This is the proposed misogyny law that I referred to in earlier posts that Scotland was planning to introduce and other parts of the UK and the world would follow. And yes, quickly glancing the explanation document, even a man approaching a woman in real life or online by matching with her or sending a message or saying hello to her is a violation of this law. It is in effect a law to ban unrequited love and rejection. We haven't even got to involuntary celibates who also fall in the scope of this law yet! In the future of Scotland, you had better be a successful man with the ladies if you want to avoid prison!

In order to wonder why it is just women and not men getting protections, you need to look at the recent British Cycling decision on categories in elite cycling. They maintained the women's category based on anger against the "erasure of women's identity". Their compromise was to erase men's identity and replace it with an open category which allows women to compete with men but not the other way round! This was met with celebration and cries of "common sense prevails" by the public. Now there are demands to expand this solution to men's spaces and men's toilets. Ultimately it demonstrates that the public want protections for women but are happy for men's identity to be erased and double standards to be implemented as opposed to equal rights while acknowledging sexual dimorphism in the past.

It's why feminism has political power, influence and while people don't identify with the label in public because of its negative connotations, they privately support their ideas and goals. While men's rights activists advocating for equality between the sexes and calling out inequalities against men are a small minority who are routinely mocked, belittled and condemned.