A Dangerous Place for a Woman

This is a good example of the problems caused by the kind of confused and emotionally driven thinking that seems to characterise postmodern cultural Marxism so popular with those who believe they have a political social conscience.

The author seems unable to conceive of others as being characterised by anything other than their membership of groups that she chooses. This effectively dehumanises them, allowing her to offload her bile and venomous hatred without the moral compunction that would usually arise when dealing with another individual. What she is actually attacking is a straw man, a caricature that has only the characteristics that she wants to be offended by. All are guilty simply by virtue of their membership of the group, regardless of the reality. The only individual she references in the article is herself, and even then only in the context of her membership of group 'woman'.

She is living in a fantasy world of her own creation, populated by all manner of imagined boogeymen that she blames for her psychological issues. A world where her own insecurities are projected onto others, virtually all of whom are not guilty as charged (and some in her protected 'victim' groups who are). Exhibiting a stunning lack of self-awareness, she uses her self-imposed victim status as an excuse for her to express her own racism and sexism from the moral high ground of her supposed social justice cause. In a classic case of projection, she reveals herself to be exactly that which she claims to be outraged about.

None of this is to say that she doesn't feel what she feels. But she does not have a monopoly on those feelings because she is a woman, nor to claim that it is solely the fault of white men. Everyone should make sure they take steps to maximise their own safety, and even then there are no guarantees. Rather than dealing with her insecurities, like a child throwing a tantrum about the fairness of life she lays the blame on factors that she can't control thus absolving her of any responsibility to actually do anything about it herself.

Of course, this could simply be a piece of mendacious troll click-bait journalism, using the racism of intersectional identity politics to appear edgy and 'woke'. However, the fact that the author is a barrister specialising in social cases suggests that this is more than a drive-by hit piece.

With the kind of reasoning she has shown in this article I can only hope I never have to reply on her for my defence. But then again, being a white male, I doubt that's ever going to be an issue.