If it's freedom of speech to wage a blatant war on women, deleting our image as if we're a disease that needs to be wiped, and slandering us as a stain on peoples' memory for our sex, then the next acceptable thing, I guess, is to caption pictures of the victims of police brutality with "this n.... got what he had coming, shoulda picked the cotton and be quiet" or make the Westboro Baptist's slogans the next source for headlines. Or how about "This kyke right here, should have been gassed before he got on TV".
Yeah, not so cool suddenly.
And yes, deleting women from the public image is no better than saying we should actually, literally, disappear. You don't systematically delete something from view if you value its existence. This IS a war on women, it is NOT just religion, it has nothing to do with a religion that dictates such oppression in no way. People screeching that this is free speech, miss the fact that this deletion of women represents an attitude that women have to suffer in real life. It is really no different than forcing a burqa on a woman. They want us invisible. They make us invisible. And we just have to suck it up? This oppressive behavior is not the only one in a series of legal - some now illegal - crimes against the female collective and to reduce it to silly little free speech, no harm done, is insane and dangerous.
Somehow, tolerance for sexism and gender-based oppression is a lot higher than it would be for racism or anti-semitism, and this I do not understand. Telling a black person to sit in the back of the bus, would be borderline hate crime. But one can tell us women to accept the censorship of our existence as if we are filthy demons?
