All The Little Neo-Victorian Ladies: How Campus Speech Squashing Policies Hurt Women
The women's movement has become a movement backward -- fast.

Feminism now involves women demanding to be treated as eggshells, not equals.

This is especially true on campuses.

Women buy into the SJW-driven idea that they are too frail to speak up and debate the issues or simply haul off and tell somebody who's offended them, "Hey, shut up, buttlint." (Or maybe something classier or more to the point.)

This -- increasingly -- leads them to be helpless to talk back.

No probski! Because college now prepares them for -- yes, prepares them to tattle.

To The Man. Like it's nursery school, not a university.

At SpikedOnline, Ella Whelan notes that all the censorship is holding women back. And guess who supports that censorship? It's a "significant proportion of female students."

Sad -- pathetically so.

Whelan writes:

All of this is done in the name of cleansing campus of 'demeaning' representations of women.

Women's autonomy has been hugely undermined. Forget the in loco parentis restrictions of the Sixties - female students today aren't even trusted to hear a racy joke without falling to pieces. The FSUR found that 33 per cent of universities and students' unions have 'zero tolerance' policies prohibiting jokes, cat-calling and even 'inappropriate sexual noises'. Women aren't even trusted to conduct their social lives without rules and regulations.

These protective measures treat women like children, incapable of handling the trials and tribulations of adult life by themselves. And all of it has been fuelled by contemporary feminism, which paints campus as a uniquely dangerous place for women and promotes the bizarre idea that the first step towards gender equality is women insisting they are vulnerable. This is, of course, nonsense. For all the fearmongering about campus rape culture, universities are among the safest places in the country. But in a climate where cat-calling is conflated with sexual assault, and rude jokes are considered traumatising, female students are constantly being encouraged to see themselves as perennial victims.

As Whalen puts it, just when women have the world at their feet, they're being encouraged to think of themselves as fragile and unable to defend themselves -- even verbally.

With so many women behaving this way, who's hurt? Strong women who are lumped in with the rest and are often probably seen as both too fragile and emotionally volatile to hire.