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 Yep. It took a little time and a lot of efforts underneath the surface that we didn't see.  It's amazing how fast the world changed after the 2016 elections when irrational hatred of the oppostion came back into style full blast. It was probably slowly changing duriing the Obama administration but most people were not paying attention to politics back then. There has always been contempt for radical feminists, but it suddenly became okay to be as blatant about it as possible after the failed "deplorables" campaign. It's as if the world responded with: Deplorable? I'll show you what deplorable really is. I first noticed the shift when that NPR 1A show came out. It was obviously an attempt to get people use to the idea that government should be able to take away rights and determine what 'hate speech' is. That was the first sublte wave. When that worked, they just got more and more brazen about demonizing the opposition. 
 I'm not familiar with NPR 1A since I stopped listening years ago. I liked a friend's comparison: Her sister listened to NPR when the teachers were striking in Chiapas, with NPR reporter in hotel in Mexico City talking shit about the strike. Friend and I listened to Free Speech Radio News with reporter IN Chiapas speaking truth about what was going on. 
 Mary Daly got cancelled for reals in 1999 or 2000 (IRC) by the mens. After almost getting cancelled in 1968 for offending the other kind of men (religious). That's a 30 year window. That's all women get.