# Dear Men on the Left ![rw-book-cover](https://janeclarejones.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-1.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[channellightvesselautomatic]] - Full Title: Dear Men on the Left - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Yesterday, following Kemi Badenoch’s announcement of the Tory pledge to clarify the meaning of sex in law, we were greeted – once again! – with the sight of prominent left and liberal men indulging their penchant for calling women concerned about their legal rights a bunch of nasty meanie witches. Labour grandee Ben Bradshaw characterised […] - URL: https://janeclarejones.com/2024/06/04/dear-men-on-the-left-reprise-sigh/ ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > Obviously, I’m going to be one of the first people to say that, politically, Badenoch is not my cup of tea. Indeed, a government that has spent the last months randomly picking its policies out of a tombola marked ‘How to Appeal to Populists’ is *very* far from my cup of tea. But Badenoch has consistently done an extremely well-briefed and diligent job of addressing the issue of the conflict between the trans rights movement and women’s sex-based rights, and whatever ‘progressive’ men who don’t GAF about women think, the question of the clarification of sex in law is not just a culture war nothingburger whipped up by a dying government in its last desperate days. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jnphxwr6sg377g8gjem7dr2e)) - Tags: [[gender]] > nd yet, when given a chance to score obvious stonking political points off the Tories, and reassure women that they have our backs, they backslide to the knee-jerk lefty men response of ‘this is all a distraction from actual real issues that matter to actual real people,’ or [‘this woman has no business talking about this and is just weaponizing trans rights](https://twitter.com/sarahditum),’ supported by a chorus of the usual suspects telling us what spiteful cows we are. > None of this is good enough. This is sexism with red flashing lights and bells on. It’s the kind of unthinking ‘oops-did-we-forget-you-were-people-who-might-matter’ sexism that men (and sometimes women) don’t even notice they’re doing and that really pisses a lot of women off. And it is politically idiotic along more axes than I can count. Yes, the Tories want to use this issue as a culture war football, and the best thing to do with that is to confidently walk out *and take the frickin ball off the pitch*. The very last thing you should be doing is telling whole-ass human beings who make up half the electorate – many of whom care a great deal about this issue, some of whom [have worked insanely hard and paid a very high price to get it on the political agenda](https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/susan-dalgety/the-women-who-wouldnt-wheesht/9781408720707/) – that this is all a distraction and they are getting their silly little knickers in a twist over nothing. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jnpr21jyextnavf6sbjxsmpg))