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Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government (www.bbc.com)

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Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said.

Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK's counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats posed by harmful ideologies.

The analysis will look at hatred of women as one of the ideological trends that the government says is gaining traction.

Ms Cooper said there has been a rise in extremism "both online and on our streets" that "frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy".

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[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I realize this. It's about getting people to accept those different than you, especially if they are queer.

[–] Aceticon 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I wrote a post just above about some self-proclaimed Feminist some years ago with a regular column there writting an Opinion Article in The Guardian about the "evils of men using sex dolls" without noticing how that Perl Clutching Moralizing about peoples sex practices was just a variant of the same thing that was being written a decade or two before about sex between people of the same gender.

I moved to Britain from The Netherlands and the spirit when it came to "accept those different than you" couldn't be more different between those countries: the Dutch were all about "who am I to judge" and "as long as I don't have to see it you can do whatever you want", whilst at least the English (can't really make informed statements about those from other nations) were all about "if I say certain things it will make me look bad" and "it's not appropriate to voice criticism of ".

I can't speak for the past, but at least by the time I got there (mid 00s and for over a decade) the impression of "acceptance" projected by that country wasn't driven by natural tolerance of others or the cultural repealing of Moralism (I would say, quite the contrary), it was driven by people not wanting to look bad in their social circle.

I'm not at all surprised that such Potemkin Village of "Acceptance" would so easilly collapse.