Wading belatedly into the clash over sex and gender identity, Fawcett Society board member Ayesha Hazarika decries the "extremist, unforgiving, rigid voices on both sides dominate the online war in a fight to the death of who can scream and shame the loudest" and "everyone needs to stop and reflect on their behaviour” — all before concluding with a bizarre plug for transwomen’s “world class ability to accessorise.”
I started out on Twitter trying to be polite but it doesn’t really work. However because I am male and my handle shows my name and face, funnily enough I don’t get the vile abuse. The worst I was called was a crypto facist which amused me more than anything else (and my amusement just wound up the person more). If it wasn’t weird I would like to create a fake account under a female name to see the difference in responses but I don’t have to, i see it everyday, the most recent being the Scottish ‘actor’ suggesting a women is mentally ill because she doesn’t want to see a penis in female changing rooms. I’m not sure how we combat this, but being kind is not the answer
I started out on Twitter trying to be polite but it doesn’t really work. However because I am male and my handle shows my name and face, funnily enough I don’t get the vile abuse. The worst I was called was a crypto facist which amused me more than anything else (and my amusement just wound up the person more). If it wasn’t weird I would like to create a fake account under a female name to see the difference in responses but I don’t have to, i see it everyday, the most recent being the Scottish ‘actor’ suggesting a women is mentally ill because she doesn’t want to see a penis in female changing rooms. I’m not sure how we combat this, but being kind is not the answer