I worry about the tendency to take all-or-nothing positions on this when in reality, one can strongly disagree with gender critical radical feminists and also be very concerned about the normalisation of threats of violence against them among the worst of the trans activists.
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Didn't know that women deserve to be beaten. Is that how low such people are willing to go to shut someone up? Sorry, but that's cowardice and misogynistic. Not mention it negates any strides done from the feminists towards gender equality
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But people who use the term do it knowing the it is used as a term to target people for violence.
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TERF sounds pretty "violence inducing" to me. What is the natural response to one who feels unfairly "excluded" if not to PUSH oneself into the place one thinks one is entitled to be? I'm ONLY addressing the term. No dog in this fight. (cisgendered, hetero, white, old guy)
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It just means Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist. It's just shorthand for the stance they have. I first heard it from
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Just to have it on record somewhere, I use TERF as “trans-exclusionary radical feminist,” describing radical women’s advocacy within feminism, focusing on genetical essentialism in terms of gender identification and insisting on masculinity being an insult worth using against TW
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And, I don’t mean it in a particularly nice way... or as a slur, either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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