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”.
I remember some years ago some self-proclaimed “Feminist” writting articles in The Guardian about the “evils of men who use sex dolls” (I! Kid! You! Not!) totally unaware of the heavy parallels with how, some years before that, people would criticized sex between people of the same gender, something which at the time when she wrote that article that writter wouldn’t do because it was unfashionable and frowned upon within her social circle.
The mindset amongst the supposedly liberal literaty there wasn’t one of “what people do in the privacy of their homes with their bodies and other consenting adults is not for me to judge”, it was still the same Pearl-clutching Moralism from the XIX century, excluding some “groups” since it was unfashionable and frowned upon to moralize about them.
So it doesn’t surprised me to discover that in the years since I left that country, they reverted back to also moralize about and critizing LGBTA+