Neil Gaiman writes "Why defend freedom of icky speech?"

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I know I have been accused of it repeatedly and never suggested that speech be banned. If an odd person or two makes the comment, that is hardly reflective of critique in general. It is an excused to make up for the fact people can't deal with the complexity of actual arguments so they create a strawwoman.

As for my rights: You regularly promote positions that erase my rights. You did so in your OP about "freedom to sell your body for sex." When people fail to ignore the existence of other human beings, that their lives even matter as part of an issue, they make very clear they see them as not only without rights, but as irrelevant to human existence, as in the case of the OP that referred to me and people like me as "imaginary."

That was my point about lack of awareness. People promote exclusionary views that write most of humanity out of their narrow definition of what is allowed to be considered in an issue. They think it justified because ultimately they see us as less, so much of a less they willfully refuse to think about us. We don't promote profit and male entitlement, therefore we must be erased from public discourse.