Accepting the status quo means sitting around and waiting for some nut job to murder a bunch of people before taking their own life.
That’s unacceptable.
If misogynists won’t change … if institutions that are supposed to level the playing field for all citizens, protect all citizens, and keep all citizens equal under the law cannot or will not meet that mandate … it doesn’t leave us anywhere good.
You’ve reduced options to learning to live with it and hope it doesn’t get worse (fat chance), removal/separation of some sort like a gender version of “separate but equal” or full separation like men only towns, women only towns (uh-huh), or some sort of pre-crime mandates (that’s a slippery slope).
We’re not going back to being the chattel of men.
So shall we continue on until the there’s nothing left of our society but the crow hollow we’re creating?
Or shall we embrace our national mandate of equality, freedom and justice for all and learn to live together in relative peace and harmony?
Choose wisely and conduct yourselves accordingly.
But you best remember, no marginalized group is going to just hand over all our hard won gains. The road has been too long and the sacrifice too much to just cave and hand over autonomy that never should have been taken from us in the first place.
We’re not quitting.