Coming on the heels of Rebecca Watson’s elevator ordeal we now learn that even other feminists make feminists feel unsafe. At feministe, “Hexy” from Australia writes:

“[At the Melbourne Feminist Collective’s Feminist Future’s Conference] a number of sex workers, sex and/or gender diverse (SGD) people and other potential attendees voiced concerns that these speakers created an unbalanced and prejudiced atmosphere that made SGD, sex working and allied attendees feel unsafe. Several people expressed the sentiment that they would no longer be attending. Several other people, including myself, wrote letters to the collective calling for trans* and out sex worker panellists to be added to the line up, if the anti trans* and anti sex worker panellists were not removed.”

How do you suppose the anti-prostitution feminsts make pro-prostitution feminists unsafe? I truly doubt they are worried about the anti sex-work feminists jumping them, no, what is making these people feel unsafe are simple differences of opinion! The lesson they wanted you to take from the R. Watson disaster was that one should never ever make a woman feel unsafe, no matter how frivolous, or you are a terrible evil person and probably a closet rapist who deserves to be taken away and never heard from again. The lesson here is that what makes women feels unsafe are opinions that differ from their own! What a truly despotic world feminism seeks to create for itself.