Hanisch was a member of the Redstockings, a radical feminist collective, coiner of the phrase "the personal is political" One of the things she meant by that was seeing relationships as the battlefield for feminism, and therefore both lesbians and gay men as counterrevolutionary
-
-
Show this thread
-
Lesbians were bad because they were surrendering in the fight for equality from husbands, like quitting your factory job permanently rather than joining the union Gay men were worse - the equivalent of managers inventing a factory that didn't need workers
Show this thread -
If this concept of seeing sex, romance and partnership as a labor-management relationship sounds horribly oppressive and obviously untenable to you - if your reaction is to say "What the hell business is it of yours if I'm gay" - then you see the problem with "radical feminism"
Show this thread -
Anyway what's amazing is that all of the tropes used against trans women were already used against gay men The whole "delusional, trying to escape reality" thing? They said that about gay men toopic.twitter.com/LCREMpvv2i
Show this thread -
The concern trolling about "trans widows" as the real victim of their spouse's transition? Is what they used to say about men who left their wives because they were gaypic.twitter.com/gpd7i4pG2A
Show this thread -
(Credit to u/Ninebilliontigers from r/GenderCynical for the above two quotes)
Show this thread -
The term "genderfree", arguing that "gender" doesn't really exist and is something invented by the patriarchy and AFAB people admitting they have a gender always leads to their oppression? They said the *exact* same thing about "sexuality"
Show this thread -
Ti-Grace Atkinson, founder of the NY chapter of NOW, and a "political lesbian" and promoter of the "lesbian sex wars", famously said "The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist"
Show this thread -
She went on to argue that "lesbian" could not be a "sexuality" because to concede that humans were sexual beings was to concede that women deserved oppression Why? Well you have to read the whole book to find out
Show this thread -
This isn't even saying that TERFs sound like these people - TERFs *are* these people Carol Hanisch and Ti-Grace Atkinson are still around, unembarrassed by the shit they used to say about gay men and "non-political" lesbians
Show this thread -
They co-created the big 2013 TERF open letter "Forbidden Discourse" arguing that people who were "against gender" were being "silenced", which we can see as the first shot in the current TERF warspic.twitter.com/3jxcg0GdOQ
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.