Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said.
Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK’s counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats posed by harmful ideologies.
The analysis will look at hatred of women as one of the ideological trends that the government says is gaining traction.
Ms Cooper said there has been a rise in extremism “both online and on our streets” that “frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy”.
Wowowow, cool it with the islamophobia there
You would like to think the primary target for an anti-misogyny policy would be football hooligans and biker gangs.
But if you’ve got the MET police exclusively targeting Mosques, and rounding up anyone who fails that paper bag test as “high risk misogynists”, that could be a problem.
I could also see this aggressively leveraged by the JK Rowling types to harass queer people.