Finally finished going through survey. Of 156 respondents, 76 are the target group I wanted & actually answered my questions.
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Some people don't understand surveys. eg, 'Fuck off with all these questions.' 'You know what the problems are. You write abt them'
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Amusingly, one woman who thinks universities are getting it just right was angry that my survey will give 'TERFs' a space to complain.
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And complaining on it, they certainly are. They are quite vulnerable right now to SocJus authoritarians but have a tendency to be overlooked
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Gender critical radfems are not regarded very sympathetically by liberal advocates of free speech coz their views usually antithetical too.
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They have their own form of identity politics, language policing & authoritarian tendencies going on.
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Also, not very visible because intersectional forms of feminism are occupying everyone's attention.
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And they don't tend to like men very much &certainly don't think they face any disadvantages as a sex so alienate nearly half the population
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But they are being threatened &silenced &no-platformed just for speech by the same people & with the same rationale as we've all been seeing
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We don't have to like or agree with radfem views & it's very hard for liberals to do that but we should defend them on grounds of liberalism
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Also, a lot of people are simply bewildered by the conflict between gender critical radical feminists & intersectional SocJus feminists.
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Coz they're not clear on the theoretical underpinnings of those 2 branches of feminism &wld rather stick pins in their eyes than read abt it
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I wrote this guide for people who'd like to get their feminisms straight without reading a lot of theory. http://helenpluckroseblogs.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/a-twitter-users-guide-to-different.html …
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Fun bit is the rigorous statistical analysis.
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O__O Gauri will revel in that whilst I pull common experiences together and look at how people's lives are affected.
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