MARIAH HEDGES: Matt Taylor’s shirt isn’t holding women back – feminism is. “Modern feminists’ focus on behaviour, its propensity for censorship and its increasingly anti-man rhetoric, is creating a dogmatic and divisive feminism that turns women into victims who need protecting from the big, bad world, rather than equipping women with the tools to tackle real issues of gender inequality.”
Soon, women will conclude that they’re so weak that they need a big, bad patriarchy to protect them.
A movement that once hollered proudly about women’s autonomy, insisting the so-called fairer sex was actually perfectly capable of hurling itself into the rough-and-tumble of public life, now cries about women’s vulnerability, claiming this sex is even fairer than we thought and needs protection from rude images and potty-mouthed men.
What a tragic turnaround. In the space of a couple of generations, feminism has gone from arguing that women were capable to depicting them as fragile; from agitating for increased liberty to demanding tough crackdowns on anyone who possesses sexist or bad or just old-fashioned ideas.
Like I say, they’re willing the patriarchy back into existence.