Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Woman’s hour for men.

It’s funny how the BBC feels compelled to trot out all these spokespeople who are wringing their hands at having been caught out essentially breaking the law, and how following the law is going to be such a burden and hardship. How many voices of women who are happy with the judgement are they going to feature? What’s the ratio of whiners who claim the decision is “wrong,” to women who are relieved that someone has finally listened to their concerns? Four to one? Ten to one? The BBC is certainly doing its best to browbeat people into where it believes their sympathies and concerns should reside, and it’s not with women.

All these men who are being pushed back out of women’s spaces knew they were male. They all knew they were taking advantage of a “loophole” they themselves had punched through the law. They knew they were cheating. They knew they were invading women’s spaces. They’ve been trying to normalize this violation and occupation ever since. Now that that breach in the law has been noted and flagged for repair, they’re squealing “VICTIM!” when they were the aggressors.

Did the BBC ever report on the original story of men invading women’s spaces? That was the “Man bites dog!” moment of aberration that was the real story, not this redress of women’s grievances for offences against them which should never been allowed to occur in the first place but which were aided, abetted and normalized by the BBC itself. Instead, we get all this noise and fuss over (what should be) the non-story of “Men are not Women.”