Are you (or would people describe you as) a TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) or SWERF (sex worker exclusionary radical feminist)?
(I know some TERFs and SWERFs consider the terms derogatory. If there's a more neutral term to use pls lemme know)
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TERFs successfully convincing everyone that TERF is a slur is as ingenious as it is baffling
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Idk, don't things become slurs when they're used as insults? Doesn't all it take for something to become a slur is for it to develop a connotation of disgust or hatred or something?
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I want people to be able to fashion their identities to match how they "feel". This often feels at odds with how I feel body autonomy should have primacy, because identity resides in those around us. Who am I to insist that you think of me a certain way? This remains unresolved.
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The idea of changing your body to match how you feel and the idea of your identity residing in those around you seem completely compatible to me. If changing yourself results in changes in the way people see you, that's fine and matches stuff like 'growing up' or wahtever
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I exclude people who think objective reality must change for them (because it should for no one), or only see their freedoms, but the duties of other people but themselves.
Besides that, of course, I don't exclude people because of their job or their (chosen) sex.
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While I wouldn't think of myself as a SWERF on principle, I am not sure what positions would make one be thought of as such. OTOH I am definitely not TERF-ish.
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