The climate movement has a man-hating problem
<p>I was at the watch party for the launch of the <a href="https://action.sunrisemovement.org/a/biden-declare-climate-emergency" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Sunrise Movement’s national campaign to get Biden to declare a climate emergency</a>, when out of the blue I heard one of the young women there say jokingly, “Sorry to the men here, but I hate men!”</p>
<p>Even though I didn’t hear the context of her facetious comment, it was a bit of a punch in the gut to someone who now identifies as transmasculine. (Although some people who claim that “all men are bad” exclude trans men and transmasculine people from this judgment, but that is a different discussion.) The majority of the people at the watch party were women; there were only a couple guys. No one reacted strongly to her comment. I couldn’t help thinking about what would’ve happened if the genders had been switched: what if a man/transmasculine individual said they hated women? There’s <em>no way </em>that wouldn’t have had a strong reaction!</p>
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