Women like him
The usual complete indifference to the needs of women. Me first me me me me me me me me me.
By “women like me” he means men. He’s calling Labour MP Rosie Duffield “awful” (calling her thread awful, but you know we’re meant to think she’s awful for tweeting it) for saying that abused women need women-only services. It’s all about him and zero about the thousands of women who need such services.
You can’t build a progressive movement on this kind of blind relentless egotism and selfishness.
Transwomen often insist that, because they were really a girl “on the inside” when they were born, they paid attention to the social messages aimed at girls instead of the ones given to boys, and therefore they don’t have any sense of male privilege or entitlement.
But I don’t think I’ve ever seen Women Like Abigail renounce their claim to single-sex resources because they learned to put their own needs aside and think only of making others happy.
Exactly. And funnily enough they do show every sign of the obverse – picking up the social messages that they don’t necessarily get to put themselves first on all occasions.
If they ever did decide suddenly to adopt an attitude of abnegation, they’ve got lots of “allies” of both sexes ready to insist that their needs be “centered”, who would help them push their way to the front of the line.
I think the best response here is the one Bill Murray gave Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie: There are no women like you. You’re a man.