Imagine a world where a prominent men’s advocate pointed to a global pandemic that was decimating the lives of millions, and said ‘this isn’t killing women fast enough’. Imagine despite the backlash, this bigoted man responded with ‘well this just shows how fragile women are’. Imagine this man had a litany of pathetic, immature and extraordinarily fragile tweets that shamed women for their bodies, mocked their genitals, and called for them to be killed. The onslaught that man would no doubt receive would be unbearable, and rightly so. But if you flip the narrative, such a storyline doesn’t need to be imagined, it can be witnessed through the words of Clementine Ford; author, comedian, public speaker and feminist. These are not just silly words, as the sad reality is that due to men’s biological vulnerabilities, across the world COVID killed men at 1.3 times the rate as women; causing hundreds of thousands of excess male deaths, and countless many more devastated… but this is simply not ‘fast enough’ for Clementine. I don’t quite know what it will take for the feminist movement to truly call out such awfulness, and to excommunicate such man hating bigotry, but if the line hasn’t been crossed here, then will it ever be? How much deeper must this wedge between men and women be plunged? And how many times will I be told ‘well she’s not a true feminist’, in an effort to subvert and wash the hands of accountability entirely. Why has the political movement, that taught us all to point out and confront problematic individuals, been so unwilling, unable and uninterested in doing that for themselves? What do you think? ~ 65,000 excess deaths in America Australia excess deaths COVID Nature Study Images by Ray Zhou, Gradienta, Joey Csunyo, Rasheed Kemy, Dan Christian Padure.

2023-05-23