J.K. Rowling: "I'm sick of 'liberal' men whose mask slips everytime a woman displeases them

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34. Because some so-called liberal men are not really liberal when it comes to women.

They pretend to be, for whatever reason, but scratch the surface and they are really sexist. This has been a complaint of progressive politics for decades, generations even. The 60's protest movement was not very inclusive when it came to women's rights. Women pretty much had to make those gains on their own. And it has issues now, with race and gender still. Or at least parts of it do.

It is here, too. You've seen the arguments over words like this before on this website. And liberals can have seriously retrograde attitudes on a lot of things. Like "latte liberals" who don't want low-income housing in their neighborhood because it will ruin property values.

This is the "no true Scotsman" logical fallacy: that no true liberal could possibly be sexist (or racist, or whatever).