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This is Britain and what's going on here is almost certainly something altogether different than Fighting For Equality.
I remember some years ago in the UK when some Tory who happenned to be female spewed some almost Fascist shit in Twitter and then when she was criticized she claimed the criticism was all because of her gender.
Similarly over the years some of the New Labour members - from were this lady hails - who happened to be female have said horrible shit and then claimed the criticism of them was sexism.
There absolutelly is Misogyny in the UK (the so called "Benevolent" Sexism - the ridiculous idea that women are "fragile and emotional creatures who need to be protected", which implies they're "weak" and must be "guided" - is especially common), and Racism, and even Misandry (in different contexts than Misogyny, generally when the person with the most power happens to be female), and Class discrimination, and Wealth Discrimination: IMHO, the UK is one the worst countries in Europe when it comes to Equality in all axis ~~except the treatment of the LGBTA+ (and even there they're not the best, though maybe better than most).~~ [edit: from reading other posts, apparently even this has turned to shit since I left that country]
When a politician from the Hard Neoliberal faction within the "Not quite as Rightwing but certainly not Leftwing" Party of the duopoly of power in Britain (which, like the US, also has First Past The Post and associated evils) comes with something like this, especially one who has a history of abusing this kind of accusation in the past to deflect valid criticism of her own words (just like Zionists - who curiously this Party unwaveringly supports - use the accusation of "anti-semitism" to deflect valid criticism), be very very wary of the honesty, goodwill and fairness of this.
Want to see the real deal genuine fight for Gender Equality, look at places like Scandinavia and The Netherlands (and at the genuine Feminists of the older generations in the UK), not at the crooked Neolibs of the fakest most anti-Equality country in Europe.
What an incredible ~~paragraph~~ sentence.
I am particularly proud of how many "for-reference comparisons with things Lemmy readers might be familiar with" I managed to shove into it.
I am however not proud of the level of "lightness and easy to follow" of the result.
Once I parsed the whole thing it was, in fact, understandable. But, yeah, a few steps shy of "concise" I think.