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7 comments
February 20, 2017 at 6:21 am
roughseasinthemed
Nicely written, clear and succinct.
I’ve read the trans also describing periods as gross and discriminatory, as well as hurtful and exclusionary. Yeah, right. Then there are the (trans) ones who describe going through mood swings due to *their* menstrual cycle. And the ones who stick soiled rags in their knickers – or whatever they wear – to pretend to have a period.
I haven’t yet read about any trans worrying about being pregnant though due to a late period. Ah, I guess that’s more exclusionary talk. But it does happen to be a more accurate definition of womanhood than, dolls, pink, dresses, heels, oh, and make-up. The one is reality.
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February 20, 2017 at 7:48 am
The Arbourist
@RSitM
Feminism has come so far and worked so hard for the rights of women, it is just so frustrating to see it being derailed and rewritten around the priorities of men.
It isn’t evolution, but devolution of a movement being driven by some need to be ‘inclusive enough’ so as not to hurt peoples feelings.
Effective movements don’t work this way.
Class movements struggle for improvements for the members of their class, having the oppressor’s hand on the tiller is a recipe for failure and disillusionment.
It is just so frustrating because if the people shredding the centre of feminism would acknowledge the fact that realizing radical feminist goals – the abolition of patriarchy, the denormalization of male violence, and breaking the gender hierarchy would greatly benefit everyone involved.
This current obsession with weaving flowers into the patriarchal chains that bind us is quite infuriating.
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February 20, 2017 at 8:31 am
roughseasinthemed
Arb, there was a post by radicalwitch (?) I think, the other day, did you read it? She explained, in her view, why women were being turned off feminism. It wasn’t my view (which is far more simplistic) but it was an interesting take. Radfems need to work out how to counter the MRAs, the sex-pos, po-mo, fun/lib fems and point out this is not a joke and women’s rights are going backward. And the gender pay gap is ever further away.
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February 20, 2017 at 8:42 am
The Arbourist
@RSitM
I have not seen it, I’ll take a look.
I get the inkling that what we are experiencing now may be the result of the intentional decoupling of women from their radical, combative, and progressive history.
Lessons need to be relearned, traditions reestablished and class priorities refocused.
It’s really not for me to say, but the holdovers from the second wave have been doing double duty as of late fighting a rear guard action against the MRA’s (in their various guises)and struggling against much of the third-wave (backlash) to keep feminism grounded, relevant, and capable of social change.
That is much to ask of a generation that has already took on patriarchy in ‘their’ time and won some major concessions.
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February 20, 2017 at 8:51 am
roughseasinthemed
It’s complex isn’t it? While I might have grown up in the sixties, it didn’t compute to a young child. So I’m second wave by default I guess. When I started to examine the theory … it made sense. Still does. So, am I a holdover? :D But also, younger women than me are getting there. Sometimes slowly. Lesbians are trying, rightly so, to fight back. So it is disheartening to read negative comments about feminist lesbians. Truth is, has a lesbian ever sexually assaulted me? On the other hand, men? You don’t need to answer.
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February 26, 2017 at 12:41 pm
talbotfish
We have to stop ignoring how some of the most intellectually dishonest tactics used by people “fighting” racism, (on both sides) have been co-opted by transgender “leaders” to make questioning anything they say heresy. Because they’re clearly exploiting the catch 22 of “your a member of our oppressers, so anything you say is instantly worthless, so sit down and shut up while you are castigated for not speaking up.
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February 26, 2017 at 12:48 pm
The Arbourist
@Talbotfish
It really is a neat trick magically making women into the oppressor class in order to exploit, amongst other things, their socialization that gears them toward keeping the peace and not offending people.
:/
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