Apparently there’s an epidemic of women not being kind enough, so the manufacturers of T shirts for women and girls are stepping up to fix the problem. Julie Burchill has the details:

We may no longer accept the old saw, ‘boys will be boys’, as an excuse for everything from arson to zoophilia. But the icky trend for ‘be kind’ clothing is aimed squarely at one sex. As the social commentator, Laura Bishop, tells me: ‘While shopping for my kids I noticed that there are so many items of clothing which say “be kind”. They are all in the girls’ and women’s section. Every. Single. One. It’s like indoctrination.’

Indoctrination into what?

Submission. Self-abnegation. Putting up with whatever is dished out. Silence. Obedience. Being less than.

Enforced kindness started out as a conditioning process for female children. Until recently, it was quite rightly rejected by any fun-loving woman with a soupçon of self-respect. But it has now become a shaming mechanism to be used against adult human females who refuse to toe the line. Everything from single-sex toilets to sporting trophies must be sacrificed on the ‘be kind’ bonfire. In this era of gender ideology, women are called upon to give up our rights and our spaces so as to appease men who think they are women.

Kindness goes only one way, you see. Women must be kind to men. There’s no parallel obligation for men to be kind to women.

Now comes a new survey by the Crown Prosecution Service, which appears to suggest that there has been a ‘stark regression’ of attitudes among young men regarding rape over the past decade. It reveals that more than two-thirds of 18- to 24-year-olds believe you cannot withdraw consent in-person after agreeing to have sex with someone online. Nearly half believe that it’s not rape if a victim doesn’t fight back. And more than half don’t believe rape can be committed in an existing sexual relationship. Rape (effectively ‘decriminalised’, according to Dame Vera Baird) and domestic murders (two a week, of women by men) continue to be two of this country’s most thriving areas of endeavour.

We know the “effectively decriminalized” part is true because we’ve seen the horrible failures at every stage. A tiny fraction of rapes are even reported; a tiny fraction of those are prosecuted; a tiny fraction of those result in convictions. You do the math.