I was made to feel my presence at a feminist conference on free speech wouldn’t be welcome. Others have been ‘no-platformed’. Tolerance goes hand in hand with creating safe spacesI have a friend,a more than competent professional woman, who deals daily with harsh things and difficult people. She has not yet breached the glass ceiling, and but is heading that way and I hope one day she will atomize through,as an example to other women.
But asked to tackle the most basic of feminist topics and, she confessed recently, and she breaks into a cold sweat. Why? Because she fears the consequences. She knows too well the narrow,narrow margin between what is and is not ideologically acceptable.
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Source: theguardian.com