‘Extreme Misogyny’

Snipers are in position, the vicinity is blockaded by police cars with blue lights flashing, the SAS are on standby, and a police helicopter is circling overhead. All eyes are on an apartment window about five storeys up and police officers are ready for the order to storm the building.

“Anyway Sarge”, pipes up Constable Newbie (he/him), “what’s this bloke done? Suicide bomber, kidnapper, serial murderer or head of a drugs cartel?”

“Son”, says Sergeant Killjoy (non-binary), “in there is a misogynist, a right bad ‘un.”

“Didn’t think misogyny was a crime Sarge”, ventures Constable Newbie.

“He’s not just any misogynist lad”, reassures Sergeant Killjoy, “that in there is an extreme misogynist, the very worst kind. The Home Secretary has decided that extreme misogyny is a terrorist offence and ours is not to question why, Newbie, ours is to implement the will of the state in as one-sided a manner as we can. No ifs, no buts.”

It is easy to laugh, of course, but Yvette Cooper’s desire to make extreme misogyny a terrorist offence—thankfully a bit of mild misogyny remains acceptable—should, in fact, be welcomed by us all. At last, the kind of extreme misogyny we witness on our streets and are exposed to daily via the mainstream media will be dealt with in the severest fashion.

You know the kind of thing. For example, those women forced to cover their hair, walk about looking like sacks of potatoes and often having to cover their faces. Some must even walk behind their husbands. Then we have the organised crime of kidnapping young girls and subjecting them to repeated rape over many weeks, some allegedly having their tongues nailed to tables.

Then there’s the chap, revered by the mainstream media, who makes it clear that the UK is an ‘ungodly country’ which needs a new system of law imposed upon it. One which subjugates women, reckons they should always be subservient to men, be grateful for a good beating and, if they dress a bit scantily, are asking to be stoned to death.

Representatives of the same bunch, aided and abetted by the West Yorkshire Police, utterly humiliated a mother because her autistic son had dropped a Bible (maybe it was a Quran, I forget). They have also forced a family into hiding, but that probably does not count as misogyny, which probably explains why nothing is being done about it.

Of course, none of the above will happen because I am referring to crimes committed by Muslims – and when it comes to certain crimes, ones committed in the name of Islam, Muslims seems to have a ‘Get out of Jail’ card. Or rather they have a ‘Keep out of Jail’ card, as so much that is considered unacceptable by most members of the public is tolerated by our police forces and, indeed, by our government.

Instead, plans are well underway to outlaw Islamophobia, thus giving Islam and Muslims a unique protection in law not afforded to any other religion including the state religion of Christianity north and south of the Scottish border. This is aimed at promoting ‘a tolerant multi-faith and multicultural’ society. It’s incredible how the government can get into one sentence so many of the concepts that are at the root of our current society’s problems and turn them, seemingly, into something good.

Tolerance is a great word when it refers to tolerating one’s partner’s and friends’ peccadillos and having that reciprocated. It also means that once tolerance has been stretched beyond credibility you can choose to inform them, in the hope they’ll change, take a hike or take one yourself. However, ‘tolerance’ in the sense that the government means it could not be further from the above.

Instead, it involves ‘tolerating’ blatant abuse of women (aka misogyny) and having our culture denigrated daily by people who would surely be happier in another country, one that has no queues to get in such as Pakistan. If you indicate, however, politely that you find their views intolerable then you will be caught in the bind referred to as Islamophobia. If you suggest they take the proverbial hike, then you are immediately labelled ‘far-right’ and will find yourself behind bars quicker than you can say ‘peccadillo’.

So, the government’s plans to tackle extreme misogyny—and let’s face it, that will include simple old-fashioned misogyny—is simply another means of entrapping men (soon probably to be declared a criminal category in their own right), especially young white men, thus finding yet more reasons to keep them off the street. I suppose that it is one way to build a more ‘tolerant’ society.

Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He is a columnist with Unity News Network and writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.

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