Antifa assault is blow to fight for women’s emancipation – The Militant

[....]   Keen said that she decided to speak out after universities, schools, health care and judicial systems started “making ‘woman’ only OK to say when you are talking about a man. He can be a woman, I can’t, I have to be a “ciswoman” or something else. … You have no chance of having a real discussion if you can’t define who a woman is.”

She pointed to the incident last year at a spa in Los Angeles where women and children were joined by an unclothed male. When women complained, they were told that the spa had to abide by whatever a customer says they are. “Instead of denouncing the man for indecent exposure, we have to pretend he’s a brave woman who wanted to share space with a little girl,” Keen said. “We need to fight for ourselves, without rights we have nothing.”

Keen had canceled an Oct. 25 tour stop in Portland, Oregon, after threats of violence, including one by an antifa leader who organized a fundraiser to buy weapons. The police refused to offer her any protection.

The following day in Tacoma, Washington, a Let Women Speak rally of 30 was disrupted by over 200 thugs. Some wore brass knuckles and attempted to slam female speakers to the ground. “We peaceably assembled for our free speech and we were mobbed,” Amy Sousa told the press. At least one woman had her fingers deliberately broken by an attacker....

Antifa assault is blow to fight for women’s emancipation – The Militant