im seeing people continue to refer to antivaxxers almost exclusively as a group of women and i think its so bizarre how the men have been excused despite the fact that the man who engineered this crisis (andrew wakefield) is a man and there are many prominent male antivaxxers (jim carrey, robert deniro, donald trump and charlie sheen to name a few) as well as obviously many more unknown men who buy into it
again I think it’s tied up with the idea of this all being just silly people overreacting and being anti-science and people immediately associating that with the idea of women as hysterical and less scientific
people really need to recognise that at the heart of this isn’t something funny, but an incredible fear and hatred of autism and as such, autistic people
