Feminists fall behind their trans nemesis
by Paul T Horgan, The Conservative Woman:
FOR quite some time, the feminist movement has moved away from equal rights and opportunities and focused instead on equality. There is a difference between the two. Equal rights means that a woman has economic and social rights undifferentiated from a man. Firms can no longer expect a woman to leave her job once she gets married. Equality means that it is seen that there is no difference between a man and a woman. The term is also misused to mean ‘identical’.
Promoting equality rather than equal rights and opportunities has had for some time an element of hubris associated with it. Those who disagree are easily denounced as bigots even when they point to objective reality. The fiction of a ‘gender pay gap’ has been created, where the lifetime earnings of a woman are compared with a man and a supposition of inequality has been determined. The demolition of the argument takes longer than its articulation and in the soundbite world we inhabit it is largely ignored, mainly for reasons of the aforementioned hubris.
However we are witnessing the arrival of the nemesis to women’s equality, which is that transwomen, male transsexuals, are being widely regarded in the liberal media as identical to women. In the medium to long term, the consequences for biological women could be dire.
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