so desperate to keep each other safe most of us do this sometimes.

5/6. Here’s what’s fascinating about this: nearly all men have NO IDEA women help & protect each other in this way. Not always, of course (some women are hurtful to other women), but very often, women have these whispering trees by which we warn each other about particular ...

6/6. .. men & work hard to keep each other safe. It’s amazing, it’s special, & it’s real, heartfelt sisterhood. & far too often, it’s all we have, since the mechanisms by which society & others should keep us safe are inadequate or absent.

Women rock.

LIke, women REALLY rock.