“If
you can’t disagree with a woman without reaching for all
those filthy old insults, screw
you and your politics.
“I’m sick of ‘liberal’ men whose mask
slips every time a woman displeases them, who reach immediately
for crude and humiliating words.
“When you do this, Mr.
Liberal Cool Guy, you ally yourself, wittingly or not,
with the men who send women violent p.ornographic
images and r.ape threats,
who try by every means possible to intimidate women out of
politics and public spaces, both real and
digital.
“Every
woman I know who has dared express an opinion publicly has
endured this kind of abuse at least once, rooted in an apparent
determination to humiliate or intimidate her on the basis that
she is female.
“Femaleness
is not a design flaw. If your immediate response to a
woman who displeases you is to call her a synonym for her
v.ulva, or compare her to a
p.rostitute, then drop the pretense
and own it: you're not a liberal.”
—J.K. Rowling
