A fire has been unleashed that won't be extinguished
March 27, 2023
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For anyone who doesn’t know, several days ago U.K. women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen was scheduled to hold a #LetWomenSpeak rally in Auckland, New Zealand. She and other women were met with what can only be described as a misogynist fascistic mob of violent terrorists. If I am reading the news correctly, the police at first did nothing, but then intervened to protect her from being possibly murdered and escorted her to safety.
Here is an interview that she did with journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer when she was back in the U.K., where she talks about how she feared for her life:
Here is what commentator Andrew Doyle had to say about the whole thing:
I did a twitter thread about it that I wanted to share here.
I meant what I said there. What we are experiencing is an unhinged attack on women and girls as a class and on the material reality of sex, but the world is waking up.
Also important to this discussion is this commentary by Dennis Kavanagh.
It is easy to lose hope when something like the attack in New Zealand happens, but we can’t. I would urge readers to consult this Movement Action Plan, which describes the arc of progressive social movements. (I know it’s outdated, but I still find the analysis to be relevant today.) I can’t be 100% sure of this, but I am cautiously optimistic that we have entered Stage Four, Social Movement Take-Off. If I’m right about that, that’s very good news.
According to the Plan, though, following Stage 4 comes Stage 5, Identity Crisis of Powerlessness, where “[a]fter a year or two, the high hopes of movement take-off seems inevitably to turn into despair. Most activists lose their faith that success is just around the corner and come to believe that it is never going to happen. They perceive that the powerholders are too strong, their movement has failed, and their own efforts have been futile.”
We don’t have to go through that stage, though. If we can stay strong, we can proceed relatively quickly to Stage 6, “Majority Public Support.” According to the Plan, “[t]he movement must consciously undergo a transformation from spontaneous protest, operating in a short-term crisis, to a long-term popular struggle to achieve positive social change. It needs to win over the neutrality, sympathies, opinions, and even support of an increasingly larger majority of the populace and involve many of them in the process of opposition and change.” To do this, we must avoid despair.
We can do this. We’re going to win.
One thing is certain. We, as women and mothers, cannot afford to fail. Our children will suffer the consequences. The tragedy is that the WOMEN who support trans right seem utterly clueless that they're destroying THEIR OWN rights.
As the movement gains ground, the opposition will become more violent as you can see. The violence comes from the fear of losing power control over the narrative.