#Another man who supports abortion access but doesn't care about other women's issues

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Another "male feminist" trying to mansplain feminism, on behalf of men in dresses.

By Julie Bindel APRIL 29, 2024

I am very familiar with men on the Left telling me I’m doing feminism wrong. The musician and activist Billy Bragg is just one in a long line of males telling me I don’t share their precious values. In an interview published yesterday, the double-denimed demigod was asked about his role in the debate on gender and single-sex spaces:

“My problem with people like [J.K.] Rowling, like Julie Bindel, is really who they are lined up with. [Rowling and Bindel] are people who I agree with about women’s rights. I agree with them about abortion. But we don’t agree on this.”

I can certainly say that Bragg and I will both support access to free and legal abortion, but I would imagine we hold these views for somewhat different reasons.

If there’s anything that benefits men, the likes of Bragg will declare it to be feminist. As my friend and comrade J.K. Rowling has pointed out, male Leftists tend to applaud prostitution and stripping, so long as women are doing it and men are in the driving seat. Surrogacy, lap dancing and slut marching are “empowering” activities — a word never ascribed to anything done by men. It is faux feminism for the boys.

Just like his bro Owen Jones, Bragg insists that trans women are women and, handily, this stance doesn’t seem to have any drawbacks for these men. They get cookies for being such great allies, and not an ounce of danger or inconvenience as a result.

Suggesting that silly women who object to men in women’s changing rooms, hospital wards and prisons have joined forces with the hard-Right is ludicrous. Left-wing feminists, such as myself and Rowling, have led the charge against gender ideology because we campaign against rape and domestic violence. For Bragg to bleat about how abortion rights and equal marriage are at risk as a result of these imagined alliances is a bit rich considering that he, as a straight man, needs neither.

Bragg doesn’t like the powerful, Right-wing men who agree with me and Rowling on the trans issue. The inconvenient truth is that neither Donald Trump nor Viktor Orbán would be au fait with feminist politics, but are each aware that there are only two sexes. If to Bragg that means I agree with those men, so be it.

Feminists — all women — have been deeply and profoundly betrayed by Left-wing men. They have preened and postured about being such good trans allies while we have been attacked, abused, harassed, libelled and shunned for standing up for women’s rights. They turned a blind eye when lesbians were told by transactivists that we are bigots for excluding men from our dating pool. These men clapped along as we were losing our jobs and reputations, agreeing with the zealots that we just needed to be more kind.

Men on the Left rarely prioritise women’s issues, and we are expected to dance to their tune in order to be deemed acceptable. As the late feminist author Andrea Dworkin wrote: “To Right-wing men, we are private property. To Left-wing men, we are public property.”

This problem spans many decades and continents. In 1964 Stokely Carmichael, a prominent Black Power activist, was asked about the role of women in the civil rights movement. He replied: “The only position for women in the movement is ‘prone’.”  It is precisely because men on both the Left and the Right displayed such misogyny that the Women’s Liberation movement was founded in the Seventies. Bragg is a modern-day Carmichael, and men like him will always put men first, whether they claim to be women or not.

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This issue with this conversation

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abortions, intersexism, transphobia, roe v wade, endo mention, pcos mention, eugenics mention

Its the fact people surprised especially after hearing about that leak for me.

Like y'all thought they were going to change their minds, they wasn't.

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Also let's talk about the health ramifications outside of lack of abortions....

Mental health struggles gonna skyrocket

People who got endometriosis, pcos and other reproductive issues are also heavily effected by this.

People who worked in certain fields might lose their jobs (some doctors, people who make birth control pills, factory workers, s3x workers etc etc)

Intersex individuals being further marginalized (as if it wasn't already bad)

Shit eugenics might start skyrocketing again because they only want certain types of babies born

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Let's also talk about the veiled intersexism and transphobia around this conversation:

"Not a woman, no opinion/No uterus no opinion"-

fun fact there are people who got a uterus who are infertile/sterile. Just because someone has a part doesn't mean it does something.

Another fun fact, women (or if we really being dense females) aren't the only people who can give birth. Its 2022, I can't believe y'all reverting back to cave man speak in terms of reproductive talks.

Fun fact again,even that phrasing can trigger dysphoria in folks. Some don't want to be reminded about something they have/had. Some might have issues around those parts and the constant talk about it isn't doing wonders for them. All in all, just say its a health issue and go. No need for all them words that really don't change shit on an individual level

Last fun fact, there are people born with uterus and penises and testes all that jazz, they are also part of this conversation regardless if you can understand that or not.

The moment y'all start being transphobic (and/or) intersexist with the conversation is the moment y'all completely tunnel in the wrong direction.

Also there are women who support this, I for one don't think they get any opinion for shit. Why the hell would someone who clearly got rocks for brains be entitled to same some shit. You see the issue with the phrase now

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This is a HEALTH issue. I already said that birth control (or for some people just hormones) impacts their health a lot. That's also being hurt. This is an ECONOMIC issue, people who work in certain jobs will be heavily impacted. Might even lose them.

This is a LGBT+ issue as trans folks are going to have a harder time getting access to hormones and even health assistance. (For some it might led to dysphoria)

This is a SOCIAL issue as people who try to get services might be attacked. Might get hurt.

This is a MENTAL HEALTH issue people won't be able to handle various stressors that arise out of this.

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Most of all this isn't a gendered issue and the language needs to be adjusted to remember its not just women impacted.

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If y'all actually knew the reason its because not enough babies are being born to "help the economy". They don't care about no religion, they care about their money and it being impacted. Its not religion (like most are saying it is, best believe this would've happened years ago). Its not even full sexism/misogyny (not only women can have babies. Nor can all women have babies), loads of people are being hurt.