Reposted by Darth Maul
Nothing says "challenging sexism" quite like men organising a group to police women's categories at a Saturday parkrun. Men inserting themselves right into a gender-exclusion campaign because nothing helps female sports like a bunch of male allies leading the purity charge.
!["I'm called a paedophile and a groomer online by people like [Father Ted creator and anti-trans activist] Graham Linehan, and now people believe what they read. People believe it when they're told the Earth is flat," he says. His support for trans rights has resulted in years of death threats and
"groomer" smears, which he used to brush off. "But the online world is becoming the real world. People have worked out my address, and one person turned up at my house. If you believe a paedophile lives here, it's not the maddest thing in the world to come and get me. I've been saying for years that our rights are paper-thin, and here we are. What scares me is that I can't see an end to it. Nothing is going to unseat these tech barons - it will require some sort of revolution to stop them. So for the first time in history, hatred is being monetised by an algorithm."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bcgtpezwhu5ynanpiezkmfim/bafkreibb7jegeej5bqy4bqwzavfzack77peo3nft3kbt52cw2rhmpmjhhy)
