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Nice to see the men of the Church of England marking the anniversary of the consecration of the first female Bishop by making it all about them again.
Because clearly women just exist to make the lives of marginalized men better, and our progress should only be celebrated insofar as it does that.
"There's no reason to celebrate female Bishops unless it has made the lives of marginalised men better" is misogyny.
Because it makes women the means to an end rather than people with rights in and of themselves.
Because it makes women the means to an end rather than people with rights in and of themselves.
Of course struggles for justice are connected. Of course it's great when people who have been marginalized join together and support each other. I'm not denying that.
But to say that it's the role of female Bishops to take on the riskier position, because they're women, is misogyny. It is yet another example of women being blamed for the failures of men and expected to take on the burden of fixing them.
To act as though women are just the means to the end of making your life as a marginalized man better, is misogyny.
To act as though female representation and opportunity doesn't intrinsically matter to women, but only to the marginalised men they're supposed to self-sacrificially lay down their lives to help, is misogyny.
And obviously, there is a difference between "it's wonderful, but the struggles for justice for many marginalised groups is far from over, and all Bishops have a role to play in that," which I agree with, vs, "women's advancement doesn't matter unless it also helps ME, a man."
