At first, the government didn't acknowledge the protests, but when women began meeting in larger and larger numbers, they began scoffing. Scoffing is always first. Second comes delegitimization, which burned out after the effects of the larger numbers of women protesting were impossible to ignore. When delegitimization no longer worked, undermining was increased. Undermining involves spreading of rumors; in this case, that the women weren't protesting on their own, but rather that they were being supported by members of the opposition party, foreign governments, terrorists, or even aliens. However the protests had grown too large for undermining to work. The government hadn't counted on the protests lasting so long or engaging so many. They had no step after undermining, but they did have a leap: bombing.
First line inspiration from "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes,' by Benjamin Rosenbaum" by, indeed, Benjamin Rosenbaum: "On my return from PlausFab-Wisconsin (a delightful festival of art and inquiry, which styles itself 'the World's Only Gynarchist Plausible-Fable Assembly') aboard the P.R.G.B. Sri George Bernard Shaw, I happened to share a compartment with Prem Ramasson, Raja of Outermost Thule, and his consort, a dour but beautiful woman whose name I did not know." A neat story on the surface with a deep layer underneath.
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